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SWS Group: The Breakdown

Appraisal Rights

The court refused to put any weight on petitioners’ comparable companies analysis, finding that the comp set diverged too much from SWS in terms of size, business lines, and performance to be meaningful. The court undertook its own DCF analysis, on which it relied exclusively.

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Discounted-Cash-Flow-Analysis: Your Complete Guide with Examples

Valutico

the multiple based or ‘ comps ’ (comparable company analysis) approach. Rf = Risk-free Rate. Rm – Rf) = Equity Market Risk Premium. Cp = Cost of Equity Premium. The first is 1. the intrinsic or income-based approach, also known as an entity approach, then there is also 2. Ce = Cost of Equity. B = Beta. (Rm

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Putting Global Risk In Perspective: Q&A With BNP Paribas’ Meghan Robson

Global Finance

That is finally starting to stabilize as we’ve lapped higher rates and have easier comps there. There are certain sectors that we think are offering better risk/reward. So, credit spreads have gotten so tight and so compressed that there’s not much of a cyclical risk premium.