CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

related investing news. Disney – The entertainment titan dropped 2.8% following an upgrade to buy from neutral from Citi, which said it has good valuation and free-cash flow yield while also likely being able to differentiate itself from European competitors. as investors continued responding to the dramatic ouster of its CEO.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Sequoia Capital and Arrive, the venture fund of Roc Nation, the entertainment company owned by rapper Jay Z, also participated in the round of fundraising. He pointed to other investments the VC has made in insurance tech startups including The Zebra, a car marketplace, noted the report.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. . My September 2020 Valuations. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. The FANGAM Valuations: February 2022.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

Online gaming and entertainment platform Roblox is holding off on a public listing after the U.S. A funding round earlier this month put Roblox’s valuation at $29.5 Earlier this month, Roblox raised $520 million in a funding round led by Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group. 29), citing an employee memo.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

related investing news. It missed top and bottom line expectations when reporting quarterly results, but announced an agreement with the investment firm H Partners that raised the cap on the firm’s stake to 19.9% Coinbase – The cryptocurrency exchange was up 10.7% Rivian – The electric vehicle maker jumped 17.4% from 14.9%.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5%

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Valuations are high. In an age where private equity has seen the trials and tribulations of investing in companies that promise to disrupt the status quo and where red ink flows — there seems to be promise in cleats, balls and jerseys. Not just in the stock market. Pretty much everywhere you might look. So do other teams.

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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. To estimate key person value, there are three general approaches: 1.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

WSJ tech reporter Meghan Bobrowsky explains the concept and why tech companies like Facebook, Roblox and Epic Games are investing billions to develop this digital space. Kim Forrest, chief investment officer of investment firm Bokeh Capital. A tech industry battle is taking shape over the metaverse. Photo: Storyblocks.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. Returns on Invested Capital (or Equity).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It states: “The Virgin Group’s resources, ranging from its experienced investment executives to skilled brand experts, will support the sourcing and evaluation of acquisition targets for our company. The document does, however, offer some insight into the types of businesses the acquisition corporation will considering buying.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. Mean Reversion works, until it does not : Much of investing over the last century in the US has been built on betting on mean reversion, i.e. that things revert back to historical norms, sooner rather than later.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

He did it again when VHS then DVD were the bleeding edge of home entertainment, and movie studio executives suddenly had to offer terms to Bezos typically reserved for their biggest retail whales. The company’s valuation at the time was in the neighborhood of $300 million. Meet the New Boss.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. John Lynch, chief investment officer at Comerica Wealth Management, which manages $175 billion. Meta Platforms Inc. suffered the largest-ever loss. Within tech we’re starting to see a delineation between necessities and wants,” he said. “In

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. Is that poker, is that investing sounds like both.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The domicile of a bank explains nearly 70% of underlying valuations. The consultancy also advised banks to invest to stay competitive and they can also form partnerships through M&A to stay afloat. In addition, scale in banking, as in most industries, is generally correlated with stronger returns, the company pointed out. "In

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

Tencent, China’s popular online and entertainment company, saw its slowest sales growth since it went public in 2004, as it battled a sputtering economy and tried to revitalize a gaming division that’s seen some setbacks, according to a report by Bloomberg. The rise was aided by a one-time gain of upwards of $1.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

The company is the fourth-biggest food delivery service by user spending, and has had two huge investments recently to the tune of $400 million, which has allowed for expansion. “We Postmates has a valuation of $1.85 We are now putting the money we have raised to great use.”. billion, compared to $7.1 billion for DoorDash.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

I also like finance, perhaps not as much as sports, but there are winners and losers in the investment game as well. If you want to see how intrinsic valuation would work at a sports franchise, you are welcome to check out my intrinsic valuation of the Los Angeles Clippers , when Steve Ballmer offered $2 billion for that franchise in 2014.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

While one nation (guess which one) ponders whether it wants to entertain an existential crisis or not, firms can have their own moments of soul-searching, too. The site noted that both funds have seesawed their valuations across the past several quarters. We promise not to mention the U.S. election in this week’s Unicorn Tracker.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both. That’s pretty reason.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

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. per share in 2022. Growth potential : I underestimated the company’s capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

After weeks of rather anemic activity, investment pacing picked up quite a bit into the period that ended November 25. A few large deals held disproportionate sway over the bump up we’ve just seen for our Investment Tracker. A few large deals held disproportionate sway over the bump up we’ve just seen for our Investment Tracker.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Marta Norton, Morningstar Investment Management , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, BLOOMBERG RADIO HOST: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Marta Norton is the Chief Investment Officer for Morningstar Investment Management. What makes a good investment strategy?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average. In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable margin was for a firm operating in the retail business.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. per share in 2022. Growth potential : I underestimated the company's capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

The stats suggest the strength of the B2B FinTech market’s ability to attract big-ticket funding rounds despite an overall dip in investment. PYMNTS outlines the latest investments below. The firm has since expanded into additional market segments, including travel, entertainment, retail, gaming and more. TradeDepot.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. In 2018, it added a Paytm Money , for investment and wealth management, and in 2019, it launched a Paytm for Business app for merchants to track payments.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Carmen, Co-Head, Private Investments, Wellington Management , is below. We were originally very equity heavy back in the day, and we made a lot of investments on the fixed income side. So fixed income is now a substantial percentage of our assets. 00:07:20 [Speaker Changed] Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. I got an internship at a investment fund in Baltimore, and this was 2002 at the time. With no further ado my conversation with Woodline partners, Mike Rockefeller.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

00:06:01 [Speaker Changed] So you end up as head of global credit and senior managing director at Citadel Investment Group, was that right? So the, the first one that I think about is the investing business itself is an operating business. Did they seed you, did they invest you? When are you gonna start investing?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. You can imagine, you give a bearish message at a bullish investment conference, and no one listens to you.

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