Valuation & Finance
Comparable Company Analysis (Trading Comps)
A valuation method benchmarking a target against the trading multiples of similar publicly listed companies, adjusted for scale and liquidity differences.
Seller Example
Promoter of a Coimbatore auto-ancillary business challenges the buyer's 35% blanket discount off listed trading comps, commissioning an independent valuation that argues for a narrower 20% discount given the target's above-industry-average growth rate — successfully moving the anchor multiple from 6x to 7.2x EBITDA.