Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There’s also quantitative metrics that we look at Those have evolved, but always within that capa, that cluster of high returns on investment stability across the economic cycle are consistent and strong balance sheets. And big consumer and healthcare. 00:18:41 [Speaker Changed] Yep. So Microsoft now is on 30 times earnings.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. How, how are the higher rates affecting valuations amongst private companies? 00:37:43 [Speaker Changed] So there’s two issues that are affecting valuations. The auditors look at those valuations. You get a Stanford MBA.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. 00:04:29 [Speaker Changed] So you start at the healthcare group as an analyst in Citi in the early two thousands, obviously the background in neuro had to help.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Lyft’s valuation is less than 20 percent of that. In 2018, Uber added another side to its platform that catered to healthcare providers, which had struggled with their own logistical problems in getting patients to appointments. Uber considers its competitors to be Amazon and Alphabet.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

economics, correct. RITHOLTZ: Oh, not the control, just the economics. capital problem helps improve our economic sharing …. But you’re seeing that in specialty industrial managers, health — healthcare managers. RITHOLTZ: Is that valuation issue ongoing? Is that right? CONROD: Of the — of the G.P. CONROD: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. And now we’ve added privates to that.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

So you have almost a doubling of the interest coupon paid by some of these businesses against the backdrop of c ovid 19 inflation and some of the economic pressures that come with, with those factors. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act. Tell us about that.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about valuations relative to risk and reward.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. What’s the valuation? SEIDES: So it’s Hartford HealthCare. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? Or was this a, like, to me it sounds like the whole thing was spectacular. RITHOLTZ: Right. Is there any chance of fraud?”

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. RIEDER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

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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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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. Take healthcare, the healthcare really is going to require systems level change to really revolutionize how we think about our health. And increasingly, healthcare is using telemedicine.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Healthcare. It’s counterintuitive, but when valuations are high, it is the worst time to retire,’ said Morningstar personal finance director Christine Benz.” • What an insane system. Rapture Index: Closes down one on Israel. Israel has been rarely calm in the past few days” [ Rapture Ready ]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

An economic adviser in the Obama White House, David] Kamin isn’t the only one struck by a foreboding sense of déjà vu. And too many people don’t receive the right care.” • Amazing how Vax-only (plus, to be clear, treatment plus a handwave to healthcare here) has worked like a strange attractor for global elite opinion.

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