Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. Three: Benchmark Industry Profitability Ratios Your profit margin might look weak to you, but is it? Benchmark your industry before looking at your profitability so you know what to aim for. But how much are they really worth?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 98

Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. Three: Benchmark Industry Profitability Ratios Your profit margin might look weak to you, but is it? Benchmark your industry before looking at your profitability so you know what to aim for. But how much are they really worth?

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. There’s also quantitative metrics that we look at Those have evolved, but always within that capa, that cluster of high returns on investment stability across the economic cycle are consistent and strong balance sheets. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers. In 2000, right.

Valuation 52

Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? So, our active team has been successful outperforming their benchmarks.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 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

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) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

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 65

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 65