Future CFO

JUNE 22, 2021

The most digitally mature firms saw valuations 23% above pre-crisis levels, on average, within six months of the pandemic’s start, said BCG recently when releasing the results of a study. . Of the bionic companies in the study, 54% plan to upskill more than 20% of their workforce in AI and machine learning. .

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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. Roblox was planning to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange in the fourth quarter of 2020 but in an SEC filing on Jan. 8, the company changed its plans to a direct listing to occur in February. . 29), citing an employee memo.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

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. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5% to 14.9%.

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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. The FANGAM Valuations: February 2022. to 14.9%. Updating the Numbers.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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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. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5% to 14.9%.

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

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Further, the company is stepping into the FinTech arena, with plans to roll out financial products like credit facilities for retail buyers. The firm has since expanded into additional market segments, including travel, entertainment, retail, gaming and more. The firm, which now has a valuation of $10.2 Privacy.com.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

That year, I computed these industry-level statistics for five variables that I found myself using repeatedly in my valuations, and once I had them, I could not think of a good reason to keep them secret. After all, I had no plans on becoming a data service, and making them available to others cost me absolutely nothing.

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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. To get from these numbers to a value per share, I use the existing share count, in conjunction with the information in the prospectus that the company plans to raise ?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. Investors are intensely focused on the Federal Reserve’s plans to begin raising interest rates in mid-March, ratcheting back the monetary stimulus that has helped power stocks since early in the Covid-19 pandemic. Meta Platforms Inc.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It was the worst month for the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite since March 2020 as investors consider how rising interest rates could weigh on the tech sector’s pricey valuations. The earnings, released after markets closed on Wednesday, followed a rough January for U.S. 7 through its close on Tuesday. How the Biggest Companies Are Performing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A company recently created by billionaire Virgin Atlantic Founder Richard Branson plans to raise between $400 million and $460 million to acquire a yet-to-be identified business that is available at an attractive price due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Wednesday (Sept. VG Acquisitions Corp., VG Acquisitions Corp.,

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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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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

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. billion pricing with an intrinsic valuation is beyond reach. billion, with current profitability, $2.7

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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. And we, we planned what was gonna happen the next morning. It’s important.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 27, 2025

What, 00:02:38 [Speaker Changed] What was the career plan, by the way? I, I guess I would say to you this, I I never really had a career plan. I, I would often think that Chinese have 20 year plans. So I came back as CEOI put all that plan in place. The language of delivery is financial planning. It was horrific.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Within payments processing, Stripe raised $150 million, with an implied valuation of more than $9 billion. And with the new funding, Tripathy said Helpshift is planning to expand its teams across multiple fronts. This means that traditional banking carried quite a bit of weight within the week’s investment activity.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And if you have not planned carefully as to how much capital you need to get there or what milestones you need to hit, that’s another way to see a venture run out of fuel before it actually gets to the point of sustainability. Can you just explain what extrapolation is? It’s a London-based game maker. Many people will know it.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 27, 2025

Was finance always the career plan. This seems to be going across every sector I look at, is this just a natural evolution of capital markets or have valuations and size just gotten so large that Wall Street can only service these giant shops and it creates this void in, in the middle underneath? What are your plans?

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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.

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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 trillion market value), Apple ($1.38 million U.S. CEO John Furner.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It sounds like the career plan was always finance. Was that the plan? Heather Brilliant : It was not the plan. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration. How far out do you plan it?

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What was the original career plan? Michael Fisch : 00:01:39 [Speaker Changed] The original career plan was to be employed and provide a safety net for my mother and my two sisters. So we had some form of a track record that we could talk to people about and a very specific investment objective about what we were planning to do.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What, what was the career plan? And speaking of the.com implosion, like Microsoft via a case study where we, in previous strategies, we held Microsoft for a very long time, that’s where the valuation could help us in the.com bus. It’s great to be here. Let, let, let’s start there. 00:18:41 [Speaker Changed] Yep.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What was the original career plan? And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. What, what’s been keeping you entertained, 01:03:27 [Speaker Changed] Entertained? What’d you study there?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 20, 2025

What was the career plan? 00:01:42 [Speaker Changed] The career plan originally was urban development and transportation. So that’s when I really studied deeply the research why what I’d been doing was working more about when it might not and writing a business plan for Bridgeway. It was 150% of our net worth.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. I think 401(k) plans are starting to use ETFs more broadly. BERRUGA: You know, great question.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. Tell us what’s kept you and the family entertained. There are some differences.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It was about $170 million valuation. So of course, when you have that level of volatility in the market, right, it’s gonna put a little chill into people’s plans. 00:59:32 [Speaker Changed] So, so in late 21, 20 22, valuations had gotten a touch frothy in, in both the public and the private markets. So terrific.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Was that the plan or was he just going to announce it? That was never part of the plan, didn’t happen. It’s part of their own tax planning. What’s the valuation? It’s just entertainment. ” One about five years ago, I’m planning a trip to Silicon Valley. SEIDES: Oh no.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Was finance and investing always part of the plan? And essentially decided to pivot from that original plan because it became clear to me as I got older that to really make a living as a concert pianist, you need to be the top 1% in the world. That is not being reflected in valuations from a top down standpoint.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

What was the initial career plan? Mike Green : Well, the, the initial career plan, actually, so I grew up on a farm in Northern California. My initial career plan was that I was gonna go into science. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 25, 2025

Valuations tended to crash and burn very, very cheap valuations tended to do well. Like, you can plan a tweet six months in advance. And so we, it was kind of like, you know, Ken Stanley’s book, greatness Can’t Be Planned. Right, right. Very, very high. Sometimes I would stagger them out. There we go.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Was investing always the career plan? Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work.

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