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How To Leverage AI for Business Valuations?  

June 23, 2023

How To Leverage AI for Business Valuations?  

 

AI can be a valuable tool for businesses looking to get a quick valuation. By providing or prompting the RIGHT financial information, AI can use a variety of valuation methods to estimate the company's value. This can save businesses thousands of dollars in valuation fees.

Here are some of the financial information that AI needs to estimate a company's value:

* Sales: Your company's annual sales revenue.

* EBITDA: Your company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation.

* Net income: Your company's net income after taxes.

* Tangible assets: Your company's assets that have a physical form, such as buildings, equipment, and inventory.

* Intangible assets: Your company's assets that do not have a physical form, such as brand value, customer relationships, and intellectual property.

* Debt: Your company's outstanding debt.

* Working capital: Your company's current assets minus its current liabilities.

Once you have provided this information, AI can use the following valuation methods to estimate the company's value:

* Discounted cash flow (DCF): This method estimates the value of your company by discounting the future cash flows of your business to the present value.

* Comparable company analysis: This method estimates the value of your company by comparing it to other companies in the same industry.

* Asset-based valuation: This method estimates the value of your company by adding up the value of its assets and subtracting the value of its liabilities.

The specific valuation method that AI uses will depend on the specific characteristics of the company. However, all of these methods will require AI to have access to the financial information that I listed above.

In addition to the financial information, AI may also need to know about the company's growth prospects, competitive landscape, and management team. This information will help AI to get a more complete picture of the company's value.

To get a quick valuation for your company, you can type the following into

BARD or ChatGPT:


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Here’s my company financial information:

Sales: $6,000,000

EBITDA $1,000,000

Net income: $1,250,000

Tangible assets: $2,000,000

Intangible assets: $250,000

Debts: $500,000

Please use 3 models to make a business valuation:

DCF

COMPARABLE company ANALYSIS

ASSET-based valuation


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Press ENTER and let me know the results!

I hope this helps!

Sebastian Amieva

PS This is not financial information, always hire a certified valuation expert and a financial professional for accurate results.