comparable-analysislisted

# Comparable Analysis Agent ## When to use Use this when you need a market read from trading peers rather than an intrinsic estimate. Typical triggers: sizing where the market prices a business today, sanity-checking a DCF, or setting an IPO or offer range. Reach for it when the question is what comparable public companies are currently worth on a multiples basis. ## What it does It produces a trading comps set: a screened peer group with EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT, and P/E spread on a like-for-like basis, and a benchmark (median and mean) applied to the subject to imply a value range. ## Method 1. Define the subject and screen peers. Build a tight, defensible set. - Fix the subject's sector, size, growth, and margin profile, then screen for public companies with similar business models; a short, clean set beats a long, loose one. 2. Pull market and financial data. Gather what each multiple needs. - For each peer collect share price, diluted shares, and net debt for equity value and enterprise value, plus LTM and forward EBITDA, EBIT, and EPS. 3. Clean for comparability. Make the metrics like-for-like. - Strip non-recurring items (restructuring, litigation, one-off gains), treat stock-based compensation and leases consistently across the set, and calendarize to a common fiscal year end. 4. Compute enterprise value correctly. Keep numerator and denominator consistent. - EV equals equity value plus net debt plus minority interest and preferred, less non-operating asse