What’s on the Multiples poster
A 5-row table: Multiple · Pairs with · Note.
Multiple and correct pairing.
- EV/EBITDA — Enterprise value — Capital-structure neutral
- EV/Sales — Enterprise value — For loss-making firms
- P/E — Equity value — After interest and tax
- P/B — Equity value — Asset-heavy sectors
- EV/EBIT — Enterprise value — After depreciation
Pairing P/E with enterprise value, or EV/EBITDA with market cap, is the commonest error in comparable analysis.
Questions about the Multiples poster
- What’s on the Multiples poster?
- A 5-row table: Multiple · Pairs with · Note. Multiple and correct pairing. EV/EBITDA — Enterprise value — Capital-structure neutral; EV/Sales — Enterprise value — For loss-making firms; P/E — Equity value — After interest and tax; P/B — Equity value — Asset-heavy sectors; EV/EBIT — Enterprise value — After depreciation. Pairing P/E with enterprise value, or EV/EBITDA with market cap, is the commonest error in comparable analysis.
- Who is the Multiples poster for?
- Multiples belongs to the Accounting & Finance section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning valuation can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Multiples poster?
- Enterprise value pairs with pre-interest measures. Equity value pairs with post-interest measures. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Multiples belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Multiples?
- Discounted Cash Flow, Asset-Based Valuation and Comparable Company Analysis sit alongside Multiples in the Accounting & Finance section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Discounted Cash FlowAsset-Based ValuationComparable Company Analysis
- Is the Multiples poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Multiples downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Accounting & Finance section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Multiples poster print at?
- Multiples is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Multiples loses nothing.Printing guide
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