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By the 25% EBITDA margin and the negative net income, I'm assuming it has huge interest payments leading to that figure?

What Lifestylemna said above is correct, you use a long term capital structure for the proportion of debt to equity so there's no problem there. You can use a DCF if eventually the FCF becomes positive by your terminal year. Also you should be using the market value of the equity instead of the book value in cases of potentially distressed companies (market value can't be negative by definition as the limit to # of shares and share price is 0). All of these things should give you a WACC and FFCF's that you can work with for a DCF valuation.

Alternatively, you could look at the distressed valuation of the company and its assets.

 

Doesn't make sense for it to be in negative equity just because they issued a bond.

Liabilities go up (LT debt) but there is an equal cash inflow.

What'd they do with all that cash?

Unless they literally burnt it (or spent it on hookers and blow), it should still be somewhere on the asset side. Even if they bought a dorm room with it, the asset value is still there.

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