1. What do you expect to drive a company’s price-to-book equity and price-to-earnings multiples? Company’s net sales and profit margin: This is company’s ability to use its equity to generate abnormal earnings. This is driven by industry maturity and performance under the given economic condition. Mature and highly saturated industry will have a lower profit margin as the competition is getting intense and it is harder to earn profit. Company’s financial strategy: the effectiveness of the financial
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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 s peter.suozzo@ubsw.com Stephen Cooper +44-20-7568
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Training BUSINESS VALUATION 8 August 2012 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to introduce you to the concept of business valuation and show different types of the valuation. Objectives On completion of this paper you should have an understanding of the factors that drive value‚ different types of valuation techniques‚ and negotiations from different prospective. Resources Business Valuation seminar on 19/04/12 by David Cartney Business Valuation Although there
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Introduction 2.1 Background of the Studies Valuation is the first step toward intelligent investing. When an investor attempts to determine the worth of her shares based on the fundamentals‚ it helps her make informed decisions about what stocks to buy or sell. Without fundamental value‚ one is set adrift in a sea of random short-term price movements and gut feelings. Before we can value a share of stock‚ we have to have some notion of what a share of stock is. A share of stock is not some
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Stock Valuation project | IVR Great Value | | Invesco mortgage a Real-Estate investment trust company is a company that provides adjusted risk‚ to its customers primarily through dividend payout and secondly through capital appreciation. IVR isn’t the company seeking a favorable positive image in the community. Ivrs sole purpose is to generate profit and distribute it to the shareholder. As a mortgage specialist‚ Invesco has been well positioned to capitalize on the rebound in home values
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Is this a fair offer to Dell shareholders? With only one offer on the table‚ shareholders can choose to cash out or vote the offer down in the hope that things will eventually turn around along with the stock price. RECOMMENDATION: Based on our valuation of Dell‚ along with weighing the pros and cons of our due diligence findings and deal performance‚ we recommend that Dell shareholders vote yes on the buyout offer. We believe that the $13.75 per share is a fair offer that falls within the relevant
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Aim of the report The aim of the report is to use different valuation techniques to see if the current share price of Tesco plc is fair‚ undervalued or overvalued. Some of the findings will be compared with other firms in the same industries and share holders will be informed on whether they should buy‚ hold or sell. Background information on Tesco Tesco is the largest supermarket retail chain in the United Kingdom with Sainsbury being their closest rival. It is also the third largest retail
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Techniques in Finance & Valuation 1 What is Valuation? Valuation: Methods of quantifying how much money something should be exchanged for today‚ considering future benefits. We will teach 4 valuation methods Trading Comparables Transaction Comparables Sum-of-the-Parts Valuation Discounted Cash Flow Analysis (DCF) $ 2 Why is Valuation important? Acquisitions: How much should we pay for the company? Divestitures: How much should we sell our company for? Sell-side Research: Should our clients
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Oil & Gas Valuation – Quick Reference http://breakingintowallstreet.com Oil & Gas Valuation: Comparable Public Companies & Precedent Transactions Picking a set of comparable companies or precedent transactions for an oil & gas company is very similar to how you would pick them for any other company – here are the differences: 1. Rather than cutting the set by revenue or EBITDA‚ you would instead select the set based on Proved Reserves or Daily Production (in addition to the normal geographic and industry criteria)
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25814-P.R.(081-090)Uncertainty 8/8/00 8:56 AM Page 81 Strategy under uncertainty Hugh G. Courtney‚ Jane Kirkland‚ and S. Patrick Viguerie The traditional approach to strategy requires precise predictions and thus often leads executives to underestimate uncertainty. This can be downright dangerous. A four-level framework can help. A t the heart of the traditional approach to strategy lies the assumption that executives‚ by applying a set of powerful analytic tools‚ can predict
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