information. APPROACHES TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT 1. Fundamental Approach: The basic tenets of the fundamental approach, which is perhaps most commonly advocated by investment professionals, are as follows: There is an intrinsic value of a security and this depends upon underlying economic (fundamental) factors. The intrinsic value can be established by a penetrating analysis of the fundamental factors relating to the company, industry, and economy. At any given point of
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Closure in Valuation: Estimating Terminal Value Chapter 13: Dividend Discount Models Chapter 14: Free Cashflow to Equity Models Chapter 15: Firm Valuation: Cost of Capital and APV Approaches Chapter 16: Estimating Equity Value Per Share Chapter 17: Fundamental Principles of Relative Valuation Chapter 18: Earnings Multiples Chapter 19: Book Value Multiples Chapter 20: Revenue and Sector-Specific Multiples 3 16 37 81 121 152 211 246 311 341 373 425 450 487 533 593 637 659 718 760 Chapter 21: Valuing
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Discussing the empirical evidence supportive of and against market efficiency. Stock prices changes are said to have a similar distribution and sovereign of each other, meaning that they follow a random pattern and past movement and trends cannot be used to predict future price of a stock. Efficient market hypothesis (EMH) states that beating the market consistently is impossible as stock market efficiency causes existing share prices to always show and reflect all relevant information available
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In this paper we will make the stock market analysis and commentary on the quotations of the Commercial Bank for the years 2007 and 2008 based on its prices in the Athens Stock Exchange. SECTION I PERFORMANCE AND AVERAGE YIELD The performance of a share is equal to the percentage difference between the initial and final property owner. The average yield value is calculated as the sum of the yield of a share to the number of returns. As far as the Commercial Bank is concerned, the average stock
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Estimated Exit Value of Equity at 2010 Using EBITDA Multiples | ($millions) | | | | | | | Median1 | Mean2 | DTF/URI3 | Cendant/URI4 | RAC-adjusted EBITDA, case Exhibit 8 | $853.4 | $853.4 | $853.4 | $853.4 | Car rental EBITDA multiple | 6.47 | 7.04 | 6.18 | 8.47 | RAC Operating Company Value | $5,521.5 | $6,007.9 | $5,274.0 | $7,228.3 | | | | | | Net book value of fleet, case Exhibit 9 | $9,455.0 | $9,455.0 | $9,455.0 | $9,455.0 | | | | | | Total RAC value | $14
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Shortlisting Companies for Detailed Analysis This article is a part of the series of articles "Selecting Top Stocks to Buy". In the first article of this series (Getting right perspective towards Investing), we discussed about getting the right perspective towards stock investing and the requisite qualities for becoming a successful investor. In the second article of this series(Choosing the Stock Picking Approach suitable to you), we learned about different stock picking approaches available
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Ups and Downs: Valuing Cyclical and Commodity Companies Aswath Damodaran Stern School of Business, New York University September 2009 Ups and Downs: Valuing Cyclical and Commodity Companies Abstract Cyclical and commodity companies share a common feature, insofar as their value is often more dependent on the movement of a macro variable (the commodity price or the growth in the underlying economy) than it is on firm specific characteristics. Thus, the value of an oil company is inextricably linked
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DCF analysis The value of a company today, based on how much money it’s going to make in the future Dividend discount model (DDM) Free cash flow to equity – determine the fair value of companies One must consider * Future sales growth, profit margins * Discount rate – depends on a risk-free interest rate 1. Forecast period & forecasting revenue growth * How far we should project cash flows * Excessive return period * One can guess based on the company’s competitive
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use historical cost accounting and why certain firms switch between a numbers of accounting techniques. • “Prediction” of accounting practice means that the theory predicts “unobserved phenomena”. Watts and Zimmerman start their book with a fundamental statement of The Role of Theory (Chapter 1).They asserts that the objective of positive accounting theory is to explain and predict accounting practice,(p.2) “Unobserved phenomena” are not necessarily future phenomena; they include phenomena
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Mavis Lei JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation Introduction and Recommendation In July 1999, David Neeleman had announced his plan to launch a new airline company that would bring “ humanity back to air travel” despite the fact that U.S. airline industry had lot failures over the past 20 years. JetBlue had target its strategy and operating philosophy by offering customers low –fares tickets, high performance of customer service, providing new aircrafts and focused on point-to-point service to large
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