CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

My September 2020 Valuations. I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. Updating the Numbers. to 14.9%.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In the second post, I pointed to inconsistencies in how accountants classify operating, capital and financing expenses , and the consequences for reported accounting numbers. Narrative and Value As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation.

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Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

Serie A, B, and C teams are all in play as private equity firms join the mad rush to buy a dwindling number of assets. These are things that a lot of clubs arent doing right now, says Eric Andalman, an attorney at Hogan Lovells who specializes in sports, entertainment and project development.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. For the latter, I am reporting on the trailing 12-month numbers, to ensure that I have the calendar year numbers.)

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023.

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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.

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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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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The earnings report shows Facebook’s business is under pressure on a number of fronts, at a moment when Mr. Zuckerberg is betting the company’s future on VR headsets, AR glasses and virtual worlds, known as the metaverse, in which users can live and work. Photo: Storyblocks. 7 through its close on Tuesday.

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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. As Paytm's product suite has expanded, its numbers reflect both its strengths and weaknesses, with four key statistics tracking its expansion.

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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. The numbers yield interesting insights. . The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Valuations are high. The interesting wrinkle here is that Silver Lake might be among the marquee names in technology investments — and with the latest deal has said that the investment would “help drive the next phase of CFG’s growth in the fast-growing premium sports and entertainment content market.”. Not just in the stock market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The companies include iQiyi, a video platform company and Nio, an electric car maker, as well as Tencent Music Entertainment. That said, longer term, Chinese companies have benefited from US listings, with the validation of more institutional shareholders and higher valuations.” .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The companies include iQiyi, a video platform company; Nio, an electric car maker; and Tencent Music Entertainment. listings, with the validation of more institutional shareholders and higher valuations.”. The level of new issuance of Chinese companies in the U.S. The level of new issuance of Chinese companies in the U.S.

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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. The numbers yield interesting insights. The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Story Lines As the walls between sports and money have crumbled, we have become used to seeing mind-boggling numbers on sports transactions, whether it be in the form on broadcasting networks paying for the rights to carry sporting events or player contracts pushing into the hundreds of millions. billion, with current profitability, $2.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Delivery company Postmates announced on Tuesday (April 23) that it is expanding and adding 1,000 more cities, bringing the total number of cities it serves to 3,500 across all 50 states, according to report by Fortune. Postmates has a valuation of $1.85 We are now putting the money we have raised to great use.”. billion for DoorDash.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 27, 2025

And then MassMutual combined Barings investing with a number of other shops, including Babson, a very well regarded investing firm. You had a number of bankruptcies going on. And, and I’ve been proven that’s been proven to me a number of times through some mistakes, but I’ve have the scars to, to show it.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 27, 2025

So, so those numbers are astonishing. And there was a number that were actually in that business. You know, and, and, and so we expanded into a number of different other businesses. 00:38:56 [Speaker Changed] Much more aggressive numbers 00:38:57 [Speaker Changed] Six months after the Starbucks discussions.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. Maybe we’ll get down to 4% or 5%, but that’s the number the Fed doesn’t like. TROPIN: Correct. TROPIN: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

It took video games two decades to go from a brand new form of niche entertainment to a mainstream, multi-billion dollar global industry. Since games can stay up on Steam for years, this subjects them to a number of spikes and dips according to finicky currency valuations. However, at the moment a developer in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 29, 2025

We learned everything, you know, across from accounting to auditing to, to tax and valuation. I ended up in what was called the valuation services group, where we valued real estate and businesses either for transactions or for m and a activity. So that, that number ultimately is about 40 billion of our 150 billion of equity.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

I’d love to have [the] churn [number], I just don’t think we’ll get it,” said Ross MacMillan, RBC Capital Markets analyst, in an interview with Reuters. MacMillan downgraded Shopify to sector perform earlier this year, largely due to the company’s lofty valuation and the longer time frame before new services will impact earnings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

It was a good week for Amazon’s stock price, with a valuation that briefly exceeded $1 trillion before falling back into the far more conservative $927 billion range, reaffirming its membership in the trillion-dollar club along with Microsoft ($1.27 Amazon doesn’t talk numbers that much,” said Steve Boom, head of Amazon Music. “We

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, they’ve put up some really impressive numbers over the past 30 years, which has given them the opportunity to donate tens of millions of dollars to their favorite organizations. We don’t give exact numbers. Number one, it means our transaction costs are less, which based on your career, you know exactly.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

JEFFREY RAYPORT: Well, maybe the best way to bring it to life is to talk about one of the companies that we’ve spent a lot of time with, and that’s King Digital Entertainment. Can you just explain what extrapolation is? It’s a London-based game maker. Many people will know it. It’s been recently acquired by Activision Blizzard.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. Valuations go up and you saw it, of course, in the late ‘90s, in the tech sector. But you’re looking at valuations and what sort of multiples you want to pay.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. Is that a fair statement?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. 00:09:40 [Speaker Changed] Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. It was about $170 million valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. billion dollars in AUM.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They run long short across each of these, and they’ve put up some pretty impressive numbers over the past couple of years. 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. It’s beta neutral, market neutral.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You sit on the board of directors on a number of portfolio companies. And then the related question is, how dependent are private markets on public market valuations? LAYTON: — some of the differences in valuation that have been out there. You do see some big valuations there. LAYTON: Yup.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. What’s the valuation? Less, 20, 30%?

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

To illustrate, what business would you put Apple, a company that was categorized (rightly) as a computer hardware company 40 years ago, but that now gets more than 60% of its revenues and profits from the iPhone, a telecommunication device that is also a hub for entertainment and services?

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