Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? And you know, I love markets.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it can be price-to-sales — RITHOLTZ: Yeah. They grew more in terms of earnings, sales, cash flows. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. It’s basically price divided by any reasonable fundamental.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. 00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself. One, one of those big winners has been Cosmos Pharmaceutical, which is a discount drug store and food store and Southern Japan and 00:53:14 Their sg NA to sales, something like 14 or 15%.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And we’ve automated the, the appraisal process for valuation, both intrinsic value, meaning like, where would we pay it, where would we buy it, and where is the fair market price that asset from that level, from price and from consumer behavior now. We’ve gathered up all the information you would need to do an appraisal.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. I don’t know I was for sale. The sale of Wallstrip. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Sales centers are, are more productive. It was about $170 million valuation. So here’s the math, Barry. In a sales center or a call center, right? 00:59:32 [Speaker Changed] So, so in late 21, 20 22, valuations had gotten a touch frothy in, in both the public and the private markets. You all have phones.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: But in reality, any day you want to put your house up for sale, you might get a different price then — SIEGEL: If you — I mean, you know, if times are bad and then you say, “I got to sell it the next five minutes,” you don’t want to look at that price. SIEGEL: Every second. Yeah, exactly. SIEGEL: Exactly.

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