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A company is acquired for 8.0x LTM EBITDA of $50M. It is sold 5 years later for 8.0x exit EBITDA of $75M.

If net debt remained constant at $200M throughout the hold, what was the primary source of the equity value increase?

  1. Debt Paydown
  2. EBITDA Growth
  3. Financial Engineering
  4. Multiple Expansion

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