CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5% to 14.9%.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter. Though it saw some gains in the financial technology business, it had losses when it came to ride-hailing investments, like the one it had in Spain’s Cabify.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Petco's net sales went up 9 percent over 2019, hitting $3.58 Same-store sales surged 9.6 The pet retail chain is also moving towards profitability after net losses the past two years. It has also narrowed its losses by 77 percent to $20.3 It could be looking for a $6 billion valuation. . percent this year.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

My September 2020 Valuations. I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. The FANGAM Valuations: February 2022. to 14.9%. Updating the Numbers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2019

Uber is reportedly planning to launch its IPO in April, issuing its required public disclosure next month before starting its own investor road show. Uber is seeking a valuation as high as $120 billion, although some analysts have said it will be closer to $100 billion. Neither Uber nor Lyft are profitable. million in 2017.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5% to 14.9%.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

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. For instance, Target reported a 155 percent jump in digital sales during the third quarter. Airbnb ($47 billion).

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CFO Share

MAY 5, 2023

Have sales and operations meet regularly to brainstorm product or service improvements. To improve your cash flow, perform the following steps: Use a financial planning tool to project cash flow 12 months. Speak to customers monthly to understand their challenges.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

No business can survive without planning. The answers—based on different sources of data like market research or historical sales information—guide internal decision-making to promote regular, sustainable growth as well as create contingency plans for worst-case or best-case scenarios. What is a pro forma financial statement?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 29, 2021

Short Sales and Squeezes I know that you want to get to the GameStop story quickly, but at the risk of boring or perhaps even insulting you, I want to lay the groundwork by talking about the mechanics of a short sale as well as how short sellers can sometimes get squeezed.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

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. is known for. “As

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was planning to start this post by telling you that Tesla was back in the news, but that would be misleading, since Tesla never leaves the news. My Tesla History When I write and teach valuation, I describe it as a craft, and there are very few companies that I enjoy practicing that craft more than I do with Tesla.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

“We knew we wanted to build a nationally-known mass retailer,” Shah told The Boston Globe , noting that over the next ten years, Wayfair grew from a bootstrapped spare-bedroom operation to a business boasting up to a half a billion in annual sales. And that growth has carried on since then. As of today, Wayfair brings in $6.6 That costs $79.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that Congress appears poised to pass “SECURE Act 2.0”, a series of measures that will have significant impacts on the world of retirement planning. Adam is an Associate Financial Planning Nerd at Kitces.com.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What was the original career plan? Michael Fisch : 00:01:39 [Speaker Changed] The original career plan was to be employed and provide a safety net for my mother and my two sisters. They had a one-third market share of certain product sales in the entire country. You get a Stanford MBA. million at the final closing.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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

JANUARY 5, 2024

That year, I computed these industry-level statistics for five variables that I found myself using repeatedly in my valuations, and once I had them, I could not think of a good reason to keep them secret. After all, I had no plans on becoming a data service, and making them available to others cost me absolutely nothing.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

That’s because inventory is a key driver of several profit & loss (P&L) statement components, from revenue all the way down to net profit. How much is being charged to cost of sales? What is the percentage of the cost of sales to revenue? How much inventory is being carried on the balance sheet?

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

The primary attraction of the company, to investors, comes not from its current standing (modest revenues and big losses), but from its positioning to take advantage of the potential growth in the Indian food delivery market.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. The last is the operating margin , it operating income (or loss) as a percent of operating income each year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Synchrony sent the market into a tail spin when it issued guidance that suggested that there would be a 20 to 30 basis point increase in credit losses from these products. million, thrown a $485 million valuation up on the big board (as of its last fundraising over two years ago) and inspired so many imitators.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Denver-headquartered Frontier Airlines is retracting its $39 “More Room” fee that guarantees passengers would sit between empty seats after receiving criticism from lawmakers for “profiting from safety.” Shuttered gyms are seeing memberships and on-site retail sales plummet, prompting many to shift their services online.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Gett, a ride-hailing company that works with taxis, is planning an initial public offering later this year, The Financial Times reported. The company offers transportation through established taxi systems rather than the minicab model used by Uber and Lyft, and it expects to become profitable later this year. or yellow cabs in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2017

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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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. MCCARTHY: That is what’s most important. Goods are still being moved around the country.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I have seen this group target companies before, using the game plan that they are using with Adani, but their typical target firms are usually much smaller, under-the-radar firms, where public market investors may have missed troubling aspects of operations.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I have seen this group target companies before, using the game plan that they are using with Adani, but their typical target firms are usually much smaller, under-the-radar firms, where public market investors may have missed troubling aspects of operations.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 8, 2023

Free cash flow is one of the most dangerous terms in finance, and I am astonished by how it can be bent to mean whatever investors or managers want it to, and used to advance their sales pitches. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.).

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Free cash flow is one of the most dangerous terms in finance, and I am astonished by how it can be bent to mean whatever investors or managers want it to, and used to advance their sales pitches. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.) What is Free cash flow (FCF)?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And the division that I was in was below plan. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. 00:31:27 [Speaker Changed] So, so it sounds like you start out planning on holding to these stocks for a long time. So big loss.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Lately, though, they’re probably tossing and turning over the difficulties with raising capital coupled with the simultaneous descent of their venture’s valuations. And whether, if one and two come true, there’s a business model underneath all of it to profit from. And paying for stuff was a breeze, too.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

A nimble challenger with a new game plan. Walmart is already one of the biggest grocery stores in the country, accounting for 25 percent of all grocery sales ; that’s up from 7 percent in 2002. For Uber and Lyft, this is pure profit to the bottom line that keeps drivers happy by giving them more work.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So 00:13:04 [Speaker Changed] It sounds like almost a legitimate business plan. He sunk all the profits into Bitcoin, he’s levered up and borrowed money and bought Bitcoin. The profits are very small, but Alameda’s cost of capital was very low since they were borrowing all the customer money. That’s right.

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