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Quality of Earnings Reports Impact Valuation

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How Quality of Earnings Reports Impact Valuation Securing a Quality of Earnings (QoE) report is often a routine step in the due diligence process for acquisitions. It entails a deep dive into many facets of operations including the status of contracts, customer concentration risk, the ability to deliver services, and other expense drivers.

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At the Money: Stock Picking vs. Value InvestingĀ 

Barry Ritholtz

Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation. Jeremy Schwartz : And basically said that there’s huge Tech stocks, triple-digit PEs, you can never justify the valuations no matter what the growth rates are. They had great numbers, not great enough. And Stocks, those cash flows are dividends.

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Round Trip

Barry Ritholtz

Tech Concentration : Yes, a handful of giant tech stocks are driving market gains. But we wonā€™t know how big a losing trade it might be until early 2024, when we see the updated valuations. Some folks who are more familiar with the numbers than I have suggested it will not be pretty. Never forget: Forecasts are marketing.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies. So, how far has accounting come in bringing intangible assets on to balance sheets?

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Market Bipolarity: Exuberance versus Exhaustion!

Musings on Markets

The NASDAQ also gave back gains in the third quarter, but is up 27.27% for the year, but those gaudy numbers obscure a sobering reality. In spite of losing 3.65% of their value in the third quarter of 2023, large cap stocks are still ahead 12.13% for the year, but small cap stocks are now back to where they were at the start of 2023.

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eCommerce Company Wish Files Paperwork To Go Public

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Wishā€™s filing follows a number of startups, including Snowflake, Palantir Technologies and Asana, seeking opportunities amid a crush of investors, Reuters reported. Led by General Atlantic, a New York growth equity firm, the round boosted Wishā€™s valuation to $11.2

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Marking Time: A new year, a fresh semester and its class time!

Musings on Markets

Last week, was my data week, where I download and analyze data on all publicly traded companies, listed anywhere in the world, and I will post extensively on what the numbers look like after a most tumultuous year. As we approach the turn of the calendar year, I have my own set of rituals that prepare me for the new year.