1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Rosetta Stone going public? 2. What do you think...
Question:
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Rosetta Stone going public?
2. What do you think the current value of a share of Rosetta Stone is (at the time of the case)?
Justify your valuation on a discounted-cash-flow basis and a market multiples basis.
Please note that we have discussed in class, and you have informationin elc, about Business Valuations, Discounted Cash Flow Analysis, and Comparables (Market multiples).
3. At what price would you recommend that Rosetta Stone shares be sold, and why?
Some other things you will want to know to complete the case:
a) There is an Excel spreadsheet in elc for you to use for this case, and a PDF file which has the case. I have changed some of the numbers in Exhibit 7 of the provided Excel spreadsheet, so use the spreadsheet numbers for your DCF analysis even though they conflict with Exhibit 7 in the pdf file for the case.
b) Please use 10% for a WACC in your DCF analysis.
c) There is a rubric posted in elc. I will be using this rubric, subject to possiblerevisions, as I grade this.
d) For the sensitivity analysis referred to in the rubric, please determine how the estimated share price computed using the DCF analysis changes as WACC changes from the assigned 10% to a range of 6% to 14%, by whole percentages (i.e., you don't need to compute share price if WACC is 9.5%, just 6%, 7%, etc.). This is done most easily by using the Data Table function in Excel under "What-If Analysis".
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