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EV per employee a good valuation yardstick?

by Shiva Badruswamy, January 7, 2011 | Comments

	An examination of normal distribution of EV per employee values I wanted to fit a distribution to the EV per employee metric I took from tens of 409A valuation data points. I constructed an excel chart using the "frequency" function to count the EV per employee metric as a histogram and then observed the shape and size of the histogram. While there is some right handed tail ...
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venture investments beat public market

by Shiva Badruswamy, April 28, 2010 | Comments

Diversified Venture Investments Still Beat Public Market Returns

Welcome to the new world where business plans suffer higher scrutiny, are probed for possible infusion of government capital, are examined for whether they would displace any US jobs and excruciatingly bracketed under one of the three areas the government wants to promote - energy, health care and education. The first thing to note is why someone would be interested ...

What gets you better valuations?

by Shiva Badruswamy, April 28, 2010 | Comments

Examination of MorningStar data to identify critical factors that contributed to better valuations

In a recent examination of publicly traded stocks using MorningStar screens, we noticed that even in these depressed market conditions there are at least three dozen healthy domestic stocks with market capitalizations greater than $500 million trading at a greater than 6 price to sales (P/S). Google had a much better P/S multiple than Yahoo; Visa topped out MasterCard; Alnylam ...

SEC and private company valuations

by Shiva Badruswamy, April 28, 2010 | Comments

What does the SEC have to say about private company valuations?

In response to a few requests from clients on what the SEC though about how private companies should be fairly valued, I talked to an official at the SEC about this specific question. The reply was on expected lines: "use your judgment and make sure that observations are justified". Though, we at Accuserve, believed that SEC may not comment that ...

ETFs and technology valuation

by Shiva Badruswamy, April 28, 2010 | Comments

How to use ETFs as a pointer to valuation trends!

AccuServe uses domestic, specialty ETFs focused on technology to assess how these funds performed and arrive at an overarching trend year-over-year for valuations. 1-year returns of such funds, as of December 1, 2009, have ranged between -45.3% and 188.96% with a volume-weighted average of 74.36% return. Clearly, the valuations have improved significantly. The highly traded technology select sector SPDR's 1-year ...

Founder stock sale and 409A valuation

by Shiva Badruswamy, April 28, 2010 | Comments

Impact of founder stock sale valuations on 409A valuations

In today's tough economy, founders of small companies are figuring out a way to get more liquidity for their stocks by partially liquidating their holdings with existing investors. This could mean that founder's common stocks are being bought at the latest preferred stock prices, thereby creating implied valuations that may make the minority common stock price jump by a degree ...

Shiva Badruswamy

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