In the Football Field chart within the Valuation Overview section, the grey bar (also referred to as the grey zone or shaded section) spans across all currently selected valuation methodologies. This grey bar represents the concluded Valuation Range, the estimated range within which the company's value is expected to fall.
How Is the Valuation Range Calculated?
The Valuation Range takes all currently active valuation methods i.e., all methods currently displayed in the Football Field chart, into consideration.
The minimum and maximum boundaries of the grey bar are each calculated as a weighted average of the respective minimum and maximum values of the currently selected valuation methods.
This means the more consistent your selected valuation methods are, the narrower the Valuation Range will be and the more they vary, the wider the range becomes.
How Can the Valuation Range Be Adjusted?
You can manually override the automatically calculated Valuation Range:
You can manually override the automatically calculated Valuation Range:
Go to the Parameters menu in the top-right corner of the Valuation Module.
Under "Change Parameters", you'll find the option to adjust the Valuation Range values directly.
This allows you to:
Reflect judgment-based adjustments
Incorporate external benchmarks or expert inputs
Narrow or widen the range as needed for your final output
Learn more on How to Change the Parameters of the Valuation and How to edit Valuation Method Weights