Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Its financial profile now looks like this: Its Debt / EBITDA is now 10x, its EBITDA / Interest has fallen below 1x, the Secured Debt is trading at 90% of its face value, and the Unsecured Debt is down to 60%. A few years later, the company’s industry declined, and it was slow to cut costs and enter new markets.

Equity 103

Equity Banking EBITDA Start-ups 103

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

In my corporate finance class, I describe all decisions that companies make as falling into one of three buckets – investing decisions, financing decision and dividend decisions. Beta & Risk 1. Financing Flows 5. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5. Return on Equity 1. Debt Ratios & Fundamentals 1.

Dividends 105

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 105

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. EV/EBIT and EV/EBITDA 4. Cost of Equity 1.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In fact, that objective of value maximization drives every aspect of the business, as can be seen in this big picture perspective in corporate finance: For some companies, especially mature ones, value and profit maximization may converge, but for most, they will not.

Equity 80

Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 80

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

One simplistic proxy for this cash generating capacity is EBITDA as a percent of enterprise value (EV), with higher (lower) values indicating greater (lesser) cash flow generating capacity. Debt to EBITDA, Interest Coverage Ratios If debt to capital is not a good measure for judging over or under leverage, what is?

Equity 52

Equity EBITDA Start-ups Net Debt 52

Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

If Midstream companies want to grow beyond the fee increases written into their contracts and possible volume growth, they need to spend on Growth CapEx and estimate the incremental EBITDA from that spending: Further adding to the complexity is the GP (General Partner) / LP (Limited Partner) structure used at most MLPs.

Banking 98

Banking EBITDA Dividends Equity 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

In particular, there are wide variations in how risk is measured, and once measured, across companies and countries, and those variations can lead to differences in expected returns and hurdle rates, central to both corporate finance and investing judgments.

Risk Premium 117

Risk Premium Beta Start-ups Equity 117