Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

Not surprisingly, the operating metrics change as companies age, with high revenue growth accompanied by big losses (from work-in-progress business models) and large reinvestment needs (to delivery future growth) in early-stage companies to large profits and free cash flows in the mature phase to stresses on growth and margins in decline.

Corporate Finance 123

Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 123

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

“We’re pleased with how customers are responding to the way we’re leveraging stores and eCommerce to make shopping faster and more convenient. “In terms of profit, this has been a quarter that Walmart would rather forget,” Saunders said. “Operating income fell by 3.7 percent, a relatively weak outcome.

Profit and Loss 40

Profit and Loss Restructuring eCommerce Forecasting 40

Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

Lending rates followed central bank tightening moves, while deposit rates lagged; and across the region, there were some record profits. In Japan, profits at the country’s five most prominent banking groups leapt 56% to a record ¥2 trillion (about $12.6 billion after-tax profit versus $8.3 of E.Sun’s overall profit.

Banking 52

Banking Profit and Loss Construction Retail 52

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So you were very actively involved in the restructuring of the airlines post 9/11. So there really wasn’t a whole lot of restructuring and distressed assets afterwards, or was there? But, of course, Lehman was a huge restructuring and bankruptcy liquidation — RITHOLTZ: Sill going on today, right?

Investments 114

Investments Restructuring Profit and Loss Finance 114

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. So as the market and the industry restructure, we’ll certainly be very opportunistic. CHABRAN: Maybe because I come from a leverage finance background, as I told you, I tend always to focus on the downside. I think we learned a lot.

Investments 59

Investments Banking Entertainment Marketing 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I had no money back in 87, but certainly, you know, some of the managing directors and other people that had some money, they, they made quite a, quite a bit of of profits on, on some of the left for dead Microsoft and others that were just, you know, sold to very low levels as 00:06:28 [Speaker Changed] Opposed. So it does factor into it.

Investments 59

Investments Numbers Marketing Leverage 59

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Download data Again, the steep drop off in invested capital that you see in 2015 is just a reflection of the restructuring of the company that year, as the invested capital in Adani Ports and Power was removed from the mix.

Investments 101

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 101

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

In fact, the infrastructure business is full of companies that borrow heavily, with little or no earnings buffer, and I am not sure that many of them will withstand the Hindenburg test for over leverage.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Profit and Loss 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. At the time, the Mexican, after the Mexican restructuring, they had, they had Mexican bonds with an oil option embedded in them. He knows how to manage risk, and he knows how to trade for a profit for a p and l.

Marketing 112

Marketing Banking Treasury Profit and Loss 112