The objective in the paper is to value a firm in distress which is struggling to survive and continue its operations, unable to meet its debt obligations, and making losses so that it has a negative book value. The paper has taken a listed Indian firm which is in operation since a decade called Jet Airways. The paper looks at different methods to value this company, the most prominent being the real option approach to valuation. Finally, a comparison of different valuation methods was done with the real company price. The Discounted Cash Flow method tends to overvalue the price of a distressed firm. Real option method gives us a much smaller intrinsic price which is even close to the market price of the share.
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