CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It has been a rocky year so far, in 2022, with worries about inflation competing with hopes about recovery for the market’s attention. Netflix and Facebook saw drops of 20% or more in market capitalization, following negative earnings reports, but Amazon and Google beat market expectations. My September 2020 Valuations.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

after it reported solid sales numbers for December. Silvergate Capital — Shares of the crypto-focused bank fell 2.6%, adding to its 42% loss from the previous day. The firm cited Voya’s lower-risk business, ability to generate capital and valuation as pluses. R1 RCM — Shares of the health-care technology firm soared 10.2%

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the WeWork IPO – rather, the shelving of that IPO , at least for now – heralds the end of rich valuations for firms viewed as entrenched in the early stages of disruption. Most notably, Stripe has said it will not tap markets through an IPO. We’re quite early in this opportunity.”.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It has been a rocky year so far, in 2022, with worries about inflation competing with hopes about recovery for the market's attention. Netflix and Facebook saw drops of 20% or more in market capitalization, following negative earnings reports, but Amazon and Google beat market expectations. to 14.9%.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

While differentiating between good and bad banks can be straightforward, it does not follow that buying good banks and selling bad banks is a good investment strategy, since its success depends entirely on what the market is incorporating into stock prices. All Equity, All the time!

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2020

In the past 18 months, both startups were vying for new customers, especially in Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country and the most profitable market for the two firms. The talks point to the changing environment in Asia, where profits were given a backseat to the growth of entrepreneurs and investors. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The number of shares and the pricing have not yet been released. . Pets are anticipated to stay popular, with the number of households with pets going up 4 percent in 2020 alone. Digital rival Chewy has seen its shares go up in excess of 150 percent this year, with a market value of $30.3 The company filed an IPO last year.

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Future CFO

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

While M&A value dropped dramatically in 2022, a loss of 36% in deal value, Bain’s report confirms that deal activity continues to be a central corporate strategy for growth and profitability. First, industrials are acquiring adjacent businesses to gain quick access to greener and more favourable market segments.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Of course, and with small businesses, especially those built around personal services (a doctor or plumber’s practice), it is part of the valuation process, where the key person is valued or at least priced and incorporated into valuation. Who is a key person?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

As inflation has taken center stage, markets have gone into retreat globally, and across asset classes. In 2022, as bond rates have risen, stock prices have fallen, and crypto has imploded, even true believers are questioning what the bottom for markets might be, and when we will get there.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

As the world’s attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The Market Reaction. Bond Markets and Default Risk. Equity Markets and Equity Risk Premiums. The Lead In.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

The latest estimates from the Small Business Administration (SBA) peg the number of new SMBs at 414,000 each year, spurring job creation and economic growth for the country, with millennial entrepreneurs at the helm. Yet, once a company starts to churn a profit, business owners rarely consider their strategy of an eventual exit or sale.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

market for initial public offerings (IPOs) had a banner year in 2020 despite the pandemic — or perhaps because of it. Here are a few of the more noteworthy ones, listed in order of valuation at the time of going public: 1. The company also reported a $23 million profit for the second quarter — its first black ink in history.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In this post, I will argue that there are good reasons for Airbnb's IPO timing, and make my first attempt at valuing this latest entrant into public markets. Acquisitions : As the number of hosts and guests on Airbnb have climbed over the years, the company has invested in building a more robust platform for its rentals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

According to Edited , the number of new styles posted by U.S. If margins and profits are already struggling then slashing prices for an entire season’s clothes will be very painful,” said Sophie Lund-Yates, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown. “If Marketers must display a sincere desire to watch, listen, and learn. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

The company’s valuation, share price and timeline have yet to be determined, but if all goes well, Jumia will be the first African tech startup to list on a major global exchange. We’re really focused on growing our existing business, leadership position, number of sellers and consumer adoption in those markets,” Poignonnec said.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

Last year, noted the WSJ , the valuation had been rumored to be $120 billion, if and when the ride-hailing giant came to market. Now, that number is closer to $82 billion. Losses, though, are losses across that model, evidenced by the latest showings for Lyft, which logged $1.1

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI story. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! Love-Hate Relationship with Markets!

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That attention has worked in the company's favor over much of its lifetime, as it has gone from a start-up to one of the largest market cap companies in the world, disrupting multiple businesses in the process. In subsequent valuations, I modified and adapted this story to reflect lessons that I learned about Tesla, along the way.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. billion rescue, and also said it had taken its valuation of the beleaguered workspace company down by 80 percent, to around $5 billion at the end of the most recent quarter.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

“With the recent tightening of the capital markets, we are refocusing on our core consumer loans business,” he said. Prosper is one of several online-based marketplace lenders suffering from falling profits as investor interest in buying consumer loans is softening. The firm also racked up $26 million in losses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Startup notches mounting losses, because as everyone knows, you’ve got to spend money to make money. But profitability looks elusive, and becomes less a question of “when?” 1, the company said that pre-tax losses for last year were 185 million pounds, up from 129 million pounds in the previous year. The public market debut?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

If bad days are measured by declines in stock market prices, then yesterday (Feb. By The Numbers. Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 Grubhub operates in an increasingly challenging market. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018, and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. million or $.06 million or $.60

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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. Now one of them is public and has a market equity market cap of $35 billion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

which operates in a heretofore sexy industry — cybersecurity — came to market on Friday (April 22), listing its shares publicly. As The Wall Street Journal reported, the hope among tech firms was that a robust SecureWorks entrance to the public markets would indicate that some interest would be firming up in IPOs.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

I don't have an axe to grind in this fight, since I don't own GameStop or care much about hedge funds, but I am interested in how this episode will affect overall markets and whether I need to change the ways in which I invest and trade.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

The numbers that I computed opened my eyes to how much perspective on the high, low, and typical values, i.e., the distribution of margins, helped in valuing the company, and how little information there was available, at least at that time, on this dimension.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

If bad days are measured by declines in stock market prices, then yesterday (Feb. By The Numbers. Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 Grubhub operates in an increasingly challenging market. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018 and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. million or $.06 million or $.60

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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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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After years of rumors of an imminent IPO, Instacart has finally filed for a public offering of it’s shares, aspiring to raise about $600 million from markets, at a pricing of about $9-$10 billion for its equity. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering , and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now.

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