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Private Company and Transaction Valuation

Private-company valuation, post-money valuation, pre-money valuation, marketability discount, and net-net valuation terms.

Private Company and Transaction Valuation covers private-company valuation, post-money valuation, pre-money valuation, marketability discount, and net-net valuation terms.

Use these pages when the selected valuation method, appraisal evidence, fair-value basis, or transaction context changes the value conclusion. It sits inside Valuation Methods and Appraisal, so readers can move up when the broader valuation context matters.

Use the table below to choose the narrower valuation branch before relying on a model input, market multiple, forecast, risk premium, price signal, or recommendation.

What This Branch Covers

AreaUse it for
Discounts for Lack of MarketabilityValuation discounts applied to ownership interests that cannot be readily sold in an active market.
MarketabilityThe degree to which an asset, security, or ownership interest can be sold without excessive delay, restriction, or discount.
Net-Net ValuationA deep-value stock screen that compares market value with net current asset value after subtracting total liabilities.
Post-Money ValuationThe implied company value immediately after a financing round, usually equal to pre-money valuation plus new investment.
Pre-Money ValuationThe implied company value before a new financing round, used to calculate investor ownership and dilution.

What to Check

  • Forecast source, valuation date, market data, accounting adjustments, and model version.
  • Cash-flow input, discount rate, multiple, growth assumption, terminal value, balance-sheet adjustment, and scenario range.
  • Comparable set, transaction set, sector, geography, size, leverage, margin profile, and accounting basis.
  • Effect on intrinsic value, relative value, price target, margin of safety, impairment view, deal price, or recommendation.
  • Sensitivity to growth, margins, reinvestment, discount rate, exit multiple, leverage, and market conditions.

Common Mistakes

  • Treating a valuation output as a precise fact instead of a range of estimates.
  • Comparing multiples without normalizing earnings, leverage, accounting policy, growth, and risk.
  • Ignoring valuation date, source quality, cyclicality, nonrecurring items, and sensitivity analysis.
  • Using valuation terminology as personalized investment, tax, legal, or appraisal advice.

Valuation content is educational and does not provide investment, tax, legal, accounting, appraisal, or valuation advice.

In this section

Choose a subsection first. Deeper term pages live inside each subsection, which keeps large topic hubs readable.

Marketability

The degree to which an asset, security, or ownership interest can be sold without excessive delay, restriction, or discount.

Net-Net Valuation

A deep-value stock screen that compares market value with net current asset value after subtracting total liabilities.

Post-Money Valuation

The implied company value immediately after a financing round, usually equal to pre-money valuation plus new investment.

Pre-Money Valuation

The implied company value before a new financing round, used to calculate investor ownership and dilution.

Revised on Sunday, June 21, 2026