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Amongst The Stars
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This blog aims to study the mechanics and behavior of the market and occasionally find a gem of insight.
- Author: Josh
- Listed in: Investing Mergers & Acquisitions
- Tags: investment MBA chartered financial analyst cfa canadian securities course csc
Recent Posts
Enterprise Value - Cash, how much is too much?
One interesting note made by our professor, Heather Ann Irwin, was for calculating EV.I've learned the two basic ways to calculate EV (again in theory they should work out to be the same):EV = EBITDA x MultipleorEV = Market Capitalization + Net DebtW...
Terminal Valuations - Theory and Practice
Yesterday, we had another Capital Markets Technical Prep session. We were looking at valuation methods including DCF, multiples, book value and precedent transactions.In DCF, we talked about how to value a company's terminal value and discussed how i...
Bova @ the ROM
Due to construction, renovation and expansion at Rotman being disruptive, we've moved our classes to the Royal Ontario Museum theater.Our accounting professor, Francesco Bova, had the honour of being the first prof to teach us in the ROM. He gave us ...
Revisiting History - "Pricing the upside derivative"
Our finance professor, Kent Womack, was just describing the model for pricing derivatives and it is almost exactly what I suggested the best method for pricing options would be based on my intuition in January (and was the topic of my Peter Godsoe Sc...
Kingsford Charcoal Case
For our Managing Customer Value class, myself and Jasmine were warm called to do a presentation on the brand of Kingsford Charcoal case and present an overview of the situation. Vincent and Yijun provided an analysis of the price strategy analysis. F...
Dubai World in Trouble
I've had this article (or variants) sent to me from many different people who are concerned / aware of what is happening in Dubai.We had just done our Dubai presentation on market entry (our project was done on Sugar Mountain and their positioning wi...
