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Marketplace Valuation: Beyond GMV to Real Value Creation

Equidam

Yet by 2024, DoorDash’s share price had fallen more than 60% from its peak, revealing a fundamental truth about marketplace valuation: GMV alone tells only part of the story. The GMV Trap: Why Gross Numbers Mislead Gross Merchandise Value has become the go-to metric for marketplace valuations, and it’s easy to understand why.

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M&A Valuation Methods: Your Essential Guide with 7 Key Methods

Valutico

Valutico | May 7, 2024 Valuation is really important in finance. This guide talks about the main ways we figure out value during M&A deals, why they’re useful, and what challenges they bring. Income-based methods such as Discounted Cash Flow analysis focus on future cash flows to determine value.