Build a Robust Stock Valuation System - Financial Modeling

Description

Make better investment decisions by becoming a master at one of the most versatile and core finance fundamentals concepts - Stock Valuation, using Multiples.

Design and build your own robust valuation system from scratch, using financial modeling techniques that are rigorously grounded in the academic and practitioner literature. Then replicate your system on any stock going forward, anytime, anywhere.

Learn how to extract, compile, and compare real financial statements while pushing the boundaries on what’s possible with financial modeling on Excel® and Google Sheets.

Explore why even credible sources can give you different information about the same thing. And what you can do to make sure you have the ‘right’ estimates for your stock valuation, so you can make robust investment decisions backed by solid finance fundamentals.

Discover how to find the most appropriate "comparable" firm by learning how to ‘match’ firms on size, profitability, competitive advantage, cashflow management, and more. This is the "make or break" factor in financial modeling of stock valuation using Multiples.

Don’t just use Multiples that are out there – learn how to create your own. From scratch.

There’s no prior knowledge required. We’ll start you from the very basics, and build you to a PRO at Stock Valuation using Multiples thanks to:

5 SECTIONS TO MASTERY (plus, all future updates included).

Introduction & The Fundamentals

• Explore what valuation is (and what it isn’t).

• Understand Multiples Valuation and what its single core underlying assumption is (this assumption also underlies most if not all finance fundamentals).

• Build your Accounting Fundamentals – you’ll need it for when you work with real world financial statements, extensively applying financial modeling techniques in hands on walkthroughs that follow.

Identifying Our Target and Pool of Comparable Firms

• Choose any company you want. Or work with us on our randomly chosen S&P500 firm (which eliminates any bias from us).

• Start the financial modeling by explore how to identify a pool of comparable firms for your target firm.

• See where - and how - to download financial statements from credible sources including the SEC, for free.

• Learn how to compile financial statements from scratch and make them easily comparable and replicable financial modeling activities.

Identifying a core comparable firm

• Remove the subjectivity and guesswork from choosing a great comparable correctly. Apply robust finance fundamentals and financial modeling techniques to your stock valuation methodology, consistently.

• Match firms on industry, subindustry, size, liquidity, profitability, competitive advantage, and cashflow management.

• See precisely why a firm makes a great comparable.

• This aspect of financial modeling really is the "make or break factor" for any investment valuation done via Multiples.

Explore core Stock Valuation Multiples

• Master the core valuation Multiples most commonly used for stock valuation.

• Understand what the P/e, P/s, MTB, and P/OCF Multiples are, and what their underlying assumptions are (even if you don't know anything about any of them).

• Gain a solid understanding of how each Multiple works - and why it works the way it does.

• Discover what it takes to create your own stock valuation Multiples. From scratch. Done right, this would mean your financial modeling approach is truly unique.

Value stocks using Multiples

• Apply the key valuation Multiples to value the target firm using all the core finance fundamentals and financial modeling techniques you've built up from scratch.

• See first hand what constitutes a 'reasonable' estimate, and what doesn't.

• Explore Multiples that you can obtain from third party sources - with the caveats you want to bear in mind.

• Learn whether and when you should buy vs sell your target stock.

DESIGNED FOR DISTINCTION

We've used the same tried and tested, proven to work teaching techniques that've helped our clients ace their exams and become chartered certified accountants, get hired by the most renowned investment banks in the world, and indeed, apply rock solid financial modeling techniques to value their own stocks. We're proud of our students - whose finance fundamentals are second to none.

Here's how we'll help you master stock valuation and turn you into a PRO at financial modeling:

A Solid Foundation

You’ll gain a solid foundation of the core finance fundamentals that drive the entire stock valuation process. These fundamentals are the essence of getting a good valuation estimate, for any firm - anywhere in the world.

Complete Walkthroughs

We start from a blank spreadsheet. And build it up to a rigorous, robust, and reusable template that you can adopt and modify for your own financial modeling and valuations. You'll never feel overwhelmed, because you'll know each spreadsheet inside out.

Loads of Practice Questions

Apply what you learn immediately with 100+ practice questions, all with impeccably detailed solutions. Your finance fundamentals and financial modeling skills will be stronger than ever, seriously.

Cheat Sheets & Resources

One page cheat sheets and workable Excel® & Google Sheet spreadsheets – all included.

Push the boundaries. Take your Excel® and Google Sheets skills to the next level.

Together, we'll push the boundaries on what's possible with Excel® and Google Sheets.

You'll work with some of the most advanced and complex functions Excel® and Google Sheets have to offer. And this will help you work faster, while reducing the likelihood of errors.

Perhaps most importantly - it will help you future proof and automate your successive stock valuation and financial modeling exercises. Allowing you to identify potentially lucrative investment opportunities faster, with confidence that your methodologies are backed by rock solid finance fundamentals.

Say goodbye to information overload.

Engage with carefully thought out, clutter-free, and engaging study materials that focus on the 20% finance fundamentals that drive 80% of the great financial modeling results.

Easily follow through complex stock valuation concepts with great visuals that don’t overdo it.

Explore byte-sized lectures that don’t cut corners – so you receive the right amount of information which will hold you in good stead wherever you go, whatever you move on to do.

Watch your confidence grow.

Apply what you learn immediately in example question walkthroughs and progressively challenging quizzes with impeccably detailed solutions.

Engage with over 100 questions ranging from simple true and false ones to more complex problems that take you outside your comfort zone.

Questions are relevant for Ivy League / Russell Group University students studying any core Finance Fundamentals / Financial Analysis course, as well as professionals studying for the ICAEW CFAB, ACA, ACCA, and CFA qualifications.

All questions designed in-house, by Russell Group Distinction Tutors.

To top it all, you can work with us in conducting your own stock valuation - thanks to our hands on walkthroughs, where we show you exactly what to do and how to conduct great financial modeling... One step at a time. One cell at a time. One spreadsheet at a time.

Gaining a solid command over core finance fundamentals has never been easier.

Explore what to do when things don't go according to plan.

We've intentionally included 'hiccups' and troubleshooting in the videos, so you gain a genuine and authentic view of the kind of issues you'll encounter when conducting your own stock valuation exercises.

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What You Will Learn!

• Discover how to value stocks using Multiples Based Valuation techniques using real world data obtained for free from credible sources.
• Design and build your own stock valuation system from scratch, and replicate the system on any stock, anywhere, anytime.
• Learn how to 'match' firms on industry, subindustry, size, liquidity, profitability, competitive advantage, and cashflow management.
• Gain a comprehensive, hands on understanding of how to extract, compile, and compare financial statements using powerful functions on Excel / Google Sheets.
• Explore the benefits and limitations of each Multiple, including the P/e, P/s, MTB, and P/OCF. Even if you don't know anything about any of them.
• Understand what each Multiple means and why it works the way it does, including its underlying assumptions.
• Create your own Multiples from scratch to give yourself a genuine competitive advantage.

Who Should Attend!

• ACA, ACCA, CFA®, other Professional students
• Ivy League / Russell Group University students
• Finance Managers keen on applying Multiples / Relative Valuation techniques the right way.
• Investors wanting to work with techniques that are rigorously grounded in academic and practitioner literature.
• Analysts, and aspiring Investment Bankers wanting to gain a solid foundation in comps valuation.
• Anyone who wants to learn stock valuation using Multiples!

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