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Best Practices for Due Diligence and Valuation in M&A

Sun Acquisitions

Businesses can make informed decisions and mitigate risks by conducting thorough due diligence and accurately valuing a target company. It helps to uncover potential risks and opportunities, allowing buyers to make informed decisions. Be Flexible and Adaptable: Be prepared to adjust the due diligence process as new information emerges.

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Infrastructure Investment Banking: Definitions, Deals, and a Dizzying Diversity of Verticals

Mergers and Inquisitions

DCF: Deducts the full Interest Expense and deducts only Maintenance CapEx. They also serve different purposes; CFADS is used for debt sizing and sculpting , while FFO and DCF are more useful for determining Dividends in the period. FFO: Deducts the full Interest Expense but does not deduct any CapEx.

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M&A Blog #16 – valuation (Discounted Cash Flow)

Francine Way

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. The major steps of DCF are: Identify extraordinary, unusual, non-recurring items from the target’s 10-Ks and 10-Qs.

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M&A Blog #15 – valuation (tools and data preparation)

Francine Way

I will discuss general tools and credible sources of information that a valuation professional can use for the analysis. Access to credible sources of information such as SEC EDGAR database , Treasury.gov , OECD GDP Forecast , Mergent Online, S&P Capital IQ, Hoovers, ValueLine, Yahoo Finance , MarketWatch , and Damodaran Online.

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The 11 Concepts And Ideas I Learned From Interviewing ChatGPT On How To Buy A Business.

How2Exit

Concept 6: Value Assets With DCF (Discounted Cash flow) One of the most important tools in the negotiation process is the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. The equation for the DCF method is CFT divided by T, where CFT equals cash flow in period T, and R equals discount rate.

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M&A Blog #18 – valuation (Precedent Transaction)

Francine Way

Data sources like Pitchbook would often capture the Transaction Value at the time of the transaction announcement as well, so we list this information in our model and use it to calculate the sample transactions’ Implied TEV/Revenue and TEV/EBITDA as follow: Implied TEV/Revenue Multiple = Transaction Value / target’s LTM Revenue.

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M&A Blog #21 – valuation (scenario / sensitivity analysis)

Francine Way

Thus far, we have discussed five valuation methods: DCF, Comparable Company, Precedent Transaction, LBO, and Dividend Discount Model (DDM). At the minimum, a valuation professional should be informed about population, sampling, mean, standard deviation, standard error, different probability distributions, and binomial scenarios.