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Enterprise Value vs Equity Value

1. Enterprise Value vs Equity Value

So we wanna make sure we understand the difference between enterprise value and equity value. So enterprise value is essentially the value of the entire business, whereas equity value is the value shareholders would receive if the company is sold. And you can see in our diagram there, the difference between enterprise value and equity value is the market value of the companies net debt. So how could we go about calculating the market value of equity or the market capitalization? Well, we would simply take the share price and multiply that by the number of shares outstanding. And once we've completed that calculation of equity value, we could use that to get enterprise value, and the way that we would do that is we would take equity value, we would add net debt, and that would then give us the enterprise value or the net present value of the entire business.

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