Valutico

MAY 19, 2025

The core idea behind relative valuation is to estimate a company’s value by comparing it to similar companies based on how the market prices their financial metrics. EV/EBITDA is a widely used multiple in this relative valuation approach. What is EV/EBITDA? Breaking down the multiple What is EBITDA?

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EBITDA Enterprise Value Capital Structure EBIT 52

Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you search for “how to start a private equity firm” online, you’ll find results that range from useless to tangentially useful to occasional nuggets of real wisdom. Starting a private equity firm is a bad decision for ~95% of people who work in the finance industry. Degrees such as an MBA or a Ph.D.

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Private Equity Firm Equity Start-ups Marketability 59

Scott Mashuda

APRIL 22, 2025

The lower middle market typically encompasses businesses with $2-10 million in EBITDA or enterprise values between $10-100 million. REAG s target market includes the United States and businesses between $2M and $25M in EBITDA and up to $250M in revenue. A key distinction in this space is the buyer profile.

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Private Equity Firm Marketability EBITDA Equity 52

Brian DeChesare

JULY 31, 2024

But the real question is this: If you accept an industrials private equity job, will you end up more like Andrew Carnegie or Henry Phipps, or will your career trajectory resemble a distressed tire manufacturing company that later declared bankruptcy?

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Equity Private Equity Firm EBITDA Start-ups 66

Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 19, 2022

According to some, you do almost no modeling or technical work in this group, and it’s one of the easier jobs in IB, similar equity or debt capital markets. But if you read other accounts, FSG runs models, Analysts get hands-on technical work, and the hours could be longer and more stressful because your clients are private equity firms.

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Private Equity Firm Banking Equity Finance 94

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On the alternative energy front, as money has flowed into these companies, there has been a surge in enterprise value (equity and net debt) and market capitalization (equity value); I report both because impact investing can also take the form of green bonds, or debt, at these companies.

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Market Capitalization Enterprise Value Start-ups Marketability 109

Equilest

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs) are powerful tools in the financial world, used by private equity firms and savvy investors to maximize returns. They involve acquiring a company using a mix of debt and equity, where the acquired company’s cash flows are used to service the debt. Ready to master the art of LBOs?

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Private Equity Firm Debt Financing EBITDA Equity 40