Surfacing the right insights from a growing sea of business data, financial results and market projections is critical to building confidence to make bold decisions and lead a company forward
HOW WE HELP

Performance Measurement
Develop a powerful new picture of performance and value creation with tailored metrics based on a company’s unique sources of value creation

Peer
Benchmarking
Statistical approach to identifying your market-implied true peer set, and how performance accrues value within it

Value
Driver Diagnostic
A differentiated view of how growth, profitability, capital and reinvestment contribute to current and future value, and where to build a case for change

Managerial
Diagnostic
Structured assessment of formal and informal organizational roadblocks to better managerial decision-making

Portfolio
Evaluation
Develop an economic map of the corporate and BU portfolio to identify where value is created and destroyed to inform strategic choices

Stakeholder
Value
Build a stakeholder dataset to incorporate into financial and strategic decisions, and investor communications

Capital Management Policy
Gain insight on the link between strategy and decisions on leverage, liquidity, shareholder payouts and other policy decisions

Better Insights starts with building a deep understanding of the true earnings and value creation potential of the enterprise and its portfolio

KEY CLIENT IMPACT

SINGLE MEASURE OF VALUE
We take a structured approach that aligns measurable aspects of the business to a single value metric, allowing actionable insights that are consistent across the organization
Typical Company
Fortuna’s Residual Cash Earnings Approach
THE POWER OF THE FORTUNA APPROACH
A sophisticated and accurate measure of value, yet simple enough to adopt and gain insight at multiple levels of the organization

KEY CLIENT IMPACT

ALIGNMENT WITH INVESTORS
Companies benefit from a clear internal measure of value that aligns with both the direction and size of how the market measures value.
Case Study: Predicting Amazon’s Share Value
Amazon’s Predicted Value Using
Traditional Earnings Metrics

EP-implied value calculated as net invested capital minus net debt plus capitalized economic profit in each year

Amazon’s Predicted Value Using
Fortuna’s RCE

RCE-implied value calculated as gross operating assets (minus operating liabilities) plus capitalized residual cash earnings in each year

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