What are the specific issues in valuing Banks and Insurance Companies?

Posted on Apr 29, 2008 under Insurance Information |

3 Responses to “What are the specific issues in valuing Banks and Insurance Companies?”

  1. stargazer2006 Says:

    You need to look at several things:

    - asset quality - collateral of lending and sectors lent to
    - credit policies - are these good?
    - corporate governance - are the BOD people who may pose a problem or embezzle etc?
    - market risk - what are the risks inherent in the banks/insurance shareholdings/bonds and maturity risks
    - liquidity risks - is the funding base broad based, concentrations in deposits aren't good or few credit lines - since removal of one can affect the entity
    - geographic concentrations - good or bad?
    - performance - last years performance may not repeat so check what analysts have to say about sustainable side of the business

    - what's the market share?

    that should be plenty to watch out for.

    Valuing is mainly done either by:
    1-net present cash flow of expected business going forward - but this has many many estimates and assumptions - especially terminal values and discounting rates

    2-using EPS and P/E ratio to calculate a value

    3-using CAPM to calculate the value and using efficient frontier to work out whether the share is over prices or underpriced if actively traded

    4-fair market value of business after due diligence - often only available to strategic investors.

  2. When valuing financial companies such as banks and insurance companies, it is important to look at price / book ratio in addition to the more commonly used price / earnings ratio.

  3. Y r v here? Says:

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