Valuations
Defensible fair value at every quarter-end. Automate comparable company analysis, DCF inputs, and audit-ready documentation across your entire portfolio.
The Quarterly Valuation Bottleneck
Quarterly valuations are one of the most resource-intensive processes in private capital finance. For a firm managing a portfolio of 15 to 25 companies across multiple funds, your team manually pulls comparable company data from multiple sources, rebuilds or refreshes DCF models using updated financials from each portfolio company, documents the valuation methodology applied to each asset, and assembles auditor-ready work papers that prove every number — all under the compressed timelines of the quarterly close cycle.
The stakes are high. Fair value estimates that are not well-supported expose your firm to auditor pushback, LP skepticism, and regulatory risk. Valuation methodologies that are inconsistently applied across companies or vintages invite questions that are difficult to answer. And when your most senior finance professionals spend weeks on valuation mechanics rather than judgment, the opportunity cost compounds.
Equiforte automates the mechanical components of the valuation process — comparable company selection and analysis, financial model updates, methodology documentation — so your team concentrates on the judgment that only human expertise can provide: selecting the appropriate methodology, applying qualitative context, and engaging with your auditors from a position of well-prepared confidence.
How Equiforte Streamlines the Valuation Process
Portfolio Company Data Ingestion
Equiforte ingests updated financial statements from each portfolio company automatically. Revenue, EBITDA, cash balances, debt, and operational KPIs are extracted and normalized for use across valuation models.
Comparable Company and Precedent Transaction Analysis
Equiforte identifies and refreshes the comparable company set and precedent transaction data for each portfolio company. Market multiples are updated in real time, eliminating manual data pulls from market data providers.
Model Population and Calculation
Updated portfolio company financials and market data automatically populate your valuation models — DCF, LBO, comparables. Equiforte calculates implied values and documents the sensitivity analysis your auditors and investment committee require.
Work Paper and Audit Package Generation
Equiforte generates the valuation memoranda, methodology documentation, and supporting schedules that constitute your auditor-ready work papers — with full data lineage from source financials through to final fair value conclusions.
Valuation Workflow Benefits
Automated Comparable Analysis
Equiforte maintains and refreshes comparable company sets for every portfolio company, pulling current trading multiples and updating your valuation benchmarks without manual data collection.
DCF and LBO Model Integration
Portfolio company financial updates automatically flow into your DCF and LBO models. Equiforte handles the data plumbing so your analysts focus on assumption-setting and review.
Methodology Consistency
Apply and document consistent valuation methodologies across every asset in your portfolio. Equiforte ensures that your approach is auditable, defensible, and consistently applied vintage to vintage.
Auditor-Ready Work Papers
Generate structured valuation memoranda and supporting schedules that give your auditors everything they need — methodology, comparable data, sensitivity analysis, and data lineage — in a single organized package.
Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis
Automatically generate sensitivity tables showing the impact of key assumption changes on fair value conclusions. Give your investment committee and auditors the range of outcomes, not just the point estimate.
Valuation Bridge Analysis
Produce quarter-over-quarter valuation bridge analyses that explain changes in fair value by component — performance improvement, multiple expansion, currency, and other factors. Essential for LP reporting and board presentations.
The ROI of Automated Valuation Infrastructure
Senior time redirected to judgment, not mechanics. Valuation is ultimately a judgment exercise. The comparable selection, the methodology choice, the qualitative adjustments — these require experienced professionals. When Equiforte handles the data collection, model population, and work paper generation, your senior team focuses entirely on the decisions that require their expertise.
Auditor relationships that run on data, not follow-up requests. Firms that arrive at audit with well-organized, fully documented valuation work papers move through the audit process faster and with fewer surprises. Equiforte generates those work papers as a byproduct of the valuation process itself — so you are always prepared, not preparing.
LP confidence built on transparent methodology. LPs are increasingly sophisticated in their review of portfolio valuations. A clear, consistently applied methodology with supporting documentation builds the credibility that sustains LP relationships through market cycles — and that credibility starts with the quality of your valuation infrastructure.
Valuation Infrastructure That Satisfies Auditors and LPs
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