Valuation Guide

The Street Ready Valuation Guide teaches you how investors actually value businesses across public markets, private equity and venture capital, then gives you a reference you'll keep coming back to. Every method comes with a fully worked example, so you see exactly how a multiple or a cash flow turns into a price per share.

What's inside

• The foundation: enterprise value vs. equity value, the full bridge to price per share, net debt, bridge adjustments, the treasury stock method and pre/post-money
• Trading comparables: which multiple to use and when, building a peer set, and a worked example
• Precedent transactions: control premiums, synergies, and how deal comps differ from trading comps
• DCF: free cash flow, WACC, terminal value, a complete worked DCF and a full sensitivity table
• LBO: sources & uses, return drivers, a worked deal and a stress test without multiple expansion
• VC & growth valuation: the VC method, dilution, option pools, SAFEs and convertible notes
• Sum-of-the-parts: valuing conglomerates segment by segment
• Cross-checks & the football field: how to reconcile methods into a defensible range
• Sector frameworks: the right metrics for tech, industrials, banks, REITs, energy, consumer, healthcare, telecom and transport
• Interview & modeling: how to talk through valuation, plus 20 common questions with crisp answers
• Quick-reference appendix: every formula, sensitivity rules of thumb, IRR shortcuts and a glossary

Quick stats

• 12 chapters, 44 pages with a clickable table of contents
• 6 valuation methods, each with a worked example
• 20 interview questions with answers
• 40 practice drills, with an answer key

Built for

Students and early-career professionals preparing for investment banking, private equity, equity research, venture capital and corporate finance roles, and anyone who wants to finally understand how valuation fits together.

What you get

An instant PDF download that works on any device and prints cleanly.

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For educational purposes only. Not investment advice. Worked examples use hypothetical figures, and multiples and ranges are illustrative. Street Ready Prep is not affiliated with or endorsed by any firm.