Multiple Valuation of non-Listed Enterprises From the Health Care Branch - Concept and Analysis

The valuation of companies is one of the key issues facing corporate finance applications today. In practical business, several methods of valuation compete with each other. Aside from the discounted cash flow method, the valuation of companies with multiples is one of the most common methods used (Lie & Lie, 2002, p. 44). (...) The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to give sound insight in multiple theory and, on the other hand, to value a privately held small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) in the hospital sector using multiples.