This paper contains a collection and classification of 96 errors seen in company valuations performed by financial analysts, investment banks and financial consultants. The author had access to most of the valuations referred to in this paper in his capacity as a consultant in company...

During 2004, 64% of the companies included in the Samp;P 500 created value, while in 2003 87% of these companies did it. The market value of the 500 companies was $11.2 trillion in 2004 and $10.1 trillion in 2003. The top shareholder value creators in 2004 were Exxon, General Electric, Ebay,...

World Bank (WB) has played a crucial role in the development of the economies of the world, especially in the emerging countries. We recognize the leadership it has shown and the intellectual authority the WB has on planning offices, practitioners and consultants. For this reason it is very...

During 2003, 87% of the companies included in the Samp;P 500 created value, while in 2002 just 17% of these companies did it. The market value of the 500 companies was $10.1 trillion in 2003 and $7.9 trillion in 2002. The top shareholder value creators in 2003 were Intel, Cisco, Citigroup,...

In Consistency in Chocolate: A Fresh Look at Copeland's Hershey Foods amp; Co Case we showed the inconsistencies regarding the assumption of constant leverage and the inconsistency in the values for equity calculated with different approaches. In this second part we show the differences in the...

Velez-Pareja and Tham, 2003a, Velez-Pareja and Tham, 2003b and Tham and Velez-Pareja, 2004 showed the matching between discounted cash flow (DCF) methods and value added methods. They departed from the net operating profit less adjusted taxes NOPLAT and net income when using market values to...

In this paper we find restrictions for the value of a parameter used in defining the cost of capital for perpetuities and terminal values: the growth rate for the free cash flow. When defining the growth rate for the free cash flow the usual warning is to set it below the growth of the economy...

In cash flow valuation, on grounds of simplicity, it is common to assume that the leverage is constant over time. With constant leverage, the return to levered equity is constant and consequently, the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) applied to the Free Cash Flow is constant. However,...

2002 was a bad year for the shareholders of the companies in the Euro Stoxx 50: the shareholder value destruction of the companies in the Euro Stoxx 50 was Euro 958,968 million. In 2002 only Eni created value (Euro 3,374 million). The remaining 49 companies destroyed value and had negative...