CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Abercrombie & Fitch – Shares of the retail stock jumped 19% after the apparel retailer beat Wall Street’s revenue forecasts for the third quarter and posted unexpected quarterly profit. related investing news. AgroFresh Solutions – The chemical company focused on preventing food loss added 5.4%

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MARCH 27, 2019

On-demand workspace startup WeWork has secured significant funding from investors and has aggressive plans for global expansion, but the company’s losses are ballooning, according to reports in The New York Times this week. According to the company’s latest financial disclosure, the firm’s losses have hit $1.9

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter. Though it saw some gains in the financial technology business, it had losses when it came to ride-hailing investments, like the one it had in Spain’s Cabify.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter. Though it saw some gains in the financial technology business, it had losses when it came to ride-hailing investments, like the one it had in Spain’s Cabify.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Berkshire Hathaway plans to invest more than $570 million in cloud data company Snowflake , which has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. The target valuation points to the high expectations for the company, whose technology aims to handle large volumes of data. Meanwhile, sales boomed. million.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

suffered the largest-ever loss. companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. John Lynch, chief investment officer at Comerica Wealth Management, which manages $175 billion. Prompting the turnaround: Snap posted its first quarterly profit. AMZN 13.54%. Meta Platforms Inc.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Petco's net sales went up 9 percent over 2019, hitting $3.58 Same-store sales surged 9.6 The pet retail chain is also moving towards profitability after net losses the past two years. It has also narrowed its losses by 77 percent to $20.3 It could be looking for a $6 billion valuation. . percent this year.

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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. The FANGAM Valuations: February 2022.

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VCFO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This hospitality business owner approaching retirement didn’t want to sell the company he built for more than 20 years for < $10M but valuation showed it would only yield $3-4M in the market. | This owner focuses on maximizing profit and minimizing tax liability with reporting and operations directed at those aims.

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MARCH 17, 2019

Uber is seeking a valuation as high as $120 billion, although some analysts have said it will be closer to $100 billion. Neither Uber nor Lyft are profitable. However, it also saw its net loss grow to $911.3 However, it also saw its net loss grow to $911.3 Lyft’s IPO papers showed that the company earned $2.16

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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. Who is a key person?

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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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CFO Share

MAY 5, 2023

Have sales and operations meet regularly to brainstorm product or service improvements. Invest in speed and efficiency Downturns and slow economies are ideal times to focus on productivity growth. Investments that lead to productivity growth includes: Automation Lean process improvement through Kaizen, 5S, etc.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Here are a few of the more noteworthy ones, listed in order of valuation at the time of going public: 1. The company also reported a $23 million profit for the second quarter — its first black ink in history. For instance, Target reported a 155 percent jump in digital sales during the third quarter. Airbnb ($47 billion).

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. In 2016, Airbnb extended the model, allowing hosts to offer experiences to their guests, for a fee, with Airbnb keeping 20% of the payment.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

From 2001 to 2020, revenue growth at semiconductor businesses has dropped to single digits, as higher demand for chips in new uses has been offset by loss of pricing power, and declining chip prices. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! While revenue growth has picked up again in the last three years, the business has matured.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

I don't have an axe to grind in this fight, since I don't own GameStop or care much about hedge funds, but I am interested in how this episode will affect overall markets and whether I need to change the ways in which I invest and trade.

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MAY 10, 2019

Last year, noted the WSJ , the valuation had been rumored to be $120 billion, if and when the ride-hailing giant came to market. Losses, though, are losses across that model, evidenced by the latest showings for Lyft, which logged $1.1 Previously, Uber had had a pricing range of $48 to $55. That is especially true now.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As the price dropped below $200 today (October 30,2023), I decided that it was time for me to revisit and revalue the company, taking into account the news, financial and other, that has come out since my last valuation in January 2023, and to understand the dueling stories that are emerging about the company.

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MAY 12, 2016

Forget love — investments into publicly traded companies make the world go round. However, when a retailer whose performance was once seen as a bellwether for an entire vertical starts to post poor results quarter after quarter, those investments are going to be in serious danger of drying up.

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MAY 10, 2018

. “India is one of the most attractive retail markets in the world, given its size and growth rate, and our investment is an opportunity to partner with the company that is leading transformation of eCommerce in the market,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in a statement. What the Deal Will Mean. is known for. “As

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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. For example, they might ask, "what if our revenue decreases by 20%?"

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. They had a one-third market share of certain product sales in the entire country.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018, and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. Postmates has claimed that it completes 5 million deliveries per month, and is reportedly expected to record $400 million in revenue in 2018 on food sales of $1.2 By The Numbers. million or $.06

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the first, I will look at the grocery business, both in terms of growth and profitability of grocery stores, since Instacart, as an intermediary in the business, will be affected by grocery business fundamentals. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

There are multiple definitions that you will see offered, from it being the cost of raising capital for that business to an opportunity cost , i.e., a return that you can make investing elsewhere, to a required return for investors in that business.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018 and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. Postmates claims that it completes 5 million deliveries per month and is reportedly expected to record $400 million in revenue in 2018 on food sales of $1.2 By The Numbers. million or $.06

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Put simply, I possess no exclusivity here, and staying consistent with my thesis, I don't expect to expect to make money by investing based upon this data. So, why bother? You would like those answers now, but stay tuned to the rest of my data updates and the data will speak for itself.)

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AUGUST 22, 2018

“We knew we wanted to build a nationally-known mass retailer,” Shah told The Boston Globe , noting that over the next ten years, Wayfair grew from a bootstrapped spare-bedroom operation to a business boasting up to a half a billion in annual sales. But its second problem attracts more attention — it is not, nor has it ever been, profitable.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average. In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable margin was for a firm operating in the retail business.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

The primary attraction of the company, to investors, comes not from its current standing (modest revenues and big losses), but from its positioning to take advantage of the potential growth in the Indian food delivery 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 2018, it added a Paytm Money , for investment and wealth management, and in 2019, it launched a Paytm for Business app for merchants to track payments.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

That’s because inventory is a key driver of several profit & loss (P&L) statement components, from revenue all the way down to net profit. How much is being charged to cost of sales? What is the percentage of the cost of sales to revenue? How much inventory is being carried on the balance sheet?

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JUNE 17, 2016

Synchrony sent the market into a tail spin when it issued guidance that suggested that there would be a 20 to 30 basis point increase in credit losses from these products. million, thrown a $485 million valuation up on the big board (as of its last fundraising over two years ago) and inspired so many imitators. Slow Funds .

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The net effect is that investors feel more confused now, when investing in companies, than ever before, even though the push towards more disclosures has ostensibly been for their benefit. As we look at the explosion of disclosures around the world, there are many obvious culprits.

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