Valuation: From The Discounted Cash Flows (DCF) Approach To The Real Options Approach (ROA)

There exists an abysm between market prices and traditional valuation approaches such as Discounted Cash Flows (DCF), a fact that neither academics nor practitioners could continue ignoring. Recently, a complementary approach has taken a foothold into the valuation world. Building on the DCF approac...

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Autor: Cecilia Maya Ochoa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad EAFIT
Repositorio:Repositorio EAFIT
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/14093
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10784/14093
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Opciones reales
Valoración
Flujos de Caja Descontados
Valor Presente Neto
Presupuesto de Capital
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Sumario:There exists an abysm between market prices and traditional valuation approaches such as Discounted Cash Flows (DCF), a fact that neither academics nor practitioners could continue ignoring. Recently, a complementary approach has taken a foothold into the valuation world. Building on the DCF approach yet going further in the sense of incorporating flexibility in management investment decisions, and taking advantage of the advances in option pricing theory, the real options approach (ROA) has become the alternative to capital budgeting and, lately, to corporate valuation. Empirical evidence shows that ROA explains actual prices better than DCF approaches and nowadays there is no question that from a theoretical point of view, ROA is a much more appealing concept than passive NPV. However, its acceptance by practitioners has been very slow due to the complexity of real options pricing.