Session 21: Closure on Pricing

In today's class, we closed the book on relative valuation by looking at how to price young companies, using forward multiples, and how to pick the "right" multiple for a valuation, with the answers ranging from cynically picking one that best fits your agenda to picking one that reflects what managers in that business care about. It is amazing how widespread relative valuation is. I found this link recently on rules of thumb in valuation. Take a look at it.... especially the multiples mentionedmultiples, and how to pick the "right" multiple for a valuation, with the answers ranging from cynically picking one that best fits your agenda to picking one that reflects what managers in that business care about. It is amazing how widespread relative valuation is. I found this link recently on rules of thumb in valuation. Take a look at it.... especially the multiples mentioned http://www.bizstats.com/reports/valuation-rule-thumb.php If you are interested in seeing the market regressions, across multiples and different regional groupings, you can find them here: http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/MReg23.html Start of the class test: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/eqnotes/relval3atest.pdf Slides: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/podcasts/valUGspr23/session21slides.pdf Post class test: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/eqnotes/postclass/session21Atest.pdf Post class test: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/eqnotes/postclass/session21Asoln.pdf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices