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Could HubSpot Become the Next Salesforce?

The Motley Fool

But with an enterprise value of $24 billion, it's still only a tenth as valuable as cloud-based CRM leader Salesforce , which has an enterprise value of $241 billion. Their two business models sound similar, but HubSpot primarily targets smaller businesses while Salesforce focuses on larger enterprises.

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4 Reasons to Buy Opera Stock, and 4 Reasons to Sell

The Motley Fool

With an enterprise value of $856 million, Opera only trades at 2 times this year's sales and 11 times its adjusted EBITDA. Opera refuted those claims in a lengthy blog post, but it could eventually become another casualty in the escalating tech war between the U.S. per ADS which gives it a high forward yield of 7.4%.

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What’s the ‘Real’ Value of a Financial Advisor’s Business?

Diamond Consultants

How do I build a business for maximum enterprise value? It almost doubles its EBITDA and enhances the multiple to a conservative 11x instead of 9x—thus almost doubling the value of the business overall. How do you arrive at the valuation of an independent firm?

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The 7 Unintended Consequences of Staying the Course

Diamond Consultants

Forgoing the opportunity to maximize career enterprise value While staying the course can minimize disruption and eliminate the risk of transitioning the business, in most cases, it results in sub-optimal career enterprise value.

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The Annual Report for Advisors: The Contradictions of 2022 and Emerging Trends for 2023

Diamond Consultants

While all that’s still true, we’re seeing even further shifts to a greater focus on the long-term and maximizing their value. This will be the year that advisors take a step back and conceptualize not just how to maximize the value of their business and annual compensation, but how that translates into achieving their best business lives.

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To Retire-in-Place or Not Retire-in-Place? That is the Question

Diamond Consultants

It really depends on what you value most (the ease of staying put versus maximizing enterprise value), how aligned you are with your firm’s future direction, how much you care about your next gen and your clients, and myriad other factors. Should you take the deal?

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Financial Advisor Transitions: 8 Observations from Movement Trends in the First Half of 2022

Diamond Consultants

The biggest driver of this momentum is the desire to serve clients better, receive greater value from their firm (more commensurate with the revenue the firm keeps), and grow without limitation. Plus, advisors are thinking bigger picture and longer-term—with a more acute focus on building enterprise value.