VCFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

How Quality of Earnings Reports Impact Valuation Securing a Quality of Earnings (QoE) report is often a routine step in the due diligence process for acquisitions. It entails a deep dive into many facets of operations including the status of contracts, customer concentration risk, the ability to deliver services, and other expense drivers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The diminished scale could affect Ant's profit potential and market valuation if it attempts to go public again. The IPO, which would have been listed on both the Hong Kong and Shanghai markets and was set to raise $34 billion, would have been the biggest in the world up to that point.

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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. If a company’s offerings are so niched or concentrated, what happens if demand shifts suddenly or consistently over time for that offering or set of offerings?

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Those that closed a deal often paid way too much, or at least passed the companies along to public markets at inflated valuations. SPAC sponsors raise their own money on markets, promising to invest it in one or more targets within a fixed term. Shares in electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors, whose $4.4

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 98

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

He co-hosts the Behind the Markets podcast with Wharton finance Professor Jeremy Siegel and has helped update and revise Siegel’s Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies. Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

Their focus is on generating alpha with high conviction concentrated portfolios. We learned everything, you know, across from accounting to auditing to, to tax and valuation. I ended up in what was called the valuation services group, where we valued real estate and businesses either for transactions or for m and a activity.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering , and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. There is another measure that you can use to see the futility, at least so far, of accounting attempts to value intangibles.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 1, 2023

After a monstrous 68% recovery from the March 2020 pandemic low, and another nearly 30% gain in 2021, markets decided to have one of their all-too-regular spasms. The wisdom of the crowd is why the efficient markets work most of the time, but it really helps to be aware when the crowd turns into an unthinking mob of hooligans.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. In the decade since, that has changed, as the smart phone market has exploded to reach hundreds of millions of Indians in 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

21) that Ant’s valuation may fall all the way to $108 billion due to antitrust concerns. That could happen under Chinese regulators’ proposals to curb market concentration in the country’s online payments market, Ant, best known for its Alipay payments service, calls itself a financial technology company (FinTech).

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Future CFO

MARCH 23, 2023

This applies particularly when liquidity is tightening sharply and when unrealised valuation losses on asset holdings could be realised if a deposit run forced banks to sell assets, the credit rating agency said. Support for smaller banks may be more variable, the firm noted.

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E78 Partners

JANUARY 5, 2024

Engage Third Parties Early: Engage valuation firms and appraisers early in the process, as these experts can help support audit preparation and reduce hassles later on. Additionally, remember to tackle valuation early and reach out to auditors for guidance on non-recurring or unusual transactions.

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Areas of concentration are determined in part by the lab’s “innovation radar,” a proprietary trend-indexing framework that systematically searches for potentially game-changing innovations. The bank also helps startups open doors with potential partners in key markets. More than 50 processes have thus far been automated.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 2, 2024

 At The Money: Finding Overlooked Private Investments , with Soraya Darabi, TMV (October 02, 2024) The Efficient Market Hypothesis informs us that stock markets reflect all of the information known about any company. Inefficient markets can lead to unexpectedly better returns. Typically the, the valuations are.

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Investments Valuation Startups Concentration 72

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

I end the class with a corporate finance version of valuation, where I tie inputs into value (cash flows, growth and risk) to investment, financing and dividend decisions. Valuation : It is unfortunate, but for most people, the vision that comes to mind when I say that I teach valuation is excel spreadsheets and high profile company names.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tan said he anticipates additional markets will turn a profit in the next 12 months and some are already making money. We continue to see more markets getting … more profitable in many other cities, across the next 12 months.” . Grab had a $14 billion valuation in March and in 2018 acquired Uber’s share of the Southeast Asia market.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

The fact remains that venture capital firms are in the midst of raising money at a level not seen in a decade and a half, and yet, as The Wall Street Journal noted this week, the valuations of some of the highest fliers in the land of startups have started to move back toward earth, which brings to mind Icarus and the sun. With hesitation.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As a result, the ‘traditional’ valuation of an advisory firm wasn’t really 2X revenue; it was 6-8X profits, and when advisory firms can run 25% to 30% profit margins, 7X profits at 28% margins came out to almost exactly 2X revenue. (In When it comes to technology firms, revenue valuation multiples are often much higher.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Tax cuts and incitements (last month regulators advocated slashing interest rates for small and mid-sized firms) mean that spending activity is concentrated within China’s borders. Reuters noted Friday that “a glittery stock market run” may be in peril for some of these high-end retailers. Valuation is at risk, and valuations are high.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

perhaps not surprisingly, given the two transactions just mentioned — represented the bulk of concentration, to the tune of 86 percent of all investment activity. Abbo sees a burgeoning market for connected, low-cost sensors, adaptive systems, a new generation of smart applications and a renaissance in business process reengineering.

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Investments Concentration Valuation Technology 74

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And it was a very rigorous program and I learned so much from classes that I never thought I would find exciting, like marketing. Maybe there’s a substantial marketing efficiency there. I think actually if you go public, there tends to be a more of a concentration in owners holding founder 00:17:41 [Speaker Changed] Stock.

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Investments Valuation Concentration Marketing 59

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

It was an era where, you know, first of all, the markets were really inefficient, right? TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot. Commodity markets were moving a lot. It’s much better to be involved in trend following when markets are moving. That’s the equity markets.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Transcript: Soraya Darabi on Finding Overlooked Private Investments ATM Soraya Dorabi Private Inefficiencies How efficient are private markets? Inefficient markets can lead to unexpectedly better returns. Areas with less capital and less competition reflect less efficiency and market returns. Typically the, the valuations are.

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Investments Valuation Startups Concentration 52

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this post, I will argue that there are good reasons for Airbnb's IPO timing, and make my first attempt at valuing this latest entrant into public markets. By the start of 2020, Airbnb had already become one of the largest players in its market of vacation and travel rentals, a sign of success, but also a crimp on future growth.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We hear a lot about Jeremy Grantham thoughts on markets, but much less on how the firm is managed, how this growth came about and the culture as a business. Is that what leads to the lower downside in, in a market dislocation, if you’re buying it right, there’s less room to fall, right? That’s really true.

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Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It’s beta neutral, market neutral. It’s always interesting to speak to a fund manager in the midst of one of the craziest macro periods of the markets that we’ve seen and God knows how long, who doesn’t factor in macro events or the overall market because they’re market neutral and hedged.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And that gave me an opportunity to enter the job market. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. But there’s entire segments now mostly in the smaller part of the market where there’s literally nobody paying any attention.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

but in large developing markets where other established competitors have a healthy head start. It’s far easier to talk about how bitcoin and blockchain are more revolutionary then the internet and watch your stock price — and market cap — double and triple in value. All in the space of just a few months’ time. billion.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4 First of all, I think the amount of investors that participate in the financial markets is much smaller than it is in the U.S. We have 200 employees, and we have a local presence in all of the major markets around the world.

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Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 64

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks. ” But I really had an interest in trying to work directly in markets. So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what?

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In parallel, I also noted that investors have to change the way they value and price companies, to reflect where they are in the life cycle, and how different investment philosophies lead you to concentrated picks in different phases of the life cycle. First, the companies are familiar names.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The Market Reaction. Bond Markets and Default Risk. Equity Markets and Equity Risk Premiums. The Lead In.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

Why don’t we just have a conversation in the studio about his beef with passive, why he thinks it’s a structural threat to the market? Now, I don’t believe the market structure is subject to the same risks as a single inverse trading instrument, but he makes a really compelling case for this is important.

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