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Business Sale: Prepare to Show Your Financials

IBG Business

While our recasting of your financials can help present your business’s financial health in its most favorable light, that effort will be greatly enhanced if you stop incurring those expenses as you start preparing your business for sale. Dubious moves designed to lower your tax bill can come back to haunt you when it’s time to sell.

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Common Valuation Methods for Shares in M&A and Investments

RNC

Based on the company’s assets, liabilities, earnings, and growth potential, this calculation helps determine whether the stock is appropriately priced, overpriced, or undervalued. Share valuation in M&A offers a crucial starting point for discussions.

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Data Update 2 for 2024: A Stock Comeback - Winning the Expectations Game!

Musings on Markets

While stocks had their ups and downs during the year, they ended the year strong, and recouped, at least in the aggregate, most of the losses from 2022. Stocks ended the year well, with November and December both delivering strong up movements, and while this left investors feeling good about the year, it was a rocky year.

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How to Value a Taxi Business

Equilest

Market Research and Analysis Start with a deep dive into the taxi industry. The market multiples approach, which uses ratios like price-to-earnings, helps gauge what buyers are willing to pay. Step 1: Asset-Based Valuation First, we start with the asset-based valuation method. But why is valuation so important?

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The Great Debate: Business Valuation With or Without Inventory

GCF Value

It’s not just a matter of adding or subtracting, there is more to it and it starts with calculating the Income and Market Approaches accurately. BizComps’ price to earnings multiples for liquor stores are much lower vs other databases because those multiples DO NOT include inventory. For this example, we will use PeerComps.

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Business Valuation 7: Essential Concepts and Terminologies Explained

RNC

This approach utilizes valuation multiples, such as price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, price-to-sales (P/S) ratio, or enterprise value-to-EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) ratio, to estimate the value of the business. It provides insights into the market perception of similar businesses and helps establish a fair valuation.

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Comparing Apples to Oranges: Industry-Specific Insights for Accurate Business Valuation

GCF Value

Because of this, when valuing a business, it’s always best to start your comparison of like businesses from within the same industry. Favorable or unfavorable to the value of a business, that influence will not generate price-to-earnings multiples outside of normal market demand.