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Returns attribution — which lever actually paid
A 2.86x return is a fact; where it came from is the interview. This decomposes the same deal into revenue growth, margin expansion, multiple expansion and debt paydown, shows that the bridge sums exactly to the equity gain, and works through why the split is the thing a sponsor is judged on — plus why a sequential bridge is order-dependent and how to say so.
What you'll be able to do
- Decompose an equity return into revenue growth, margin expansion, multiple expansion and debt paydown
- Explain why a value-creation bridge is order-dependent, and how practitioners handle it
- Say which levers a sponsor controls and which are a bet on the market
- Answer the interview version — "what drove the return?" — with a number and an attribution
Before this: lbo-mechanics
The rest of this lesson is in the app
A 2.86x return is a fact; where it came from is the interview. This decomposes the same deal into revenue growth, margin expansion, multiple expansion and debt paydown, shows that the bridge sums exactly to the equity gain, and works through why the split is the thing a sponsor is judged on — plus why a sequential bridge is order-dependent and how to say so. This walkthrough runs about 25 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read.
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