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What Is Stock Valuation?

Andrew Stolz

Relative valuation compares a stock value to its competitors and peers within the same industry. The main relative valuation ratios include price to free cash flow, enterprise value (EV), operating margin, price to sales, and price to earnings. The most popular ratio is the price to earnings ratio.

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M&A Terms Every Business Owner Should Know

Class VI Partner

You may hear Asset Value used in place of Book Value, but this is not precisely correct because Book Value includes not only Asset Value, but also subtracts the value of liabilities of a company. It is typically the highest risk/highest potential return portion of a company’s capital structure.

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M&A Valuation Methods: Your Essential Guide with 7 Key Methods

Valutico

Analysts use financial metrics and multiples such as Price to Earnings (P/E), Price to Book (P/B), Enterprise Value to Sales (EV/Sales), Enterprise Value to EBITDA (EV/EBITDA), and Price to Book (P/B) ratios derived from trading data of similar public companies or deal pricing data of similar M&A transactions.

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The Role of Financial Projections in Business Valuation

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Balance Sheet Forecasts Balance sheet forecasts outline the expected assets, liabilities, and equity of a company at a future date. Market-Based Valuation Market-based valuation methods determine the value of a business by comparing it to similar companies in the market.

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Private Company Valuations—A Complete Guide

Valutico

It considers the company’s cost of equity, cost of debt, and capital structure. c) Calculating Present Value: The projected cash flows are then discounted to their present value using the discount rate. The present values of all projected cash flows are summed to determine the company’s intrinsic value.

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Private Company Valuations—A Complete Guide

Valutico

It considers the company’s cost of equity, cost of debt, and capital structure. c) Calculating Present Value: The projected cash flows are then discounted to their present value using the discount rate. The present values of all projected cash flows are summed to determine the company’s intrinsic value.