Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Financial Times ) A high P/E is not a stock market sell signal : Valuation is a terrible stock market timing tool. tker.co ) The 3 Best Inflation Hedges : Technology will help bring down the prices of certain goods (think flat-screen TVs). Innovation and Tech Active ETF , just began trading.

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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. Technology Not all lower- or middle-market companies are technology heavy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Airtable , a spreadsheet startup, ended a funding round with a new valuation of $2.5 Thrive Capital led the $185 million round, while existing investors Benchmark and Coatue Management , among others, also participated. billion, according to Bloomberg. The effect was to more than double Airtable’s $1.1

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CFO Network

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

But did you know that business valuation can give you more insight into your business than just the economic value? Keep reading to learn more about why business valuation is such an important process for every business. Business valuation is the best way to get proof of how well your business is doing year to year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Uber Technologies paved the way to receive a multi-billion-dollar investment led by SoftBank Group, after co-founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick reached a deal with Benchmark over board seats. We believe this agreement is a strong vote of confidence in Uber’s long-term potential,” an Uber spokesman said in an emailed statement.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 27, 2023

What's unique about Eric, though, is how, 10 years after launching his firm and enjoying strong and steady growth, he hit a capacity wall as a solo advisor and suddenly found the business going backwards, as a $4 million client decided to relocate, and market volatility caused several other clients to leave his firm (which meant a loss of $100,000 (..)

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Additionally, many incumbent firms are restructuring by spinning off their payments divisions into standalone entities to capture higher valuations. In 2020, it acquired Vadiyya, a fintech startup focused on enhancing payment processing technology, particularly for small and medium-size enterprises.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Venture capitalists and equity investors targeted companies that apply big data technologies, including artificial intelligence, to an array of use cases, including fleet and manufacturing — leading to more than $322 million raised for B2B startups this week. Cross River Bank. Cross Creek Advisors and previous backers also participated.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

29) he will become the new chief executive of ridesharing company Uber Technologies. Expedia is smaller than the privately-held Uber, with a market capitalization of approximately $23 billion compared with Uber’s private valuation of nearly $70 billion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

Barclays Investment Bank provided commercial card technology firm Brex with a $100 million debt capital round, the firms said this week , which sees Brex’s corporate card receivables back the warehouse line of credit provided by Barclays. The company plans to use the investment to collaborate with MUFG and Sozo, and promote growth.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Uber Technologies may have been mulling General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt as its new CEO , but it seems Expedia chief Dara Khosrowshahi will be Uber’s new CEO instead. The search for a new CEO to lead the embattled ride-hailing company comes at a time when Uber is fighting with one of its shareholders, Benchmark Capital.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Spotify is readying to float in a matter of days, with reports in Reuters estimating the company’s valuation at about $19 billion. The company, which offers subscription management technology for the enterprise, has seen investments from Benchmark Capital, Wellington Capital Management and Shasta Ventures.

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 21, 2020

Assets with strong fundamentals and low valuations create openings to new markets. Modern planning solutions and modeling technology such as Jedox can harmonize these views into cohesive scenarios. Frequent structured communication on performance benchmarks and earning multiples, maintains investor confidence and stability.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2017

The winners included global mobile capture and identity verification technologies provider Mitek Systems Inc. In addition, shares were likely buoyed by Wall Street analysts who raised their targets on the company, including California-based venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, which took its target to $12 from $10.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The partnership would apply Goldman’s lending technology to SMB loans on Amazon’s underwriting platform, according to unnamed sources. In Amazon’s case, the value of logistics is about $1 trillion, which is the valuation the company reached again this week, after the firm’s results and investments managed to impress investors.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

There are a lot of technologies that people use that we use. You know, some of those technologies can include having multiple signals and multiple time horizons. But you know, we have a lot of technology to support all of that. RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark?

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 5, 2024

Meanwhile, larger enterprises are updating their older technology stacks with superior and more robust alternatives. P,roductivity The last few years have seen significant advancements in productivity solutions, such as ,, Monday and ,, ControlUP , whose stock valuations have soared.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But even in the book I wrote in 2014, you could see that the focus on competitive advantage can never be absolute, you always have to take valuation into consideration. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. Let, 00:04:08 [Speaker Changed] Let’s lead up to that transition software engineer at IBM, then you get your PhD, then research at Siemens, which seems to be more of a technological position than a finance position. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers. It was over 50 right?

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

It began by recognizing we are a food company powered by technology and continued with a laser focus on our business fundamentals,” said Hall. The new funding was led by Benchmark , with Benchmark’s Bill Gurley joining the company’s board of directors. We’ve dramatically transformed our business over the past two years.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And I said, Hey, how about if I build your technology practice, I’ll run a public sleeve and I’ll also run a venture sleeve in technology. There’s never been a technology in the history of technology. What can I say? Once again?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. And now we’ve added privates to that.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? And actually, that sweet, that collection of strategies, which is in the Morningstar alternatives fund is where a lot of our portfolio managers were turning to at the end of last year when, you know, fixed income is so poor on a prospective basis, equity, valuations are really high.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

To help determine an appropriate fee, advisors can then look to various benchmarking studies , which can provide industry-wide fee data , as well as information on specific fee structures and geographic areas that can help a firm owner tailor their fee.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

But with the — what’s happening in the world of technology, it’s — it’s — it’s increasing rapidly. And — and, you know, innovation is technology, and these companies will just — will be better, and it’s going to bring about a better international standards that these companies have to operate under and same with these GPs. We’re not ….

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

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.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. We’ve seen a couple of these events now. There were some fairly aggressive kind of investment strategies being pursued.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. So, you know, our sister company in South Africa, Africa have done 8% above the benchmark. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

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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

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. technology, that was something to ride for a while. The layoffs are happening in finance technology, the higher income jobs.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. Now the, the V on the LTV loan to value the value oftentimes is a disparity because when you ask a tech person, what’s this company worth, generally it’s, it’s very, very high numbers, which we don’t always support from our valuation. They were down 3.8%.

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Global Finance

MARCH 3, 2025

Globally, Social bonds will be constrained by a lack of benchmark-sized projects, while transition-labeled bonds and sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) will remain niche segments as they navigate evolving market sentiment, the ratings agency posted on its website. BTG Pactual raised 542 million Brazilian reais (about $95.3

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

They were both steeped in technology. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. And I think that’s wrong because valuation does matter. You know, it matters over a longer time period than maybe just the next day or two 00:30:10 [Speaker Changed] Valuation matters. My parents were both in high tech.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

So obvious question, it’s 1990, technology is about to explode, how do you help a value manager short of saying, psst, go buy growth? Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. So we do a lot of valuation work.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

00:18:13 [Speaker Changed] When markets are going up, the benchmark is either an index like the s and p 500 or you know, someone you know that’s making even more money than you are. But it’s amazing how quickly the benchmark turns into cash or a positive return when markets are going down.

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