1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,440 2 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,370 In the last couple of videos we saw that looking just 3 00:00:03,370 --> 00:00:06,800 purely at market capitalization can be a little 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,190 bit misleading, when you look at companies that have a good 5 00:00:09,190 --> 00:00:11,380 bit of leverage or companies that have a good bit of debt. 6 00:00:11,380 --> 00:00:14,530 For example, if that's the assets of the company, and 7 00:00:14,530 --> 00:00:18,181 let's say that they have this much debt. 8 00:00:18,181 --> 00:00:19,810 And this is their equity. 9 00:00:19,810 --> 00:00:24,430 10 00:00:24,430 --> 00:00:26,180 And then let's say they have some excess cash. 11 00:00:26,180 --> 00:00:28,420 Cash that's not necessary to actually operate the business. 12 00:00:28,420 --> 00:00:30,150 I'll draw that up here. 13 00:00:30,150 --> 00:00:31,520 So this is excess cash. 14 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:34,850 Some cash is necessary, and oftentimes people don't make 15 00:00:34,850 --> 00:00:35,220 the distinction. 16 00:00:35,220 --> 00:00:37,800 And they'll just view this as all the cash. 17 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,420 But we really want to separate the value of the enterprise 18 00:00:41,420 --> 00:00:45,620 out of the market value of the equity or the 19 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:46,720 value of the debt. 20 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:47,900 So let me just write all this down. 21 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,230 So this right here, this is the value of the business. 22 00:00:50,230 --> 00:00:51,480 The enterprise value. 23 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:54,500 24 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:58,160 Here is the debt. 25 00:00:58,160 --> 00:00:59,490 There's the debt. 26 00:00:59,490 --> 00:01:01,175 And this is the equity. 27 00:01:01,175 --> 00:01:03,920 28 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,870 And this is a little bit of a slight, I would say, 29 00:01:06,870 --> 00:01:07,190 technicality. 30 00:01:07,190 --> 00:01:08,950 And you don't have to worry about this if it 31 00:01:08,950 --> 00:01:10,100 confuses you at all. 32 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:12,780 When I write the enterprise here, this is the value of the 33 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:13,730 business itself. 34 00:01:13,730 --> 00:01:18,060 So it's kind of the operational assets net of the 35 00:01:18,060 --> 00:01:19,230 operational liabilities. 36 00:01:19,230 --> 00:01:21,560 It's literally-- if you had to go out in the past two 37 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,500 examples and buy the pizzeria-- how much net would 38 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:26,150 you have to pay for that pizzeria? 39 00:01:26,150 --> 00:01:29,150 And that's what we're trying to figure out right here when 40 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:31,440 we're talking about the enterprise value. 41 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,585 And we saw in the last couple of videos how you calculate 42 00:01:33,585 --> 00:01:35,370 it, but it never hurts to review it. 43 00:01:35,370 --> 00:01:38,070 This is actually one of those less intuitive calculations 44 00:01:38,070 --> 00:01:40,380 the first few times you see it, so it doesn't 45 00:01:40,380 --> 00:01:41,970 hurt to do it again. 46 00:01:41,970 --> 00:01:43,950 So the first thing to figure out is, how do you figure out 47 00:01:43,950 --> 00:01:45,680 the market value of the equity? 48 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,400 The book value of the equity is very easy. 49 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,570 You could go into a company's balance sheet and they'll 50 00:01:49,570 --> 00:01:50,070 write down a number. 51 00:01:50,070 --> 00:01:54,120 They'll say, this is what our accountants say that the book 52 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:55,730 value of our equity is worth. 53 00:01:55,730 --> 00:01:58,260 But the market value, figure it out from what the market's 54 00:01:58,260 --> 00:01:59,580 willing to pay for a share. 