CFA Institute

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The leading Enterprising Investor articles from 2019 feature insights from some of the top luminaries in all of finance.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But the reality is that Uber, by dent of its relentless pursuit of growth, competition in the marketplace from Lyft and others and so forth, managed to move up that growth curve, get all the way to an IPO, establish a public market valuation before the tech meltdown of $100 billion market cap, and they still had not found profit market fit.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 7, 2024

But I gotta start with your education. I went in there and the valuation was below a billion dollars. And at two years the valuation was $13 billion. I think people should really, you know, be educated about money, think about their money. You, you started, what is that? He’s great. And I left after two years.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. All of them, once you talk about health care, education, leisure, hospitality, hotel, et cetera.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

One is our leadership in thematic investing. And we’re having very good conversations with clients that I think, at current valuation levels, they remain, you know, very interested in the market and they see some opportunities. They work very hard when I was growing up to give me like a really good education.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act. I, I think that that’s very important because I always took the early part of my career as education or an opportunity for education as much as it was employment. 00:37:26 [Speaker Changed] Huh.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

And so I went to business school, I decided to go to business school, get that formal education. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. And I think that’s wrong because valuation does matter. And to his credit, and this is a, a good display of leadership Yes.

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