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PE companies are very much in the business of valuing a revenue stream that goes up 10% per year highly. This article doesn't show thinking beyond 10-20 years,
by tlb 7y ago
PE companies are very much in the business of valuing a revenue stream that goes up 10% per year highly. This article doesn't show thinking beyond 10-20 years, but most of the economic value comes even farther in the future. In 50 years, it could be 14000x the current price!
If you plug a 10%-growing revenue stream into a net-present-value formula with a discount rate less than 10%, you get infinity. The future revenue stream has infinite value. Even under reasonable economic uncertainty, you might be able to justify a P/E ratio of 100.
That hedge fund got a sweet deal.
- somebodythere 7y ago1. The price cap is an informal agreement, not legally binding 2. The domain name market would probably not bear a 14000x increase.
- jjoonathan 7y agoSo they run price discovery to figure out who gets $10 domains and who gets soaked for millions.