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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

The Variables As I mentioned at the start of this post, this entire exercise of collecting and analyzing data is a selfish one, insofar as I compute the data variables that I find useful when doing corporate financial analysis, valuation, or investment analysis. Profit Margins 1. Costs of equity & capital 1.

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Transcript: Charlie Ellis

Barry Ritholtz

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

And so today, I think that part of the IG fixed rate corporate bond market, obviously part of the real estate, and we’ve been talking at length about that, we have to suffer some of the pain or losses in some way shape or form. If you hit certain targets, certain goals, extra financial goals, then you will improve your cost of funding.