MEMO
You are an analyst in the automobile industry and your boss asks you to do a valuation of a global publicly traded automobile manufacturer. She wants you to come up with an enterprise valuation using both DCF and Comparable approaches and calculate your estimates on both a TEV and per Share basis. She also provided some finer points.
DCF should be performed on a 10-year planning horizon Use a discount rate of 8% Build the DCF off of the company’s current financial statements. If they do not use US$ use the currency the financials are stated in. You will need to make assumptions just document what they are. The market currently trades at a 6.5 X EBITDA multiple for transactions and average P/E Ratio is about 6 Do All of your work in Excel .
Write a 2-page memo on the company’s valuation and analyze what are the primary drivers to the valuation and how sensitive it is to changes in your assumptions.
A memo with some graphs and table would be appropriate.