Valuation Analysis

⚠️ **Finance warning / Avertissement finance** : informational only, not investment advice. Reconciling several methods into one range adds discipline, not certainty: every band inherits the assumptions and data quality of its method, and no concluded range here is a promise of return or a guarantee that a buyer or a market will agree. Curated by Skill Harbor: the valuation analysis skill of the investment banking pack in andreworia/claude-finance-skills, the synthesis skill that sits above the pack's DCF, comps, precedents and LBO skills. Use it when one defensible range across methods is the deliverable: pitching a target, setting a fairness range, or preparing a board discussion where each method must be shown and reconciled. The method runs in eight steps. It frames the subject first (enterprise versus equity value, valuation date, share count and net debt for the bridge, LTM and forward metric base), selects the method set that fits the situation (standard bands are trading comparables, precedent transactions and DCF, plus an LBO-implied floor or a 52-week range where relevant), then runs each method on its own terms: comps screened and cleaned with consistent numerator and denominator pairing, precedents with paid multiples and control premia adjusted for cycle and synergy with strategic and sponsor buyers separated, the DCF with dual terminal value and a check on terminal value as a share of total value, and the LBO check solving for the entry price a sponsor could pay at a target return with leverage held at levels a lender would actually fund. Each band is plotted on one common axis with the single driver of its width labeled, and the conclusion weights methods by reliability for the situation, notes where bands overlap, discounts outliers with a stated reason, and lands on one concluded range: control situations lean on precedents and the LBO floor, minority reads lean on trading comps and the DCF. The worked example in the file is fictional and illustrative. From the andreworia/claude-finance-skills repository (MIT). Honest caveats: this skill coordinates the other methods rather than replacing their inputs; peer data, deal data and DCF assumptions are all yours to supply and to check. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.