Private equity calculators and worked examples

Private Equity Returns Lab

Open a calculator for deal math, or choose an advanced worksheet for a question that depends on cash-flow dates, a named method, or agreement terms.

Calculators

Open a calculator to change the inputs, inspect the worked example, and read its assumptions.

Enterprise value to equity value

After debt, cash, and other claims, what equity value remains?

Boundary: The user supplies the relevant claims. The engine does not determine deal-specific debt-like items.

Working-capital adjustment

Does actual closing working capital move price up or down versus the peg?

Boundary: The calculation uses the entered peg and actual balance. The appropriate peg remains a diligence judgment.

LP and GP distributions

How does a whole-fund waterfall allocate proceeds after the preferred return?

Boundary: The existing engine models one European whole-fund waterfall with a full GP catch-up, not every LPA.

Advanced worksheets

Choose the named method or governing terms that fit your question.

Named method

Public Market Equivalent (PME)

Did dated private-fund cash flows outperform a selected public benchmark?

Method: Kaplan-Schoar PME or Direct Alpha

Boundary: The user supplies one consistent total-return index series, cash-flow basis, terminal date and NAV. No benchmark is selected or fetched by UpLevered.

Open the PME workbench
Named method

Fee drag

How do fees, expenses, and carry change gross cash flows into net LP returns?

Method: Explicit dated cost overlay

Boundary: The worksheet applies only user-entered costs, credits and NAV. It does not infer fee bases, carry waterfalls, recycling or LPA terms.

Open the fee-drag workbench
Named method

Cash-flow aggregation

How do multiple deal or fund cash-flow streams roll into one portfolio return?

Method: Capital-weighted pooled cash flows

Boundary: The user supplies terminal NAV and FX conversion. The workflow pools dated cash flows and never averages entity IRRs.

Open the aggregation workbench
Canonical live model

Return attribution scenarios

Which operating, multiple, and balance-sheet assumptions drive the change in equity value?

Method: Entry-first, exit-first or Shapley terminal bridge

Boundary: The canonical Value Bridge explains terminal equity-value change. It does not allocate additive IRR basis points or incorporate interim cash flows.

Use the canonical Value Bridge
Agreement-driven workflow

Management equity

How do entered vesting, participation, hurdle, or strike terms change a simplified management proceeds scenario?

Method: User-selected simplified award schema

Boundary: The user selects common participation, a growth strip or a cash-settled option and flags clauses the simplified schema does not model.

Open the management-equity workbench
Agreement-driven workflow

Covenant scenarios

How does a downside case change covenant headroom across reporting periods?

Method: User-entered maximum or minimum ratio schedule

Boundary: The user supplies agreement-defined amounts, limits and test activation. No covenant definition, threshold, cure or warning buffer is assumed.

Open the covenant-headroom workbench

Read the assumptions with the result

Choose the method before using the result.

Each calculator links to the Private Equity Glossary definition, formula, and example behind its answer. Advanced worksheets identify the method and the governing inputs you need to supply.

Live calculators
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Advanced workflows
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Start

Open the worked example

Each result links to the definition page that explains its inputs, formula, worked example and interpretation. Use that page as the calculation record.

Check

Recalculate from disclosed inputs

The displayed default and the interactive result use the same tested math. Change the assumptions, preserve the inputs, and avoid carrying an unexplained output into a memo.

Stop

Let methods and agreements control

PME, fee drag, management equity and covenant headroom require a named method, dated source or governing agreement. Their workbenches make those choices explicit.