Valuation: Comps & Precedents
Walk me through how you perform a comparable companies analysis.
Model answer
1) Select a universe of public peers similar in industry, size, growth, margins, and geography. 2) Spread their financials - calculate enterprise value and equity value, and pull operating metrics…
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