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 2014, it introduced Paytm Wallet , a digital wallet that was accepted as a payment option by leading service providers and retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

While the risks — and concerns — posed by a highly concentrated customer base are legitimate, they are expected to spread out over time, given the fact that Affirm has thousands of merchant relationships now offering its BNPL financing option. Read More On Affirm: Affirm IPO Now On Track To Raise More Than $1.1

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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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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. We have retail clients. I think, obviously, the ticker is very important, particularly for the self-directed retail client base. And I think that the financial advisors are used, but not as widely used as they are in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

So where are the warehouses closest to the densest population centers, those assets are in demand because of e-commerce, retailers wanting to get things to people in the same day or within a few hours even. MCCARTHY: — and really concentrated the business in those best markets, and then helped to grow. Cambridge U.K.,

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Among Indian institutions, LIC is the largest holder with just over 4% of the shares, but the retail investor presence in this company is small, largely because of the low float, though the surge in the company's price in the last two years has drawn some traders to it.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Among Indian institutions, LIC is the largest holder with just over 4% of the shares, but the retail investor presence in this company is small, largely because of the low float, though the surge in the company’s price in the last two years has drawn some traders to it.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

00:20:00 And then I, I spent a lot of time both literally and figuratively on the road talking to our clients, both their retail clients as well as advisor services. You still get these, you know, cap driven concentration problems in the market like last year. It was concentrated on the good side of the economy manufacturing.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If you’ve got a undifferentiated, crappy retailer and you’re saying it’s going to have $5 of free cash flow in five years, and you’ve got Visa, MasterCard, most of the magnificent seven, and you say that’s $5, they’re not the same. ’cause bad things can happen to undifferentiated retailers.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And now, some of the retailers are talking about easing Amazon and Walmart. TROPIN: I mean, you know, there were equity hedge funds that were pretty levered, that had pretty highly concentrated, you know, growth bets, and a lot of technology companies and so on. TROPIN: Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say much cheaper valuation.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

It’s tough slogging it out these days as an online retailer with a value proposition based purely on selling stuff cheap. And these young businesses — young as in less than a year old — have now raised capital based on multibillion-dollar valuations. Why wouldn’t he? billion.

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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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs. In April, Charles Schwab introduced its Schwab Personalized Indexing platform, available to advisors and retail clients with a $100,000 account minimum. Enjoy the ‘light’ reading! Author: Adam Van Deusen. Team Kitces.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. You’re outperforming, you’re, you’re putting up good numbers that’s on a concentrated portfolio and it’s 10, 15, 20 stocks are the drivers. Real really interesting.

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