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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

On business B, you have a challenge, since it does seem irrational that an entrepreneur would enter a bad business, and while that irrationality cannot be ruled out (perhaps the entrepreneur thinks that earning any profit makes for a good business), the reality is that outside events can wreak havoc on the bet paid plans of businesses.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

Tell us what, what the career plans were. We’re serving family offices, we’re serving institutions, we’ve done acquisitions in, in the stock plan businesses, in the retirement businesses. Let’s assume that we are administering a stock plan for a large corporate client. Lisa Shalett : Not at all.

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Transcript: John Montgomery, Bridgeway Capital Management

Barry Ritholtz

What was the career plan? 00:01:42 [Speaker Changed] The career plan originally was urban development and transportation. So that’s when I really studied deeply the research why what I’d been doing was working more about when it might not and writing a business plan for Bridgeway. It was 150% of our net worth.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

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As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

Narrative and Value As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

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That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. I believe it is, since failure to do so can have both valuation and pricing consequences.