Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the last two decades, I have seen free cash flow measures stretched to cover adjusted EBITDA, where stock-based compensation is added back to EBITDA, and with WeWork, to community-adjusted EBITDA, where almost all expenses get added back to get to the adjusted value. What is Free cash flow (FCF)?

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

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. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Paytm Mall, the eCommerce unit of One97 Communications, reported a net loss of ?1,787 Paytm Mall currently has 10 million merchants and we will double it in the next 6-12 months,” said Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive officer of One97 Communications told Live Mint in a phone interview. 1,787 crore on total sales of ?774.8

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

We also have a number of articles on taxes and end-of-year planning: The importance for advisors of understanding current RMD rules to ensure their clients take the proper distributions (and avoid a 50% penalty in the process!). While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Profit and Loss Investments Valuation 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: DPL Partners launches a new advisor-matching solution to solve for the inbound demand of consumers increasingly seeking out a new crop of no-commission annuity products. next-generation investors with smaller balances).

Planning 130

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CFO Simplified

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

How do the numbers hold up over time? Throughout this whole process, it is essential that you and your successor communicate effectively on the future of the business, and each of your roles in that future. . Determine how your numbers hold up. Prepping for a sale requires a deep understanding of your company’s numbers.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

That has not happened either, as employment numbers have stayed strong, housing prices have (at least up till now) absorbed the blows from higher mortgage rates and the economy has continued to grow. In the process, the implied equity risk premium, which peaked at 5.94% on January 1, 2023, is back down to 5% at the start of July 2023.

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Planful

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Valuations are a classic example of hole-filled financial reporting. History is riddled with companies that went public based on inflated valuations and false narratives. WeWork expected to offer shares to the public at a $47 billion valuation. If you want to build shareholder trust, start with the data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

That’s from PYMNTS’ December Subscription Commerce Tracker® done in collaboration with Recurly , which also notes that “the number of Americans who subscribe to pay television … continues to decline as more U.S. Some consumers are reluctant to provide their credit card numbers before they try a service.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Having a framework for the types of advice to give and for the language to use when communicating strategies to clients can reduce the confusion of being obliged to provide guidance on taxes while being prohibited from giving actual tax advice. With such a framework, advisors can be more confident in advising their clients about tax strategy.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. The numbers yield interesting insights. . The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

Marketing 130

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

Certainly so, if a significant number of transactions are denied in the wake of the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) debut in September. Chewy valuation: Pets are big business, with a mastiff-sized initial public offering (IPO) looming. PetSmart aims to take its online venture public at a valuation of around $7 billion.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Those questions could be posed to any number of events – the pandemic, of course, which has brought those same queries to all aspects of life, from the economy to the election…. And though valuations may be stretched, fundamentals are indeed sound. And B2B payments , too. The Big Themes – And The Challenges . What Comes Next .

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

From the White House to Wall Street, a growing number of veterans of the 2011 debt ceiling crisis are again watching a story of bluster and brinkmanship play out — and are terrified this will be the time it ends with the country in financial ruin…. — President Biden (@POTUS) January 25, 2023 “Fewer.” “A A little bit easier.”

Manufacturing 130

Manufacturing Economics Communication Healthcare 130

PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2020

Communication channels have expanded to facilitate discussions between businesses’ in-house teams and their growing numbers of remote or freelance workers, but payments has not kept up the same pace. This trend is even more pronounced in Asia, where that number is 82 percent. dollar or the British pound.

Foreign Exchange 61

Foreign Exchange Currencies Valuation Education 61

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. That said, though, it is worth peeking under the hood to see how this business model plays out as revenues and earnings.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Just as WhatsApp and Skype changed the way we communicate globally, WorldRemit is modernizing our financial connections,” Ismail Ahmed, CEO and founder of WorldRemit, said in a press release. “WorldRemit allows people to send money to family and friends with the speed and convenience they have come to expect in our connected world.

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BlueLight

AUGUST 21, 2020

From there I was recruited by Coopers & Lybrand in San Francisco to join their valuation group?—?before Our service covers anything in the back office related to numbers. Communicate multiple runway scenarios. Cash is king, so preparation and communication is the first thing you do.

