Does an increase in working capital reduce your enterprise value? My logic is that by increasing your working capital, you have a larger, more negative change in WC which reduces free cash flow and therefore reduces your implied enterprise value.
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Think you answered your own question. YoY increase in WC does decrease EV holding everything else constant.
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