Unlocking corporate success

Understanding your company's market value and how investors view your equity story is crucial for success. With so many contributing factors, data sources and evolving market dynamics, how do successful companies maintain their edge?

UBS Strategic Insights and Advisory leverages proprietary data and analytics to provide a strategic perspective and unique market view for executives. Our analysis incorporates company fundamentals, narrative, and ownership strategy, with regular thematic thought leadership papers to help companies navigate what’s next. 

 

The keys to valuation

What really drives a company’s valuation? The answer lies in the intersection of fundamentals and narrative.

In the latest UBS Strategic Insights and Advisory whitepaper, we delve into the impact narrative has on company valuation and the mechanics behind market multiplies influencing operating performance.

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Listen to our latest insights

In this podcast series, James Arnold, Global Co-Head of Strategic Insights and Advisory, UBS, speaks to some of our top minds in Global Banking, bringing you their thoughts on the topics shaping today's markets.

In this latest episode of the Global Banking Insights podcast series, James Arnold and Rick Faery, Global Co-Heads of Strategic Insights and Advisory, delve into how a management's strategy is ultimately assessed by the market. They discuss the crucial role of fundamental economic metrics, the need for a compelling equity narrative, and the importance of understanding fund flow trends.

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Thought leadership papers

Dive into the ideas and analysis that matter most to the future of your business. 

Market multiples are widely accepted as barometers for company valuations; they influence a wide range of strategic decisions since many companies use them to benchmark themselves against competitors and to evaluate potential M&A opportunities.

Worries about downturns are never far from the minds of business leaders. We evaluate the steps companies can take to navigate economic headwinds.

How much is a dollar worth? We evaluate how corporate managers can answer this question to generate the most shareholder value through the deployment of excess capital.

We review the impact of managing and allocating capital to the right mix of business segments to help maximize your company’s overall market value.

Is there any truth that “most M&A deals destroy value”? Does conventional M&A math provide the right signals about the viability of doing a deal? We go behind the numbers to find out.

Quantifying a competitive advantage can be elusive. Is it economy of scale, market share dominance, product differentiation, first mover advantage, or something else? We explore this concept and the strategies to help sustain it.

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