VCFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Owner’s opinions of their business value can be influenced by inherent biases, flawed valuation methodologies, and factors lurking beyond their control. Owners often seek valuations from CPAs or similar entities for purposes such as insurance, estate planning, or internal events.

Valuation

PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

Lyric plans to use the investment to expand its operations as it continues to focus on regulatory compliance. In total, the company secured $36 million in the round, led by a range of backers, including Sozo Ventures, Accel and Benchmark. Chainalysis. Negotiatus. The company remains one of the largest cryptocurrency players in the U.S.,

B2B

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Cross River, which did not disclose its valuation, said it will use the funding to invest in its compliance infrastructure and expand staff levels as it continues to collaborate with FinTech startups, allowing them to gain access to Cross River’s client base without needing to secure their own banking license.

B2B

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

The worries over valuations tied to unicorns, by now universally defined as the tech firms with implied valuations above $1 billion, have ebbed and flowed, depending on what time of the quarter or even the day it might be.

Valuation

Jedox Finance

APRIL 12, 2023

When setting expectations, the ability to calculate target productivity ratios of employees against industry benchmarks is illuminating for boards and potential investors. That agility and flexibility is important as markets go from bullish to bearish, resulting in falling valuations.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

The Finance Weekly

MARCH 5, 2024

P,roductivity The last few years have seen significant advancements in productivity solutions, such as ,, Monday and ,, ControlUP , whose stock valuations have soared. Their innovation lies in streamlining payment workflows, improving compliance, and facilitating strategic financial planning.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. And I can tell you from personal experience, us finance people, we’re not great at accounting, legal, compliance, all the detail and stuff that, that keeps the firm running.

Valuation

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments. That’s Barry saying it.

Concentration

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. And at the time, we were going through a lot of regulatory change. Capital rules were changing. Risk appetite was changing. We’ve seen a couple of these events now.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. So we’re now in an environment where all the 45-year-old portfolio managers out there have been, have worked their entire careers in these momentum fueled markets, and they’ve been trained to believe that valuation doesn’t matter.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

Profit and Loss

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The bankruptcy filing of FTX has even more fundamentally damaged perceptions of the asset class, and sent valuations tumbling to lows not seen in several years. . For both FTX customers and firms voluntarily suffering under the yoke of ESG compliance, it is probably too late. But more cardboard saints are sure to be anointed.

Economics

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

You know, you run an RIA, the SEC just comes knocking every once in a while to say, Hey, just wanna make sure the compliance program’s all set up. 00:21:21 [Speaker Changed] So this story came out that, oh, value is defensive because it has this valuation buffer to it 00:21:28 [Speaker Changed] In that one example.

Leverage