Lon Jenkins is the sole finance person at Digital Widget, Inc., a closely held firm where he
Question:
Lon Jenkins is the sole finance person at Digital Widget, Inc., a closely held firm where he has worked for the past four years.
The family that controls the company has asked Lon to value the DW stock. He tried using free cash flow and dividend growth models but dismissed the results as not being useful due to recent investments and changes in operations.
Lon has asked that you undertake a Market Multiple Valuation Method appraisal to determine DW's value. He believes that EPS might be part of the key to making this work. Lon's assistant has compiled the information in an Excel worksheet. Compare Digital Widget to the compiled firms.
Using Excel and providing formulas:
a). Analyze the data
b). Calculate EPS
c). Which firms would you exclude from the analysis?