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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average. Return on (invested) capital 2. Excess Returns on investments 4. Financing Flows 5. Buybacks 2. Equity Risk Premiums 2.

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Marking Time: A new year, a fresh semester and its class time!

Musings on Markets

Last week, was my data week, where I download and analyze data on all publicly traded companies, listed anywhere in the world, and I will post extensively on what the numbers look like after a most tumultuous year. Face up to uncertainty, rather than avoid or deny it : Uncertainty is a feature of investing/ business, not a bug.

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Suplari Customizes AI Analytics For Procurement Teams

PYMNTS

Finance and procurement are generally last in line for engineering or data science resources.” With businesses looking more closely at AI as a way to enhance spend analytics, companies are planning significant investments in the technology. billion by 2022.