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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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The shares were from the company’s technology holdings, according to Rakuten, and the sheer amount of them raised concerns among analysts about overvaluation in the sector. Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter.

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MAY 24, 2018

Uber, the ride-hailing company, plans to pour its profits into expanding its products and investing in technology in emerging markets. BGR , citing an email penned by Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, reported the company will reinvest profits in emerging markets, including India, so it can beef up Uber Eats and JUMP.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Investors in big technology stocks have a serious case of whiplash. suffered the largest-ever loss. companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 13.54%. Meta Platforms Inc.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The shares were from the company’s technology holdings, according to Rakuten, and the sheer amount of them raised concerns among analysts about overvaluation in the sector. Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter.

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PYMNTS

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. Revenues, however, are not profits.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Investment Implications: Asset Classes, Geographies and Companies. The Lead In. to 25% for the Eurozone.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

As of Friday (March 29), Lyft had a market valuation of higher than $22.25 While investors applauded the business model and timing of the ride-hailing company, there are concerns about its lack of profitability. Lyft set a record in terms of the company having the most losses in the year leading up to its IPO. million shares.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

The parties consulted and considered as potential buyers of Caviar were Uber Technologies Inc., According to Business Insider , Caviar does not make a profit, and the extent of the losses are not shown in the company’s financials. Square Inc. GrubHub Inc. and Yelp Inc. There were also other buyers who had talks with Square.

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PYMNTS

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. However, GoodRx reported a $50 million Q3 loss in November, helping to send the stock partly back downward.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2018

The total market valuation of Sonos at $19 a share would amount to $1.87 However, sources said in April that Sonos was targeting a valuation of $2.5 In fiscal 2017, Sonos posted a net loss of $14.2 million, down from a net loss of $38.2 In fiscal 2017, Sonos posted a net loss of $14.2 billion, or $2.2

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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 addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

In the last four decades, computer chips have become part of almost everything we use, from appliances to automobiles, and the companies that manufacture these chips have seen their fortunes rise, and sometimes be put at risk, as technology shifts. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! From High Growth to Maturity!

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. to 25% for the Eurozone.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. Is that poker, is that investing sounds like both.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

Such as: What do investors want from technology IPOs? In a framework of near-term activity, it seems that would-be investors are concerned where profits are headed (for instance, in firms like SecureWorks) and are paying attention to valuations (as many of them are so expensive). As has been widely reported, SecureWorks Corp.,

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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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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? By focusing so much attention on a small subset of companies, you risk developing tunnel vision, especially when doing peer group comparisons.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

billion in annual revenue, has a stock market valuation of $10 billion and an employee headcount that is expected to surpass 10,000 by the end of 2018. But its second problem attracts more attention — it is not, nor has it ever been, profitable. But net loss in the quarter was $100.7 And that growth has carried on since then.

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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. In the U.S., UberEATS and GrubHub, however, are growing.

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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. The first is that the costs of smartphones have decreased , and especially so in India, as technology and competition have worked their magic.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As we get deeper into earnings season for the third quarter of 2022, the biggest negative surprises are coming from technology companies, with the tech giants leading the way. I have written about the firm many times, over that period, starting with a valuation that I did of the company in 2012, just ahead of it going public.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

There is a sudden surge in construction technology startups, and investors have perked up. 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).

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Investors say they are reconsidering their approach to trading big technology stocks after a week marked by giant swings in share prices. Some have become victims of rising interest rates , changing consumer tastes and stretched valuations. Meta Platforms, parent of Facebook, recently suffered the biggest-ever loss for a U.S.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As we get deeper into earnings season for the third quarter of 2022, the biggest negative surprises are coming from technology companies, with the tech giants leading the way. I have written about the firm many times, over that period, starting with a valuation that I did of the company in 2012, just ahead of it going public.

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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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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2%

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Jedox Finance

JULY 11, 2023

According to KPMG, 65% of international dealmakers believe ESG is a key consideration when making investments and in merger and acquisition decisions, 1 and EY reports that 99% of investors use ESG disclosures as a part of their investment decision-making.

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MARCH 18, 2019

The company offers transportation through established taxi systems rather than the minicab model used by Uber and Lyft, and it expects to become profitable later this year. Gett successfully raised $130 million from companies that included Volkswagen, bringing its total amount raised to $700 million with a valuation of $1.4

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

And so when I asked myself the question, am I qualified to provide investment advice? And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Then as time goes on, the quality of earnings and cash flow and balance sheets, and the business model represented by a stock, win out in the end (and this is what guides, in general, value investing). Turns out that investors get nervous when profits prove elusive. The road from here to there is a rocky one. You remember them?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

I found this to be really a fascinating conversation about approaching the world of investing from a different angle. So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs.

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