Analyst Prep Program Overview 23
Analyst Prep Program Overview 23
ANALYST
PREP
PROGRAM
Investment Banking
Training Program
2023
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specifically on one-on-one training. During the carefully points out what is actually useful to
internship part of the program, I was able to pursue a career in finance. The pure finance-
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complete company valuation, analysis and will not be from the perspective of Mr. Romero
recommendation conclusions. After learning where he brings to you what he learned over the
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analyze companies, I was able to apply those
years. I found to be particularly useful are the
case studies which allow me to train my modeling
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Project assignments:
Business Fundamentals Corporate Spinoff & LBO Investment Presentation Interview Prep
Corporate Valuation Tesla Investment Case Strategic Consideration Job Application Strategy
Upskill yourself and increase BUY-SIDE INVESTMENT CASE STUDY CORPORATE SPIN-OFF CASE STUDY
11. FedEx Investment Case Study 10. Portfolio and Risk Management
Business Fundamentals The Financial Statements Modeling lectures are essential and the fundamental building block to
analyzing a company. Students will learn how to build a dynamic financial statement model from
Prerequisite: None scratch using real case studies, blending accounting, finance, and Excel skills.
Duration: 3h 47m
Assignment: Excel and research Topics Covered: Modeling best practices, analyzing SEC filings & management presentations,
financial statement flows & projections, earnings per share assumptions and diluted shares,
The Business Fundamentals lectures are designed to teach students the soft and technical skills depreciation and amortization schedules, error proofing your model, and much more.
Wall Street professionals apply on the job. The course uses current and practical case studies to
bridge the gap between theory and real world practicality. By the end of the training modules,
students will be able to build practical financial statements and valuation models, identify important
chat patterns, determine if a stock is undervalued or overvalued, and much more.
Topics Covered: Introduction to accounting principles, financial statements explained, Excel crash MODULE 3
course, performing due diligence, and much more.
Corporate Valuation
Prerequisite: Modules 1 & 2
Duration: 5h 17m
Assignment: Valuation methodologies
MODULE 4 MODULE 6
The Technical Analysis lectures explore how The Mergers and Acquisitions lectures explore the impact, on a pro‐forma basis, of a merger on a
professionals apply forecasting of future financial price company. The module will explore the fundamental concepts of Mergers and Acquisitions, and how
movements based on the examination of past price to effectively analyze a potential merger or acquisition. What makes a company a good target? Why
movements. Students learn to identify important price would a company make an acquisition? Will the transaction be accretive or dilutive? These are some
patterns that help with predicting price moves. of the key questions Investment Bankers deal with on a daily basis. Students will create a complete
Technical analysis uses a wide variety of charts that merger model done by Wall Street professionals to analyze considerations, leverage, and whether
show price over time. the transaction is accretive or dilutive.
Topics Covered: Support & resistance, double tops & Topics Covered: Accretion/dilution analysis, affordability analysis, purchase accounting overview,
bottoms, volume, pivot points, supply & demand, and creation of goodwill and write‐ups, sources & uses of funds, opening balance sheet & purchase
market psychology. accounting adjustments, credit rating considerations, M&A transaction considerations (stock vs.
cash, social issues, etc.), asset vs. stock purchase, and tax deductibility of goodwill.
MODULE 5
MODULE 7
Leveraged Buyout Financial Modeling
Corporate Spinoff - eBay PayPal
Prerequisite: Modules 1, 2, 3 & 4
Duration: 6h 2m Prerequisite: Modules 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
Assignment: LBO model Duration: 6h 46m
Project assignment: LBO model
A Leveraged Buyout is a fundamental, yet complex acquisition commonly used in the Private
Equity industry. We will take a look at the fundamental concepts, benefits, and drawbacks of a The Corporate Spinoff case study examines eBay’s board of director’s decision to spinoff PayPal in
Leveraged Buyout. We will understand how to effectively analyze a Leveraged Buyout by building July 2015 in a deal worth ~$48 billion. The decision has made eBay less competitive. Since the
a fully consolidated model. We will further analyze the fundamental impact of such a transaction PayPal spinoff, eBay’s stock price has unperformed the technology QQQ ETF, PayPal stock, and its
and calculate the expected return to an investor. Lastly, we will spend time interpreting the biggest competitor, Amazon. We analyze the board's reasons behind splitting the two businesses.
variables and wide array of financing structures to understand how to maximize IRR. We also explore a potential $63 billion leveraged buyout of eBay by building an LBO model and
performing due diligence.
