--- name: "valuation_football_field" area: "valuation" title: "Draw a football field" price: "free" method: "POST" url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/valuation_football_field" mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/valuation" auth: "Authorization: Bearer " docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_football_field" --- # Draw a football field (`valuation_football_field`) The valuation ranges side by side, with the overall range, the overlap, markers and a slide for the deck. The valuation ranges side by side: each method's low, high and midpoint, the overall range, where the ranges overlap, and markers such as an offer. deck_block is the slide documents_create_deck draws as a chart. Price: Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads. A call that fails costs nothing. ## Use it when To bring several valuation methods together for a board or a client. ## Say this to your agent > Put the DCF, the peer multiples and the past deals on one chart next to the seller's 25 million ask. ## Inputs | Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | `ranges` | array of objects | yes | 1 to 12 items. | | | | `ranges[].method` | string | yes, in each item of `ranges` | 1 to 200 characters. | | | | `ranges[].low` | number | yes, in each item of `ranges` | | | | | `ranges[].high` | number | yes, in each item of `ranges` | | | | | `markers` | array of objects | no | Up to 5 items. | | | | `markers[].label` | string | yes, in each item of `markers` | 1 to 200 characters. | | | | `markers[].value` | number | yes, in each item of `markers` | | | | | `title` | string | no | 1 to 200 characters. | | | | `currency` | string | no | Shown with the figures, e.g. EUR. Nothing is converted. Up to 10 characters. | | | ## Example Written for Hansen & Voss, a restaurant-equipment wholesaler in Hamburg with 60 staff. MCP: call `valuation_football_field` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/valuation` with these arguments: ```json { "title": "Kuechentechnik Nord, enterprise value (EUR m)", "currency": "EUR", "ranges": [ { "method": "DCF (WACC 8.7% to 9.7%)", "low": 19.8, "high": 24.6 }, { "method": "Trading multiples (EV/EBITDA)", "low": 18.2, "high": 23.9 }, { "method": "Precedent transactions", "low": 20.5, "high": 26.0 } ], "markers": [ { "label": "Seller's ask", "value": 25.0 } ] } ``` REST: ```bash curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/valuation_football_field \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"title": "Kuechentechnik Nord, enterprise value (EUR m)", "currency": "EUR", "ranges": [{"method": "DCF (WACC 8.7% to 9.7%)", "low": 19.8, "high": 24.6}, {"method": "Trading multiples (EV/EBITDA)", "low": 18.2, "high": 23.9}, {"method": "Precedent transactions", "low": 20.5, "high": 26.0}], "markers": [{"label": "Seller'\''s ask", "value": 25.0}]}' ``` ## Response ```json { "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93", "tool": "valuation_football_field", "status": "succeeded", "replayed": false, "cost_usd": "$0.00", "balance_usd": "$19.75", "result": { "ranges": [ { "method": "DCF (WACC 8.7% to 9.7%)", "low": 19.8, "high": 24.6, "midpoint": 22.2 }, { "method": "Trading multiples (EV/EBITDA)", "low": 18.2, "high": 23.9, "midpoint": 21.05 } ], "overall": { "low": 18.2, "high": 26.0, "midpoint": 22.1 }, "overlap": { "low": 20.5, "high": 23.9 }, "markers": [ { "label": "Seller's ask", "value": 25.0 } ], "deck_block": { "type": "football_field", "title": "Kuechentechnik Nord, enterprise value (EUR m)", "ranges": [ { "method": "DCF (WACC 8.7% to 9.7%)", "low": 19.8, "high": 24.6, "midpoint": 22.2 }, { "method": "Trading multiples (EV/EBITDA)", "low": 18.2, "high": 23.9, "midpoint": 21.05 } ], "markers": [ { "label": "Seller's ask", "value": 25.0 } ], "currency": "EUR" }, "currency": "EUR" } } ``` `result`: ranges (method, low, high, midpoint), overall (low, high, midpoint), overlap (or null when the ranges never meet), markers and deck_block, the slide for documents_create_deck. ## Errors | Code | Status | When | Fix | |---|---|---|---| | `invalid_input` | 400 | A range's low is above its high. | Swap them. | The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md ## Related - [valuation_dcf](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_dcf.md): A DCF valuation from free cash flows and a WACC: present values, terminal value, enterprise and equity value, and a sensitivity grid. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_wacc](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_wacc.md): The WACC from the risk-free rate, the market premium and a beta relevered from peers, with each step written out. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_rates](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_rates.md): Today's risk-free curve and its recent average from the Bundesbank, the ECB or the US Treasury, as decimals. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_fx](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_fx.md): Amounts converted between currencies at the ECB's euro reference rates, on a date or at a past year's average. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_multiples](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_multiples.md): Peer multiples with their quartiles and the enterprise and equity value they imply for the target, less any discount. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_lbo](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_lbo.md): A buyout financed with debt, year by year: sources and uses, each debt tranche, the exit, MOIC, IRR and an IRR grid by entry and exit multiple. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_benchmark](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_benchmark.md): The target's KPIs against its peers: quartiles, percentile, gap to the median and whether each is a strength or a potential. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_scores](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_scores.md): Altman, Piotroski and Beneish scores from a company's figures, and whether it is growing, mature or distressed. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_forecast](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_forecast.md): Model forecasts with 80% and 95% intervals for revenue, EBITDA or monthly sales, with a confidence label and the plan checked against the range. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [valuation_beta](https://conecto.chat/tools/valuation/valuation_beta.md): Betas of listed peers from closing prices the business gives, with R squared, the t-statistic and the unlevered beta. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.