Startup & Unicorn Growth Valuation

Abstract

How do you value companies which have IPOed recently? How do you compare them amongst their peers? Valuing companies using a linear extrapolation of their revenues and profits leads to an ingenious method to benchmark stocks against each other. Here we present such a method, dubbed the growth average U1. The Appendix includes MySQL code to calculate the extrapolation insitu and a list of Top10 tables for various MarketCaps.

Keywords: Unicorn; Growth; Stocks; Valuations: Fundamental Analysis; Time Series

JEL Classification: A10, B10, D40, D47, D53, E44, F30, F60, G10, G14, G21, G23, G51, I10, K10, L14, M10, O16, O31, O33,