Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. New York Times ) • From Dylan to Bieber, catalogue sales are the megadeals taking over music : Some call it song management, others royalty acquisition. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. What happens if they fail?

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Michigan CFO

JULY 13, 2021

Jason Calacanis, an early Uber investor, congratulated the company on Twitter for continuing to grow its sales while cutting its loss from $991 million in the previous quarter. I’ve met more than one business owner who after several or more years in business had a record sales year, but still lost money. “Revenue up. .”

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

Second, follow Charlie Munger’s advice and invert the sales pitch: 70% of the upside (you give up 16.62% per year for 2 years) with none of the downside sounds attractive – unless you think about what you are really giving up and getting in exchange. Giving up permanent gains to avoid impermanent drops seems like an awful exchange.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

online sales to 37.7 In the April letter Amazon for the first time officially confirmed the percentage total gross merchandise sales in 2018 that came via third-party sellers — 58 percent. retail sales is only 4 percent. Amazon’s retail business competes in the worldwide market for retail sales,” the Amazon spokesperson said.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Embattled First Republic Bank is no longer searching for a buyer as investment advisors and company executives seek to repair the company’s balance sheet before any sale might take place, FOX Business has learned. ( It’s how the world’s most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. have moved to collect sales tax from remote sellers, and it’s just the beginning. To date 43 states and Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

While rivals Papa John’s and Pizza Hut have said deliveries through Grubhub and DoorDash have helped them expand into new markets and boost sales, Domino’s Chief Executive Ritch Allison told The Wall Street Journal that the profit hit and reputational risk of working with those companies isn’t worth the extra revenue.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS found in a study published earlier this month, 42 percent of consumers are engaging in even the most routine activities online, and as much as $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales are moving to digital channels. Some POS providers have robust digital offerings in place, and are able to develop networks around their solutions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

The cookies are popular enough to even inspire Thin Mint-flavored coffees from major brands like Dunkin’ – but sales often hit a stumbling block at the point of sale: Many troops only accept cash. At a booth sale, a troop sells about 400 boxes of cookies,” Harris said. The Sugar Sales Rush. Future Entrepreneurs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Morgan management said in its commentary that debit was being used for “everyday spend,” while credit sales have been negatively impacted by slumps in travel and entertainment-related activity. As reported in July, Visa Installments, a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, debuted in pilot markets across the U.S.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Partnering with various functions such as marketing, sales, and supply chain has equipped me with a holistic view of how finance intertwines with the broader spectrum of business operations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It represents about half of their sales volume on the platform. But Robbins predicts that by summer, the math is going to look a lot different in terms of the importance of that digital pipeline. And to the chains, stabilizing their relationships is a big deal, Robbins noted. The Big Challenges To Overcome .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2018

Papa John’s has hired Bank of America and Lazard as financial advisors, as the national chain tries to recover from weak sales and negative publicity surrounding its founder. According to CNBC , the company’s shares have fallen by almost 45 percent over the last year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The MATH doesn’t add up,” Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to clients. For fiscal 2018, L Brands now expects earnings per share to fall within a range of $2.70 and $3, down from a prior estimate of $2.95

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Amazon’s yearly sales represent about 15 percent of total online sales among consumers in the U.S., Once the marketplace sellers are added to the math, Amazon’s share of what U.S. online sales at 31.3 according to Amazon’s filings with the Commerce Department. percent as of today. “If

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Or maybe you just rely on your bank account balance to do the math for you. A CFO can help with flagging sales by developing a comprehensive strategy for your business. Whether it’s an advertising campaign or a shift to a subscription model, your CFO will come up with strategies proven to boost your sales.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

Through the Market platform, sales agents, who are billed as micro-entreprenuers, help with prepaid electric bills, for example. It’s simple math.”. Tapp Commerce management stated that its Market product helps people, through P2P, that do not necessarily have bank accounts buy goods and services online.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Nike posted its lowest quarterly sales in two years, along with a $790 million quarterly loss, when it reported its Q1 2020 earnings in late June. That quarter, Nike CEO John Donahoe said that digital represented 30 percent of Nike’s sales. It reportedly purchased this digital upstart — one with a reported (and very small) $3.9

