Office Depot - Comparative Multiple Analysis

Office Depot (Comparative Multiple Analysis)

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

Notes on the Comparative Multiple Analysis of Office Depot

WikiWealth compares Office Depot'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 Office Depot's comparative analysis.

Notes from the analysis:

1. WikiWealth uses quantitative measures to determine the multiple range for Office Depot.
2. Free cash flow to the firm (FCF) multiple is free cash flow to equity holders plus interest owed to Office Depot'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 Office Depot's Analysis


How does this work? The Comparative Investment Analysis determines the value of Office Depot by comparing Office Depot 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 Office Depot.

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

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