Planning 52

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

Education 130

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

Of course, we have the quarterly numbers, too, including insight into how American Express’ commercial card business is holding up. According to analysts, adjustments in Amex’s Global Commercial Services (GCS) strategy — including new small business services, FX tools and other corporate finance products — helped bump up the numbers.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: How advisors can incorporate Social Security benefits into a client’s retirement asset allocation. A first step toward reducing this conflict (while still trying to communicate advice to the parent) is to avoid coming across as patronizing or overbearing (even if unintentionally).

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Planning Securities Investments 130

PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The tech company is reportedly letting third-party developers have full-access to the near-field communications (NFC) chip in the iPhone with iOS 12. While the number was previously unlimited, there is now a cap of two guests per visit. This would be a first. Some took to Twitter.

Valuation 40

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Improvements in logistics and communications enabled businesses of all sizes to expand supply chains across oceans, to partner with others around the world and to begin selling to customers in places once considered unreachable. Perhaps most importantly, unexpected currency volatility can make it impossible to plan for the future.

Risk Management 53

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

By the numbers , foreign firms will be able to own as much as 51 percent of domestic securities firms (including those in the fund and futures markets) operating in China, bumping the 49 percent cap up by two points. With such low numbers, one might argue that the banks have nowhere to go but up. trillion at 2014’s end.

Marketing 51

Marketing Banking Investments Construction 51

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. The numbers yield interesting insights. The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

Hurdle Rate 80

Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting Entertainment 80

Future CFO

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I also have a role to play in business development, including corporate finance, investor relations, capital raising, corporate exercises, valuation, and company secretarial activities. A CFO takes a leading role in crisis management while a “cash culture” must be communicated as a priority throughout the organisation.

CFO 52

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

trillion valuation by 2023, according to Allied Market Research — powered by a mesh of corporates, sponsors, planners, venues and suppliers, ranging everywhere from security to snacks. Amex will integrate its virtual card technology with Cvent, allowing customers to pay suppliers using single- or multi-use virtual Amex account numbers.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

Investments 52

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

For many years, as communication, commerce and even crafting (see: Etsy, Pinterest) migrated to digital spaces, the art world stayed behind, lingering in brick-and-mortar museums, galleries and auction halls. That year, Artsy hosted 41 commercial auctions, and this year, it’s on track to quadruple that number, Carey said.

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Investments Valuation Marketing Communication 50

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. Number one, longevity.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Math Numbers 52

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2017

In fact, the most common Kool-Aid idioms involve not drinking it – something for which we at PYMNTS have been proud flag bearers on a number of fronts, often years before the “Kool-Aid” stopped being drunk. Louis, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Jacksonville, Florida. I don’t know that we’ll maintain that forever.”.

Currencies 52

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 7, 2024

She has a number of investments as as really a entrepreneur and a venture investor. I went in there and the valuation was below a billion dollars. And at two years the valuation was $13 billion. And so the magic number was $388 a month. That they could add to PayPal’s numbers. He’s great. One to 13.

Advertising 57

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

While the conventional wisdom is that consumer wall ets are slimming down so as to exclude cash, by the number s, over €2.2 When the saints come marching in, one wants to be in their number. While it might not be accurate to say that cash is king in Europe it is still hold ing a princedom, or at least a respectable barony.

Currencies 40

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. So up 18 or 19 percent for the year, you see those spectacular numbers. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. BERNSTEIN: Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. Valuations go up and you saw it, of course, in the late ‘90s, in the tech sector. But you’re looking at valuations and what sort of multiples you want to pay.

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Investments Valuation Marketing Currencies 61

PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

There’s also the fact that the reported cause of the big drop in Yahoo’s proposed valuation was the reveal at the Sunnyvale meetings last month that Yahoo’s online advertising business is declining more rapidly than once supposed. And, consumers will shop around to get the best deal they can, thanks to number portability.

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Investments Advertising Valuation Manufacturing 40

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The New York Fed is kind of, I don’t know how to say this first, amongst the regional feds, because you’re located right in the heart of the financial community. What is the communication like back and forth between the New York Fed and major players in finance, especially in the midst of a crisis like that?

Treasury 57

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