Chris Mercer discussed the valuation implications of the proposed changes to Section 2704 in this webinar.
Chris Mercer discussed the valuation implications of the proposed changes to Section 2704 in this webinar.
Twilio, a cloud communications platform designed to help developers add messaging, voice, and video to web and mobile applications, went public on June 23. Priced at $15 per share, Twilio’s share price closed at $28.79, the largest single-day increase of an IPO in over two years, which increased the company’s market cap by 95% to nearly $2.4 billion.
In a typical service provider-customer relationship, the provider delivers a service and the customer delivers cash. Upon delivery, both parties are happy and move along to the next transaction. However, a trend that gained popularity in the early 2000s adds an extra level of complexity to this seemingly simple business relationship – equity payments.
Mercer Capital is proud to be a Platinum sponsor for the 51st Annual Southern Federal Tax Institute, September 19 – 23, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Bryce Erickson, ASA, MRICS, Senior Vice President, authored an article titled “An Investor’s View of Major League Sports Franchises: Outsized Returns or a Risky Play?” recently published as a Lead Story in The Texas Lawbook. The Texas Lawbook is an electronic publication … Continued
Part I of this series presented a broad outline of the PFE-MDVN transaction. Part II will delve more into the transaction to present some high-level observations around allocation of the purchase price.
Nicholas J. Heinz, ASA, Senior Vice President, and Lucas M. Parris, CFA, ASA-BV/IA, Vice President, will present “Business Valuation Update: Current Topics in Tax Valuation” for the Tennessee Society of CPAs Memphis Chapter on September 13, 2016. Topics addressed include the IRS’ S … Continued
Matthew R. Crow, ASA, CFA, president, Jeff K. Davis, CFA, managing director, Travis W. Harms, CFA, CPA/ABV, senior vice president and Sujan Rajbhandary, CFA, vice president, are attending the Southern Capital Forum Annual Conference in Atlanta from September 14-16, 2016.
In August 2016, Pfizer (“PFE”) announced it would acquire the biopharmaceutical company Medivation (“MDVN”) for $81.50 per share, or a total enterprise value of approximately $14 billion, in an all-cash deal. The transaction made headlines for the how the size of the deal escalated over a period of approximately six months prior to the PFE announcement, as well as the potential implications regarding the attractiveness of (relatively) smaller biopharmaceutical targets in an environment where larger deals face an inordinate amount of regulatory scrutiny.
Timothy R. Lee, ASA, Managing Director of Mercer Capital, will present “How to Effectively Review an Appraisal Report” at the American Society of Appraisers’ Business Valuation Conference on September 14, 2016.
Corporate finance does not need to be a mystery. In this whitepaper, we have distilled the fundamental principles of corporate finance into an accessible and non-technical primer. Structured around the three key decisions of capital structure, capital budgeting, and dividend policy, the guide is designed to assist directors and shareholders without a finance background to make relevant and meaningful contributions to the most consequential financial decisions all companies must make.
When asked about his view of a tie years before the NCAA instituted the playoff format in the 1990s, Coach Bear Bryant famously described the outcome as “kissing your sister.” If he were a portfolio manager holding a position in a company that entered into a merger of equals (MOE), his response might be the same.
In July 2016, the PCAOB issued a staff inspection brief to provide information about the plan, scope and objectives of PCAOB inspections in 2016 of registered audit firms and their audits of issuers. Translation: watch out for these potential landmines when preparing, auditing, or reviewing your firm’s financial statements.
In the oil and gas industry, standardized reporting and industry analysts typically use a 10% discount rate on projects’ future cash flows. In this post we explain how such a discount rate is calculated and its effects on valuation; and then discuss a model that provides the discount rates that exploration and production companies face in the current market.
The consistent theme of the Appraisal Foundation’s exposure draft The Measurement and Application of Market Participant Acquisition Premiums is that acquirers do not value control for its own sake, but rather for the tangible economic benefits that can be achieved by the exercise of control. In other words, control of a business enterprise is valuable only to the extent that at least one of two conditions prevail: (1) the control buyer anticipates that the business will generate incremental cash flows under their stewardship, and (2) the control buyer has access to less expensive capital than the current owners.
What is the difference between a company’s total capital value and enterprise value? The difference between these two concepts is the treatment of cash. In the current market environment, many public companies have accumulated significant, even massive, amounts of cash. The treatment of cash, then, will impact multiples. In the following post, we examine the effect of cash on the relative valuation multiples of Apple, Microsoft, and IBM.
“So why be constructive on private credit when one of the tenets of the central banks’ zero and negative interest rate policies is to push investors to take more risk? Maybe it is misplaced, but I think there is more value (all else equal) in high current income than waiting on a terminal value when asset values are inflated.”
Mercer Capital welcomes Mr. Brian F. Adams, Mr. Rohan Bose, Mr. Daniel P. McLeod, Mr. Zachary W. Milam, and Mr. Joshua P. Rodriguez to our professional staff. We also welcome Mr. Connor T. Bran as the firm’s Social Media Specialist and Marketing Associate.
The first six months of 2016 were eventful for U.S. markets. Worldwide, markets dealt with the continued blight within the oil industry and the shockwave of United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union. In the U.S., investors worried over potential Fed interest rate hikes and the inflated unicorn valuations.
Lucas Parris, CFA has been awarded the Intangible Asset specialty designation from the American Society of Appraisers. The Intangible Asset specialty designation focuses on the valuation of intangible assets in financial reporting, tax, and litigation valuation settings.
On June 15, 2016, the Appraisal Practice Board (“APB”) of the Appraisal Foundation released the final version of the Valuation for Financial Reporting Advisory #2, The Valuation of Customer-Related Assets. The non-authoritative best practices guidance elaborates on valuation approaches and methodologies that can be used to measure fair value of customer-related intangible assets such as customer lists, order or production backlogs, and contractual and/or non-contractual customer relationships. This post briefly discusses this document.
Non-GAAP measures can provide useful context around required disclosures for analysts and other users of financial statements, especially regarding management’s perspective on business. Updated guidance from the SEC in mid-May 2016 clarifies its interpretation of rules and regulations on the use of non-GAAP financial measures.
Our quarterly summary of analyst calls is as revealing as usual, as pacemakers in the asset management sector review this quarter’s performance and how it may shape the year ahead. Madeleine Harrigan highlights four RIA market trends discussed by expert analysts.