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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

Fpanda Club

They tend to avoid losses and prefer to keep the things as they are rather than invest in risky innovation. Being a promising alternative to NPV, real options valuation has not been widely adopted by the companies neither in its initial version, nor in modified ones. which will be part of the allowable cost.

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Inventory Management in Manufacturing

VCFO

That’s because inventory is a key driver of several profit & loss (P&L) statement components, from revenue all the way down to net profit. A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

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. But what if government securities are viewed as risky?

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

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Transcript: Jawad Mian

Barry Ritholtz

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. RITHOLTZ: So let’s take a couple of examples. Let me explain.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

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.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

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.