55 00:01:59,580 --> 00:02:07,670 So the market value of equity or the market cap is equal to 56 00:02:07,670 --> 00:02:11,520 price per share times the number of shares. 57 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,040 58 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,240 And that's the market value of this equity. 59 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,800 And you can see, just even from this diagram, that the 60 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:25,230 enterprise value plus the non-operating cash or 61 00:02:25,230 --> 00:02:28,590 investments or liquid investments, whatever you want 62 00:02:28,590 --> 00:02:29,280 to call them. 63 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:37,580 Enterprise value plus the cash is equal to the debt plus, 64 00:02:37,580 --> 00:02:39,420 let's just say the market cap. 65 00:02:39,420 --> 00:02:42,970 Because we want to know, when we look at a price, we want to 66 00:02:42,970 --> 00:02:45,230 be able to figure out what is the market saying the 67 00:02:45,230 --> 00:02:46,970 enterprise value of the company is? 68 00:02:46,970 --> 00:02:49,500 What is the market value of the enterprise? 69 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:51,820 So debt plus-- instead of equity-- I'll write market 70 00:02:51,820 --> 00:02:54,020 capitalization, because it's the same thing. 71 00:02:54,020 --> 00:02:58,150 Market capitalization is the market's value of the equity 72 00:02:58,150 --> 00:02:59,840 plus market cap. 73 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:01,690 So we know market cap. 74 00:03:01,690 --> 00:03:04,240 We can look up the debt on a company's balance sheet. 75 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:05,820 We can look up the cash. 76 00:03:05,820 --> 00:03:09,470 So we just subtract cash from both sides, and we get 77 00:03:09,470 --> 00:03:20,480 enterprise value is equal to market cap 78 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,120 plus debt minus cash. 79 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,500 We're just taking cash onto the right-hand 80 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:30,730 side of this equation. 81 00:03:30,730 --> 00:03:35,070 So for example, if I have a stock that is trading at- 82 00:03:35,070 --> 00:03:38,650 let's say the price is $10. 83 00:03:38,650 --> 00:03:45,290 And let's say that there are 1 million shares. 84 00:03:45,290 --> 00:03:52,450 And let's say that the company has $50 million of debt. 85 00:03:52,450 --> 00:03:59,400 And let's say it has $5 million of excess cash, what's 86 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:00,880 its enterprise value? 87 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,510 Well, you first figure out its market cap. 88 00:04:02,510 --> 00:04:06,750 Its market cap is $10 per share times a million shares. 89 00:04:06,750 --> 00:04:08,670 So that's 10 million shares. 90 00:04:08,670 --> 00:04:10,510 That's the market cap. 91 00:04:10,510 --> 00:04:11,410 You add the debt. 92 00:04:11,410 --> 00:04:13,560 So, plus $50 million. 93 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,760 And once again, I said this in the last video, it's very 94 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,390 unintuitive when you figure out the value of the 95 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:19,459 enterprise to add the debt. 96 00:04:19,459 --> 00:04:23,480 And the intuition is that if someone were to want to buy 97 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,040 this company from the stakeholders and be debt free, 98 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,750 they would have to pay these people the total amount of 99 00:04:29,750 --> 00:04:32,270 debt, and they'd have to pay these people the total amount 100 00:04:32,270 --> 00:04:33,060 of the market value. 101 00:04:33,060 --> 00:04:35,610 So they'd have to pay the debt plus the equity. 102 00:04:35,610 --> 00:04:37,830 And they get a refund of the cash. 103 00:04:37,830 --> 00:04:40,100 This would be extra stuff that they would be buying that they 104 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:41,970 could get money back for. 105 00:04:41,970 --> 00:04:44,260 So you have to pay the equity holders, you have to pay the 106 00:04:44,260 --> 00:04:46,720 debt holders, and then you get a refund of the cash. 107 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,630 And so the enterprise value's what? $60 million minus 5. 