Benchmarking Concentration Profit and Loss 
Future CFO
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Declining profitability: For example, are your sales lower or your cost of goods sold higher? Poor interest coverage ratio: This shows operating profits may not be able to cover interest expenses. Shorten your supply chains and avoid concentration in one geographic region. Weakened balance sheet.
Barry Ritholtz
DECEMBER 12, 2023
New York Times ) see also Retailers Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft” The claim that organized retail crime accounted for “nearly half” of inventory losses was false, but it’s also an indictment of modern media. Wired ) • Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows.
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Musings on Markets
AUGUST 15, 2023
Arbitrage pricing : Arbitrage refers to the possibility that you can create risk-free positions by combining holdings in different securities, and the benchmark used to judge whether these positions are value-creating becomes the risk-free rate. But what if government securities are viewed as risky?
Barry Ritholtz
AUGUST 16, 2022
And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.
Barry Ritholtz
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses ….
CFO News Room
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business. He has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from the University of Virginia.
CFO News Room
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Another area where advisor expertise can add value for clients is in the decision-making process surrounding employee stock options or an otherwise concentrated stock position.
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