Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. While the US remains the largest market, geographically, Asia is the center of growth, with China leading the way.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. I’m curious how your investing philosophy has evolved over, over the past 30 plus years.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Banks have invested time and money into creating their own virtual assistants to give consumers access to their bank account information via their mobile phones. That firm, GSR, previously invested $160 million in tZERO tokens during its ICO in June. On the heels of that news, Overstock’s shares spiked 20 percent. billion.

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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. What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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