108 00:04:51,630 --> 00:04:54,200 That's $55 million. 109 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:54,780 Fair enough. 110 00:04:54,780 --> 00:04:58,170 This is all just review of the enterprise value video. 111 00:04:58,170 --> 00:05:00,980 But the question is, now that you've figured out enterprise 112 00:05:00,980 --> 00:05:02,490 value, how do you figure out if that's a 113 00:05:02,490 --> 00:05:04,130 fair enterprise value? 114 00:05:04,130 --> 00:05:06,290 When you looked at market capitalization you compared 115 00:05:06,290 --> 00:05:09,440 that to earnings. 116 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,560 The price to earnings ratio. 117 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:12,880 You were doing this on a per share. 118 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,320 This is price per share divided by earnings per share. 119 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:22,350 This ratio's equivalent to market cap divided by the 120 00:05:22,350 --> 00:05:23,810 actual net income of the company. 121 00:05:23,810 --> 00:05:27,570 122 00:05:27,570 --> 00:05:29,520 Where if you just multiply the numerator and the denominator 123 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,370 by the number of shares, you get market cap and net income. 124 00:05:32,370 --> 00:05:33,490 This is EPS. 125 00:05:33,490 --> 00:05:36,210 P/E is actually price per share divided by 126 00:05:36,210 --> 00:05:37,240 earnings per share. 127 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:38,880 And that was one way to look at it. 128 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,210 You could compare two companies. 129 00:05:40,210 --> 00:05:42,570 And we saw it breaks down if they have different types of 130 00:05:42,570 --> 00:05:43,310 capital structure. 131 00:05:43,310 --> 00:05:45,880 So what do you compare enterprise value to? 132 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,670 Here we did market cap to net income. 133 00:05:48,670 --> 00:05:52,450 Enterprise value should be compared to what? 134 00:05:52,450 --> 00:05:55,460 Now I made an argument in the last video that, well if we're 135 00:05:55,460 --> 00:05:58,340 looking at the enterprise, we should look at essentially the 136 00:05:58,340 --> 00:06:00,850 earnings that are popping out of the enterprise. 137 00:06:00,850 --> 00:06:03,640 We should look at the earnings that are coming out of this 138 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,100 asset right here. 139 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:08,280 And on the very first video on the income statement, I 140 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:10,180 implied that-- let's do a balance sheet-- 141 00:06:10,180 --> 00:06:12,370 you have your revenue. 142 00:06:12,370 --> 00:06:14,740 Your revenue could be 100. 143 00:06:14,740 --> 00:06:18,730 You have your cost of goods sold. 144 00:06:18,730 --> 00:06:23,130 Cost of goods sold could be, let's say it's minus 50. 145 00:06:23,130 --> 00:06:24,520 And I'll show you another convention. 146 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,720 One of the commenters suggested that I do this 147 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:28,100 convention. 148 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:30,380 Which is actually the most typical convention for a lot 149 00:06:30,380 --> 00:06:32,260 of accountants and financial analysts. 150 00:06:32,260 --> 00:06:34,050 Instead of writing a negative, they'll write it in 151 00:06:34,050 --> 00:06:34,720 parentheses. 152 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,000 That means negative. 153 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,270 Minus 50. 154 00:06:38,270 --> 00:06:45,060 And then the gross profit would be 50. 155 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:47,350 And then, actually I want to do something a little bit 156 00:06:47,350 --> 00:06:47,750 interesting. 157 00:06:47,750 --> 00:06:50,830 Let's say that this cost of goods sold, it involves no 158 00:06:50,830 --> 00:06:52,170 depreciation or amortization. 159 00:06:52,170 --> 00:06:55,360 And watch those videos if those words confuse you. 160 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,720 And all of the appreciation and amortization is actually 161 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:58,850 occurring at the corporate level. 