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But it also suggests LinkedIn could struggle to maintain such a generous valuation once the euphoria wears off, especially once there are others out there for comparison.
Even if we assume that Maker got a very generous valuation back then (say 10x), its revenue couldn't have been more than $30m.
Thanks also to a generous valuation of around 25 times forecast 2011 earnings and a possible exposure to Italian capital gains tax, retail investor enthusiasm for Prada is already cooling.
The punter on the street, however, knows far less about Mr Immelt, and remains sceptical: the generous valuation premium that investors lavished on Mr Welch has disappeared under his successor (see chart).That is a serious state of affairs for GE, which exists as a conglomerate (the company prefers "multibusiness") only because the market lets it.
Wall Street assigns a generous valuation of $500 million to the outfit.
Comcast responded in kind to Disney's rejection: "Our proposal to acquire The Walt Disney Company reflects a full and generous valuation based upon Disney's prospects and performance over a long period of time, representing a significant premium over Disney's unaffected share price during any relevant measurement period over the last three years.
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But start-ups court risk when they lure investments at such generous valuations.
Those banks with the least capital probably have more generous valuations.
Russian telecoms companies already attract generous valuations and Telenor has got its stake cheaply, in return for allowing the founders to keep a controlling share.
Wall Street lost its appetite for technology IPOs and the best unicorns saw no need to go public as long as ample private funds at generous valuations were readily available.
Call it hindsight, but now it's apparent that a combination of aggressive lenders and Deloitte's model generated too-generous valuations.
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