Session 12: Equity Investments: Valuation Models Reading 44: Private Company Valuation
LOS k: Demonstrate the use of discounts and premiums in private company valuation.
Which of the following best describes the estimation of discounts for lack of marketability (DLOM) in private company valuations? The primary advantage of using put prices to estimate the DLOM over the other two methods is:
A) |
exchange traded put prices are readily available. | |
B) |
the volatility of the firm can be incorporated into the analysis. | |
C) |
the Black-Scholes model has been shown to be valid for private firms. | |
If an interest in a firm cannot be easily sold, a DLOM is applied. The DLOM can be estimated using restricted share versus publicly traded share prices, pre-IPO versus post-IPO prices, and put prices. The advantage of using put prices over the other two DLOM estimation methods is that the estimated risk of the firm can be factored into the option price. |