Valuing mines…a new discussion forum
There’s a new discussion on the LinkedIn Valuation Professionals group on key research sources for engagements for valuing mineral mines…
Avoid standard healthcare benchmarks if you get an imaging center engagement
“Valuing a diagnostic imaging center is very different from valuing any other healthcare enterprise,” Douglas Smith (Barrington Lake Group LLC) told listeners yesterday during the BVR webinar Imaging Centers: Lessons from an Industry Expert. The diagnostic imaging center industry is “changing like crazy,” says Smith, and the centers’ unique structures require intense analysis. Listed below [...]
An improved resource to find web pages that were available as of your valuation date
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is a great resource for business appraisers who are looking for web pages as of a particular date in the past or are trying to find material that is no longer available on the web. The new BETA version offers improved search navigation and more data is available on each [...]
Beware of relying on industry trend figures when valuing a community bank
Dwight Larsen and Matthew Becker (BankValue Advisory Services) told the audience at last week’s 21st Annual Minnesota BV Conference that bank earnings are on the mend. The banking industry reported an aggregate net income of $53.6B thru 9/30/10 ($1.3B in 2009,, $4.5B in 2008; $100B in 2007) Industry ROA in 2010 3Q equaled 0.44%, up [...]
BIZCOMPS gets more deals and improved User Guide
Jack Sanders just finished his end-of-year update, adding recent deals to the BIZCOMPS database. There’s also a new and improved User’s Guide as well.
Free copy of monthly December economic outlook and forecast data – would you use this monthly?
The Economic Outlook Update™ (EOU), BVR’s quarterly review and forecast of the US economy, is considering publishing a monthly supplement (12 issues a year) in addition to the quarterly reports. This monthly supplement can be used as a more current basis for the economic conditions component of your valuation reports, giving you the most up-to-date, [...]
New 12-part healthcare valuation CPE series
You won’t find better guidance to navigate any healthcare valuation assignment than BVR’s Online Symposium on Healthcare Valuation. Running throughout 2011, this twelve-part series features contributing authors to The AHLA/BVR Guide to Healthcare Valuation discussing the most relevant and changing topics in the industry. Join us for part one, “One Year Later: Assessing the Impact [...]
Damodaran’s website recommended for industry asset volatilities…but you may have to calculate debt volatility yourself…
The recent BVR webinar “The Use and Application of Option Pricing Modeling” elicited several questions from listeners, one of which was: “What is the best resource of obtaining volatility for debt? CapIQ? Bloomberg? What do you do if public comps don’t have publicly traded debt? Presenters Jim Walling (Grant Thornton) and Scott Beauchene (Strategic Value [...]
The NY Times plugs the BV profession—and the high quality of middle market private company financial information in Pratt’s Stats
Referring to Inc. magazine’s recent article “2010 Business Valuation Guide” Times blogger Barbara Taylor says “it’s no secret that this is a lousy time to try to sell your business…and main street businesses have been hardest hit.” BVR’s Adam Manson told Taylor that “acquisitions are recovering more favorably for companies with revenues over $5 million.” Manson [...]
Exclusive from BVR; 2011 Business Reference Guide available now on-line
BVR just received the update to the online Business Reference Guide. Over 72% of all the content has been updated – a very large update indeed. While the print version of 2011 Business Reference Guide, which includes all this new data—will be available on January 1 or so, any appraiser who wants an update on [...]
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