Rmag Essay

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Rocky Mountain Genome: Executive Summary Rocky Mountain Advanced Genome (RMAG) is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado and has recently been founded by seven research scientists who have taken a leave of absence from major universities and pharmaceutical companies to establish this firm. This company uses gene-sequencing techniques with a computer-driven search algorithm to identify genes in human DNA. In January 1996 negotiations were coming to the end for a private equity investment by Big Sur Capital Management to buy a 90 percent equity interest for $46 million in RMAG. The proceeds of the sale would be used to finance the growth of RMAG. Big Sur Capital Management is located in San Francisco, California and has $2 billion under management with 64 investments evenly split between venture capital investments and participations in leveraged buyouts. Kim McGraw, a managing director with Big Sur was put in the position to negotiate a price and terms of the investment on behalf of Big Sur. She based her negotiations on the assessment of RAMG’s economic value and to discount the cash flows and terminal value to the present value. Terminal value is important when trying to value a firm because they are present in the valuation of just about every asset and in the valuation of stocks, whole companies terminal value is usually a very big value driver, and it includes future cash flows. There are a few different ways to estimate terminal value which are: accounting book value, liquidation value, replacement value, constant growth perpetuity value, discounted cash flows, price/earnings, value/EBIT, and price/book. For this case we felt that accounting book value, constant growth perpetuity, and replacement value estimate should not be used. Accounting book value because it only looks at the original price and undervalues the company because

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