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Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test

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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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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

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In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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

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Put simply, I possess no exclusivity here, and staying consistent with my thesis, I don't expect to expect to make money by investing based upon this data. So, why bother? You would like those answers now, but stay tuned to the rest of my data updates and the data will speak for itself.)

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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows

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In the second, Warren Buffet used some heated language to describe those who opposed buybacks, calling them “economic illiterates” and “silver tongued demagogues “. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.