Posts by: WST Expert 1

Re: DCF Mid-Year Convention
Our pleasure!

Just to clarify how to do mid-year discounting with NPV formula:
=NPV(WACC,range)*(1+WACC)^0.5

Please see our Free Resources section for DCF mid-year discounting:
http://wallst.training/about/resources.html
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Re: DCF Mid-Year Convention
It is not common practice to use mid-year convention for DCF discounting; however it would be perfectly fine to do so.
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Re: DCF Correct Time Period inputs
You're quite welcome and keep up the good work!
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Re: DCF Correct Time Period inputs
YES - that is a perfect summary and we couldn't have summarized it better than you did! Side Note: Generally, we like a solid five (5) years of projections, therefore we would add in a 2023 year into the model. However, if your model only goes to 2022, it would be still ok, just recognize it's on... Read More
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Re: DCF Correct Time Period inputs
Hello there, not a silly question at all! If you have latest financials, in this case through 2018 Q3, we would highly recommend doing a stub period, that is the one remaining quarter of 2018 + four (or five) more full projection years. Then we should definitely use net debt and capitalization fi... Read More
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Re: Trump's Tax Law - Interest Expense deduction limit?
The new law states that companies with annual gross receipts of at least $25 million now face a ceiling for their interest expense deductible: 30% of EBITDA. For highly leveraged companies who both (a) pay "a lot" in interest payments, and (b) earn "a lot", this could mean a higher tax bill (and thu... Read More
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Trump's Tax Law - Interest Expense deduction limit?
How does one account for the updated Interest Expense deduction limit in financial models?
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Re: New Student Question
Of course! We are here to help with any questions you may have.
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Re: % Change
After converting daily data to monthly/yearly data (i.e. the price for July is defined as the price on July 31), you can just do a traditional percent change:

=A1/B1-1

(where A1 is the new value and B1 is the old value)

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Re: Data Manipualtion
Hi Jay, If I'm understanding your question correctly, it might be best to just re-download the data on a monthly basis. Otherwise, you could use a Pivot Table and group everything by each month's average. A further dynamic solution would be to create a list of dates, and then use =AVERAGEI... Read More
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