Topics Covered: What makes a good LBO candidate, concept of value creation via de‐leveraging,
operational improvements and multiple expansion, sources of funding for an LBO, purchase price Topics Covered: eBay’s financial & stock price performance analysis, eBay’s $22.7 billion shares
determination, sponsors equity and internal rate of return (IRR) – how to maximize IRR, buyback program, eBay’s $48 billion PayPal spinoff, corporate spinoff transaction, our $61 billion
mechanics of constructing an LBO model, constructing an LBO model for the case company, LBO dollar theoretical leveraged buyout modeling exercise, company valuation analysis, performing due
strategies & concepts, debt paydown vs. operational growth, sources of capital (Term Loans, diligence, and much more.
Mezzanine Debt, PIK Securities), goodwill assumptions, purchase price consideration, full‐scale
Leveraged Buyout analysis, pro‐forma income statement, pro‐forma cash flow statement, balance
sheet adjustments, pro‐forma balance sheet, and much more.
MODULE 8 MODULE 10
In 2020, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) stock price increased This live case study teaches, in real time, how a market professional applies modeling, valuation and
~24% year-to-date outperforming most of the stock market technical analysis techniques to value a business. Students learn how to apply judgment and solve
by about 36 percentage points. This live case study covers difficulties that may present itself when valuating public companies. Walmart, Inc. (WMT) stock is up
key fundamental events that caused Amazon's stock price to ~10% since January 2019 due to a stable US economy and strong job market. Is Walmart stock fairly
increase. We also discuss valuation analysis to determine if priced or is the market mispricing expectations?
the stock price is currently undervalued or fairly valued by
the market. Finally, we determine if the stock is a buy or sell Topics Covered: Case introduction, due diligence, build case financial statements model, test
and the potential upside or downside for the remainder of scenarios, troubleshoot a model, corporate valuation, technical analysis, investment conclusion, and
the year. much more.
Topics Covered: Case introduction, due diligence, build case financial statements model, test
scenarios, troubleshoot a model, corporate valuation, technical analysis, investment conclusion,
and much more.
MODULE 12 MODULE 14
The Interview Prep module will provide you with guidance on how to prepare for upcoming
interviews for careers in investment banking, hedge funds, equity research, consulting and other
areas within finance. By the end of this module, you will be able to break down the interview into
sections to help you answer questions during the interview with confidence.
Topics Covered: Career opportunities in finance, student roadmap, writing a resume, interview
prep, and much more.
INVESTMENT ANALYST
TRAINING CURRICULUM
MODULE 2
Ten modules and 14 hours of professional training content designed to teach you the
fundamentals of stock investing applied by professionals in hedge funds, trading firms, and Event-Driven Investing Strategy
asset management.
Prerequisite: Module 1
Duration: 0h 50m
MODULE 1
The Event-Driven Investing Strategy module will give you a clear presentation of our event-driven
Introduction To Stock Investing Strategies strategy and a deep dive into our stock selection criteria by reviewing the examples that we provide.
By the end of this module, you will have a solid foundation and understanding of what key variables
Prerequisite: Investment Banking Training curriculum to pay attention to, the importance of shares outstanding, float, performing due diligence, and using
Duration: 1h 15m our case study to help you recognize potential opportunities.
The Introduction to Stocks module will give you a general overview of the concepts that will be Topics Covered: Event-driven strategy, important measurable variables for the strategy, analyze 13
explored deeper throughout this course. By the end of the module, you will have a better case study examples, performing due diligence on event-driven opportunities, and much more.
understanding of stocks, market history, asset class performance, our event-driven and alpha stock
growth investing strategies, and our stock phase model.
