Investment Banking Interview Question Generator

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1. Why can two companies with identical earnings trade at very different EV/EBITDA multiples?
2. How does an increase in net working capital affect unlevered free cash flow, and why?
3. Walk me through a DCF from revenue projections down to the present value of the enterprise.
4. When do you use the treasury stock method, and what does it change in your share count?
5. A company's bonds trade at 60 cents on the dollar. What does that imply about where value breaks in the capital structure?
6. Why can a company be insolvent on a cash flow basis but solvent on a balance sheet basis, and which matters more in a restructuring?