162 00:06:58,850 --> 00:07:04,760 So let's say that there is some SG&A. 163 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,240 But this is without the depreciation and amortization. 164 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:14,630 So let's say that this is an expense of 10. 165 00:07:14,630 --> 00:07:16,110 Let's say there's some depreciation and 166 00:07:16,110 --> 00:07:18,505 amortization as well. 167 00:07:18,505 --> 00:07:20,990 D&A. 168 00:07:20,990 --> 00:07:23,250 In the last couple of videos I kind of grouped. 169 00:07:23,250 --> 00:07:24,490 And that tends to be the case. 170 00:07:24,490 --> 00:07:26,540 On a lot of income statements they won't separate out the 171 00:07:26,540 --> 00:07:28,060 depreciation and amortization. 172 00:07:28,060 --> 00:07:29,470 And you'll actually have to look at the cash flow 173 00:07:29,470 --> 00:07:30,890 statement to figure out what this is. 174 00:07:30,890 --> 00:07:32,920 And I'm going to do that in a future video. 175 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:34,560 But let's say that we actually do break it out. 176 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,700 Sometimes that does happen. 177 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:39,200 And let's say that that's another 5. 178 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,620 Maybe these are in thousands. 179 00:07:41,620 --> 00:07:45,160 And then you're left with the operating profit. 180 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,410 181 00:07:49,410 --> 00:07:53,740 In this case, which is 50 minus 15, so it's 35. 182 00:07:53,740 --> 00:07:55,010 And then you have things below that. 183 00:07:55,010 --> 00:07:58,360 You have interest. And I'll do those just for-- you have the 184 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,420 non-operating income and interest and all that. 185 00:08:00,420 --> 00:08:01,150 Let me just do that. 186 00:08:01,150 --> 00:08:08,160 Interest. Let's say that that is also 5,000, if that's what 187 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,430 we care about. 188 00:08:09,430 --> 00:08:11,750 And then you have pre-tax. 189 00:08:11,750 --> 00:08:13,500 I didn't put the non-operating income. 190 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:15,820 Let's say this cash isn't generating anything. 191 00:08:15,820 --> 00:08:19,570 So pre-tax income is 30,000, if that's what 192 00:08:19,570 --> 00:08:20,710 we're dealing with. 193 00:08:20,710 --> 00:08:21,920 It's getting a little messy. 194 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,480 So then you have taxes. 195 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,390 Let's say it's 1/3. 196 00:08:25,390 --> 00:08:27,380 It's 10,000 of taxes. 197 00:08:27,380 --> 00:08:28,630 And then you have earnings. 198 00:08:28,630 --> 00:08:31,090 199 00:08:31,090 --> 00:08:33,409 30 minus 10 is 20,000. 200 00:08:33,409 --> 00:08:37,250 So I suggested, what part of this income statement is 201 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:40,059 dependent purely on this piece right here? 202 00:08:40,059 --> 00:08:45,450 203 00:08:45,450 --> 00:08:47,180 Well all this stuff with interest, that's 204 00:08:47,180 --> 00:08:48,570 dependent on the debt. 205 00:08:48,570 --> 00:08:50,810 And essentially taxes is also dependent on the debt. 206 00:08:50,810 --> 00:08:52,630 Because the more interest you have, the more 207 00:08:52,630 --> 00:08:53,500 you can deduct it. 208 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:58,980 And so all of this down here is dependent on 209 00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:01,300 your capital structure. 210 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:03,620 So if you wanted to look just what the enterprise value is 211 00:09:03,620 --> 00:09:05,810 generating, it's generating the operating profit. 212 00:09:05,810 --> 00:09:10,220 213 00:09:10,220 --> 00:09:13,220 So I suggested that a pretty good ratio, although this is 214 00:09:13,220 --> 00:09:14,200 very non traditional. 215 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,050 It's not very not traditional, but you don't 216 00:09:16,050 --> 00:09:17,970 hear it said a lot. 217 00:09:17,970 --> 00:09:21,730 I'd argue that you could look at EV to operating profit as a 218 00:09:21,730 --> 00:09:22,980 good metric. 