Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

While differentiating between good and bad banks can be straightforward, it does not follow that buying good banks and selling bad banks is a good investment strategy, since its success depends entirely on what the market is incorporating into stock prices. All Equity, All the time!

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

While M&A value dropped dramatically in 2022, a loss of 36% in deal value, Bain’s report confirms that deal activity continues to be a central corporate strategy for growth and profitability. First, industrials are acquiring adjacent businesses to gain quick access to greener and more favourable market segments.

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CFO Share

MAY 5, 2023

The following are some strategies that we deploy with our clients during slowed economic growth. Forget 20%+ growth targets; 1-5% growth during an economic downturn is great for most businesses – certainly better than losing money. Follow market signals Demand shifts during recessions. Research competitors.

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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. Who is a key person?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

The latest estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) peg the number of new SMBs at 414,000 each year, spurring job creation and economic growth for the country, with millennial entrepreneurs at the helm. Yet, once a company starts to churn a profit, business owners rarely consider their strategy of an eventual exit or sale.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

If margins and profits are already struggling then slashing prices for an entire season’s clothes will be very painful,” said Sophie Lund-Yates, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. Marketers must display a sincere desire to watch, listen, and learn. In the U.K., there are 70 percent fewer new arrivals this week compared to last year. “If

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this post, I will argue that there are good reasons for Airbnb's IPO timing, and make my first attempt at valuing this latest entrant into public markets. By the start of 2020, Airbnb had already become one of the largest players in its market of vacation and travel rentals, a sign of success, but also a crimp on future growth.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. billion rescue, and also said it had taken its valuation of the beleaguered workspace company down by 80 percent, to around $5 billion at the end of the most recent quarter.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

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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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

I don't have an axe to grind in this fight, since I don't own GameStop or care much about hedge funds, but I am interested in how this episode will affect overall markets and whether I need to change the ways in which I invest and trade.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

The answers—based on different sources of data like market research or historical sales information—guide internal decision-making to promote regular, sustainable growth as well as create contingency plans for worst-case or best-case scenarios. This is always important to do, but especially now in the midst of economic uncertainty.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That attention has worked in the company's favor over much of its lifetime, as it has gone from a start-up to one of the largest market cap companies in the world, disrupting multiple businesses in the process. In subsequent valuations, I modified and adapted this story to reflect lessons that I learned about Tesla, along the way.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After years of rumors of an imminent IPO, Instacart has finally filed for a public offering of it’s shares, aspiring to raise about $600 million from markets, at a pricing of about $9-$10 billion for its equity. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the context of valuing companies, and sharing those valuations, I do get suggestions from readers on companies that I should value next. He suggested Blue Lagoon, a well-regarded Icelandic Spa with a history of profitability, that was finding its existence under threat, as a result of volcanic activity in Southwest Iceland.

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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. Now one of them is public and has a market equity market cap of $35 billion. They had a one-third market share of certain product sales in the entire country. It’s a pleasure to be here. You get a Stanford MBA.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

While RIA M&A activity has been red hot during the past couple of years, a survey suggests that advisors are expecting lower valuations in 2023. From there, we have several articles on advisor marketing: Five tactics advisors can use to make the most of the online referrals they receive. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It is quite clear, though, that unless we break this cycle, where each corporate shortcoming or market upheaval is followed by a fresh round of new disclosures, we are destined to make this disclosure problem worse. Uber and Airbnb Prospectuses Is Uber’s total addressable market really $5.2

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

He brings a fascinating approach and a bit of an outlier, contrarian way of looking at the world that has allowed him to identify specific changes in what’s taking place in the economy, in the markets, and essentially provide a helpful sounding board to many of the world’s best investors. the biggest risk in markets is ego.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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Jedox Finance

JULY 11, 2023

Conversely, late adoption and omissions will pose challenges such as a reduction in market share, blacklisting, and severe penalties. This is particularly evident when considering how ESG key performance indicators (KPIs) are closely related to aspects in a profit and loss (P&L) statement and significantly impact financial outcomes.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The History The Adani Group, founded by Gautam Adani, started life as a commodity trading partnership business in Gujarat, and listed on stock markets in 1994, as Adani Exports, with a large chunk of its revenues coming from its operation of a local port in Mundra, with a subsequent entry into the edible oil business.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? They react to markets. I didn’t have investor experience, really.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 6, 2023

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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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so late 90s, that’s the emergence of the high yield market in Europe, you would print deals like never before. Now, on the positive and the silver lining was that this whole situation started putting a lot of light on, let’s say, the alternative market. Is it just the size of the US market? I think we learned a lot.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The History The Adani Group, founded by Gautam Adani, started life as a commodity trading partnership business in Gujarat, and listed on stock markets in 1994, as Adani Exports, with a large chunk of its revenues coming from its operation of a local port in Mundra, with a subsequent entry into the edible oil business.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

It was an era where, you know, first of all, the markets were really inefficient, right? TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot. Commodity markets were moving a lot. It’s much better to be involved in trend following when markets are moving. Tell us a little bit about that era.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

So your doctoral thesis asserted that consistently beating market averages was attainable by exploiting both value and momentum. Because, you know, there’s this constant fight in academia, if you believe something works, does it work because markets are efficient in its compensation for risk, or for behavioral reasons?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

This is the back when mortgages were sort of a backwater of the fixed income market. It takes quite a lot of, of research, quite a lot of modeling, quite a lot of data to actually keep up with the mortgage market. By the time you get to the early 2000s, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and me were losing market share.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. What’s the most current data point that may not have filtered into the market? They’d say it’s a crap market. Many years ago. So I took that. That was real money.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are few people in the world who understand the interrelationships between central banks, the economy, and markets like Bill Dudley does this, this is just a master class in, in understanding all the factors that affect everything from the economy to inflation, to the labor market, the housing market, and of course, federal Reserve policy.

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