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Latest Issues in Valuing Auto Dealerships

Join Tim York and Adam Lawyer to learn about the multitude of considerations to take into account when valuing an auto dealership valuation, including franchise, location, real estate, management, and more. Today’s dealership valuation environment is further impacted by a new wave of investment capital stemming from private equity and family office investor entry. In addition to the challenges related to private equity/family office side, there is often a lack of understanding in terms of ...

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Kevin Obletz, JD, has been named a partner at HealthCare Appraisers Inc.

Dillon v. Montgomery

Suit for breach of a stock purchase agreement involving an automobile dealership.

Automobile Dealerships: Turning a Corner—or Not?

The recession and its aftermath have hit automobile dealerships hard. New vehicle sales have declined for five straight years, including 7.5% in 2010 alone. The number of dealerships fell by 760 in 2010, by 1,550 in 2009, and by 760 in 2008. However, stat ...

Valuing Auto Dealerships: Applicable Methods, Value Drivers, and Current Economic Environment

Join Tim York and Adam Lawyer to learn about a multitude of considerations to take into account when valuing an automotive dealership, including franchise, location, real estate, management, and more. Today’s dealership valuation environment is further impacted by continued consolidation, a new wave of investors, the cyclical nature of the business, and possible other industry disrupters. Get the presenters’ perspectives on the many unique factors to consider in auto dealership valuation along with an update ...

In re Marriage of Talty

At issue is the admittance of expert testimony.

Valuing Auto Dealerships

Valuing Auto Dealerships Teleconference Presentation & Transcript October 18th, 2007 Panelists: Kevin Yeanoplos, Brueggeman and Johnson Yeanoplos, P.C. Clayton Danielson, Brueggeman and Johnson Yeanoplos, P.C. Moderator: John ...

BV News At-a-Glance

A monthly roundup of key developments from the standard setters, regulators, and valuation professional organizations (VPOs), plus noteworthy new books, research papers, and studies of interest to business valuation experts.

Auto Dealerships, New Cars

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in retailing new automobiles and light trucks, such as sport utility vehicles, and passenger and cargo vans, or retailing these new vehicles in combination with activities, such as repair services, retailing used cars, and selling replacement parts and accessories.

DaimlerChrysler Motors Company v. Manuel

Appellate court affirms $370,000 in lost profits for proposed Chrysler dealership, based in part on actual sales data from a single benchmark run by the same dealer but selling vehicles from a competing manufacturer.

What ‘FMV’? Bankruptcy Court Restricts Car Dealer’s Damages

Bankruptcy court finds car dealer’s claim for fair market value of its franchise based on state law dealer statute is invalid under Bankruptcy Code; expert testimony only supports past lost profit damages for cars and parts and accessories in stock at tim ...

Heritage Auto Center v. Commissioner

At issue is whether petitioner is entitled to deductions for amortization of amounts paid to William Wright for a noncompetition and consulting agreement.

Strong v. Vestevich

Appellant agreed on record and under oath to voluntarily waive the opportunity for discovery and accept husband's valuation of his GM dealership at trial.

Multiples Used to Estimate Automotive Dealerships Market Value

Practitioners use goodwill multiples for valuing automobile dealerships. In this paper, the valuation accuracy of five goodwill multiples and seven more traditional multiples that can be used for estimating the market value of the equity of car dealerships is assessed during the 2010–2016 period. Our results support that the goodwill multiples provide the smallest estimation errors in valuing the market value of automobile dealerships.

Valuing Auto Dealerships in Difficult Times: Three Experts Share Their Views

The auto industry was hit especially hard in the latest recession, reports Kevin Yeanoplos, speaking at the recent BVR webinar, Valuing Auto Dealerships. General Motors and Chrysler declared bankruptcy, Toyota’s serious quality control problems have hurt ...

James Mark Taylor v. Deanna K. Taylor

The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court's use of the asset approach to value a used car dealership. It reversed the valuation of the dealership for inclusion of cars omitted from the business' inventory list. It also declined to find that ...

Lally Orange Buick Pontiac GMC, Inc. v. Sandhu

Appeals court scraps judicial appraisal, finding it was not based on competent evidence; in valuing dissenting shareholder’s interest in auto dealership, trial court ignored expert opinions but failed to detail methodology supporting its valuation.

Frontier Chevrolet Co. v. Commissioner

Issue is whether company's redemption of 75% of its stock was an “acquisition” within the meaning of IRC section 197, and whether the covenant not to compete needed to be amortized.

Davis v. Davis

The issue in this case was the affirmation of the trial courts approval of the adjusted book value method of valuation.

Valuing Auto Dealerships

The auto industry has been perhaps the easiest segment of the economy to keep track of these past few years. Between bail-outs, recalls, and industry innovations, it's been hard to miss the changing fortunes of these titans of industry. What has been difficult, however, is quantifying how these changes affect the end of the supply chain: the dealer. In Valuing Auto Dealerships, expert appraisers Jim Alerding and Kevin Yeanoplos will join Carl Woodward, one of the ...

In re Glueck

The key issue in this case is setting the appropriate interest rate to establish present value in a "cram down" situation under 11 U.S.C. 1325(a)(5)(B).

Bonnie Lee Dench v. Rodney Allan Dench

In Bonnie Lee Dench v. Rodney Allan Dench, 2005 CanLII 22211 (ON.S.C.) (decided June 24, 2005), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice calculated the amount of income available for support from an auto dealership. Eight years prior to the date of separatio ...

Berg v. Young

Appeals court says trial court erred in interpreting prenuptial agreement but reached correct result when it rejected wife’s claim to enhanced value of husband’s separate interest in car dealership by ruling appreciation in value was passive, not active.

The Valuation of Dealerships

Many items are purchased from dealerships. We will provide the background and history of dealerships, walk through the profit centers of dealerships, and perform a high-level mock valuation of a dealership.

Spady v. Spady

Appellate court holds that valuation date must bear a “rational relationship” to the assets being valued, and confirms no value for the auto dealership in this case, based on standard appraisal practice to round negative values to zero.

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