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This study is aimed at valuing two companies in the IT services industry with different valuation approaches. Therefore, the preconditions for an accurate and meaningful business value as well as the procedure, strengths and limitations of these approaches are examined. Additionally, the accuracy of the results is determined through comparison of valuation estimates with their corresponding stock prices occurring within the three months following the business valuations.
Furthermore, it is examined if one valuation approach is superior in terms of accuracy. Finally, to verify the quality and explanatory power of the valuation results, they are compared with the outcomes of the study on the information content of equity analyst reports by Paul Asquith, Michael B. Mikhail and Andrea S. Au. The results of the business valuations show that within the three-month period, no price target was exactly achieved by the corresponding stock prices.
Furthermore, no valuation approach could be determined that is significantly more accurate than the others. It can be concluded that despite some limitations in the explanatory power of the valuations, the average percentage approximations of Mastercard’s and Visa’s stock prices to target prices were only slightly below those of the comparative study. In view of the fact that the research capacities and experience behind these business valuations are significantly lower than those of the top analysts in the comparative study, the results are considered consistent with the outcomes of the study on the information content of equity analyst reports.
Conducting a due diligence is an integral part of M&A transactions. Its objective is to audit the targeted company with proper accuracy, in order to expose risks and opportunities and allow a profound decision on whether to acquire the company and which price to pay. An essential part of the due diligence is the environmental due diligence, which examines all environmental related liability risks, identifies costs and mitigation potentials. Up to now, little is known about the impact of environmental due diligence on company valuations in M&A transactions. The objective of this work is to get to the core of this influence with the help of interviews with several environmental consultants. The qualitative research shows that three main environmental risks bear an impact. The three main environmental risks are permissions, contamination on site and climate-related risks. Furthermore, it was discovered that the influence of these environmental risks on the company valuation is dependent on several factors. The influence depends on whether the investor is a strategic or a financial investor and to which extent the materiality limits are applied. Thereby four possibilities could be identified as possible effects on the company valuation: there is a dealbreaker, the environmental related costs are directly deducted from the purchase price, the deal size is changed, or the future cash flows of the target firm are being affected. Regarding the latter, an exemplary discounted cash flow calculation is used to demonstrate the negative impact of environmental risks on the target’s value. The findings of this qualitative research may be useful for industry experts, environmental researchers and companies planning M&A to consider environmental risks in their business valuations.
In dieser Arbeit wird eine Analyse von Bewertungsverfahren durchgeführt. Das Ziel die- ser Untersuchung ist es, jene Bewertungsverfahren zu identifizieren, die für die Bewer- tung der hTRIUS GmbH, einem Start-up, am geeignetsten sind. Diese qualitative Arbeit befasst sich nicht ausschließlich mit dem theoretischen Hintergrund, sondern bezieht die praktische Unternehmensbewertung der hTRIUS GmbH sowie ein Experteninterview mit ein. Die Unternehmensbewertung von Start-ups ist zum einen stark von der Planung und zum anderen von der Unternehmensphase abhängig. Andere Faktoren wie ein Unterneh- mensverkauf spielen bei der Wahl des Bewertungsverfahrens ebenfalls eine große Rolle. Für die hTRIUS GmbH stellt sich das DCF-Verfahren als am geeignetsten heraus, jedoch weisen jegliche Bewertungsverfahren Schwachpunkte auf. Diese bestehen darin, dass Faktoren, die nicht in Form einer finanzwirtschaftlichen Kennzahl zu erfassen sind, bei der Unternehmenswertermittlung exkludiert werden. Demzufolge muss in der Zukunft eine Lösung gefunden werden, diese Werte ebenfalls in die Bewertung aufzunehmen.