Sun Acquisitions

JUNE 27, 2025

Common Valuation Methods: Comparable Company Analysis: Compare the target company to similar publicly traded companies. Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis: Projects future cash flows and discounts them to their present value. Accurate valuation is essential for successful M&A deals.

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Lake Country Advisors

AUGUST 8, 2024

Market Capitalization Market capitalization is one of the simplest and most commonly used methods for valuing a publicly traded company. Example Scenario: Suppose XYZ Corp is a publicly traded technology company with 50 million shares outstanding, and the current share price is $20.

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Francine Way

JULY 10, 2017

There are also structural differences of past acquisitions to take into account. Do they have the cash of debt/equity capacity to bid aggressively? This liquidity feature typically creates a private company discount of around 25-35% range. The status of the acquirer’s own share price will impact its acquisition currency.

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RKJ Partners

AUGUST 6, 2017

Below are the six recognized methodologies with short explanations of each: Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis: This analysis derives an ‘intrinsic’ value of a company. This means that the method evaluates the future cash flow of the company and then discounts those cash flows to the present day.

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