219 00:09:22,980 --> 00:09:29,300 220 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:36,550 Which in a lot of cases is the inverse of the return on 221 00:09:36,550 --> 00:09:39,200 assets, as I defined it in the first video. 222 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,770 There's a lot of different return on asset definitions. 223 00:09:41,770 --> 00:09:44,350 But it's essentially saying, for every dollar of operating 224 00:09:44,350 --> 00:09:46,940 profit, how much are you paying for the enterprise. 225 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:49,010 Which I think is a pretty good metric. 226 00:09:49,010 --> 00:09:52,340 Now, the more conventional metric that you'll see when 227 00:09:52,340 --> 00:09:55,100 you see people talk about enterprise values, enterprise 228 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:56,370 value to EBITDA. 229 00:09:56,370 --> 00:09:59,340 And if you go and get a job as a research analyst at some 230 00:09:59,340 --> 00:10:01,550 firm, this is going to be something that you're going to 231 00:10:01,550 --> 00:10:03,620 be expected to calculate for a company. 232 00:10:03,620 --> 00:10:06,410 And hopefully talk reasonably intelligently about it. 233 00:10:06,410 --> 00:10:10,080 So the first question, to talk reasonably intelligently about 234 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:11,720 anything is, what is EBITDA? 235 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:18,460 So EBITDA is Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation 236 00:10:18,460 --> 00:10:20,300 and Amortization. 237 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:22,560 So let's see what that would be here. 238 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:28,890 So it's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation 239 00:10:28,890 --> 00:10:29,900 and amortization. 240 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:32,280 So it's before all of this stuff. 241 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:33,920 Actually, let's compare that to 242 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:35,120 something we covered before. 243 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:36,370 So you have EBITDA. 244 00:10:36,370 --> 00:10:39,280 245 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,660 And you have EBIT. 246 00:10:41,660 --> 00:10:45,660 EBIT is Earnings Before Interest and Taxes. 247 00:10:45,660 --> 00:10:47,520 So EBIT is earnings. 248 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,240 You add back taxes and interest. You're 249 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,350 at operating profit. 250 00:10:51,350 --> 00:10:53,530 And I've gone over this in the past, but the distinction 251 00:10:53,530 --> 00:10:57,220 between operating profit and EBIT is that EBIT might 252 00:10:57,220 --> 00:10:59,080 include some non-operating income, which 253 00:10:59,080 --> 00:10:59,890 I haven't put here. 254 00:10:59,890 --> 00:11:03,790 But if this cash was generating some profit 255 00:11:03,790 --> 00:11:05,740 unrelated to the operations of the business, it'd 256 00:11:05,740 --> 00:11:06,620 be included in EBIT. 257 00:11:06,620 --> 00:11:07,810 It wouldn't be an operating profit. 258 00:11:07,810 --> 00:11:10,900 But they're usually pretty close if we're talking about, 259 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:13,310 let's say, a non-financial type of business. 260 00:11:13,310 --> 00:11:14,370 So this is EBIT. 261 00:11:14,370 --> 00:11:16,440 And if you want to get EBITDA, you just add back the 262 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,670 depreciation and amortization. 263 00:11:18,670 --> 00:11:20,310 So EBITDA would be here. 264 00:11:20,310 --> 00:11:23,510 265 00:11:23,510 --> 00:11:27,440 So the EBIT is 35,000. 266 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,380 If you add that back, it would be 40,000. 267 00:11:30,380 --> 00:11:32,510 So the EBITDA in this case is 40. 268 00:11:32,510 --> 00:11:36,360 And if my units are in thousands, it's 40,000. 269 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,450 Now the question is, why do people care about EBITDA? 270 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:42,710 Why is EBITDA used instead of operating profit? 