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Chancery Invalidates Elon Musk’s $55.8 Billion Equity Compensation Package

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3] The Grant On January 21, 2018, Tesla’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) [4] unanimously approved the Grant, which would vest based on Tesla’s achievement of certain market capitalization goals, as well as operational milestones related to revenue and adjusted EBITDA targets. The process arrived at an unfair price.” [3]

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Tornetta v. Musk: Post-Trial Opinion

Harvard Corporate Governance

s directors breached their fiduciary duties by awarding Elon Musk a performance-based equity-compensation plan. For a tranche to vest, Tesla’s market capitalization must increase by $50 billion and Tesla must achieve either an adjusted EBITDA target or a revenue target in four consecutive fiscal quarters.

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The Complete Business Valuation Formula Guide: 10 Essential Methods

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Market-Based Business Valuation Formula For a market-based calculation, use: CV = (EBITDA x 1.5) – (Current Liabilities x 0.5) Or V = (EBITDA * 1.3) / (Revenue – COGS) As an example, if a business's EBITDA is $300,000 and current liabilities are $50,000, the calculation would be: ($300,000 x 1.5) - ($50,000 x 0.5) = $425,000.

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Can the former Southeast Asian highflying gaming and e-commerce company, Sea Ltd., reach former highs?

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The company has a leading position in the Southeast Asian market with their e-commerce platform Shoppee and their gaming offers by Garena. Sea currently has a market capitalization of $29.8 by using the Discounted Cash Flow method, specifically our Flow-to-Equity approach, as well as a Trading Comparables analysis.

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Porsche AG – worth an investment after the recent IPO?

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This led to a market cap of €78 billion after the IPO, which is higher than the current market capitalization of its parent company Volkswagen AG (€72 billion). . We have performed a Trading Comparables analysis and a discounted cash flow using the Flow to Equity Approach. per share, the top end of its target range.

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Company Valuation Methods—Complete List and Guide

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Market-based approaches gauge a company’s value by analyzing comparable market transactions and valuations. While many people are familiar with market capitalization as a method for understanding the general worth of publicly traded companies based on the current market sentiment (itself based on company performance, etc.),

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After reporting stellar quarterly results, can Visa close the gap to its all time high?

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by using the Discounted Cash Flow method, specifically our Flow-to-Equity approach, as well as a Trading Comparables analysis. The Flow-to-Equity analysis produced a value of $308 billion using a Cost of Equity of 9.2%. For our Trading Comparables we selected similar peers such as Mastercard, PayPal and American Express.