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Oil & Gas Investment Banking: The First Victim of the ESG Cult?

Brian DeChesare

With the possible exception of FIG , oil & gas investment banking generates the highest number of panicked emails and questions. But before delving into the exit opportunities and the long-term outlook, let’s start with the fundamentals: Oil & Gas Investment Banking Defined. Recruiting into Oil & Gas Investment Banking.

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The Dividend Discount Model (DDM): The Black Sheep of Valuation?

Brian DeChesare

But people who aim for investment banking roles are very much into those bells and whistles, so questions about the DDM and other “exotic” methodologies began rolling in. To be fair, in some industries – like commercial banks and insurance within FIG – the DDM is a core valuation methodology.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

Note that this framework applies for all businesses, from the smallest, privately owned businesses, where debt takes the form of bank loans and even credit card borrowing and equity is owner savings, the largest publicly traded companies, where debt can be in the form of corporate bonds and equity is shares held by public market investors.

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Distressed Debt Hedge Funds: How to Become a Vulture Capitalist

Brian DeChesare

Its financial profile now looks like this: Its Debt / EBITDA is now 10x, its EBITDA / Interest has fallen below 1x, the Secured Debt is trading at 90% of its face value, and the Unsecured Debt is down to 60%. But it’s more common to go from law school to investment banking and then move to a hedge fund.

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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

Brian DeChesare

EBITDA multiple , matching its own. EBITDA since it’s only growing at 2-3% per year vs. 5-10% per year for Jacobs. If you do not start working at a hedge fund out of undergrad, you are best off working in investment banking if you want to join an event-driven fund. revenue and 11.5x

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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?

Musings on Markets

Most financial service firms have no revenues, though they have their analogs - loans for banks, insurance premiums for insurance companies etc. In maturity, with debt entering the financing mix, net margins become good measures of profitability, and in decline, as earnings decline and capital expenditures ease, EBITDA margins dominate.

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App Valuation: How to Build, Value and Sell an App

FE International

For both paid and shared AMIs, developers must meet the following criteria : Sell publicly available, full-feature production-ready software (not a beta product). Tax and bank account information is also required. AWS app owners are paid monthly in USD directly into a US bank account. billion of that—a one year increase of 35%.