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Reading 3 hours investment banking valuation by Joshua Pearl yesterday. Totalling 53 hours.
This book is very practical and very similar with the real work. I haven't work in bulge brackets but the process in the boutique firms is much simpler. (For example, the book says we should get all the information from all the comparable companies but in the small firms, you only need the real comparable ones' information. Also, for private companies, credit portfolio is not really important bc most of the private firms don't have public traded bonds. In the book, it said we should get many financial ratios to narrow down the Comsets, including FCF yield ( Free cash flow/current capitalization, in real life we don't use it) But this book is a great book to offer real insight of investment banking and practise what we learned at business school.
Things learned from this book yesterday:
4 steps of Comparable Companies valuation
a. Screen the comparable companies with the similar size, profitability, credit portfolio, products, markets and end users;
b. Use the financial figures including the profitability, margins, market and operation size to narrow down the best ones;
3. Get all the financial information including historical financial data and estimated forecast with equity researchers' consent.
4. Calculate the multiples and find the best interval.
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