Clean surplus model in equity valuation and financial data quality control

Equity Valuation, Production, and Financial Planning: A Stochastic Programming Approach

Most of the operations management literature assumes that the firm can always finance production decisions at an optimal level or borrow at a constant interest rate; however, operational decisions are constrained by limited capital and often critically depend on external financing. This paper proposes an integrated corporate planning model, which extends the forecasting-based discount dividend ...

Equity Valuation Using Multiples

We examine the valuation performance of a comprehensive list of value drivers and find that multiples derived from forward earnings explain stock prices remarkably well: pricing errors are within 15 percent of stock prices for about half our sample. In terms of relative performance, the following general rankings are observed consistently each year: forward earnings measures are followed by his...

Corporate Failure and Equity Valuation

This paper incorporates an annual probability of corporate failure into a standard equity valuation model, as an alternative or complementary correction for risk that improves in several ways over conventional risk premia or ad hoc adjustments to assumed growth rates. Though the correction is nonlinear, it can be reduced to an equivalent function that enters the valuation equation in the tradit...

Employee Stock Options, Equity Valuation, and the Valuation of Option Grants Using a Warrant-Pricing Model

We investigate the use of a warrant-pricing approach to incorporate employee stock options (ESOs) into equity valuation and to account for the dilutive effect of ESOs in the valuation of option grants for financial reporting purposes. Our valuation approach accounts for the jointly determined nature of ESO and shareholder values. The empirical results show that our stock price estimate exhibits...

The Private Equity Secondaries Market During the Financial Crisis and the “Valuation Gap”