How to get EV from DDM/fcfe

Hi guys, sorry if this is a stupid question. I am currently in an internship where we have to value a bank. I understand that you should use ddm/fcfe for Financial institutions, but then you get the equity value and not the enterprise value. If you want the enterprise value, do you just get there through a standard Ev-equity bridge?

Thanks for your help

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Ok apparently I don't really understand the time when to use EV and when to use equity value. I just thought that you would always use EV, since it actually shows the cost and value  of the entire business, not only the one directly tied to equity shareholders.

 

Not sure what the standard is across banks, but we never use unlever and relever beta.

If we want to know the cost of equity, we do (one of) the following:

  • Broker averages
  • Run a regression of RoE t+2 on P/BV t+1 for a peer set and backsolve what the required RoE should be to get to P/BV of 1.00x. This would be your implied CoE. Alternatively, same method can be used with RoTE on P/TBV.
 

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