Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Instacart Business Model The Instacart business model extends online shopping, already common in other areas of retailing, into the grocery store space. In the second, I will examine the forces that are pushing consumers to online grocery shopping, and the ceiling for that growth is much lower than it is than in other areas of retailing.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

That may make sense if you are a retailer, and every investment you make is another mall store, but it clearly does not, if you are a company in multiple businesses (or geographies) and some investments are much riskier than others. The third is currency, with hurdle rates, for any given project, varying across currencies.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But if I had a plan as to how to do that when I went to college, it was learn as much as I could, as fast as I could and get a ba and then become an accountant and a lawyer. It was America’s largest retailer. How, how are the higher rates affecting valuations amongst private companies?

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Valuation Numbers 69

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. In 2014, it introduced Paytm Wallet , a digital wallet that was accepted as a payment option by leading service providers and retailers.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The second is that interest groups have become much more savvy about lobbying regulatory groups and accounting rule writers to get their required data items on the required list. The second is the notion of materiality , a key component of how accountants and regulators think about what needs to be disclosed.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook’s most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022. .

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook's most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was a very interesting time to begin, which I did as an account executive at Shearson. And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. TROPIN: Yeah. No, no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Joel Tillinghast : Well, okay, G, when he was six, my grandfather, who was a bookkeeper accountant at a textile mill died and my grandmother was a second string violin at the Providence Symphony Orchestra, which didn’t pay well then, and I suspect didn’t pay well now. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Lately, though, they’re probably tossing and turning over the difficulties with raising capital coupled with the simultaneous descent of their venture’s valuations. Take physical retail. So what would physical retail look like if it were run like the best online etailers ? A lot of the offline world is in a world of hurt.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

The Rumble In The Big Retail Jungle. Last week, the biggest retailer in the world by revenue, Walmart, made an announcement that made it clear that it’s really not that interested in ceding the title of world’s biggest retailer to a younger, and nimble challenger named Amazon. A Retailer On The Ropes?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Enjoy the ‘light’ reading! Author: Adam Van Deusen. Team Kitces. He can be reached at [email protected].

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