Company Valuation: Discounted Cash Flow & Comparables is a structured track of 13 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- Why Valuation Exists and What a Valuation Is Actually For - Why every valuation is done for a purpose, and how purpose changes the method.
- Intrinsic vs Relative Valuation: When to Use Which - The two families of valuation and the situations that favour each.
- Discounted Cash Flow: The Full Structure, Explained Properly - The complete valuation architecture, from driver assumptions to implied share price.
- Forecasting the Explicit Period: Drivers, Not Guesses - Building a forecast off business drivers instead of a growth percentage.
- Terminal Value: Perpetual Growth vs Exit Multiple, and the Traps - Both terminal value methods, and why terminal value dominates most valuations.
- Sensitivity, Scenario Analysis & Presenting a Valuation Range - Presenting a defensible range instead of a single false-precision number.
- Trading Comparables: Building the Set & Choosing the Multiple - Selecting genuine comparables and picking the multiple the business deserves.
- Precedent Transactions, Control Premiums & Deal Multiples - Why deal multiples exceed trading multiples, and how to adjust for it.
- Sum-of-the-Parts Valuation for Indian Conglomerates - Valuing a multi-business Indian group segment by segment.
- Valuing Banks & Non-Bank Lenders: Why the Standard Model Fails - Price-to-book, dividend discount and excess return models for lenders.
- Valuing Loss-Making Startups, Software & Consumer Internet Firms - Valuing companies with no earnings using cohorts, unit economics and forward multiples.
- Indian Valuation Realities: Promoter Holding, Holding Company Discount & Float - The India-specific adjustments that change a valuation materially.
- Case Study: One Company Valued Three Ways and Reconciled - The same company valued three ways, then reconciled into one range.