The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

He held the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at CBS Corporation, a major media player, for a good number of years. With over two decades of experience in media and entertainment, Ianniello was among the key persons behind one of the world's largest media companies. Ianniello is well-known in finance circles.

CFO 97

CFO Finance Forecasting GAAP 97

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It’s a tale of two malls: With closings of large anchor stores on the horizon, some mall owners would welcome the opportunity to find more profitable tenants. Other mall owners, however, find the loss of anchor stores to be a challenge. Sears has occupied a 250,000-square-foot building in the Cross County Mall for roughly four decades.

Profit and Loss 71

Profit and Loss Entertainment Retail Numbers 71

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Updating the Numbers. The Numbers. Since I last valued the FANGAM stocks in September 2020, there have been six quarterly earnings reports from each of these companies, and I report on two key operating measures, revenues and operating income, in the table below, for the last three fiscal years for each of the companies.

Valuation 130

Valuation Profit and Loss Numbers Advertising 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Updating the Numbers In the eighteen months since I valued these companies, much has happened, to the economy, to US equities collectively, and to these six companies, in specific. For the latter, I am reporting on the trailing 12-month numbers, to ensure that I have the calendar year numbers.)

Valuation 98

Valuation Profit and Loss Numbers Advertising 98

PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

In fact, revenue was well up across all of Alibaba’s segments — cloud computing brought in $314 million, up 103 percent, and digital media and entertainment raked in $571 million, up a full 234 percent. While cloud computing and digital entertainment division revenues have surged, they’ve yet to turn a profit.

Entertainment 48

Entertainment Profit and Loss eCommerce Forecasting 48

PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Though not explicitly broken out in filings by Alibaba, The Wall Street Journal estimated that pre-tax profit at the unit slumped to 2.4 Also, while there have been rumblings about government restrictions on gaming , the digital media and entertainment unit rose 46 percent to 5.9 billion yuan from 5.3 billion yuan last year.

eCommerce 40

eCommerce Profit and Loss Entertainment Retail 40

PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

According to American Express, the decline is due to the loss of the U.S. As we’ve said for a while now, we expect the large and global client segment to remain slower growth rates as corporations look to manage their travel and entertainment expenses,” he said. Costco card products, bought by Citi last year. Fifth Third Bancorp.

B2B 46

B2B SAP Profit and Loss Forecasting 46

PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

While social media platforms, if utilized effectively , can be beneficial for any retail business, those with an established brand obviously have a leg-up — in terms of financial assets, infrastructure and reach — on more nascent companies in their ability to quickly turn social presence into profit. and are increasing sales as a result.

Profit and Loss 42

Profit and Loss Entertainment eCommerce Sales 42

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

We will end with a discussion of how enterprises try, with mixed effects, to build protections against the loss of key personnel. In sports and entertainment, for instance, business can gain value from having a celebrity representing them in a paid or unpaid capacity. Who is a key person?

Valuation 113

Valuation Profit and Loss Entertainment Investments 113

Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The objective of TCI is to indemnify the supplier against losses which arise as a consequence of a buyer’s inability to pay. It does not aim to replace profits lost on the transaction. The sector mainly comprises of finance and business services, consumer-focused industries, such as retail, food and beverage, and entertainment.

Construction 52

Construction Manufacturing Economics Profit and Loss 52

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

When Best Buy first started appearing on the scene to a mass number of consumers in the mid and late 1990s, it was itself a disruptive force in electronics sale. In 2007, unable to turn a profit in an increasingly crowded market, specialty electronics retailer Tweeter went bust. Or Walmart. The Great Digital Upgrade.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Sales Entertainment Retail 40

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

’cause then I figure I could always be employed either managing the numbers or doing law and get those two degrees. And I got to see firsthand what Bain was doing in strategic consulting and understand their view of business separate from the numbers. And Bain was kind enough to offer me a job to facilitate.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 69

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Valuation Numbers 69

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

The numbers that I computed opened my eyes to how much perspective on the high, low, and typical values, i.e., the distribution of margins, helped in valuing the company, and how little information there was available, at least at that time, on this dimension. Aggregate operating numbers 3. Profit Margins 1. Return on Equity 2.

Valuation 98

Valuation Financial Analysis Analyzing Data Profit and Loss 98

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As smart phones have become ubiquitous in India, their usage has soared, partly because they are the only digital devices that many Indians have available to them to get online, and thus use to access social media, entertainment and shopping. The first is the number of users on its platform, using one or more of its many services.

Valuation 72

Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Numbers 72

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 103

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 103

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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.

Profit and Loss 70

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Sales 70

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The companies include iQiyi, a video platform company and Nio, an electric car maker, as well as Tencent Music Entertainment. The high number of listings did not necessarily translate into strong performance, as investors saw losses of about 16 percent on those stocks.

Profit and Loss 53

Profit and Loss Entertainment Valuation Marketing 53

Finvisage

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Derivative contracts make it possible to multiply the impact of the short making it possible to profit from a short position larger than the actual shares borrowed. During the pandemic and lockdowns, with people stuck at home and schools closed, wasn’t a gaming company due to make profit? There are also costs related to shorting.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Retail Securities Leverage 52

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. Number one, a school district is a business. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit.

Economics 56

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 56

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. Number one, longevity.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Math Numbers 52

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. So obviously, we’re seeing some relief in the commodity sector, but more broadly it’s, you know, whether or not how quickly are we going to see that number come down. So derivatives were a part where I was very intimidated.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You had 1987, you had 1997, you had 1998 there were a number of really substantial. Because obviously fundamental underpinning to the secular bull market, you know, number one is the fact that households are in better financial conditions than they have been since, you know, the GFC. What’s entertaining the family?

Construction 52

Construction Marketing Valuation Investments 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. I — I couldn’t believe the numbers. And this is part of the story I was so fascinated with was why would someone set-up a company where they deliberately turn over all the future profits to the — to the people?

Profit and Loss 64

Profit and Loss Marketing Investments Benchmarking 64

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

When we go back and look at the team that we had assembled in the early 2000s in the Goldman Sachs distressed trading desk, an extraordinary number of those folks went on to become partners and founders of very successful multi-billion dollar asset management firms. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had.

Investments 52

Investments Profit and Loss Restructuring Accounting 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 60

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: It’s the probability and the severity of your loss, but sticking with it is, you know, what it takes.

Investments 109

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 109

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

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. It’s called FL Entertainment, great entrepreneur, Stéphane Courbit. It’s a real company.

Investments 56

Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 56

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

Profit and Loss 117

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 117

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance.

Math 56

Math Risk Management Profit and Loss Marketing 56

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

Profit and Loss 56

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 56

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Zeke Faux, Number Go Up , is below. Zeke Fox’s book number go up inside crypto’s Wild Rise and staggering. I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. Fall is just a shocking and hilarious and fun read. Little bit giveaway.

Numbers 60

Numbers Profit and Loss Banking Finance 60

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. And so you had a situation where you could take big positions in the euro dollar market, affect the price and the cash market and actually make a profit. We just had a giant number, a giant upside surprise in payrolls.

Treasury 56

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 56

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: I am interested in numbers. I’m naturally a numbers person. To me, storytelling is much more — I mean, if you think about the history of humanity, for thousands of years, the way we pass down information was with stories, not numbers. They had the access to loss and excel really.

Valuation 114

Valuation Education Finance Investments 114

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. 00:30:21 [Speaker Changed] That’s the sort of number that comes out in these polls. He won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on consumption, poverty, welfare wealth and health inequality.

Healthcare 56

Healthcare Economics Math Education 56