Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 22, 2025

The difference is that IB is more of an explicit sales job , as deals must close for the bank to earn fees. Equity research at the senior levels does require sales skills, but its more about being a conduit than a closer.

Investment Banking

Lake Country Advisors

AUGUST 8, 2024

Accurate and appropriate valuation is one of the pillars of maximizing the profits from a business sale. It’s integral to ensuring that the sale benefits all stakeholders and should be one of your priorities before advertising it to potential buyers. Determine Discount Rate: Assuming InnovateTech’s WACC is 10%. million.

Discounted Cash Flow

Francine Way

JULY 12, 2017

As I mentioned in my last post, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) is a valuation method that uses free cash flow projections, a discount rate, and a growth rate to find the present value estimate of a potential investment. Perform sensitivity / scenario analysis using Monte Carlo analysis.

Discounted Cash Flow

Sun Acquisitions

OCTOBER 13, 2023

By comparing key financial metrics such as price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios, price-to-sales (P/S) ratios, and price-to-book (P/B) ratios, analysts can estimate the target company’s value. Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis is a commonly used income-based valuation technique.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

APRIL 7, 2024

Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis: This is the most common valuation method involving discounting future cash flows back to their present value. Impact on Business Valuations: The fluctuation in interest rates not only influences PE activities but also affects how businesses are valued.

Private Equity

RKJ Partners

AUGUST 6, 2017

For the purposes of this article, we will focus on valuation from the perspective of a merger and acquisition transaction, and specifically from the viewpoint of a buyer evaluating a business for sale. This means that the method evaluates the future cash flow of the company and then discounts those cash flows to the present day.

M&A

Mergers and Inquisitions

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Communication/presentation skills and technical/modeling/deal skills are all quite important, but “sales skills” are also crucial if you’re interviewing at a firm with significant sourcing. Q: What are your strengths and weaknesses? A: This is a common question, but there isn’t much unique to growth equity. Q: Why our firm/group?

Private Equity