PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of these firms have focused on disrupting the way consumers go about their daily lives and pay for everything from transportation to clothes shopping to movie passes. VCs have been pushing money toward a number of peer-to-peer (P2P) companies with questionable economics.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. 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.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

I am not much of a car person and view cars primarily as a mode of transportation. 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.

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Valuation Investments Manufacturing Marketing 80

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Uber created an entirely new vocabulary word and category of transportation service called ridesharing and a new way of describing their drivers — gig workers. Scooter and bike-sharing apps are multiplying like rabbits in the spring in hipster cities with their (incredulous) multi-billion valuations and cheap-as-dirt fares.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In sum, the overall grocery pie is growing slowly, and the slice of the pie that is profit for those in the grocery game is slim, effectively limiting the valuation stories (and values) for every player in that game.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

trillion cumulatively invested in the last decade: Source: BloombergNEF Almost half of this investment in alternative energy sources has been in renewable energy, with electrified transport and electrified heat accounting for a large portion of the remaining investments. in the 1998-2010 time period to 5.95 in the 2011-2023 time period.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The Chinese government braced for additional economic turmoil, took steps to bolster its lagging economy and activated new safety measures as the coronavirus epidemic spread globally, causing the first illness-related death outside of China. In Beijing, many stores across multiple retail markets are closed. We can’t work and have no income.

Economics 58

Economics Transportation Valuation Marketing 58

PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Lyft is a self-described peer-to-peer marketplace focused on “revolutionizing transportation” and reducing traffic congestion in cities. For Uber, transportation is a platform feature that is central to its business, but is not its end game. Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Once Upon a Platform.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

While analysts may fret about a billion dollars of red ink, and Uber is busy striving to extend its platform model well beyond the confines of transportation, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said the roughly sledding post-IPO can be traced to the trade war. by economic saber rattling. stock exchanges. million.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2016

By leveraging the mobile phone and existing platforms, such as the Apple and Android mobile operating systems and the payments rails, the cloud, a variety of technologies like GPS and apps like Maps in 2009, Uber’s platform is totally transforming the transportation sector. In the U.S., And a very attractive proposition for drivers.

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Transportation Investments Technology Valuation 76

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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

News about Chime’s latest funding round might give pause when comparing the tech-savvy upstart’s valuation against some traditional banking players. Challenger Bank Chime Now More Valuable Than Robinhood. Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump's WeChat Ban. Visa On Giving SMBs A Digital-First Boost This Holiday Season.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Ten years after the world wide web and http was introduced, we had a powerful internet economy driving trillions of dollars in positive economic activity. And these young businesses — young as in less than a year old — have now raised capital based on multibillion-dollar valuations.

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Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

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

MARCH 12, 2024

So in this, in this context of, of a mortgage now being clear to everyone that this default risk is present, it’s real, and it’s hard to price because following the borrower’s economic profile, there, there are defaults that are related to just life events, but there’s also defaults related to a macroeconomic event.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. How do we move around in terms of transportation? We’ve been at it for coming on a decade, had only a couple 100,000 customers. What do we eat? How do we learn? How do we invest?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The two most likely to dissent, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who is close to the unions, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has presidential ambitions, did Biden’s dirty work without any hesitation on Capitol Hill…. politics today. The 4% Rule for Retirement Spending Makes a Comeback” [ Wall Street Journal ].

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 26, 2023

An economic adviser in the Obama White House, David] Kamin isn’t the only one struck by a foreboding sense of déjà vu. Stats Watch Employment Situation: “United States Initial Jobless Claims” [ Trading Economics ]. Manufacturing: “United States Durable Goods Orders” [ Trading Economics ]. Lower, naturally.) percent increase.

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