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

eCommerce operators saw their largest Cyber Monday ever this year — sales surpassed $3.3 billion — and almost every day thereafter online retailers saw sales of more than $1 billion. The tech giant set a record season with its Echo sales alone. At the same time, traditional retail stores were warm … ish.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The math gets a bit more involved when it comes to why the consumer is returning an object. But no matter the reason, merchants can always keep 50 percent of the sale, and not have to take on the irritation of managing a returns process simply by extending the appropriate discount.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Same-store sales, the most watched metric in physical retail, grew by 4.5 Moreover, Cornell told investors, what is disguised in the quarter-by-quarter results is the compounding nature of Target’s digital sales growth over the last few years. Net income came in at $714 million, or $1.39 a share forecast pre-release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S Commerce Department report that showed a spike in retail sales last month — thereby, clearing doubts of a softening American economy. economy — retail.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Thanksgiving weekend — including the evening of Thanksgiving itself and the sales that go with it — only generates around 15 percent of holiday spending, according to retail consulting firm Customer Growth Partners. And while that 15 percent is substantial — with eCommerce sales up 17 percent on Black Friday to hit a record $5.03

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

Different merchants can seemingly set different MSRPs (and advertise different amazing deals accordingly) with no apparent oversight, and while courts have consistently sided with retailers on the basis of buyer beware-type logic, consumer protection groups call the practice a blatantly deceptive way to drive higher sales.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

To use the platform, merchants connect their different sales channels and import their products. Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. Krakaris saw a particular opportunity in serving marketplaces beyond Amazon through retailers like Walmart, eBay and Jet.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

These data points are deeply troubling, Global Head of Visa Direct Sales Cecilia Frew told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Fifty-five percent of Americans surveyed believe that the pandemic will last longer than their personal savings will. They reflect the extent to which people’s lives have been shattered over the last 12 weeks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Singles’ Day, an informal day of personal shopping that Alibaba has grown to a multi-billion dollar event over the last decade or so, brought in over $25 billion in merchandise sales in 24 hours. Most of those sales took place on the Taobao marketplace and Tmall brand store. JD.com announced that its sales from Nov.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

We wanted to hear how they were doing, whether they had access to cash (and if so, how much and for how long), what they were doing to stem the tide of lost sales, and how they assessed the stability of their own businesses. Sixty percent of technology firms have seen their sales decline by more than half, as well.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

When Stripe did the back-of-the-envelope math on that misallocation of time, the company found it to be worth nearly $300 billion in potential gross domestic product (GDP) on an annual basis. That means, she noted, that sales and marketing professionals are going into organizations ready for the wrong type of conversation with their audience.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The installment pay plans allow customers to know up-front exactly what they are paying each month over the duration of the loan – no math required. And, he noted, this is even more true when it comes to the sorts of big-ticket sales that Bread and other installment players deal with directly.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

We saw credit improvement across our businesses, and growth math is now helping overall domestic credit card trends.”. According to Scott Blackley, chief financial officer of Capital One, the company had a $400 million gain from the previously announced sale of its mortgage portfolio, $49 million billed in its U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

While the fundamentals of math, science, English and social studies are still at the core of learning, the various technologies surrounding nearly every aspect of everyone’s lives is unavoidable. The robot is used in classrooms all around the world, whether it’s for art, English, history, math or science.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 6, 2021

A friendly warning: This involves some math, which is necessary to explain how these metrics work. intermittent demand/sales data). In this blog post we will cover some commonly used metrics for time series forecasting, how to interpret them, as well as the limitations of each metric. For such cases, WAPE can be used.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound. Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. The election came and went and, with it, brought some stock market shock.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

Farms and producers that once sold mainly to restaurants via B2B channels have diverted some of their supply to direct-to-consumer sales. Pre-pandemic, O’Malley told CNN, food production was very predictable – but with restaurants closed and grocery surging, the math gets a whole lot harder to calculate with confidence.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In a retail reality where everything is always on sale, coupons were the clever method by which brick-and-mortar shops drew in customers with deals. Because everything is always on sale and because there are any number of ways to collect digital coupons and discounts, who needs all the extra paper?

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