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Valuing Companies by Cash Flow Discounting : Only APV Does Not Require Iteration

Fernandez, Pablo - 2020

The most used methods for valuing companies by Cash Flow Discounting are equity cash flow, free cash flow, capital cash flow and APV (Adjusted Present Value). Only APV does not require iteration All four methods, if properly applied, always give the same value. This result is logical, as all the...

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Cash Flows in Perpetuity with Different Growth Rates for the FCF and the Debt : A Numerical Illustration

Tham, Joseph - 2019

In this note, we present a simple numerical example to illustrate the case where the growth rate for the Free Cash Flow (FCF) gU is greater than but different from the growth rate for the Cash Flow to Debt (CFD) gD. Here we assume that the value of the appropriate discount rate for the tax...

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Two Fundamental Principles for Cash Flow Valuation (CFV)

Tham, Joseph - 2019

In this note, we discuss two fundamental principles for Cash Flow Valuation (CFV). We hope that adherence to these two principles will improve the practice of CFV. These principles are general, relatively uncontroversial, and should be acceptable as starting points for cash flow valuation....

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Optimal Capital Structure (OCS) with a Finite Cash Flow : A Simple Numerical Illustration

Tham, Joseph - 2019

In this note, we present a simple numerical example, with a finite cash flow, to illustrate the concept of the Optimal Capital Structure (OCS). First, we assume that the discount rate for the tax benefits KTB equals the return to unlevered equity KU. The cost of debt KD is a simple linear...

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the Weirdness and Absurdity of a Specific theory on the Present Value of the Tax Benefits (PVTB) from Debt Financing

Tham, Joseph - 2019

. The weirdness or absurdity of a theory does not automatically disqualify a theory; however, perhaps another review of the … implications of the theory may have some merit. It seems that the definition of the present value of the tax benefits (PVTB) was … revised to accommodate pre-existing ideas; perhaps the new theory is masquerading as a sort of reverse engineering …

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Discount Rate (Risk-Free Rate and Market Risk Premium) Used for 41 Countries in 2015 : A Survey

Fernandez, Pablo - 2017

This paper contains the statistics of a survey about the Risk-Free Rate (RF) and of the Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2015 for 41 countries. We got answers for 68 countries, but we only report the results for 41 countries with more than 25 answers.The average (RF) used in 2015 was smaller...

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The Capital Asset Pricing Model in Economic Perspective

Dawson, Peter C. - 2020

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is theoretically incomplete in its demand-side focus, risk-averse investors, and internally inconsistent homogeneous beliefs; is not conclusively supported empirically; and yet it legitimizes a notion that investors can earn higher returns by bearing...

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Market Risk Premium and Risk-Free Rate used for 59 Countries in 2018 : A Survey

Fernandez, Pablo - 2018

“Quantitative Easing”, the RF and the MRP reported for some countries are negatively correlated (Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Norway ….For the first time of this survey, 11 respondents provided - without being asked for - a different MRP for Spain and Catalonia … (on average, 6,7% for Spain and 11,3% for Catalonia) …

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A wrong valuation using WACC and the right solution

Fernández, Pablo - 2020

This paper presents a real valuation performed by a well-known investment bank, with two common errors and with two very different values for the equity of a firm:a) €6,9 million calculating the Present Value of expected free cash flows (FCF) discounted with the WACC rate and then, subtracting...

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Survey : Market Risk Premium and Risk-Free Rate used for 88 countries in 2021

Fernandez, Pablo; Bañuls, Sofia; Fernandez Acin, Pablo - 2021

This paper contains the statistics of a survey about the Risk-Free Rate (RF) and the Market Risk Premium (MRP) used in 2021 for 88 countries. We got answers for 92 countries, but we only report the results for 88 countries with more than 6 answers. Many respondents use for European countries a...

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