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Market-based methods like Comparable Companies Analysis and Precedent Transactions Analysis offer relative measures of value based on market data. Income-based methods such as Discounted Cash Flow analysis focus on future cash flows to determine value. to its market value.
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. For example, I have seen it asserted that a stock that trades at less than bookvalue is cheap or that a stock that trades at more than twenty times EBITDA is expensive.
On the other hand, Equity Value solely concentrates on the shareholders' stake in the company. EV is often used in multiples like EV/EBITDA, providing a holistic view, while Equity Value is fundamental in metrics like Price/Earnings (PE) ratio. One key emphasis is on the Price to BookValue multiple.
The PE ratio for the stock has gone from a modest 15 times earnings in the 2016-21 time period to 214 times earnings in the most recent two years, and the enterprise value has jumped from about 12 times EBITDA during 2016-21 to 53 times EBITDA in the most recent two years. times revenues in the most recent two years.
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