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Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test

Musings on Markets

During the course of the year, investors also rediscovered that the essence of business is not growing revenues or adding users, but making profits from that growth. In this post, I will focus on trend lines in profitability at companies in 2022, with the intent of addressing multiple questions.

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Banks, Build Vs Buy And The Great Digital Shift

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We’ve noted that the stage has been set for M&A to ramp up, due in part to lower corporate taxes, which gives firms higher profits, which in turn gives them more money to both extend loans (building up customer bases) and have money in hand to pursue deals. PNC sold its stake in Blackrock for $15 billion, adding to its dealmaking ability.

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Could Retail Job Growth Actually Save Companies Money?

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corporation among those currently building out their ranks of retail employees may be allocating a greater amount of funds to wages in the short term towards the goal of increased profits in the long term, that might not necessarily be the case. While it’s reasonable to presume that any U.S. The retail industry.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? What is that?

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10 Thursday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My morning train WFH reads: • The Active Management Delusion: Respect the Wisdom of the Crowd : “My basic point here is that neither the Financial Analysts as a whole nor the investment funds as a whole can expect to ‘beat the market,’ because in a significant sense they (or you) are the market. Bloomberg ) • How Disney beat Gov.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. ASNESS: There are a few reasons. RITHOLTZ: Okay. RITHOLTZ: Past decade.