WellPoint - Comparative Multiple Analysis

WellPoint (Comparative Multiple Analysis)

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Improve your investment analysis with by seeing the WellPoint's Discounted Cash Flow analysis, WellPoint's Warren Buffet analysis, and WellPoint's Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) Analysis.

Notes on the Comparative Multiple Analysis of WellPoint

WikiWealth compares WellPoint's revenue, EBITDA, and EBIT multiples to their peers in order to determine the appropriate fair valuation. Click in the top right corner to experiment with WellPoint's comparative analysis.

Notes from the analysis:

1. WikiWealth uses quantitative measures to determine the multiple range for WellPoint.
2. Free cash flow to the firm (FCF) multiple is free cash flow to equity holders plus interest owed to WellPoint's debt holders.
3. Multiples incorporate benefits due to economies of scale; WikiWealth compares absolute enterprise value multiples to competitor's multiples.
4. WikiWealth excludes outliers when calculating individual company multiples.

Helpful Information for WellPoint's Analysis


How does this work? The Comparative Investment Analysis determines the value of WellPoint by comparing WellPoint financial ratios, prices, growth rates, margins, etc. to those of relevant peer groups.

Value Investing Importance? This method is widely used by investment professionals to determine the correct price of investments, especially initial public offerings (IPOs). It is one element of WikiWealth's three Wall Street approaches used to determine the correct fair value of WellPoint.

See the WellPoint cash flow (DCF) analysis for a completely different approach that's popular on Wall Street for determining the value of an investment in WellPoint.

Also, see the WellPoint's buffett intrinsic valuation analysis for WikiWealth's attempt to replicate the investing formula's used by Warren Buffett and WellPoint's valuation conclusion for a quick summary.