Topics Covered: What is a stock?, asset class performance, event-driven investing strategy, alpha
growth investing strategy, market history, our stock phase model, and much more. MODULE 3
MODULE 4 MODULE 6
The Price Action & Scanning for The Stock Market Sentiment module will give you an understanding of stock market sentiment to
Opportunities module will give you a assess the overall attitude of investors towards the stock market. We will cover economic data,
practical process to follow when using price sector spider index performance and apply a top-down methodology approach. By the end of this
action to identify potential alpha stocks and module, you will have a better understanding of market sentiment to further comprehend market
building your watch list. By the end of this environments.
module, you will have a solid understanding
of price action, how to scan for Topics Covered: Market sentiment indicators, top-down methodology to navigating the markets,
opportunities, and how we use our Alpha important economic data, and much more.
stock checklist to improve your stock
selection.
The Introduction to Technical Analysis module will give you an understanding of technical Topics Covered: Company valuation methodologies, sales & PE trading multiple valuations, arrive at
analysis, reading charts, and how to apply technical concepts to identify potential Alpha stock our own price target, Equity Value & Enterprise Valuations, and much more.
opportunities. By the end of this module, you will have a better understanding of how we use
technical analysis to identify opportunities.
Topics Covered: Technical analysis, Fibonacci levels, Gartley pattern, market psychology, moving
averages, and much more.
MODULE 8 MODULE 10
The Performing Due Diligence module will show The Portfolio and Risk Management module will give you a better understanding of portfolio and risk
you practical steps to perform due diligence on management. We also use our education portfolio to apply portfolio and risk management principles
Alpha stocks. Also learn how to find information to execute our Alpha stock growth investing strategy. By the end of this module, you will have a
using available resources to better understand better understanding of portfolio and risk management principles. In our education fund example, we
the business story and industry economics and applied position size, portfolio weight, and risk management principles.
trends. By the end of this module, you will have
a better understanding of performing due Topics Covered: Portfolio and risk management, understand position size and portfolio weight, learn
diligence and how to determine the company’s to use stop loss orders to mitigate losses, and much more.
business story and industry trends.
MODULE 9
Introduction to Options
Prerequisite: Modules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
Duration: 0h 55m
The Introduction to Options module will give you an introduction to options and how to combine it
with our Alpha stock growth investing strategy. By the end of this module, you will have a better
understanding of how we apply options to our Alpha stock growth investing strategy. You will also
learn our options pricing model to arrive to an option target price.
Topics Covered: What is an option?, our options pricing model, how to apply our Alpha stock
strategy to options. and much more.
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Mr. Romero has over 15,000 mentoring and training Mr. Montesinos, serves as advisor and works closely with the
hours working with over 700 professionals and students. founder in designing the business go-to-market strategy and serves
He has over a decade of professional experience as as advisor. He has over a decade of investing experience working
Founder and Instructor of Romero Mentoring, at Merrill Lynch, TPG Capital and Captalys. He was formerly CFO of
Investment Banking at Credit Suisse, instructor at the a fintech start-up where he was co-responsible for executing the
LUIS ROMERO CARLOS MONTESINOS
FOUNDER & CEO New York School of Finance, Principal at Romero ADVISOR BOARD MEMBER company’s growth plan and executing the Series-A round of
Capital, and Analyst at Seven Points Capital. He holds a financing. Mr. Montesinos holds a Bachelor's Degree from the Haas
B.B.A. in Finance with a minor in Philosophy from School of Business at UC Berkeley, and a Master's Degree from
Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ms. Truong is co-founder and helped bootstrap Romero Mr. Akram designed and led the technology team in creating the
Mentoring and works in multiple areas of operations. mentoring platform. He has more than a decade of experience in
Other experience includes internal operations auditor at web development technologies and UI/UX design. Co-Founder and
BJ’s Wholesale Club. Graduated from Worcester State CEO of Pixelative, a design-centric software services company.
University with a B.B.A. in Accounting.
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