Future CFO

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The report points to a survey of nearly 300 M&A executives, conducted by Bain in October 2022, who shared that they anticipate closing a similar number of deals if not more this year, the firm noted. in 2022, off an all-time high in 2021. These trends are likely to continue in 2023.

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Future CFO

JULY 19, 2022

Weak, less liquid markets prompted a plunge in the number of new listings and funds raised in many key capital markets, including New York and Hong Kong, the review adds. Korea Stock Exchange will take the third place after the listing of an electronic vehicle battery manufacturer, which will also be the world's largest IPO in 1H 2022.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The current economic climate is causing profound challenges for business owners across industries. In conjunction with your other numbers, your gross profit margin can tell you if your products are profitable enough, if you need to increase sales or if your expenses, like sales costs, are too high. into the calculation.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago , and as has always been the case when I value this company, I have heard from both sides of the Tesla divide. Based at least on the reactions, I have realized that some may be misreading my story and valuation, ore reacting just to a picture in a tweet.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. Accounting 101 I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 4, 2023

People often talk about "the economy" as a single entity whose parts move in unison, with a small number of key indicators (such as GDP, the unemployment rate, and inflation) moving reliably in relation to each other. manufacturing sector, by the measures of employment and service prices, has been in a recession for nearly 12 months.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Last week, was my data week, where I download and analyze data on all publicly traded companies, listed anywhere in the world, and I will post extensively on what the numbers look like after a most tumultuous year. As we approach the turn of the calendar year, I have my own set of rituals that prepare me for the new year.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Of course, and with small businesses, especially those built around personal services (a doctor or plumber’s practice), it is part of the valuation process, where the key person is valued or at least priced and incorporated into valuation. To estimate key person value, there are three general approaches: 1.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago , and as has always been the case when I value this company, I have heard from both sides of the Tesla divide. Based at least on the reactions, I have realized that some may be misreading my story and valuation, ore reacting just to a picture in a tweet.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

The corporate life cycle framework provides a useful structure to think about how the technology companies, that dominate the twenty first century business landscape, are different from the manufacturing companies of the last century, and why these differences can create more management tensions at these companies.

Marketing 130

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. per share in 2022. Growth potential : I underestimated the company’s capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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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. ’cause then I figure I could always be employed either managing the numbers or doing law and get those two degrees. It’s a pleasure to be here. Barry Ritholtz: 00:01:26 [Speaker Changed] It it’s a pleasure to have you.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 3, 2024

The sentiment is especially poignant when it comes to economic forecasting, as it's nearly impossible to get an accurate picture of the current state of the economy at any given moment. While the manufacturing sector (which makes up 'only' 8% of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

billion in a post-money valuation, according to estimates. However, the firm has offered no official confirmation of its new valuation. DoorDash’s technology advantages, exceptional management team and relentless merchant focus are reflected in their stunning growth and impressive unit economics,” Housenbold said in an announcement.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The corporate life cycle framework provides a useful structure to think about how the technology companies, that dominate the twenty first century business landscape, are different from the manufacturing companies of the last century, and why these differences can create more management tensions at these companies. Aging in Dog Years?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. per share in 2022. Growth potential : I underestimated the company's capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

Think steel, manufacturing, cement commodities and, well, the guts and decidedly non-glorious infrastructure plays that make tangible things. It should also be noted that the Chinese government, in an effort to help shore up some languishing economics, is in effect throwing money at major building and infrastructure projects (sound familiar?)

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Often business models are borne out, not just on a unit economics, but become profitable by dent of scale. When you have find opportunity, you figure out how to exploit it for all of its potential economic value. And by the way, in economic terms and unit economic terms, you can support. You look for opportunity.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook’s troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook's troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When disclosure laws were first written in the aftermath of the great depression, they were focused on the publicly traded firms of the time, a mix of utilities, manufacturing and retail firms. I don’t think so, but you can see why the company was tempted to go with that inflated number to push a “big market” narrative.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. But number two is from a demographic standpoint.

Construction 52

Construction Marketing Valuation Investments 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They run long short across each of these, and they’ve put up some pretty impressive numbers over the past couple of years. 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. It’s beta neutral, market neutral.

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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. Cities were built for people and not cars, they note, and the sheer number of vehicles on the road has turned that upside-down. Others, those who understand platform economics, beg to differ. The Next Platform Frontier.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Ritholtz ] 00:09:37 I recall reading, and I know you can’t say this, but I recall reading that fund return something like 19% a year, some just astounding number. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act. It’s still in the double digits.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Overvaluations happen, corrections happen — all part of the normal processes tied to investment and economic cycles. At the same time, he said, a significant number of Western economies over the past several decades have outsourced as much manufacturing as they could to China to streamline costs. This time is different, he said.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Most agricultural and manufactured goods were bought and sold within the country’s boundaries — and when products were exported internationally, the dollar was the invoicing currency of choice. For much of U.S. history, businesses were relatively sheltered from changes in the currency markets. They get it wrong, though, year after year.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

You get a BA in Economics from Hamilton College. So what we did was we figured out the economic rationale, the macroeconomic influences about why growth and value work at any point in time. Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. So up 18 or 19 percent for the year, you see those spectacular numbers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The headline numbers: Employers added 178,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, just shy of the 180,000 jobs consensus had held for November. The latest jobs number is likely going to give the Fed further impetus to hike rates, along with the recent inflation data that shows at least some uptick.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. BARATTA: — manufacturing those facilities. Valuations go up and you saw it, of course, in the late ‘90s, in the tech sector. BARATTA: Yeah. In the long run.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers. So we built, we did that for a lot of the markets.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Lately, though, they’re probably tossing and turning over the difficulties with raising capital coupled with the simultaneous descent of their venture’s valuations. That’s a bit of the same dilemma that all device manufacturers have facing them today in payments. There’s always a lot to do and never enough time to get it all done.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

My dad was first generation college, became an entrepreneur, started an auto parts manufacturing business. 00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. I think this year.

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