Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. The Value of Growth As investor tastes have shifted from earnings power to growth, there has been a tendency to put growth on a pedestal, and view it as an unalloyed good, but it is not.

Start-ups 80

Start-ups Equity Book Value Marketability 80

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Financing Flows 5. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3.

Dividends 98

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

Your answer to that question will determine not just how you approach running the business, but also the details of how you pick investments, choose a financing mix and decide how much to return to shareholders, as dividend or buybacks. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game?

Equity 79

Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 79

Valutico

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the DCF method, the value of the business is calculated by estimating the future cash flows of the business, with a discount rate applied. In the CCA method, valuation multiples such as P/E ratio, EV/Revenue ratio, and EV/EBITDA ratio, provide benchmarks for estimating value by comparing financial metrics to publicly traded companies.

Discounted Cash Flow 52

Discounted Cash Flow Comparable Company Analysis EBITDA Enterprise Value 52

Valutico

AUGUST 10, 2023

In the DCF method, the value of the business is calculated by estimating the future cash flows of the business, with a discount rate applied. In the CCA method, valuation multiples such as P/E ratio, EV/Revenue ratio, and EV/EBITDA ratio, provide benchmarks for estimating value by comparing financial metrics to publicly traded companies.

Discounted Cash Flow 52

Discounted Cash Flow Comparable Company Analysis EBITDA Enterprise Value 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. EV/EBIT and EV/EBITDA 4. Cost of Capital 3.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends EBITDA Start-ups 52

FE International

DECEMBER 31, 2021

That is, were the companies in those transactions valued as a multiple of EBIT , EBITDA , revenue, or some other parameter? If you figure out what the key valuation parameter is, you can examine at what multiples of those parameters the comparable companies were valued. How to Value an Advertising Business.

Weighted Average Cost of Capital 52

Weighted Average Cost of Capital Business Valuation Precedent Transaction Analysis Start-ups 52

Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The company still pays interest on the full $1000 and must repay it upon maturity, but you can buy the issuance at a steep discount because there’s a significant chance of default (see: book value vs. market value vs. face value ). A sharply declining stock price does not necessarily mean a company is “distressed.”

Equity 83

Equity Banking EBITDA Start-ups 83

Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.

Dividends 91

Dividends Start-ups Finance Corporate Finance 91

IBG Business

MAY 31, 2023

Because a strategic purchase may be based on factors other than multiples of earnings or EBITDA, a strategic buyer might be willing to pay more for your business than would a financial buyer, despite the latter’s presumably deeper pockets. Preparation. Therefore … They are likely to obsess over your financial statements (e.g.,

EBITDA 52

EBITDA Marketability Equity Book Value 52

Benzinga

JULY 26, 2023

Financial Highlights of the Transaction The total estimated consideration of $395 million: i) represents less than 2.75x of expected EBITDA in 2024, ii) is estimated to be less than the book value of MacKellar's assets and iii) is expected to be over 50% accretive based on incremental earnings per share.

EBIT 40

EBIT Debt Financing Book Value Finance 40

Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

Companies tend to offer high, stable dividend yields, and they finance their massive capital expenditures primarily with debt , with the highest leverage ratios of any industry outside of financial institutions. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) (JPM, BAML, Barclays, and Citi) – Bankruptcy and Debtor-in-Possession Financing.

Banking 93

Banking Equity Book Value Capital Structure 93

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Adani's Debt Load The investment side of the Adani story is not complete without bringing in the financing part, since the money for these investments has to come from somewhere, either internally, residual cash flows from existing operations, or externally, from new debt or equity. times revenues in the most recent two years.

Start-ups 100

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Equity 100