Non-Controlling Interest

Can someone please explain why when walking from equity value to enterprise value, NCI / minority interest is added? I don't really get why it's treated like debt, either.

Given that NCI represents Company A's sub-50% ownership stake in Company B, Company B's performance is NOT consolidated into Company A's financial statements. So, the explanations that I've seen about "making the numerator and denominator apples to apples" on the valuation multiples doesn't make sense to me given the "denominators" (operational statistic) don't capture Company B's contribution. 

Thanks!

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I think you are confused about when NCI arises. Using your nomenclature, company B's performance would be consolidated into company A's financials if company A owned more than 50%...if company A owned less than 50% they wouldn't consolidate and there wouldn't be any non controlling interest to account for. The objective of accounting for noncontrolling interests is to present users of the consolidated financial statements with a clear depiction of the portion of a less than wholly owned subsidiary’s net assets, net income, and net comprehensive income that is attributable to equity holders other than the parent.

 

Again, that's not the definition of NCI.

If company A owned less than 50% it wouldn't consolidate company B so there wouldn't be any non controlling interest on the financials...it would likely use the equity method of accounting if it has significant influence (ownership of 20% to under 50% broadly speaking) and you would then deduct the equity investments from EV

 
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