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Abstract
Since the business law of merging companies was postulated in 2002, a new era of merging, leverage buyout, and stock split has come up for companies to reorganize its structure to achieve efficiency. As for which strategy can maximize the stockholder’s value, it needs to be evaluated. This thesis applies three methods, asset evaluation, relative evaluation, and free cash flow, to evaluating a particular company by considering the industry growth, investment strategy, and financial forecast to derive the possible price interval. Fours conclusions are derived through the application of these three methods. 1. Different evaluation method will lead to different price. 2. Whether the forecasting price is correct depends on the appropriateness of the assumptions in addition to the related factors, economic cycle, industry growth, government policy, etc. 3. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is advised to select the evaluation method by considering all the related factors together, including characteristic of the business, its market position, and its strategy vision. 4. Cash flow has a close relationship with business value. It is important to consider the cash flow to maximize the stockholder’s value.
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