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Walmart Seals The Deal With Flipkart For $16 Billion

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For its part, Flipkart walks out of the deal with a valuation north of $20 billion, a promise of $2 billion in fresh investment from Walmart and “additional potential investors,” as Walmart CFO Bret Biggs noted. It’s typical of a business like this that, as you scale up, you will have losses. What the Deal Will Mean. is known for. “As

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

Barry Ritholtz

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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Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question!

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Business If you are a company with two business lines, one with predictable revenues and stable profit margins, and the other with cyclical revenues and volatile margins, you would expect to, other things remaining equal, use a lower hurdle rate for the first than the second.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 24-25) 2022

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While RIA M&A activity has been red hot during the past couple of years, a survey suggests that advisors are expecting lower valuations in 2023. A review of financial planning actions, from tax-loss harvesting to charitable giving, that have a December 31 deadline. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Blue Apron A (Possible) Tech IPO Fizzle

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Turns out that investors get nervous when profits prove elusive. Thus, a possible tech stock market fizzle, should this indeed be a harbinger, where the $2 billion valuation is the same as implied by a Blue Apron funding round two years ago. The ascendant tech IPO that, well, snapped when it reported results?

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, I think separating the for sale residential market from for rent commercial real estate, including rental apartments is so important. And it became the most profitable private equity investment ever made and — it is true. Goods are still being moved around the country. MCCARTHY: A 100 percent. These are different things.

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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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.