How do you value a company?

  • Can you walk me through those steps? 05:34 – 06:36
  • Tell me about the valuation model you built, what kind of valuation was it? 04:56 – 05:30
  • How would you value a retail chain company? 15:50- 20:33
  • If you cant use a DCF or multiples what do you use?
  • Lets talk about comparable companies… walk me through your thought process – we are advising J&J on the acquisition of a small generic pharmaceutical company, and I tell you that we need to get some comparables together … walk me through your thought process and the actions you’d take. 30:22 – 33:12
  • Lets talk a little bit about finance. Can you walk me through how to value a company, such as, an emerging pharmacy company, like CVS, that provides preventative healthcare services, and they are considering going public. How would you value it? What multiple would you look at? 01:44 – 03:30
  • if I came to you on Day 1 and told you look at this business. What are the questions you would ask and how would you analyze it? 21:32-23:41
  • Do you know the different ways used by industries to value a company? 35:30-36:26
  • What are the different techniques that you could use to valuate a business? 21:11-21:58
  • If you were to ask three things to gauge the preliminary value of a company what would those three things be? 12:51 – 14:34
  • If it's a fast-growing company, what other things would you consider? 20:33-21:27
  • What if the comparables in this industry are not as fast-growing? How would you consider constructing a valuation? What other things would you think about? 21:27-25:34
  • Of the different valuation methodologies you have learned … what are some of the merits or pitfalls of the different methodologies you’ve learned? 22:08 – 28:05
  • Can you talk to me about what are the different ways/methods that you can go about valuing a company? 29:08-33:10
  • Are you familiar with valuation? Have you taken a class or read up on it? The different ways to value a company, say your told to start a pitch book… 22:20 – 24:35
  • How would I value a company? 19:25 – 20:59
  • If we are valuing a bank, and the bank has a lending, asset management, and advisory business. How would you go about valuing the bank? 16:15 – 19:37
  • We have a retail company and we are advising an acquisition of them on behalf of an client. How would you go about doing that, valuing that company? 5:12 – 8:54
  • Did you learn about valuation methods? 16:50-17:13
  • If you were to meet with a potential target candidate and the management team only gives you half an hour to get a quick sense of how to value the company, what are the top 3 questions you would ask? 28:30-30:20
  • How would you value the price to pay or the company including the standalone valuation? 0:00-5:15
  • In terms of doing valuations, what were the valuation methods you used? 09:15 – 10:25
  • In terms of the advisory work you have done, did you guys focus on fixing problems or just assessing where companies were when you performed the audits? Or were you actively trying to manage financial issues that may have risen? 07:20 – 09:14
  • What about non-FIG valuation. What types of valuations are you familiar with? 8:14 - 8:43
  • When we talk about comparable companies, what are the things included in that analysis? 11:22 - 12:14
  • Tell me about different techniques to value a company? 18:13 - 19:53
  • How would you value a company? 7:48 - 12:36
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