enterprise value and preferred equity

[abwillingham]

Yuval, I know this is a very old thread. I’m curious if you ever got to the bottom of this EV question.

There is an even older and lengthy discussion on EV here that raises some questions.

Enterprise Value Revisited

After the introduction of the “canned” EV (see https://www.portfolio123.com/mvnforum/viewthread_thread,5710), I am interested to revisit the ratio. According to the wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_value): The portfolio 123 EV is defined as (quoting Marco): For a long time I had been using as a proxy to EV, mainly because the other items were not available at the time. I have found the original formula seems to work better than the new EV factor, even though it i…