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To NPV or Not to NPV: That Is the Question

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From the FP&A standpoint, which may also lack that entrepreneurial perspective, the use of the traditional tools of financial analysis based on the discounted cash flows not only perfectly supports this kind of behavior, but also justifies it. Sources: Warren E. Buffett, Chairman’s Letter to the Shareholders.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

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A few of these variables are macro variables, but only those that I find useful in corporate finance and valuation, and not easily accessible in public data bases. Rather than replicate that data, my macroeconomic datasets relate to four key variables that I use in corporate finance and valuation.

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Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

Musings on Markets

A few of these variables are macro variables, but only those that I find useful in corporate finance and valuation, and not easily accessible in public data bases. Rather than replicate that data, my macroeconomic datasets relate to four key variables that I use in corporate finance and valuation.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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Data: Trickle to a Flood! It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time.

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

Musings on Markets

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. Valuation Pricing Growth & Reinvestment Profitability Risk Multiple s 1. Historical Growth in Revenues & Earnings 1.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. Thus, without a sense of what comprises a high or low profit margin for a firm, or what the cost of capital is for the typical company, it is easy to create "fairy tale" valuations and analyses.