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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

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There are also methods to use Beta to assess a private company, if the Guideline Public Companies selected for the analysis, the “comps,” are chose properly. For example, in a recent valuation we completed, the mean unlevered Beta of a group of 10 comps was 0.58. The re-levered Beta for the private company we were valuing was 0.56.

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Announcement: Valutico Provides Easier Way to Value Startups

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What data is used for the companies ‘comps’ comparisons? While the DCF also discounts future cash flows to a present value today, it does so using discount rates typically calculated using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (either Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) or Cost of Equity (CoE)).

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Discounted-Cash-Flow-Analysis: Your Complete Guide with Examples

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the asset-based approach also known as the cost-based approach, and finally 3. the multiple based or ‘ comps ’ (comparable company analysis) approach. d is the discount rate (which is usually the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), r in our previous example). The first is 1. Forecast cash flow.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

Value Scope

There are also methods to use Beta to assess a private company, if the Guideline Public Companies selected for the analysis, the “comps,” are chose properly. For example, in a recent valuation we completed, the mean unlevered Beta of a group of 10 comps was 0.58. The re-levered Beta for the private company we were valuing was 0.56.