The phrase "a smaller valuation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, business, or assessments where a lower value is being discussed compared to another valuation.
Example: "After reviewing the market trends, we concluded that the property has a smaller valuation than we initially expected."
Alternatives: "a reduced valuation" or "a lower valuation".
A boom, really, and even after all that work, may be forced to go public for a smaller valuation than its last private price tag.
(The way around valuation discrepancy is to take less at a smaller valuation, keep costs at a minimum and make up the difference at the next raise).
It wasn't a positive signal, and it wasn't the first time that a company crossing the private-public divide landed on the other side of the chasm with a smaller valuation than it had started out with.
That makes the prospect of a public offering, at a potentially much smaller valuation, something to be put off as long as possible.
The potential disruptive nature of the new generation of health and medical technologies and businesses may be bad news for legacy vendors and bloated incumbents — and it may lead to the constricting of the market as a whole, smaller valuations at lower prices.
"We expect a modest valuation and a small float but a reasonably successful run for Twilio," said Max Wolff, chief economist at Manhattan Venture Partners.
Zarate and Kind [7] attempted to identify smaller valuation subsets in other countries that had conducted EQ-5D-3L valuation studies using the MVH valuation set.
Here are two common ones, courtesy of Tom West, a small-business valuation expert and author of The Business Reference Guide: –A multiple of two to three times pretax income, plus inventory.
"Entrepreneurs here are driven by revenue, that's the mentality, so there may be less of a total valuation but the companies are successful at smaller valuations".
Others may have to settle for smaller valuations.
In March 2000 Sycamore's outstanding stock was worth $40.1 billion, while nine of the Dow Jones industrial giants including Alcoa, Boeing, Caterpillar and United Technologies had smaller valuations.
