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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

a share, a price that would decrease Uber’s $60 billion valuation by 30 percent. SoftBank and Dragoneer have received indications from Benchmark, Menlo Ventures and other early investors of their intent to sell shares in the tender offer,” the company said in a statement. billion in funding. They seem to have been X’ed out.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

How much is being charged to cost of sales? What is the percentage of the cost of sales to revenue? 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. How much inventory is being carried on the balance sheet?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

is impacting everything from eCommerce sales to the value of the nation’s biggest financial institutions. In the very near future these companies may see the valuation of their businesses diminish, capital requirements change and even more investors looking to invest in the E.U. s decision to say “see ya” to the E.U. is yet to be seen.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Kroger, for example, seems to have decided that if Amazon can make a move on brick-and-mortar, then they can make a play for digital grocery sales. The new funding was led by Benchmark , with Benchmark’s Bill Gurley joining the company’s board of directors. Talk about scale.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

For example, you can see what’s the biggest drawdown, how long did it last, how long and how often did a strategy beat its benchmark, and by what magnitude. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s break that into two halves, starting with valuation. Explain why P/E isn’t the best way to measure valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. But the reason I went to Merrill is because they had this unique global debt rotation program that allowed you to rotate through a couple different business units in fixed income, sales and trading. They create the benchmark.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

sales positions), which unfortunately makes it easier for those who take full-time sales jobs with no real financial planning to meet the experience requirement than those who take part-time paraplanner jobs as career changers even though it provides far more meaningful financial planning experience.

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 12, 2023

3 In these evolving conditions, integrated business planning (IBP) is gaining momentum because it has the power to unify all the data that matters across finance, HR, and sales into a single platform to drive decisive workforce planning. First, productivity ratio data shows whether the business is, essentially, under control.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

RITHOLTZ: That’s really interesting because the old days people would tour to promote an album and they made the money from album sales. CONROD: Another interesting strategy that we’ve been — we’ve done three funds with a group focused on the sale leaseback, and — and that …. Now, it’s the opposite. CONROD: Yeah, yeah, right, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. Post money valuations until the market has changed dramatically. 00:15:29 [Speaker Changed] That’s your benchmark, correct? So, so let’s talk a little bit about valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. 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. And you know, I love markets. There is alpha.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. You’re 34th, you’re retiring after 34 years and you trounce what’s really the more appropriate benchmark, I would assume the Russell 2000. a year since 1989. Much better.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it can be price-to-sales — RITHOLTZ: Yeah. 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. They grew more in terms of earnings, sales, cash flows.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Even though Tesla has only been included in the benchmark S&P 500 Index for three weeks, the company's growth prospects remain bright, analysts said, as it is building new plants to boost production to meet demand. “We Speaking of smoke…. Daimler also said it sold a record 30,000 of its smart electric microcars.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Sales centers are, are more productive. You know, I think of like a Mike Spies or at Sutter Hill, you know, a Martine Cado and Andreessen, you know, Gurley when he was at Benchmark. It was about $170 million valuation. In a sales center or a call center, right? Call centers are now 50% more productive.

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