Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The first was the response that I received to my last data update , where I looked at the profitability of businesses, and specifically at how a comparison of accounting returns on equity (capital) to costs of equity (capital) can yield a measure of excess returns.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Support measures for borrowers will limit the asset quality decline in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines and banks in these countries have sufficient capital and provisions to absorb losses, though the resurgence of coronavirus cases will hinder their economic recovery and raise asset risks for banks , said Moody’s recently.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Reuters noted that McIntyre remains confident in Kinetic’s ability to gain traction, even amid economic uncertainty in the U.K. Late last month, HSBC posted an 18 percent loss in pre-tax profits for the third quarter of 2019, with the bank’s CFO Ewen Stevenson also announcing restructuring plans in the U.K.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 20, 2022

Resiliency is the foundation for all business models, says Christian Klein, CEO of SAP, in an article published by The World Economic Forum. As businesspeople, this offers us an opportunity: an opportunity to rethink our business models so that resiliency, profitability, and sustainability are not mutually exclusive.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

But Walmart has also suffered operating losses in Brazil for the past seven years, due in part to inferior locations, inefficient operations, labor issues and uncompetitive prices. The world’s biggest retailer currently has 471 stores in Brazil , reporting revenues of almost 30 billion reais ($9.4 billion) in 2016.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leadership transitions are often unavoidable due to unexpected departures, mergers, or restructuring initiatives. Loss of Stakeholder Confidence: Investors and clients may become wary during leadership changes, which can cause fluctuations in stock prices or contract renewals.

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E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leadership transitions are often unavoidable due to unexpected departures, mergers, or restructuring initiatives. Loss of Stakeholder Confidence: Investors and clients may become wary during leadership changes, which can cause fluctuations in stock prices or contract renewals.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In all, losses to this emerging and increasingly occurring form of fraud reached $40 million in 2017, doubling the $20 million in losses reported 2015. As of September 2018, losses from gift-card fraud have hit $53 million. The official white flag comes after years of attempted restructuring of the once iconic brand.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

The bank went on to note that it had attempted to work with the FIs to move them back to solvency through the actions of their shareholders, but that all closed-down institutions had remained insufficiently capitalized after over a year of attempted restructuring. But when it came time to collect their funds, they found they were unable.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

Not surprisingly, the operating metrics change as companies age, with high revenue growth accompanied by big losses (from work-in-progress business models) and large reinvestment needs (to delivery future growth) in early-stage companies to large profits and free cash flows in the mature phase to stresses on growth and margins in decline.

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Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

In November last year, Access opened a branch targeting the Africa-Asia economic and trade corridor. billion, the bank posted $491 million in profits from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024, and a return on equity (ROE) of 32.9%. million in profits in 2024, Absa anchors its growth on sustainability and digital innovations.

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

Lending rates followed central bank tightening moves, while deposit rates lagged; and across the region, there were some record profits. In Japan, profits at the country’s five most prominent banking groups leapt 56% to a record ¥2 trillion (about $12.6 billion after-tax profit versus $8.3 billion; a 2.3% billion in 2022.

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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. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

Pro forma income statement The income statement (also known as the profit & loss or P&L statement) mainly evaluates revenue and operating expenses, along with other metrics related to each like cost of goods sold (COGS) or net income. This is always important to do, but especially now in the midst of economic uncertainty.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

SNB Chairman Ammar AlKhudairy told CNBC in late October that the stake in Credit Suisse had been acquired at “floor price” and urged the Swiss lender “not to blink” on its radical restructuring plans. . But that number will fall markedly once CS confirms its entire net loss for this year. billion of losses. And not until 2025.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So you were very actively involved in the restructuring of the airlines post 9/11. So there really wasn’t a whole lot of restructuring and distressed assets afterwards, or was there? But, of course, Lehman was a huge restructuring and bankruptcy liquidation — RITHOLTZ: Sill going on today, right?

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Economically, it has been a season of turmoil. A former BNP Paribas executive and CEO of Bahrain’s investment promotion agency, the Economic Development Board (EDB), Humaidan is expected to steer the CBB and the banking sector in supporting the country’s shift away from oil. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth plunged to 0.7%

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Law in Spirit and Letter In the latter part of the nineteenth century, as the United States was transitioning from an emerging market to a global economic power, its growth was powered by three industries - steel, railroads and oil - all requiring large investments in infrastructure. In short, while Ms.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

They just restructure their balance sheet, and if they’re smart, they restructure their operations as well to fix the issues that ultimately led them getting into bankruptcy. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had. And in real estate lending, that’s all about avoiding loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

So as the market and the industry restructure, we’ll certainly be very opportunistic. During COVID, rather than just a monetary response, we saw a massive fiscal response, which seemed to have really helped across the entire economic strata, especially the middle class.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Those risks increase, if the family group companies are built around political connections, where you are one political election loss away your biggest competitive advantage.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Download data Again, the steep drop off in invested capital that you see in 2015 is just a reflection of the restructuring of the company that year, as the invested capital in Adani Ports and Power was removed from the mix.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Other than perhaps the very largest players in the game, most loan lenders can’t soak that kind of volume loss, since payday lending (contrary to public opinion) is not a high-margin business to start with. That destruction is necessary, according to CFPB director Richard Cordray.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Other than perhaps the very largest players in the game, most loan lenders can’t soak that kind of volume loss, since payday lending (contrary to public opinion) is not a high-margin business to start with. That destruction is necessary, according to CFPB director Richard Cordray.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. At the time, the Mexican, after the Mexican restructuring, they had, they had Mexican bonds with an oil option embedded in them. And occasionally people are gonna argue about, Hey, who has this loss?

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