VCFO

MARCH 30, 2023

Building Blocks and Best Practices for Driving Business Value Business valuation is not an original or uncommon topic. A good place to start is benchmarking yourself against your competition. Are you considering selling your business in the next several years or looking to address a specific business valuation driver?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

Their focus is on generating alpha with high conviction concentrated portfolios. We learned everything, you know, across from accounting to auditing to, to tax and valuation. I ended up in what was called the valuation services group, where we valued real estate and businesses either for transactions or for m and a activity.

Concentration 52

Concentration Investments Benchmarking CFO 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I think actually if you go public, there tends to be a more of a concentration in owners holding founder 00:17:41 [Speaker Changed] Stock. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration. It’s about 80%.

Investments 59

Investments Valuation Concentration Marketing 59

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 98

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 98

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? TROPIN: I mean, you know, there were equity hedge funds that were pretty levered, that had pretty highly concentrated, you know, growth bets, and a lot of technology companies and so on. How do you track performance? TROPIN: Yeah.

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Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Marketing 122

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. And speaking of the.com implosion, like Microsoft via a case study where we, in previous strategies, we held Microsoft for a very long time, that’s where the valuation could help us in the.com bus. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers. Morningstar five star gold rated.

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

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? What’s the valuation?

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Marketing Treasury 52