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29 Valuation Interview Questions and Answers: Mastering the Art of Crackling Interviews

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Its calculation involves the subtraction of capital expenditures, changes in working capital, and taxes from the company's Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT). EV is often used in multiples like EV/EBITDA, providing a holistic view, while Equity Value is fundamental in metrics like Price/Earnings (PE) ratio.

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Musings on Markets

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. For example, I have seen it asserted that a stock that trades at less than book value is cheap or that a stock that trades at more than twenty times EBITDA is expensive.