PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the WeWork IPO – rather, the shelving of that IPO , at least for now – heralds the end of rich valuations for firms viewed as entrenched in the early stages of disruption. Most notably, Stripe has said it will not tap markets through an IPO. We’re quite early in this opportunity.”.

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VCFO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Without a solid capital structure in place, your business faces plateauing, difficulty in weathering market swings, lower market value, increased risk, and other undesired outcomes. Key Questions: How do we establish a cash forecast for managing the company’s cash wisely? Let’s look at a few anonymized but actual scenarios.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The Market Reaction. Bond Markets and Default Risk. Equity Markets and Equity Risk Premiums. The Lead In.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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CFO Share

MAY 5, 2023

Follow market signals Demand shifts during recessions. Are you shifting your growth marketing strategies to match? The only way to know is to follow the market closely and respond quickly. These tactics will allow you to identify new demand and adjust your growth marketing strategies. Research competitors.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

If bad days are measured by declines in stock market prices, then yesterday (Feb. Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. 7) was a really bad day for Grubhub.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI story. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! Love-Hate Relationship with Markets!

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

If bad days are measured by declines in stock market prices, then yesterday (Feb. Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. 7) was a really bad day for Grubhub.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

The answers—based on different sources of data like market research or historical sales information—guide internal decision-making to promote regular, sustainable growth as well as create contingency plans for worst-case or best-case scenarios. Think of pro forma statements as a monetary crystal ball, a guiding financial forecast.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That attention has worked in the company's favor over much of its lifetime, as it has gone from a start-up to one of the largest market cap companies in the world, disrupting multiple businesses in the process. In subsequent valuations, I modified and adapted this story to reflect lessons that I learned about Tesla, along the way.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After years of rumors of an imminent IPO, Instacart has finally filed for a public offering of it’s shares, aspiring to raise about $600 million from markets, at a pricing of about $9-$10 billion for its equity. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

But the category of perishables marks new territory for Amazon, which The Motley Fool thinks could present a challenge and put a deep dent in short-term profits. Now, Amazon is experimenting, it seems, in a sector with narrow profit margins, and it has the luxury to do so. billion between them, but there is still a huge market.

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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 the decade since, that has changed, as the smart phone market has exploded to reach hundreds of millions of Indians in 2020.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It is quite clear, though, that unless we break this cycle, where each corporate shortcoming or market upheaval is followed by a fresh round of new disclosures, we are destined to make this disclosure problem worse. Uber and Airbnb Prospectuses Is Uber’s total addressable market really $5.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Analysts forecasted a 40 percent increase in venture capitalist (VC) funding for construction startups between 2014 and 2017, with investments totaling $375 million last year. trillion global valuation by the end of the decade). Yet, the market continues to struggle in many ways. “Most of them use pen and paper.”

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. The second is that the government be perceived as default-free.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 8, 2023

It is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate as a cleanser for excesses that enter into even the most disciplined investors’ playbooks in the good times. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.).

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It is never pleasant to be in the midst of a market correction, but a market correction does operate as a cleanser for excesses that enter into even the most disciplined investors' playbooks in the good times. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.) What is Free cash flow (FCF)?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

So your doctoral thesis asserted that consistently beating market averages was attainable by exploiting both value and momentum. Because, you know, there’s this constant fight in academia, if you believe something works, does it work because markets are efficient in its compensation for risk, or for behavioral reasons?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

It was an era where, you know, first of all, the markets were really inefficient, right? TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot. Commodity markets were moving a lot. It’s much better to be involved in trend following when markets are moving. Tell us a little bit about that era.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

This is the back when mortgages were sort of a backwater of the fixed income market. It takes quite a lot of, of research, quite a lot of modeling, quite a lot of data to actually keep up with the mortgage market. By the time you get to the early 2000s, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and me were losing market share.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are few people in the world who understand the interrelationships between central banks, the economy, and markets like Bill Dudley does this, this is just a master class in, in understanding all the factors that affect everything from the economy to inflation, to the labor market, the housing market, and of course, federal Reserve policy.

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