Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

Serie A, B, and C teams are all in play as private equity firms join the mad rush to buy a dwindling number of assets. There are also tax credits related to sports sponsorships, which may benefit firms involved in the development of football stadiums through advertising partnerships.

Corporate Finance

Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

While the job losses varied across sectors, with job skills and unionization being determining factors, the top line numbers tell the story. The other number that I track is the equity risk premium , which at least in my telling, is a forward-looking number backed out of the market and the receptacle for the greed and fear in markets.

Investments

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2025

A few weeks ago, I started receiving a stream of message about an Instagram post that I was allegedly starring in, where after offering my views on Palantir's valuation, I was soliciting investors to invest with me (or with an investment entity that had ties to me).

Valuation

CFO News Room

JANUARY 15, 2023

It succeeded spectacularly in attracting people to its platform, hitting a 100 million users in 2012, and then doubling those numbers again by 2013, when it went public ,with an initial public offering. Users: Numbers and Engagement. billion, well below the $9.6 The stock dropped below $6 in 2019, before mounting a comeback in 2021.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

It succeeded spectacularly in attracting people to its platform, hitting a 100 million users in 2012, and then doubling those numbers again by 2013, when it went public ,with an initial public offering. While total user numbers have leveled off in recent years, albeit with a jump in 2021, the daily active user count has continued to climb.

Valuation

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation.

Marketing

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. Narrative and Value As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation.

Valuation

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To put these numbers in perspective, the Mag Seven companies now have a market capitalization larger than that of all listed stocks in China, the second largest market in the world in market capitalization terms. I agree, but I remain a believer that intrinsic valuation is the only tool that you have for assessing whether g.

Marketing

CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. For the latter, I am reporting on the trailing 12-month numbers, to ensure that I have the calendar year numbers.)

Valuation

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

My September 2020 Valuations. I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. Updating the Numbers. to 14.9%.

Valuation

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. To the extent that these numbers are used in computing financial ratios, it will affect your measures of operating income and return on invested capital.

Accounting

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. For the latter, I am reporting on the trailing 12-month numbers, to ensure that I have the calendar year numbers.)

Valuation

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 2, 2021

Just over a week ago, I valued Zomato ahead of its market debut, and as with almost every valuation that I do on this forum, I heard from many of you. The Prelude After I posted my valuation last week, I did find some of the portrayals of my post to be a little unsettling. Let me dispel both delusions.

Valuation

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. So, how far has accounting come in bringing intangible assets on to balance sheets?

Valuation

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Facebook also cited inflation as a weight on advertiser spending. The earnings report shows Facebook’s business is under pressure on a number of fronts, at a moment when Mr. Zuckerberg is betting the company’s future on VR headsets, AR glasses and virtual worlds, known as the metaverse, in which users can live and work.

Profit and Loss

Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

Marketing

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. Accounting 101 I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance.

Accounting

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

Profit and Loss

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook’s troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

Marketing

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

billion spent on TV advertising in 2019 illustrates. Big Data analytics reached a market valuation of $29.87 This episode underscores that data for targeted customer offerings can come from anywhere and is not necessarily the result of meticulous number crunching. This issue is present in almost every industry, as the $70.3

Banking

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook's troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

Advertising

PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since its launch in February 2019, the Brex eCommerce offering has grown rapidly and added a number of distribution partnerships, including MDS, Payoneer and Plastiq, as well as a suite of rewards specific to the online retail industry across software, shipping and advertising. billion.

Technology

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are the numbers: $404.5 25 billion | Number Snapchat valuation could reach. $21 21 billion | Amount of diluted valuation as of 12/31/16. $1 10 percent | Level no one advertiser goes over. 10 percent | Level no one advertiser goes over. million | Revenue reported in 2016. 1.05 | Revenue per user in 2016.

Valuation

PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

In the age of sky-high valuations, brands will look anywhere for hard numbers that prove they’re actually worth what they say they are. Twitter learned this the hard way when it first went public, and new numbers might take away yet another place to look for answers.

Advertising

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

These issues include a broader correction in valuations compared to the highs of 2021, uncertainty surrounding the profitability pathways of some companies and a challenging capital market environment which makes potential exits more difficult to achieve. Online Media’s GMV grows to $26 billion, increasing 10% YoY.

Transportation

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

First, it will reduce the number of noise disclosures, i.e., those that pass the materiality threshold for earnings, but don't have a significant impact on value. Total Addressable Market (TAM) Companies going public have increasingly supported high valuations by pointing to market potential, using large TAMs as one of the justifications.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Designed to focus on millennials and advertised as a high-minded community of users dedicated to paying it forward , the app allows users to take out as much as $1,000 in advances during a pay period. Once Earnin users have entered their data, bank account numbers and login, they can take out cash advances in increments as large as $100.

Valuation

PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Lidya said the new funding will go toward product development and expanding staff numbers; while the company is today focused on Nigeria, the company said it hopes to broaden SMEs’ access to finance across Africa with its digital platform that builds a custom SME credit score and links borrowers to a loan. eProcurement. eProcurement.

B2B

The Finance Weekly

JUNE 24, 2024

The broader range of products and services that Microsoft offers in software and cloud computing, along with an anticipated 16% growth rate, has bolstered investor confidence and contributed significantly to its high valuation. Why Most Profitable and Most Valuable Aren't Synonymous? For instance, a company with 2.34

Valuation

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. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

Profit and Loss

PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

There’s also the fact that the reported cause of the big drop in Yahoo’s proposed valuation was the reveal at the Sunnyvale meetings last month that Yahoo’s online advertising business is declining more rapidly than once supposed. Verizon offers Yahoo its best turnaround option.

Investments

PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

The culprit was Google’s advertising revenue, the key top line contributor for the company. That startup is already in vaunted unicorn territory, having raised $220 million last September for a valuation north of $1 billion. It grew only 15 percent to a bit more than $30 billion (this is after traffic acquisition costs).

Currencies

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

In the century since Pyrex took the kitchen by storm, the kitchen has been home to any number of innovations big and small. But with a valuation around $556 million, it is widely speculated that Instant Pot is the more monetarily valuable brand. A New Kind Of Pothead.

Advertising

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

Investments

PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Lyft’s valuation is less than 20 percent of that. Cities were built for people and not cars, they note, and the sheer number of vehicles on the road has turned that upside-down. We’ve seen online advertising disrupted by Google, Facebook and now Amazon.

Transportation

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 7, 2024

She has a number of investments as as really a entrepreneur and a venture investor. San Diego State studying journalism and advertising. Joanne Bradford : I was a journalism major because it was the easiest major at the time, and I went and took advertising courses and went to work at my college newspaper. It was fun.

Advertising

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

That included a number of smart speakers: The Panasonic GA10, the Sony LF-S50G, the Anker Zolo Mojo, the MobVoi TicHome Mini, and the JBL Link. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but Google by any other name would have a totally different valuation. XXVI is the Roman numeral for 26, the number of letters in the alphabet.

Restructuring