DISCOUNTED CASH FLOWS
Focus area: Assesses the value of a business as the discounted value of the future free cash flows of the business plus the terminal value if any.
Strength: Provides strong technical background. Focuses on the future cash flow stream that is being purchased.
Weakness: Requires reliable historic and future cash flow forecasts. Requires an assessment of a wide range of industry and finance factors.
Considered Uses: Business with locked in forwarding revenue streams. Innovation or technology businesses.
NET ASSET BACKING
Focus area: The value of the business is the sum of the net tangible assets.
Strength: Inherently conservative. Typically low-risk assessments.
Weakness: Makes no allowance for goodwill or intangible value. Ignores any inherent value within the business.
Considered Uses: Business dominated by tangible assets. Business with its break up value likely to exceed the going concern position. Business with goodwill but other factors limiting reasonable certainty of a return on the goodwill.
COST TO CREATE
Focus area: Sets the value of the business at the total of establishment costs plus a limited premium for convenience.
Strength: Conservative. Reasonably easy to calculate. Tends to model markets.
Weakness: Makes limited allowance for goodwill or intangible value. Some subjective judgments required.
Considered Uses: Business with no intangible value and limited tangible assets. Microbusiness. Small business startup. Loss-making business.
RULE OF THUMB OR INDUSTRY MULTIPLIER
Focus area: Utilises or multiplier valuation models.
Strength: Aligns closely to the market experience. Generally easy to calculate.
Weakness: Has no real valuation discipline. Can be misleading to an uninformed market. Limited allowance for variance within the sector.
Considered Uses: Franchises, Businesses, Industry sectors with a large number of participants.
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