Do companies pay for EV or Equity Value?

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if the deal ammounts reported are EV or equity value. I believed the acquirer only pays for Equity Value because he basically buy all shares of another company acquiring it. However, someone told me it's EV?!

What's behind the question: When I calculate transaction comps and I read deal volume/ company paid 100 million. Can I use the transaction figure for an EV/EBITDA multiple or Equity Value/net income?

Can someone please shed some light on this?

Thanks.

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you use EV because you are acquiring "the company", not just the equity. Ex. if you acquire 100% of company A , if company A has 100 m of debt. you as the new owner will need to pay down that 100m in the future some time

ev/ebitda - transaction value paid will be the ev for that company

 

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