EVA – Economic Value Added
EVA or the economic value added measures the net capital of the company which includes total investments made by the shareholders that is, equity and accumulated profits and total debt. EVA evaluates the variance between cost of capital and earnings. The term economic value added refers to quantification of the firm’s profit earned less in comparison to the cost of financing the capital of firm. The goal of EVA is to render project management with estimation of sustained success in terms of increasing wealth of shareholders of the company. However, economic value added is not recommended for valuation but it is highly used for this purpose these days. It is the advantage of lacking risk adjustment for incurring debt internally which favors it. Also, EVA is trademark of the Stern Stewart & Co. and is best known for marketing and deployment. It determines the excess amount made on investment. It is the operating income after tax, assets investment and capital cost that help in calculating the EVA.
It is important to understand that EVA is not the percentage difference of returns but it quantifies dollar excess value. EVA is truly justified by fiscal theory and is in accordance with the valuation phenomena.
Strengths of EVA are:
• EVA is basically a residual performance measurement and therefore, enrolls into one single statistic.
• With just implementing capital change, the fundamental deficiency of earnings and EPS (earnings per share) can be rectified.
• EVA being operational metric assists the managers in clarifying the creation of value.
Weaknesses of EVA:
• Economic value added can be considered to accrual distortions if not completely loaded and all the call adjustments are done.
• It is limited of single period; historical measurement that is, past year’s economic value added may not necessarily provide an insight into the future performance of company.
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