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Questions about DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) among enterprise valuation methods.

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Created: 2025-05-16

Created: 2025-05-16 17:51

This is a question related to DCF (Discounted Cash Flow) among the methods of enterprise value assessment.


Hello!

I'm a startup that is currently setting up a corporation, not an existing unlisted company, and

for investment attraction

IR

is being created, and I am seeking a value assessment of the future projected profit and loss statement and the corresponding business plan.

.

In this case, there are no actual financial statements, and based on the estimated

(

revenue,

operating profit,

net income, etc.

)

only a future

5

year projected income statement is available.

1.

I have decided to use the income value assessment method

(DCF

method)

as the main evaluation and

2.

the comparative value assessment method as a sub-evaluation to complement each other.

.

As there are no comparable companies within the same industry, I compared and evaluated listed and unlisted companies focusing on operating income and net profit. As a result,

Considering the large difference in market capitalization between listed and unlisted companies, and the fact that it is a startup,

I ultimately compared and evaluated it with the net profit of an unlisted company. Is this the right direction, or if there is a better method, please let me know.

I am currently estimating the value of the business plan using the above

2

methods.

.

In this case,

there are the following questions during the DCF calculation process.

.

# DCF

Calculation Formula

:

Expected Cash Flow

*[1/(1+

Discount Rate

-

Growth Rate

)

(

Order of the Year

)]

1.

I am curious whether the above formula is correct.

(

It's a similar formula, but

I also noticed formulas that end with dividing the cash flow by the discount rate and growth rate without squaring the

Order of the Year

)

2.

When I substitute the values according to that formula, I'm having a problem where the value becomes negative if the

Growth Rate

is greater than ‘1+

Discount Rate

’.

3.

Discount Rate

=

Risk-Free Interest Rate

+

Stock Sensitivity to Market

*(

Market Risk Premium

-

Risk-Free Interest Rate

)

-

Risk-Free Interest Rate

=

Government Bond Yield

=2%(3

year

~30

year maturity, the average of the lowest and highest values is about

1.8%

so

I set it to 2%, is this a correct assumption

?)

-

Stock Sensitivity to Market

=(

Typically, the yield for about

3

years is extracted and calculated, and if the average yield for

3

years is

100%

then does this mean that this number is considered as

‘1’

?)

(

If the business belongs to a structurally growing industry group that is unrelated to the economic flow, then the meaning of sensitivity to the market is almost non-existent, so if you set it to a minimum value of approximately

0.1,

is this a correct assumption

?)

4.

Market Risk Premium

=6%(

I searched portal sites and found articles stating that analysts and other field experts typically set it to

5~7%, so I set it to an average value of

6%, is this a correct assumption

5. The last question is a legal ISSUE, not an accounting one.

In the case of a knowledge-intensive business based on ideas, not a technology-intensive business where a technology evaluation is possible, when attracting investment, in order to protect business know-how and business

(

sales

)

secrets, what kind of investment agreement with the investor (corporation) should be made to protect the business secrets and, at the same time, achieve a mutually beneficial Win-Win situation that the investor can also accept?

Thank you.

.

I will give you 500 points.

Have a pleasant afternoon.

^^



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