CFO News

MAY 26, 2023

The finance veterans highlighted that the funding winter for Indian startups will last at least for six to nine months more, and the investment crisis has normalised the valuation of startups.

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CFO Share

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business valuation captures more than just your present position—it’s a mirror to your past efforts and a window to future possibilities. As we journey through this article, we’ll illuminate the core factors that breathe life into the valuation of your business. What factors influence business valuation?

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Michigan CFO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Manufacturing business valuation is an important process that defines the value of a given manufacturing company. Having an accurate idea of that value is essential for ownership, partners, and third parties to make appropriate decisions about financing, investing in, and buying or selling a manufacturing business. preparing to sell.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

If you are interested, you can see my valuations from 2014 , 2016 and 2017. The second is on investment and capital intensity , where it has managed to take what critics pointed to as weaknesses (unwillingness to build large and expensive assembly plants ahead of time, to meet future demand) and made them into strengths.

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CFO News

AUGUST 1, 2023

The valuation cut comes at a time when a number of headline investors in multiple Indian startups have done the same, amid a global rout across public and private technology markets.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Uber , the ride-hailing startup gearing up to go public via an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly seeking a valuation of between $80 billion and $90 billion and is getting a $500 million investment from PayPal. It is also closer to the $76 billion valuation it had after its latest round of funding.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

billion valuation, CNBC reported. Chime’s funding comes on the heels of free-trading app Robinhood’s fundraise in August at a valuation of $11.2 In addition, Pitchbook indicated that investments from non-traditional backers jumped more than 80 percent in 2018 in contrast to 2017. The company is geared toward U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Stripe, the San Francisco digital payments startup, has landed a $100 million investment from Tiger Global Management, boosting its valuation above $20 billion. According to a report in CNBC , citing The Information, with the $100 million investment by Tiger Global Management , Stripe now has a valuation of $22.5

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CFO Network

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

But did you know that business valuation can give you more insight into your business than just the economic value? Keep reading to learn more about why business valuation is such an important process for every business. Business valuation is the best way to get proof of how well your business is doing year to year.

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Creative CFP

AUGUST 31, 2022

We recently performed a valuation exercise for a client who intends to swap shares in a successful South African application software company for those of a similar company in the Netherlands. While these companies operate in the same industry, we found the comparative valuations to be vastly different.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

billion I estimated in 2021 (year 8 in my IPO valuation) as revenues in my IPO valuation of the company in November 2013, and its operating margin, even with generous assumptions on R&D, was 19.02% in 2021, still below my estimate of 19.76% in that year. billion, well below the $9.6

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Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

I also used the banking framework to argue that good banks have stickier deposits, with a higher precent of these deposits being non-interest bearing, that they invest in loans and investment securities on which they earn interest rates that cover and exceed the default risk in these investments. All Equity, All the time!

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 2, 2021

Just over a week ago, I valued Zomato ahead of its market debut, and as with almost every valuation that I do on this forum, I heard from many of you. The Prelude After I posted my valuation last week, I did find some of the portrayals of my post to be a little unsettling. Let me dispel both delusions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

ParkJockey , a fully integrated parking technology solutions provider, has announced an investment from the SoftBank Group , bringing its valuation to more than $1 billion.

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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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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. It is human nature to want to make the world a better place, but does impact investing have the impact that it aims to create?

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CFO News

MARCH 24, 2023

After the Adani group lost over $100 billion in valuation post scathing allegations by U.S.-based based Hindenburg Research, state-run LIC was criticized for having over $4 billion exposure to companies from the group.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

I started in the MBA program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979, at the tail-end of its basketball glory days, fully expecting to move on to a career in consulting or investment banking, when I was done.

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Creative CFP

MARCH 5, 2021

The purpose of a Business Valuation While most can only dream of selling their business for that amount of money, it is important to know how one goes about valuing a business, no matter what the size. A valuation may be required for periodic reporting (i.e. This leads us to our final valuation – how much we think the company is worth.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. It is ironic, and perhaps telling, that our understanding of statistics seems to have hit rock bottom in the age of big data.

