CORPORATE VALUATION REPORT: GENERAL ELECTRIC KARL ANDERSON APRIL 15TH 2015 QUANTITATIVE MODELS IN FINANCE FNN 6205 DR. IVAN COHEN RICHMOND THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN LONDON Contents I. Report II. Executive Summary III. Bibliography IV. Data Appendices Report This report would create a corporate valuation based on the financial forecasts of General Electric (GE) and recommend whether investors should invest their capital into the company. The report would focus on whether General Electric would have a positive or negative outcome from the financial analysis of the accounts. The risks of GE taking a loan from a bank in the US should also be taken into consideration as it would have a direct impact on their financial position. In addition, it would look at the most important variables that would make the company profitable in the long term. This means that there would be factors that would help increase their sales growth higher than increase in costs. To start off with the most important factors that make the company profitable are sales of goods and sales of services as they contribute to the total revenue. From viewing the sales, the sales have increased from 2013 to 2014 and according to the financial forecast, GE is expected to experience future sales in 2015 and onwards given the premise that there is no recession in the subsequent years. This sales growth would be at a rate of 2.5% while the US economy is growing at
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• Valuation of the company—application of sophisticated quantitative valuation models, IRR, net present value and forecast of future cash flows.
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We valued the company using four different methods; Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Modified Internal Rate of Return and Profitability Index. We began with the Net Present Value, or NPV, calculation. NPV values an investment’s profitability based on the projected future cash inflows and outflows of the investment, discounted back to present value using the WACC. The calculations for NPV are presented in Appendix 2. We started by separating cash inflows and outflows by each year. We used Bob Prescott’s estimates for the revenue per year and related operating costs of cost of goods sold as
Also; Citigroup, Inc. another competitor for the GE Company made a total of $64.95 billion in 2011, and when we compare it with GE and SI its earnings where even less in the same year, making General Electric a leader in the industry. With this valuable information GE management can analyze its competitor’s financial statements results and from there they can evaluate their faults and create new ways to increase their annuals earnings and secure their place as one of leading companies in their industry. Another way GE can go forward in the industry is by adapting its services and products to other countries that need them.
GE has to examine what strategy the firm is going to follow. Will the firm’s
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