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Valuing a high-tech growth company: the case of EchoStar Communications Corporation

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  • Lenos Trigeorgis
  • Sophocles Ioulianou

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This article uses real options to value a high-tech company with significant growth option potential. The case of EchoStar Communications Corporation is used as an illustration. The company's growth opportunities are modeled and valued as a portfolio of growth options, namely options to expand its pay television, equipment, and internet services. Expansion of the main business can occur geographically (in the USA, internationally, and through partnerships) or through cross-selling of new products and services to its customer base. The internet business can expand via switching to digital subscriber line and through partnerships. The underlying asset (business) for the expansion options is the 'base' discounted cash flow (DCF), after removing the constant growth rate in the terminal-value DCF assumption. The options-based estimate of present value of growth opportunities (PVGO) value substitutes for the terminal growth DCF estimate. We show that our options-based portfolio PVGO provides a better estimate of the firm's growth prospects than the terminal growth DCF assumption.

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  • Lenos Trigeorgis & Sophocles Ioulianou, 2013. "Valuing a high-tech growth company: the case of EchoStar Communications Corporation," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(7-8), pages 734-759, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjfi:v:19:y:2013:i:7-8:p:734-759
    DOI: 10.1080/1351847X.2011.640343
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