271 00:11:42,710 --> 00:11:45,610 And the logic is that depreciation and amortization, 272 00:11:45,610 --> 00:11:48,040 and we did this in the depreciation and amortization 273 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,860 videos, these are just spread-out costs that 274 00:11:50,860 --> 00:11:54,240 necessarily aren't cash going out the door in this period. 275 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,390 We saw that this depreciation and amortization. 276 00:11:56,390 --> 00:12:01,120 Maybe this is, I bought a $100 or $100,000 277 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,020 object 10 years ago. 278 00:12:03,020 --> 00:12:09,250 And every year I depreciate 1/20 of it. 279 00:12:09,250 --> 00:12:11,180 But the cash went out the door 20 years ago. 280 00:12:11,180 --> 00:12:14,220 And so this depreciation and amortization in this period, 281 00:12:14,220 --> 00:12:16,040 it isn't necessarily cash out of the door. 282 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,350 In fact, it isn't cash out the door. 283 00:12:17,350 --> 00:12:20,190 We'll talk in future videos about how do you find out what 284 00:12:20,190 --> 00:12:22,390 the cash out the door is in a period. 285 00:12:22,390 --> 00:12:24,175 So it's considered a non-cash expense. 286 00:12:24,175 --> 00:12:27,210 287 00:12:27,210 --> 00:12:30,580 So when you figure out EBITDA, when you add back taxes, you 288 00:12:30,580 --> 00:12:33,290 add back interest, and you add back depreciation and 289 00:12:33,290 --> 00:12:34,360 amortization. 290 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,820 What you're left with is essentially, how much raw cash 291 00:12:37,820 --> 00:12:39,925 is the enterprise spitting out? 292 00:12:39,925 --> 00:12:43,720 293 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,950 And a lot of people care about this because this is an 294 00:12:45,950 --> 00:12:47,510 indication of, one, the company's 295 00:12:47,510 --> 00:12:50,150 ability to do things. 296 00:12:50,150 --> 00:12:54,010 To do things like pay its interest, pay its taxes, or 297 00:12:54,010 --> 00:12:55,630 invest in the business itself. 298 00:12:55,630 --> 00:13:03,010 Or another way to view it is, if you look at EV to EBITDA, 299 00:13:03,010 --> 00:13:06,030 you're saying for every dollar of raw cash that this 300 00:13:06,030 --> 00:13:07,360 business spits out. 301 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,490 And let's say I were not to reinvest in the business or 302 00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:11,590 buy new equipment. 303 00:13:11,590 --> 00:13:13,850 If it's just raw dollars, how much am I paying for the 304 00:13:13,850 --> 00:13:14,760 enterprise? 305 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:16,860 And a general rule of thumb, and we'll do more on this in 306 00:13:16,860 --> 00:13:17,290 the future. 307 00:13:17,290 --> 00:13:21,210 I think I'm already well over my regular time limit, is that 308 00:13:21,210 --> 00:13:26,090 for a very, stable, simple, non-declining non-growing 309 00:13:26,090 --> 00:13:30,330 business, five times EBITDA is considered a good valuation. 310 00:13:30,330 --> 00:13:34,340 But what matters more is what other companies in that 311 00:13:34,340 --> 00:13:35,490 industry are trading at. 312 00:13:35,490 --> 00:13:38,270 So all of these ratios are better as 313 00:13:38,270 --> 00:13:40,160 relative valuation metrics. 314 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,240 In the future I'll show you how to do maybe a discounted 315 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,160 cash flow or a discounted free cash flow type of analysis. 316 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,410 Or a dividend discount model or something, so you can kind 317 00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:49,890 of figure out an absolute value. 318 00:13:49,890 --> 00:13:52,830 But when you're looking in public markets, when you're 319 00:13:52,830 --> 00:13:55,330 picking to decide something, you're also implicitly picking 320 00:13:55,330 --> 00:13:56,650 not to buy other things. 321 00:13:56,650 --> 00:13:58,690 When you're choosing to sell something, you're also 322 00:13:58,690 --> 00:14:00,800 implicitly choosing not to sell other things. 323 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,110 So relative value starts to matter a little bit more. 324 00:14:04,110 --> 00:14:06,910 Anyway, hopefully you found that helpful.