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Cube Software

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, discounted cash flow determines the attractiveness of an investment. It shows the net present value of future cash flows to assess the investment's worth today. What is discounted cash flow?

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CFA Institute

APRIL 28, 2021

The authors set out the core principles of valuation and offer a guide to measuring a company's value.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The company's valuation after this funding round is now 1.2 The new valuation is lower than the previous one, so industry observers see this as a down round, TechCrunch reported, and the previous valuation may have been overheated since the pandemic skewed things for businesses globally. The company also now has over 4.8

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

digital bank Monzo is set to raise new funds that could double its valuation to £2 billion, making it the second-largest FinTech startup in Britain. According to The Guardian , Monzo is close to securing £100 million from a new, unnamed American investor. million customers. Another asked: “How much are Round One investors smiling today?”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In an interview with Paul Purcell , partner at Continental Advisors , four panelists — investors and analysts all — weighed in on the current investment climate … and whether that climate is getting overheated. And though valuations may be stretched, fundamentals are indeed sound. follow the money. The Big Picture . And Who’s Got It

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CFO News

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Investment mostly through secondary sale of shares; small primary sale will see infusion of growth equity.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Could Fidelity’s latest investment in Snapchat at a valuation of $16 billion actually indicate trouble for the social newcomer? has raised $175 million in new funding from Fidelity Investments. The company’s valuation of $16 billion last March was a 60 percent increase from its previous valuation in Dec.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2019

Lime and Bird , the two electric scooter startups that raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding in 2018, are aiming to raise more but at a lower valuation. That is under the $3 billion or higher valuations they were fetching in years past. But with the lower valuations, it appears that business is starting to fray.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In fact, I concluded the post by arguing that investors in Facebook were pricing in their belief that the billions of dollars the company had invested in the Metaverse would be wasted, and argued that Facebook faced some of the blame, for not telling a compelling story to back the investment.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

12) indicated that the company was looking to raise $299 million at a valuation of $3.6 billion valuation last year, according to filings by PingAn. The quick succession of the valuation cuts suggests that OneConnect has likely deep underlying issues.”. A stock exchange filing on Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

billion valuation, the publication said. Last month, it was revealed that Instacart raised $600 million, giving it a valuation of $7.6 The funding round was led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners, and came only six months after the startup closed on a $350 million round of investing. Instacart has raised $1.87 billion.

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Future CFO

MARCH 22, 2021

Higher yields for long-dated sovereign bonds will result in near-term losses for Asia Pacific banks as they recognise valuation changes on their available-for-sale (AFS) bond portfolios, but the capital impact should be manageable for most rated banks, said Fitch Ratings recently.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Automated business payments processing firm AvidXchange is launching a new fundraising round that could give the firm a $2 billion valuation, The New York Times reported on Monday (Dec. billion valuation led by PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel and Mastercard. 9), citing sources. This latest fundraising could top $300 million.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

According to people familiar with the discussions, the new valuation could hit as much as $70 billion or maybe as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg said. FinTech Stripe is considering a funding round to value it higher than the $36 billion it got on its last round, Bloomberg reports.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The Finance Bill, 2023 has proposed amending Section 56(2)(viib) of the I-T Act, thereby bringing overseas investment in unlisted closely held companies, excepting DPIIT-recognised startups, under the tax net.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

For much of the last two years, rather than teach my classes in a classroom, I taught my classes from my home office, making a few low-cost, low-tech investments to improve my set up. My classroom teaching at Stern has been mostly corporate finance and valuation, to both MBAs and undergraduates.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this post, I will begin with a quick review of my 2021 valuation, then move on to the price action in 2021 and 2022 and then update my valuation to reflect the company’s current numbers. . My IPO Valuation. I valued Zomato, soon after it filed its prospectus for its initial public offering, in July 2021.

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