Question 1: The plan is for Unicorn to go public in six years. As noted in the table below, the company expects to see first sales of $10M this current year. Over the next five years this will grow to approximately $5.6B in year six. Management of Unicorn have produced the following sales forecast for Unicorn, with FY1 being the first year of sales: FY1 FY2 FУЗ FY4 FY5 FУ6 Forecast $10.0 1,428.8 3,086.5 5,598.2 340.5 62.0 Revenues ($M) Growth yoy (%) n/a 116 520 449 320 81 An intern who works for your fund has collected data on companies that have recently gone public, that operate in the Unicorn's industry - saving you the need to do so. The data is on the tab "Coparables". On this sheet, Comparable 1 through 60 are the unimaginatively named comparable companies. Columns FY1 shows the comparables' revenues in their year of first sale. FY2 is the second year, and so on.
Question 1: The plan is for Unicorn to go public in six years. As noted in the table below, the company expects to see first sales of $10M this current year. Over the next five years this will grow to approximately $5.6B in year six. Management of Unicorn have produced the following sales forecast for Unicorn, with FY1 being the first year of sales: FY1 FY2 FУЗ FY4 FY5 FУ6 Forecast $10.0 1,428.8 3,086.5 5,598.2 340.5 62.0 Revenues ($M) Growth yoy (%) n/a 116 520 449 320 81 An intern who works for your fund has collected data on companies that have recently gone public, that operate in the Unicorn's industry - saving you the need to do so. The data is on the tab "Coparables". On this sheet, Comparable 1 through 60 are the unimaginatively named comparable companies. Columns FY1 shows the comparables' revenues in their year of first sale. FY2 is the second year, and so on.
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