Chris Mercer

MARCH 7, 2024

My current series of blog posts is titled “Mercer’s Musings.” The beginning point of the valuation of a partial ownership interest is almost always the value of the underlying business or asset. This is the “base value” that has been addressed in a number of posts on this blog.

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Chris Mercer

MARCH 8, 2023

I have addressed this issue in several books and numerous articles and blog posts since then. The Definition of Fair Market Value Let’s first address the question based on the definition of fair market value, which represents a hypothetical transaction in a subject interest on the valuation date for cash or its equivalent.

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Chris Mercer

MARCH 29, 2024

.” According to SBVS-1, valuation ratios from comparable public companies can be used, with appropriate adjustments, to apply to earnings or other metrics of a subject company in order to estimate the value of the subject entity. The WACC for the subject company is 12.5%, with an equity discount rate of 15% (not shown).

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