Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And we’re having very good conversations with clients that I think, at current valuation levels, they remain, you know, very interested in the market and they see some opportunities. I think I mentioned earlier, I have like a four-and-a-half-year-old that keeps me really entertain. What were you watching or listening to?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

What’s the valuation? So that comes out in position sizing and conviction and just making sure that you’re thinking about all the things that could go wrong if you’re taking a more concentrated position in something. It’s just entertainment. What’s keeping you entertained during lockdown?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. And so it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work. Well, that means valuations are probably too high.

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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

JUNE 13, 2023

And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about valuations relative to risk and reward.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. And those concentrated positions happen because they have high conviction that they’re in that group where it’s not stupid to think about where earnings will be 10 years out. This is what’s wrong with concentrating in the wrong stocks.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Because going back to our thematic investing, our portfolio is 80 percent concentrated in warehouses, rental housing, lab office space and hospitality asset. MCCARTHY: — and really concentrated the business in those best markets, and then helped to grow. RITHOLTZ: Lab — so we’ll get to hospitality. Cambridge U.K.,

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You still get these, you know, cap driven concentration problems in the market like last year. The weakness that led to the first half of 2022, having no real growth in the economy was concentrated. It was concentrated on the good side of the economy manufacturing. It is represented a, a reconnection of fundamentals to prices.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Doesn’t it deserve a, a richer valuation? One is just generally on the valuation question with technology and similarly, the market concentration of the magnificent seven. That that’s a fairly concentrated portfolio, isn’t it? I’m shocked it’s only 29%. 00:18:34 [Speaker Changed] 100% agree.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation. 00:16:27 [Speaker Changed] How much of what’s been going on in the 2020s has been a focus on that same top 10% of tech companies as being overly concentrated and wildly expensive. The parallels are that there is a concentration of interest.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But I think the reality is right now, we just have an overhang from, I certainly in my world, I can speak to healthcare and FinTech, a number of companies going public and then disappointing or valuation just being excessive compared to the maturity of the businesses. What’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I think there are definitely commercial banks that are gonna have trouble due to their concentrated commercial office building portfolio. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? You know, Lee Child’s entertaining. 01:17:31 [Speaker Changed] Le Lee Child is entertaining. All right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

How do you think about valuations for both equities and fixed income here in the beginning of 2025? And the answer to that is that the Sheila cyclically adjusted PE ratio, which is an attempt to try to correct the stock market valuations for the business cycle, is currently at a very elevated 37. What are you watching or listening to?

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