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What is Quality of Earnings?

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A Quality of Earning report, also called a QOE or QofE report, helps investors understand the historic earnings and forward-looking performance of the business through rigorous financial analysis. Sales concentrations and/or backlog risk. Analysis of inventory reserves and allowances. Transactions with related parties.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

If you do assume that markets will price away this excess profit, you then have the basis for the models that are used to value options and other derivative assets. That is why the risk-free rate becomes an input into option pricing and forward pricing models , and its absence leaves a vacuum.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year.