Sageview Capital Interview Questions
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Interview Questions & Answers - Sageview Capital Examples
Associate Interview - Energy
- Resume walk through
- Deal experience walk-through
- Tell me about the best business you have encountered and why
- Could you walk me through the resume build-up for this business?
- How do you calculate ROIC?
2nd round: 2 hour LBO modeling test
3rd round: 3 hour case study. Format:
- 1.5 hour to finish reading 10-K and investor pres for a public company (past companies include a QSR chain and a natural resources company); also need to build a detailed income statement for the company (revenue down to operating income)
- 1.5 hour to present your model and whether to invest in front of a group of Principals
Final Round: 1-on-1 meeting with the founder, who used to be a very senior executive at KKR
- Deal experience walk-through
- Tell me about the best business you have encountered and why
- Could you walk me through the resume build-up for this business?
- How do you calculate ROIC?
- How does operating leverage work?
- How to project growth rate of price and volume of aggregate shipments? By geography or end market demand?
- What’s the appropriate growth rate for fixed cost?
- How should variable cost be model? (on a per unit basis)
- How should SG&A be projected, as a % of sales or based on growth rate? (% sales may be misleading if sales growth is large driven by price increase)
- What is the main components of SG&A?
- What drives growth in SG&A even if the company is not expanding? (Cost of health plans for employees)
- Why is price of aggregates rising even though volume is decreasing? (Monopoly, bargaining power of suppliers)
- Is the aggregate business a regional or global one? Why?
- It is hard for aggregate producers to differentiate by product, so what can be the competitive advantage of one company vs. another?
- Would you prefer $1 increase in price or 1 unit increase in volume?
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