CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

If you’re a chief marketing officer (CMO), the current economic uncertainty undoubtedly creates anxiety for you, your team, and your agencies. The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has demonstrated the tight correlation between advertising spend and economic indicators like GDP growth by looking at historical data.

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Budgeting Marketing Math Advertising 130

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? KLINSKY: Well, thank you. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 103

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. I’m going to be skeptical about analyst adjusted earnings and look to free cash flow is a confirming, but, but I also wanna see, is it one of those cases where the analyst adjustments are economically realistic or are they excuses? And the value line has all these statistical patterns.

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Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103