Which of the Following Statements Is False

question 86

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is false?

• A) Two firms in the same industry selling the same types of products, while similar in many respects, are likely to be of different size or scale.
• B) In the method of comparables we estimate the value of the firm based on the value of other, comparable firms or investments that we expect will generate very similar cash flows in the future.
• C) Consider the case of a new firm that is identical to an existing publicly traded company. If these firms will generate identical cash flows, the Law of One Price implies that we can use the value of the existing company to determine the value of the new firm.
• D) A valuation multiple is a ratio of some measure of the firm's scale to the value of the firm.

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Definitions:

Discrete Probability Distributions

Probability distributions that deal with discrete random variables, quantifying the probabilities of different outcomes.

Continuous Probability Density Functions

Mathematical functions that describe the likelihood of all possible values of a continuous random variable.

Z-score

A numerical indicator that shows how a value compares to the average of a set of values, expressed as the number of standard deviations away from the mean.

Normally Distributed

A type of continuous probability distribution for a real-valued random variable, characterized by a symmetric bell-shaped curve.