Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.

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JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay comes to market with a few built-in advantages: it leverages the Walmart.com app, which is used by 20M+ people roaming around their stores each month, it works on every sort of smartphone out there, and they control the POS in all of their stores, just like Starbucks does. Zenefits’ Valuation Cut. Sizzle or Fizzle?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But the reality is that Uber, by dent of its relentless pursuit of growth, competition in the marketplace from Lyft and others and so forth, managed to move up that growth curve, get all the way to an IPO, establish a public market valuation before the tech meltdown of $100 billion market cap, and they still had not found profit market fit.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. It’s a fascinating strategy and it’s one that’s been very successful. With no further ado my conversation with Woodline partners, Mike Rockefeller.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Lyft’s valuation is less than 20 percent of that. And any other use cases businesses and people might dream up that can leverage their platform assets. Uber considers its competitors to be Amazon and Alphabet. Some may call the comparison unfair, the fight one-sided.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The first QR codes were rolled out by Toyota in 1994 as an innovation meant to help streamline the manufacturing process. And yes, some may worry about valuations. Though QR has had a particularly sizzling week, it has, in fact, been around for years — slightly longer than the song. But, it never quite happened.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. So I think many of these car manufacturers can see the writing on the wall.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So it used to be within private markets that you would find a good business, apply quite a bit of leverage to it, at least in the private equity business, and be able to make a pretty good return by buying good solid businesses as they are. Leverage levels have come down materially. LAYTON: Leverage levels have changed.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. BARATTA: — manufacturing those facilities. I mean, there have been leveraged loans and high yield bonds since the 1980s. BARATTA: Yeah. In the long run. BARATTA: Yes.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Most agricultural and manufactured goods were bought and sold within the country’s boundaries — and when products were exported internationally, the dollar was the invoicing currency of choice. For much of U.S. history, businesses were relatively sheltered from changes in the currency markets.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. So manufacturing went wherever it was cheapest.

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MARCH 7, 2016

Lately, though, they’re probably tossing and turning over the difficulties with raising capital coupled with the simultaneous descent of their venture’s valuations. That’s a bit of the same dilemma that all device manufacturers have facing them today in payments. There’s always a lot to do and never enough time to get it all done.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s that the, so that’s the core competency and it’s just leveraged into, if it’s a loan, if it’s a security backed by a loan, if it’s the actual estate itself. It’s highly data driven, but we need to know the price history for assets, the correlation to the, to what drives price.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. RITHOLTZ: Everybody, General Motors had a credit on multi-big manufacturers there. And the grid had to be built out, and the power had to be able to be manufactured. And I actually started out of business school.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So here’s the question about 2020 and we could talk a little bit about the pandemic, when you have an event from outside the market, sort of feels less like the dot-coms and the valuation issue, and more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, it’s totally outside of the system. They got a lot of leverage.

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