Equity Valuation Methods: Rapid Fire
Chapters in this video
- 0:00 Technical versus fundamental: the big divide
- 1:46 Technical analysis: when to trade, volume confirms price
- 2:56 Fundamental analysis: top-down and bottom-up both hunt intrinsic value
- 3:54 Key ratios and why P/E alone means nothing
- 4:45 DDM trap: D1 is next year's dividend, not current
- 6:01 DCF seesaw: higher discount rate, lower valuation
- 7:16 Rapid-fire exam recap
What this video covers
- Why technical analysis answers when to trade and assumes all information is already in the price, while fundamental analysis answers what to buy by hunting for intrinsic value
- How support acts as a price floor and resistance as a price ceiling, and why volume confirms price on breakouts or breakdowns
- Why both top-down and bottom-up approaches belong to fundamental analysis, not technical analysis
- How to calculate price-to-earnings (P/E), price-to-book (P/B), debt-to-equity, current ratio, and return on equity (ROE), and why P/E alone is meaningless without peer comparison
- The Gordon growth model formula for dividend discount model (DDM) valuation, and the critical step of computing D1 by growing the current dividend by (1 + g)
- Why the DDM formula breaks when the constant growth rate (g) is greater than or equal to the required rate of return (r)
- How discounted cash flow (DCF) values any future cash flow stream, why higher risk demands a higher discount rate, and how that higher rate lowers present value
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