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

Francine Way

Just as any home appraiser or credit officer does before going through the analytical exercise to produce a score for a home or a borrower, valuation professionals go through several steps of preparation before the actual exercise of producing a number that can be used as a value of a company.

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M&A Blog #24 - Merger Relative Valuation

Francine Way

To pick up where we last left off with valuation, I will cover the topic of a Merger Relative Valuation in this blog post and move on to other non-valuation topics from here. A discussion of the target’s financials typically starts with the P/L or Income Statement, followed by the Balance Sheet, and then the Cash Flow Statement.

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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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Exit Planning Through an Investment Banker’s Lens

Focus Investment Banking

Corporate structure Whether youre a C-Corp or S-Corp can affect taxes at sale. Optimize Working Capital (One Year Ahead) What It Is: Net Working Capital (NWC) is Current assets minus current liabilities (A/R + Inventory A/P + Accrued Expenses), excluding cash, which you keep (in a typical cash-free, debt-free transaction).

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Buy Cisco as it trades at an 'undemanding' valuation, says Deutsche Bank

CNBC: Investing

The firm upgraded the digital communications stock to buy from hold in a Sunday note, and increased its price target to $73 per share from $65, suggesting shares will rise 14% from Friday's $64.09 CSCO YTD mountain Cisco Systems stock in 2025.

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Wall Street loves this recent IPO with one analyst calling it the ‘social network trading platform’

CNBC: Investing

The overwhelming positive sentiment from Wall Street has rewarded the company's decision to go public after a lengthy dry spell for IPOs. Here's what analysts at some of the biggest shops on Wall Street had to say on the IPO. Here's what analysts at some of the biggest shops on Wall Street had to say on the IPO.

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Oracle reports its earnings after Wednesday’s bell. Here’s what analysts expect

CNBC: Investing

Here’s what analysts expect Published Wed, Jun 11 2025 1:22 PM EDT Updated Wed, Jun 11 2025 1:33 PM EDT Lisa Kailai Han @lisakailaihan WATCH LIVE Wall Street analysts are optimistic heading into Oracle's earnings release Wednesday after the bell. Strong bookings from OCI customers could continue to boost the company's fundamentals.

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