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. “The number of small businesses selling and exiting each year is growing year on year,” said Hutchison.

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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 16, 2020

According to Edited , the number of new styles posted by U.S. 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. “If The price strategy is also clearing out product without ready inventory to replace it.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID.

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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

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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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As the price dropped below $200 today (October 30,2023), I decided that it was time for me to revisit and revalue the company, taking into account the news, financial and other, that has come out since my last valuation in January 2023, and to understand the dueling stories that are emerging about the company.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

This is a “short” sale, and if you are right and the stock price drops, you can buy the shares at the now "discounted" price, return them to the original owner and keep the difference as your profit. In a short squeeze, this cycle speeds up to the point that short sellers have no choice but to exit the position.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias.

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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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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

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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 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. A review of financial planning actions, from tax-loss harvesting to charitable giving, that have a December 31 deadline. He can be reached at [email protected].

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook’s most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022. .

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

That has not happened either, as employment numbers have stayed strong, housing prices have (at least up till now) absorbed the blows from higher mortgage rates and the economy has continued to grow. In the process, the implied equity risk premium, which peaked at 5.94% on January 1, 2023, is back down to 5% at the start of July 2023.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It extends into materiality, by reframing that concept in terms of value, rather than profits, and connecting it to disclosure, with disclosure requirements increasing proportionately with the value effect. 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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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook's most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. [Barry Ritholtz] : So you have a fascinating background.

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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.

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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? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

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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 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. RITHOLTZ: Okay. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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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. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew.

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

After employing a number of moves earlier in the fight to disorient Foreman and force him to waste his power on punches that missed their mark, Ali lured Foreman into attacking him against the ropes so as to tire him out. For Uber and Lyft, this is pure profit to the bottom line that keeps drivers happy by giving them more work.

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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. And whether, if one and two come true, there’s a business model underneath all of it to profit from. ARE WE SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEMS FOR THE RIGHT PEOPLE?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. ’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Zeke Faux, Number Go Up , is below. Zeke Fox’s book number go up inside crypto’s Wild Rise and staggering. Zeke Faux: 00:02:38 Yes, and I mean the title of the book number go up Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall. And he is like number go up.

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