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Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test

Musings on Markets

Accounting Returns While profit margins tell a part of the profitability story, a high margin, by itself, may be insufficient to make a judgment on whether a business is a good one, i.e,, a business that consistently generates returns that exceed the cost of funding it.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? Accounting was very difficult. It’s about a 50% fail rate, something like that. That’s right. Maybe even more.