by Simon Cook | Oct 27, 2020 | Business Valuation
The market share price of a listed public company represents the portfolio interest price. That is to say, the price an investor is prepared to buy or sell a small parcel of shares, typically less than 5% of the company. In takeovers of listed companies, an acquirer...
by Simon Cook | Sep 8, 2020 | Business Valuation
The value of a privately-held business maybe calculated using a discounted cash flow method or a capitalisation of earnings method; both methods require an estimate of the cost of capital. The cost of capital can be estimated using pricing from public markets. Shares,...
by Simon Cook | Jun 23, 2020 | Economic Damage
Lost profit is generally defined as the revenue the injured party would have made, but for the business interrupting event, less the costs saved. According to Niamh Brennan and John Hennessy (1) the lost profit computation can be broken into the following steps: 1....
by Simon Cook | May 29, 2020 | Business Valuation
I wondered if I should be using the Capitalisation of Excess Earnings method to value a business? The method originated in 1920 in the US, from a Treasury Department memorandum and later update as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Ruling. During prohibition,...
by Simon Cook | Apr 22, 2019 | Business Valuation
The Pepper Private Capital report was recently released. I’ve saved you the trouble and ploughed through it! I personally wouldn’t want to rely on it for valuation inputs (its US based anyway) but it might be an interesting sanity check (or not!). These are the bits...
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