Teuer Furniture is a privately owned, moderately sized chain of upscale home furnishing showrooms in the United States. By the end of 2012, it had regained its financial footing and a number of long-term investors, including several of Teuer’s original non-management investors, now want to sell their shares. At the request of the board, Jennifer Jerabek, the chief financial officer of the company, and her team put together an extensive valuation of Teuer based on a discounted cash flow analysis. When the model was presented to investors, a number of them disagreed with the results. Some investors considered the value too high; others considered it too low. Not surprisingly, some of the differences of opinion were correlated with whether or not the investors wanted to sell their shares of Teuer. Jerabek was instructed to build a valuation of Teuer using a multiples approach instead.
After reading and analyzing the case, students will be able to:
Estimate the value of a firm using a multiples approach
Select an appropriate group of comparable firms and defend the logic behind the selection
Select a correct set of valuation ratios and defend the logic behind the selection
Compare the valuations produced by a multiples and DCF approach and if the valuations do not match, explain why the two methods yield different valuations
