PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Talks have been revived for SoftBank to take itself private amid a series of disappointments to the company’s equity valuation compared to the value of its individual holdings, Financial Times (FT) writes. The last disposal is planned to be announced this week, as SoftBank will sell U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What shall we make of private fundraising rounds that make valuation leaps, tacking on billions of dollars with each new capital raise? News about Chime ’s latest funding round might give pause when comparing the tech-savvy upstart’s valuation against some traditional banking players. billion, as CNBC reported. With the $14.5

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. to 14.9%.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. Mean Reversion works, until it does not : Much of investing over the last century in the US has been built on betting on mean reversion, i.e. that things revert back to historical norms, sooner rather than later.

Marketing 130

Marketing Valuation Corporate Finance Currencies 130

Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To determine profit margins, companies subtract the total cost of providing a product or service from the sales price paid for the item by customers. Gross Profit Margin: Your gross profit margin is the amount of your sales revenue minus the cost of your goods. Then divide that by your revenue. into the calculation.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook’s recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

has said that it was chosen to be ByteDance’s “trusted technology provider” that will take over TikTok's American operations, and Alibaba is considering an investment in Grab. Alibaba Eyes $3B Investment In Ride-Hailing Giant Grab. SoftBank Considers Going Private After Asset Sales, Report Says. Technology Provider’.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. . My September 2020 Valuations. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. Updating the Numbers. to 14.9%.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 7, 2023

Which suggests that advisor wellbeing could potentially be improved not only by automating or outsourcing administrative tasks, but also by adjusting their client rosters to better match their ideal client type.

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Fpanda Club

JULY 24, 2022

oracle Aesop formulated his investment insight "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and since that time the model for calculating the value of an asset as the present value of the cash generated by this asset throughout its life has remained unchanged. In about 600 B.C. and help identify most probable outcomes.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Possibly not, when it comes to valuation. The news this week that Dropbox , the file sharing firm, is coming public at well below the $10 billion it had seen in its latest fundraising round has raised much discussion about valuation. Because, of course, the numbers tell a story. Where magic abounds. High flying, or maybe not.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. But Software-as-a-Service emerged as a hot spot, too, with the largest investment round of the week going to a B2B eCommerce SaaS provider.

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B2B Securities Investments Startups 75

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. 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%

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Representatives of grocery-delivery powerhouse Instacart have met with investment bankers to explore taking the company public, the Financial Times (FT) reported. 8) that it had received $200 million in new capital from existing investors Valiant Peregrine Fund and D1 Capital Partners, boosting Instacart's valuation to $17.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

In an effort to significantly grow its presence in South Asia, Chinese eCommerce company Alibaba has announced its decision to invest $200 million in Indian online retailer Paytm E-Commerce. Here are the numbers: $1.1 billion | Paytm valuation amount with Alibaba investment. $5

Investments 40

Investments Valuation eCommerce Sales 40

Centage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To determine profit margins, companies subtract the total cost of providing a product or service from the sales price paid for the item by customers. Gross Profit Margin: Your gross profit margin is the amount of your sales revenue minus the cost of your goods. Then divide that by your revenue. into the calculation.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Budgeting Benchmarking Valuation 52

CFO Share

MAY 6, 2022

Whether a founder, employee, or investor, equity owners want to see a return on their investment. When taking investment from early Angel investors, selling 10% to 20% of equity is the general rule. There is a lot of risk and exposure in investing early. The sooner your exit, the less risk meaning you get a higher valuation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Private equity firm Silver Lake is leading a group in a $650 billion investment in buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider Klarna , The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Sweden-based Klarna, which provides the ability to pay for consumer goods with installments at a number of retailers, has seen a boost during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Last year, when the company raised $350 million in a Series E round of funding that included an investment from Didi Chuxing (China’s largest ridesharing service, which recently purchased Uber’s competitor business in China), it was valued at between $1.5 billion and $1.6 Grab also told investors that it expected to be providing 3.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The number of shares and the pricing have not yet been released. . Pets are anticipated to stay popular, with the number of households with pets going up 4 percent in 2020 alone. Petco's net sales went up 9 percent over 2019, hitting $3.58 Same-store sales surged 9.6 It could be looking for a $6 billion valuation. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

Electric scooter-sharing startup Bird has authorized a new $200 million round of funding that bring its valuation to around $1 billion. Citing a certificate of incorporation filed in Delaware, TechCrunch reported that Bird has authorized the sale of 31.5 million new shares in its financing round at a value of $6.15

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The payments landscape has evolved over the past few years to embrace other flows across consumer-to-business (C2B), healthcare and business-to-business (B2B) use cases — and open up investment opportunities for those with great tech, but no way to scale it. And it’s not overfunded by a little bit,” he told Webster of challenger banks.

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Investments Healthcare Startups Valuation 50

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.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

Accounting 74

Accounting Advertising Valuation Investments 74

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

Not surprisingly, Moneyball has found its way into business and investing as well. Mean Reversion works, until it does not : Much of investing over the last century in the US has been built on betting on mean reversion, i.e. that things revert back to historical norms, sooner rather than later.

Valuation 91

Valuation Corporate Finance Currencies Finance 91

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The number of those shares to be offered is still up in the air, as is the price range, according to the release. Morgan Securities LLC will act as lead bookwriters and representatives of the underwriters, while Credit Suisse and UBS Investment Bank will work as the book-running managers for the offering, the release says.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Or it may be a last gasp amid heightened valuations and investor enthusiasm, with a focus on a business model that has soared – and may, depending on how you look at it, face fresh challenges that crimp the drive to realizing black ink on the operating line. Here are five questions to ask as Door Dash opens on the market: 1.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2017

Investment activity picked up in the week that ended March 24, roughly doubling the amount seen in the previous week, to the tune of $416 million. The activity was weighted to B2B transactions at 60 percent of the total, and B2B as an investment arena took the top three spots in the pantheon. That’s the key for us.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Grab’s Earnings Bouncing Back To Pre-COVID Numbers. Investors Say FinTech Valuations Are High, But Not Overheated. There’s heavy interest even amid the pandemic in investing in financial services and payments tech across all manner of verticals, but valuations might be getting stretched.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Way back in 2017, the company was reportedly mulling an IPO or even a sale. After all, as SPAC Insider estimates , SPACs IPOs (so far) this year number 241, with an average deal size of $335 million and gross proceeds of nearly $81 billion, which far outpaces the 59 deals and gross proceeds of about $13.6 billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Point-of-sale lender Affirm’ s initial public offering (IPO) could reach as much as $10 billion through work with Goldman Sachs , according to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Affirm was recently ranked number 3 on PYMNTS’ list of BNPL firms. In April 2019, the company had a $2.9

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. One of the nation’s biggest independent sales organizations, the Allentown, Pa.-based offering free point-of-sale terminals to merchants using its services. Shift4 Payments has filed paperwork to go public.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

But then again, as reported earlier this month by supchina , valuations of FinTech companies have been waning, as seen through 2018, with market caps of several companies, such as Xinfu and ZhongAn Online, dropping by more than 60 percent. The regulatory environment is far from crystallized.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

I also like finance, perhaps not as much as sports, but there are winners and losers in the investment game as well. While Mbappe turned down the offer and is considering a ten-year deal with PSG, the numbers involved in the Al-Hilal deal are almost impossible to justify on purely economic terms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

Some “close to the situation” were estimating that Yahoo was largely contemplating a sale of its core business (mostly comprised of its web properties) for $4 billion to $8 billion. And, consumers will shop around to get the best deal they can, thanks to number portability. Investments for the week ended 06-03-16.

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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 that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.

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