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Down Round Valuation: How to Survive and Protect Your Equity (2025)

Equidam

Indeed, companies valued primarily on revenue multiples during 2020-2021 are now the most vulnerable to down rounds. Because revenue multiples are procyclical—they amplify market highs during bull markets and market lows during downturns, creating exactly the boom-bust cycles we’re seeing today.

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Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

From a hurdle rate perspective, this implies that companies, where the marginal investors (who own a lot of stock and trade that stock) are diversified, should incorporate only macroeconomic or market risk into hurdle rates. as mature markets. But what if the company is looking at a project in Nigeria or Bangladesh?