Mar 10, 2024

What general valuation approaches are important to credit analysis (asset management)?

For an interview I'm reviewing (among other things) the three broad methods and when to prefer one over another:

  1. Income-based/DCF (discounting FCFF by WACC, probably going to ignore Cap Earnings in time interest of time)
  2. Market-based (P/E, P/Sales, P/CF, EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales comaparables)
  3. Asset-based (BV, liquidation value)

Are these all roughly on the right track? Can someone also help me roughly outline when you'd prioritize one over the other; I only know:

- For HY/distress asset-based is more important since liquidation won't really come into play in IG

- DCFs on negative-CF companies is allowed

- Multiples is probably less relevant to credit than other use cases like equity since so many of the metrics involve (equity) market numbers

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