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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

Consequently, you can only value the equity in a bank, and by extension, the only pricing multiples you can use to price banks are equity multiples (PE, Price to Book etc.). Note the differences between the bank FCFE and bank dividend discount models.

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Valuation Using Multiples—What Is It and How Does It Work? Core Ideas Explained

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The ratio is either related to the Equity Value or ratios related to the Enterprise Value. . An example of an equity multiple: Price / Earnings. An example of an enterprise multiple: EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT and practically all non-financial multiples (e.g. EV/ARR, EV/barrel, EV/MW, EV/Click, etc).

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Your Guide to Valuing a Company Using the Multiples Approach

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The ratio is either related to the Equity Value or ratios related to the Enterprise Value. . An example of an equity multiple: Price / Earnings. An example of an enterprise multiple: EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT and practically all non-financial multiples (e.g. EV/ARR, EV/barrel, EV/MW, EV/Click, etc).

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Earnings and Cash Flows: A Primer on Free Cash Flow

Musings on Markets

An intuitive reading of the FCFE is that it is cash available to be returned to equity investors, either in the form of dividends or as cash buybacks. It is the rare firm that follows a residual cash policy, returning its FCFE every year as dividends and/or buybacks.