This. 

I have a job in CD at a power/utility company and my god is the modeling way more rigorous than anything else I have ever touched (compared to aerospace and defense, healthcare, railroads, consumer goods, professional service firms, etc). But it also makes sense. Because the operations are so tied to specific contracts, and the economics are what they are, you can do more detailed modeling. I swear my computer tries to off itself every time I open up Excel. 

 

At one of the banks mentioned - not inaccurate necessarily. On two of my deals, we ran with the model the sponsor already had built out. For 4 of my deals I've built the model myself. Most are very simple models, although one of them was for a $1B+ company that had several business units and had done a few acquisitions, so was much more complex

 

I’m in consumer. Most modeling is fairly simple, but I’ve had two complex instances. Modeling a company that owned 150+ auto dealers given the differences between individual dealers and floorplan financing. Another situation I modeled a company with three completely unrelated business lines and an investment arm. Lots of analysis of each business line, but not necessarily hard.

 

Oil and Gas and Metals and Mining are a pain in the ass if you have to model out every single site, its production, and its value on top of general corporate value. Might take a HF analyst half the whole day to update his model when a 10Q comes out for a company like Exxon

 
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Any time you pass a PUI analyst or associate on the street, please remove your hat and thank them for their service, because they are fighting night in and out a 60mb model with 100 tabs, thousands of lines, multiple macros where, by the way, every single assumption needs to be scrutinised in excruciating detail with multiple third party advisors as well as pass a model audit, for your freedoms to F9 some factset comps and slap a multiple on PF Adj. LTM EBITDA of a midwestern widget manufacturer.

 

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