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 proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

Marketing 130

Marketing Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting 130

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 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

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 104

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And interestingly, I’m happy to come back to these things I learned in helping companies through mergers, particularly around things like communications and shareholder relations, and employee engagement that have now served me really well, couple decades later in my career. MCCARTHY: Different perspective, just flip it around.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 61

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. BERNSTEIN: Correct. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really?

Quantitative Analysis 61

Quantitative Analysis Investments Valuation Marketing 61