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Valuation Assumption Decoder

Written in-house · editorially graded

Every SkillsBank offering is written in-house — never scraped or crowd-sourced — and graded against a fixed editorial rubric in a separate grading step.

Dry-run test passed · Jun 13, 2026

Trigger check passed

Editorially graded · Jun 14, 2026

"Reverse-engineers the fundamental assumptions — implied long-term growth rates, EBIT margins, WACC, ROIC, and equity risk premia — embedded in a peer group's current valuation multiples (EV/EBITDA, P/E, EV/Revenue, P/B) and delivers an institutional-grade PDF report plus editable DOCX, structured like a sell-side comparable company analysis memo. Use when a user wants to decode or back-solve what the market is pricing into peer multiples, benchmark a target company's valuation against peer-implied assumptions, build a comps memo for an investment committee or pitch, stress-test whether a proposed valuation is consistent with peer group signals, or identify potentially mispriced peers by comparing implied versus observable fundamentals."

What you get

An installable SKILL.md file for your AI assistant. Produces a PDF and a Word document (.docx).

Works in
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Native — drops into .claude/skills/
Copilot · Codex · Gemini CLI
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claude.ai — web & desktop
Upload the .zip in Customize → Skills
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Via a Project — paste into its instructions

See it in action

A real input → output sample

Sample input
Decode the market assumptions implied by these SaaS peer multiples:

Company    | EV ($M) | Revenue ($M) | EBITDA ($M) | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA
AlphaSoft  | 8,400   | 700          | 210         | 12.0x      | 40.0x
BetaCloud  | 4,200   | 420          | 84          | 10.0x      | 50.0x
GammaTech  | 2,700   | 300          | 90          | 9.0x       | 30.0x
Sample output
Sample output produced by the Valuation Assumption Decoder skill
Produced by an AI assistant following this skill on the sample input above.
View the full output as text
Example Output
Implied Market Assumptions — US SaaS Peer Group

Key findings
• The peer median EV/Revenue of 10.0x implies the market is underwriting roughly 20–25% durable revenue growth with long-run FCF margins near 30% — aggressive but within the historical range for premium SaaS.
• AlphaSoft's 40x EV/EBITDA embeds the richest expectations: holding a 10% discount rate, its multiple implies ~18% EBITDA growth sustained for 8+ years before fading.
• GammaTech trades at a clear discount (9x revenue, 30x EBITDA) — the market is pricing either slower growth (~12–15%) or margin compression; flag for a catch-up thesis if fundamentals disagree.

Reader note: risk-free rate, beta, and company guidance were not provided — implied growth ranges assume a 10% cost of capital and are sensitive to that input.

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