Importance Of Valuation

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Valuation is one of the core concepts in finance, it is used to study market efficiency and answers the questions related to corporate governance. it is also used to evaluate different investment decisions. Valuation is the method of estimating the worth of an asset. Valuations can be done on company bonds and company investments which include shares, options etc

Valuations and share prices forecasting has key position in finance as they represent one of the source for value perception of the corresponding companies shares. There are four approaches to valuation. The first is discounted cash flow valuation in which the present value of expected future cash flows of the asset gives the value of an asset. The second is accounting valuation in which book value if assets is used for valuing the firms assets. The third is relative valuation in which comparable assets like earnings, cash flows and book value measure the value of companies assets by. Forth approach is contingent claim valuation in which the value of assets id determines by using option pricing models.

A valuation multiple is a mean by which market value of an asset in relation to a key company value is assumed. Market multiples are medium for determining …show more content…

We seek to investigate the performance of multiples, multiples ranking in valuation and variation in performance on KSE over time. Multiples are used often as a substitute for comprehensive valuations, because they efficiently play their role in effective valuations. Multiples are used to do comprehensive valuations in order to obtain values to forecast share prices. More over in emerging markets traditional method don’t give accurate results. This study is an attempt to provide empirical evidence that in emerging markets like Pakistan valuation through multiples gave better results then traditional methods i.e. DCF,

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