PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

Brands (YUM) beat out earnings and revenue estimates for Q1, though numbers were still down year-on-year. The company reported that the loss was largely due to lower company sales, down 5 percent YoY. This strategy is similar to the one KFC leveraged to pull KFC out of a similar slump in 2015. “We percent to $67.78

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Meanwhile, the private sector keeps marching along, and any number of firms, from Visa to Mastercard to Early Warning to Ingo to Same-Day ACH have been guns a-blazing doing stuff to make payments faster and safer. Fizzling By The Numbers. In the latest period, the loss shrank by 22 percent and beat expectations. Amazon Stock.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

This superb loyalty experience extended beyond the app as well, leveraging surprise-and-delight best practices to engage customers at home. Shouldn’t retailers be obsessing over that set of customers who always seem to bring back what they bought, leading to restocking losses? Because the numbers are blatantly misleading.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Affirm is no stranger to digital identity methods that prevent this and employs a range of techniques to verify its users and protect its merchant partners from sacrificing profits to theft. We want to minimize … the number of good users we’re putting through a high-friction [process],” Kumar said. Fraud Faces the Machine.

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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 I got to see firsthand what Bain was doing in strategic consulting and understand their view of business separate from the numbers. And Bain was kind enough to offer me a job to facilitate.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Valuation Numbers 69

Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Profit and loss statement: Also known as an income statement, a profit and loss statement summarizes your company’s costs, expenses, and revenues incurred in a certain period, such as throughout the fiscal year or during a specific quarter. If you want to apply for capital like a bank loan, you will need forecasts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 98

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Planning Forecasting Profit and Loss 98

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 103

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Having said that, though, it is worth noting that this is where the consensus ends, since there are deep divides on how this hurdle rate should be computed, with companies diverging and following three broad paths to get that number: 1. The third is currency, with hurdle rates, for any given project, varying across currencies.

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Hurdle Rate Currencies Investments Valuation 52

Centage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Profit and loss statement: Also known as an income statement, a profit and loss statement summarizes your company’s costs, expenses, and revenues incurred in a certain period, such as throughout the fiscal year or during a specific quarter. If you want to apply for capital like a bank loan, you will need forecasts.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Planning Forecasting Profit and Loss 52

PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

At the ripe old age of 120, the Swiss Army knife holds a unique place in retail. Now, the idea of an Amazon Echo with a touchscreen is not exactly new — it was reported in November 2016 that mega e-retailer Amazon was working on such a device — whose code name is said to be the Amazon Knight. Many of whom are also named Karl.

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Retail Profit and Loss Sales Manufacturing 49

Finvisage

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Derivative contracts make it possible to multiply the impact of the short making it possible to profit from a short position larger than the actual shares borrowed. During the pandemic and lockdowns, with people stuck at home and schools closed, wasn’t a gaming company due to make profit? There are also costs related to shorting.

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Profit and Loss Retail Securities Leverage 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Combined with growing advisor (and consumer) interest in comprehensive financial planning services, the number of ways advisors can add value for their clients has expanded greatly. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We discussed all these things as well as why there has never been a better time to be a retail investor than right now, right here in this era. RAMPULLA: I went to Drexel part time while I was at Vanguard, did that commute down to Philadelphia from the suburbs, you know, three times a week for a number of years. RAMPULLA: Yeah.

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Investments Profit and Loss Education Advertising 111

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

The headlines about Nike’s Q4 earnings announcement focused on what would be a staggering loss at any other time. Nike reported a loss of $790 million during the period ended May 31, compared with net income of $989 million for the same quarter in 2019. Across all 12 of our key cities, Nike remains consumer’s number one favorite brand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Trackers use a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark an ever-changing landscape. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions hold promise in alleviating some of these issues, but many retailers are still taking hands-off approaches to dealing with pandemic-related shifts in consumers’ spending habits. “I

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

Otto Lowe, CFO at DeepCam , says that’s why network intelligence is needed: a video surveillance system across chain retailers that doesn’t just catch suspicious activity in one store at a time, but identifies patterns, trends and repeat actors across multiple locations and large populations. retail losses each year, or 1.5

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Conventional wisdom may hold that alternative lenders — those companies that leverage data and analytics, along with various funding models matching investors with borrowers — could be harder hit than more traditional lenders by a volatile rate environment. consumer remains solid.

Banking 49

Banking Profit and Loss Economics Compliance 49

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management.

Investments 116

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 116

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 61

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. MIELLE: Exactly. MIELLE: Yes.

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Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 110

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Restructuring 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 118

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Then, in the 1960s, retailers saw an opportunity to drive revenue by making the start of holiday shopping an official event. The name “Black Friday,” of course, came from the numbers entered on ledgers: black for profits, red for losses. Meanwhile, domestic retailers are sending out their own notices about sales.

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Profit and Loss Retail Sales Advertising 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss. Fascinating.

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Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57

PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

After employing a number of moves earlier in the fight to disorient Foreman and force him to waste his power on punches that missed their mark, Ali lured Foreman into attacking him against the ropes so as to tire him out. The Rumble In The Big Retail Jungle.

Retail 40

Retail Leverage Numbers Profit and Loss 40

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. Ends up turning about $27 million of swap premiums into 2 billion plus in profit.

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Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Yes, the sobering reality of having to really make money has become an unwelcome wake-up call for those who masked the real value of their business with the never-ending piles of VC cash that just kept underwriting losses and kicked the revenue can way down the road. Take physical retail. And paying for stuff was a breeze, too.

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Banking Profit and Loss Retail Manufacturing 46

PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

May flowers did not appear for retail earnings, unless you consider a bouquet of stinkweed a blanket of blossoms. Simply put, the numbers were dismal, the stock prices sinking like, well, the foundations’ poorly laid brick-and-mortar structures. By the numbers, there was a dearth of good news coming from Macy’s. Revenue was $5.34

Retail 43

Retail Profit and Loss Sales Advertising 43

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

We also have a number of articles on taxes and end-of-year planning: The importance for advisors of understanding current RMD rules to ensure their clients take the proper distributions (and avoid a 50% penalty in the process!). He has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Profit and Loss Investments Valuation 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. He knows how to manage risk, and he knows how to trade for a profit for a p and l. That’s unbelievable.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

On Monday, the White House announced that it will let the Covid-related public health emergency declarations expire on May 11, 2023… [T]he numbers don’t lie. Stay safe out there! * * * • “China Covid: Coffins sell out as rural losses mount” [ BBC ]. Though CDC may be jiggering the numbers soon.

Advertising 130

Advertising Healthcare Profit and Loss Education 130