VCFO

MARCH 30, 2023

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Valuation 89

Valuation SAP Concentration Benchmarking 89

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. We hear a lot about Jeremy Grantham thoughts on markets, but much less on how the firm is managed, how this growth came about and the culture as a business. Is that what leads to the lower downside in, in a market dislocation, if you’re buying it right, there’s less room to fall, right?

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So litigation around unfair competition or the like, a company would pull in our expert witness and I was part of the team to put together the case to explain the market size or the market share or what have you. But it was, I think, a very foundational period for me to just have build that experience in the markets.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Benchmarking Marketing 52

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post.

Investments 80

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 80

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks. ” But I really had an interest in trying to work directly in markets. So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what?

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

It was that era’s version of must see TV on the subject of, of the market. That was the great bull market. I mean, he was essentially market timer, for a lack of a a better word. 00:11:43 [Speaker Changed] And one of the more rare successful market times 00:11:47 [Speaker Changed] Unbelievably successful.

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. What’s the most current data point that may not have filtered into the market?

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103