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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. The Valuation To value Airbnb, I will follow a familiar script, at least for me. in 2019.

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

Musings on Markets

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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So, last year, valuations were high, interest rates were low. And I said, “Look, you’ve got to look at where we are with valuations, and you have to look at where the 10-year Treasury is at. We update the expected return and the expected risk inside of eMoney. Is it at 1.5%?” Just wrong fit, wrong stage here.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. 00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself. Very inventive and creative person.

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Transcript: David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital

Barry Ritholtz

And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. Like these companies could announce almost anything other than a sale of the company and nobody and nobody would notice. What is it that we think is likely to be misunderstood about something?