VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here. Ensuring Proper Inventory Valuation When inventory is not valued properly, turnover ratios return false information, affect cash, and cloud understanding of how investment in inventory is affecting the business. Large companies will have historical information to look back on.

Manufacturing 73

Manufacturing Benchmarking Forecasting Profit and Loss 73

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

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? And 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against 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) 56

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 56

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 64

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 64

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. So you can see how the forecasts are there.

Quantitative Analysis 60

Quantitative Analysis Investments Valuation Marketing 60

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? Well, I’m not forecasting another 20% down, but I do think we could go down 5% or 10%. I can’t imagine the present occupant of the White House is happy with that sort of inflation forecast. How do you track performance?

Profit and Loss 117

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 117

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. So I think, you know, one of the problems I think you, you have is that the Fed Reserve does publish a forecast, the Summary of economic projections, which is the forecast of all the 19 FMC participants.

Treasury 56

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 56