Graduate School of Business Administration University of Virginia UVA-F-1274 METHODS OF VALUATION FOR MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS This note addresses the methods used to value companies in a merger and acquisitions (M&A) setting. It provides a detailed description of the discounted cash flow (DCF) approach and reviews other methods of valuation‚ such as book value‚ liquidation value‚ replacement cost‚ market value‚ trading multiples of peer firms‚ and comparable transaction multiples. Discounted
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Case study—JetBlue airways IPO valuation Introduction: As a leader of airways industries‚ JetBlue is successful because of professional services and a good management team. In 2002‚ JetBlue became a public company. Despite the fact that US airline industry had witness 87 new airline failures over the previous 20 years‚ Jetblue overcame difficulties and expressed confidence in the bright future. Before going public Before going public in 2002‚ JetBlue has outstanding advantage in the whole
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INVESTOR STOCK ANALYSIS University of Phoenix Fin 571 April 22‚ 2013 Bank of America and SunTrust are competitors in the banking industry. Aside from the obvious similtaries inherent to the banking business‚ these two companies are different when viewed through a financial perspective. Both companies operates in three segments: Consumer Banking and Private Wealth Management‚ Wholesale Banking‚ and Mortgage Banking. SunTrust Banks has a market cap of $14.81
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identify the prominent players and help people make investment decisions i.e. BuyHold-Sell. In order to achieve this objective a detailed financial statement analyses of the prominent players has been done. Also‚ in order to find the undervalued pharma stocks Discounted Cash Flow Analyses (DCF) has been done of the 10 companies CHAPTER 1: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS The economy of India is the eleventh largest economy in the world by nominal GDP and the fourth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). Following
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RJR Nabisco Valuation When assessing the valuation of RJR Nabisco bids‚ the Special committee should utilize the Capital Cash Flow method. The Capital Cash Flow method‚ when applied appropriately‚ should yield the same valuation when discounting a company’s Free Cash Flow. To get Capital Cash Flows (CCF)‚ Net Income is adjusted by adding back non-cash expenses and other reconciliations to form cash flow‚ decreasing Capital Expenditures‚ decreasing changes in Net Working Capital and finally‚ adding
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Valuation & Accounting Global November 2001 Valuation Multiples: A Primer Global Equity Research www.ubswarburg.com/researchweb In addition to the UBS Warburg web site our research products are available over third-party systems provided or serviced by: Bloomberg‚ First Call‚ I/B/E/S‚ IFIS‚ Multex‚ QUICK and Reuters UBS Warburg is a business group of UBS AG Valuation Primer Series Peter Suozzo +852-2971 6121 ■ peter.suozzo@ubsw.com Stephen Cooper +44-20-7568 1962 ■ stephen.cooper@ubsw
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Investment Valuation: How a company is valued by the investors is a good indicator of its future growth prospects. One way to measure valuation of the company is through a Price-to-Earnings ratio. This is calculated by dividing the last closing stock price with the Earnings per Share. This ratio basically tells us how much an investor is willing to invest to earn 1 dollar from the company’s earnings. Currently‚ the P/E ratio for Under Armour is 95.82 which is staggeringly high. Nike is valued at
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chance of error. Assumptions 1. Dividend growth rate is constant 2. Return on equity is constant and sustainable 3. Forecasted dividend is accurate 4. There is market stability 5. Historical data is reasonable predictor of future returns Valuation Esprit Holdings Ltd 0330.HK (Hong Kong) All data taken from Esprit’s 2007 Annual report Current share trading price = $92.15 Dividends per share = $3.18 Earnings per share = $4.22 Return on Equity = 48.9% Payout Ratio = 3.18/4.22 = .754
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of new synergies come from new businesses.). Therefore‚ Viacom is more likely to be a good fit with Paramount. 3. Compare your valuation (stand-alone basis) with market price. What makes the difference between two prices? Target Price: $26.48 to 29.41 Market Price: $ 48.88 to 55.50 Market Price Multiples: Multiples imply the current stock price is overvalued. PER 33.46 X‚ PBR 1.61 X‚ EV/EBITDA 13.7X There is a big difference in our Target Price and Market Price.
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Chapter 2- Fundamental principles of value creation Question 1- What was the reason the fast growing company Walgreen and the significantly slower growing company Wrigley‚ Between 1968 and 2007 had nearly the same shareholder return? For example‚ earnings growth alone can’t explain why investors in drugstore chain Walgreens‚ with sales of $54 billion in 2007‚ and global chewinggum maker Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company‚ with sales of $5 billion the same year‚ earned similar shareholder returns between
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