Enterprise & Equity Value
Two public companies each own large stakes in the other (a cross-shareholding). What problem does that create for valuation and how do you adjust?
Model answer
Each company's market cap embeds the value of its stake in the other, so naive analysis double counts: part of A's value is really B, and part of B's value is really A. For each company, subtract the…
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