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Musings on Markets: Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

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The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

Measuring Profitability The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

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Furthermore, do they optimize they debt ratios to deliver the lowest hurdle rates. Book versus Market : The book debt ratio is built around using the accounting measure of equity, usually shareholder's equity, as the value of equity. Do companies optimize financing mix?

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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” look at the Monte Carlo simulations, look at what is the hurdle rate. But we want it on the calendar so that we keep clients and ourselves accountable so that we make sure that those meetings actually do happen. And so, that can move the numbers, as well. Did things change significantly since we updated the plan?,”

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

So, you’ll see that in this sort of what you might call a proto capitalistic society, interest is serving a number of different important functions. Well, the way I see negative rate is it’s a tax on capital, which is instituted by an unelected — RITHOLTZ: Central bank. I used to think the dot-com bubble was amazing.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

He is Chief Equity technical strategist at B of A Securities, and he’s a double threat. And I think you will also, with no further ado, my conversation with B of A Securities, Steven Sutt Meyer. And 00:06:38 [Speaker Changed] Door number one was much better than door number three in, in the circumstances.