How to Calculate Normalized EBITDA for Private Companies
How to calculate normalized EBITDA when selling a business? How to calculate EBITDA to determine private company valuation? What is considered an EBITDA Addback/Normalization? How do I normalize my EBITDA? In today's video we will be discussing in detail EBITDA normalizations for buyers/sellers when dealing with private lower mid-market M&A transactions. We will be answering the following questions in more detail:
1) How to normalize your salary when selling your business?
2) What types of personal benefits/discretionary costs can be normalized?
3) Are COVID subsidies considered an addback?
4) Are gains/losses on equipment sales considered an addback?
5) Can I addback cost synergies/savings realized from equipment, technology and real estate investments?
6) What other common addbacks exist for EBITDA normalization purposes?
EBITDA Rule of Thumb: Its always important to remember, a buyer is using your historical EBITDA to estimate the future cash flow they are buying and paying for. Any costs/revenues that are considered sustainable should be justifiable as an EBITDA addback however if the cost or gain is non-recurring, it would be excluded from the adjusted EBITDA.
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Super glad you're back to posting, welcome back! Your videos were super helpful to me when I first became interested in finance two years ago.
This is super helpful especially with the detailed example, help me understand a lot adjustments!
Thank you for this terrific lecture.
I had to do a DD as an assignment. It helped me a lot. Thank you!
Fantastic!
Great content
Great content! Could you please advise, where can I get some more practical examples or case studies for EBITDA, Net Debt and WC normalizations? Happy to pay for these of course.
Great stuff. Hoped to find some info on "out of period" items and "barter deals" that should impact revenue and hence EBITDA. Have you had a chance to see my questions on the other video (on NWC). Thanks
@financekid3163
2 жыл бұрын
Not sure what you mean by out of period items, are you referring to adjustments to cost that need to be moved into other fiscal periods? Barter deals are a unique situation where the company has a special arrangement with a supplier or customer for a period of time (for ex: I sold a company division to you but as part of the deal I would like to receive 15% off any product I purchase from the division I sold to you for 5 years). In that scenario, you would back out the savings/earnings from the barter deal and allocate a separate value to it. If the barter deal persists for decades, then it may be justified to keep the savings in the EBITDA figure and make no adjustment.
Just one question on the example you have used that is the calculation of the net income, how did it come to 1.4k when net margin is 2.1k and opex 1.5k.
Very valuable informations, One question what if the business(entity her self) own the property that she is operating from , does Adj EBITDA need to factor that in as well?
@financekid3163
Жыл бұрын
Yes, even if the real estate is in the operating company, you still need to account for the true cost of supporting the value of the real estate. In these scenarios, usually the buyer buys the assets of the business and leaves behind the real estate in the same operating company so the seller can lease it back to them.
Normalization of EBITDA is only internal to the buyer right, so as they can come up with a reasonable valuation taking into consideration pr forma financials and this doesn't necessarily be presented to seller other than, here is our bid offer, right?
Thanks for the video. One question 14:13 why adj. EBITDA is net income after deductions of owner salary not adjustments from reported EBITDA?
@financekid3163
2 жыл бұрын
Good question, to keep it simple I assumed no depreciation/interest/tax essentially making the net income = to EBITDA for this example, later on in the video you can see a more full adjustment including all the variables. In practice you are correct, you calculate your financial statement EBITDA first (NI + Paid Taxes + D&A + LTD Interest) and then begin making these owner-specific adjustments.
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@financekid3163
11 ай бұрын
Thank you!