Category: Analysis Tactics and Techniques

39. Aggregate Value Creation across Portfolios

How to measure aggregate drivers of equity value creation for across portfolios, Funds, and investment programs.

38. Value Creation across Valuation Domains

Calculate performance and valuation-driven equity changes despite evolving valuation metrics (i.e., going from pre-revenue to a revenue multiple to an EBITDA multiple).

37. Value Creation over Time

Monitor value driver changes quarter-to-quarter to identify inflection points.

36. The Effective IRR

Estimate Internal Rates of Return without burdensome cash flow spreadsheets.

22. Five Mistakes that GPs Make

How private equity GPs tend to shift value creation from categories like Revenue Growth and EBITDA Growth into Multiple Expansion.

07. Five ways to Measure Private Equity Returns

Measure private equity value driver as absolute ($) value creation, relative (%) value creation, times money value creation, equity return multipliers, and value creation IRRs.

06. Dependent and Independent Variables

The right way to set up Excel spreadsheets for the value creation models in this series.