Financial Literature about Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

Simulation discounted cash flow valuation for internet companies

Discounted cash flow (DCF) is the most accepted approach for company valuation. It is well grounded in theory and practice. However, the DCF approach, which is commonly used for traditional companies valuation, presents a number of serious weaknesses within the Internet companies’ context. One of these weaknesses is tackling the uncertainty that characterize future cash flows of these companies...

A Mix Model of Discounted Cash-Flow and OWA Operators for Strategic Valuation

— The stock market volatility and the actual stock Exchange activity have increased the need of counting with effective methods on the part of financial analysts to achieve a division in relation to the investment actions, being also growing the demand of methodological instruments that reduce and minimize the risks and uncertainty when valuating financial actives and companies. These systems n...

Discounted Cash Flow: Accounting for Uncertainty

Valuation is the process of estimating price. The methods used to determine value attempt to model the thought processes of the market and thus estimate price by reference to observed historic data. This can be done using either an explicit model, that models the worth calculation of the most likely bidder, or an implicit model, that that uses historic data suitably adjusted as a short cut to d...

Discounted Cash Flow Analysis Input Parameters and Sensitivity

Discounted cash flow analysis provides a means of relating the magnitude of expected future cash profits to the magnitude of the initial cash investment required to purchase an asset or to develop it for commercial production. The objectives of discounted cash flow analysis are to determine: < The net present value of a stream of expected future cash revenues and expenditures. < The rate of ret...

Toward a Certain Equivalent Discounted Cash Flow Model