CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Furthermore, technological tools are emerging that can help reduce some of the time and resource burden on firm owners to track and analyze their financial data. He can be reached at [email protected].

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

needed a comprehensive set of tools to protect them, and their merchants, from fraud losses. We concentrated on easy integration, appropriate pricing, sales support, client success, and four profitable (for the merchant aggregation points) use cases. From that meeting, Kount Central was born. Bradley Wiskirchen.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

times revenues in the most recent two years. By itself, the surge in pricing multiples is a feature of volatile markets, and it is a phenomenon that we saw with technology companies in the last decade. You see similar movements in the price to book, where the stock has gone from trading under book value to 6.7

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Restructuring 130

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

While some of that money has been spent on internal improvements, much of it has been spent acquiring more than two dozen companies, most of them small, technology businesses. Acquisitions : As the number of hosts and guests on Airbnb have climbed over the years, the company has invested in building a more robust platform for its rentals.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent.

Economics 100

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

Planning 130

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Forced to divest themselves of movie theaters and of their control of movie stars, the studios were able to offset the negatives with the positives from new technologies (Technicolor, stereo sound) and an almost unchallenged claim on American leisure time, with close to two-thirds of Americans going to the movies at least once a week in the 1950s.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Thus, an analyst who follows young technology companies may decide that paying ten times revenues for a company is a bargain, if all of the companies that he tracks trade at multiples greater than ten times revenues.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The first is that the costs of smartphones have decreased , and especially so in India, as technology and competition have worked their magic. The last is the operating margin , it operating income (or loss) as a percent of operating income each year. There are multiple forces that have contributed to this shift, but two stand out.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2%

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And the last piece of it, which I’ve become really passionate about over the past really kind of five to 10 years of my career is the technology and platform. So the platform digital experience and technology is really, really critical as well. It should be frictionless. RITHOLTZ: Really quite, quite interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And the technology, infrastructure around that has definitely improved. And it became the most profitable private equity investment ever made and — it is true. And I think about it a lot like all the research on children in school, right, the learning loss from children not being in school. We definitely benefit from that.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

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

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And that could be painful, because someone will have to take the pain, even if, unlike 2008, where the risk was concentrated on banks’ balance sheet, today is much more spread across, let’s say, asset managers. So the issue was not the SPAC as a technology. How do you look at those? It’s a real company.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. As a result, bitcoin mining is concentrated in two countries : China, with 60 percent, and Georgia , with 15 percent of bitcoin processing power. The FBI reports that some $28 million in losses were reported to them in 2016, triple what they say they saw in 2015.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

By itself, the surge in pricing multiples is a feature of volatile markets, and it is a phenomenon that we saw with technology companies in the last decade. Those risks increase, if the family group companies are built around political connections, where you are one political election loss away your biggest competitive advantage.

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Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 118

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew. So big loss.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Reportedly, the potential buyers list has included Uber Technologies Inc., Business Insider said that Caviar does not make a profit, and the extent of the losses are not shown in the company’s financials. Insiders say that Square CEO Jack Dorsey remains fond of Caviar, profitability issues aside. GrubHub Inc.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

They had the access to loss and excel really. And I think that’s a loss. So essentially what technology is doing is it’s unbundling the university model. I create these concentric circles for people who have time and say, if you have this much time, try these extra things. That’s fascinating.

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