PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The platform also saw greater-than-expected growth of its user base to 23 million, up from 18 million enrolled at the end of 2018, and jump in platform usage with average “grubs” up 8 percent year on year from last year to 502,600. But growth and keeping customers came at a cost — the firm reported an adjusted earnings loss of $4.2

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Finally, I looked at firms based upon price to book ratios as of January 1, 2022, as a rough proxy for growth/maturity, and at net debt to EBITDA multiples, as a measure of indebtedness: In this crisis, the conventional wisdom has held, at least so far, with mature companies holding their values better than growth companies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

For the quarter ending in June, Apple surpassed Wall Street views, buoyed by sales of its iPhone X, which comes with a starting price tag of $999 and subscriptions from its App Store, Apple Music and iCloud, reported Reuters. Apple also allayed growth concerns by forecasting revenue for the next quarter above what analysts were looking for.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

The company managed to beat Q4 profit expectations despite COVID-19 taking a significant bite out of its business. A new report from research firm CB Insights said the 2020 funding was raised in at least 5,500 deals, with growth seen in North America, Asia and Europe. Every aspect of the U.S. billion in equity funding.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden: a whopping $600 billion for firms across the globe. Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Taking time to crunch numbers or hand-pick data is a waste for SMB owners, for sure. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

With Amazon Business seeing its own impressive growth rate — even faster than its retail arm — the platform is an attractive option for B2B sellers looking to quickly launch an online sales presence to meet corporate buyer demand. A recent research report supports the claim that when it comes to B2B eCommerce, price isn’t everything.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

It is a privately held payments business that is (gulp, gasp) profitable and grew revenue at 99 percent annually, as measured in total 2016 gross sales at $727 million (net of transaction costs that tally was up 65 percent), as noted this year by Recode , profits nearly doubled to $87 million. The dominant countries here are the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The interesting thing is, even with a so-called curse and a disappointing ending to every season since 1908, the Cubs’ loyal fan base has continued to make the team one of the most profitable in all of baseball. Last year, Forbes reported that the Cubs brought in $50.8 Users can then expect their championship gear to be delivered in minutes.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

While the value crowd, bereft of victories for a long time, may be inclined to do a victory dance, it is worth noting that the same phenomenon occurred between February and March of 2020, at the start of the COVID crisis, but that growth companies quickly recouped their losses and finished ahead of mature companies by the end of 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

We are identifying partners through Restock Kroger who will help us reinvent the customer experience and create new profit streams that will also accelerate our core business growth.”. With one such experience, Kroger and Microsoft are creating a digital shelving system called the EDGE Shelf.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

One report from a Bain Insights Brief highlighted the market’s accelerating adoption of newer technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), citing inventory management as among the core areas of Industrial IoT growth through 2020. Separate research, though, suggests small businesses struggle to jump on this train.

Technology 40

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. Researchers said a decline in small and medium-sized business lending is likely to lead to sluggish economic growth overall. 139 billion could be saved by U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

The Bikyni innovation pares down to simple, stylish bathing suits without pumped up price tags. Much of Bikyni’s growth has been organic,” said Al-Khalil. When securing investors and vendors, her background in understanding how numbers work and ability to explain a path to profitability were key, she said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

percent annual growth. Particularly when it comes to general merchandise — where sales haven’t been as strong and the path to profitability has been long and winding. We need to translate this repetitive food and consumable volume into a stronger Walmart.com business that’s profitable over time, so that’s what we’re working on.”.

eCommerce 46

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

That is all one big happy grocery family, and though Kroger remains larger, lither and more profitable now, a frequent refrain is being sung among investors. ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. Ahold is the firm behind Stop & Shop, Giant-Carlisle and Giant-Landover in the U.S.,

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies. and that effect, as I have noted in my earlier discussions of narrative and numbers, can be all encompassing.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The software as a service (SaaS) industry is undergoing rapid growth. This thriving market has led to significant competition among investors and venture capital to invest in and acquire SaaS companies of any size or stage of growth. A SaaS valuation is useful to businesses at different stages of growth in different ways.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

This isn’t to say there has been a tremendous amount of positive growth so much as losses have been somewhat less than initially expected. ECommerce, though showing stronger growth than it did last quarter, is still lagging behind the growth it was showing a year ago. 5 percent growth). percent growth.

Forecasting 40

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit. My dad thought that cash flow was profit. You don’t do any dirty work. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Undeterred by the steep price tag, hundreds and even thousands of walk-in customers queued up outside Apple stores hours, days, and in some cases, months before the new device hit shelves. There’s nothing like a touch of tradition to go along with the thrill of innovation. Like waiting in line to be the first to get experience it.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And for a lot of advisory firms, I’ve found over the years, frankly, it’s hard for most advisors to do that profitably. And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. Michael: Right.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. It was already booming following years of slow, steady growth. As a result, many established digital platforms, including some with shaky futures, saw explosive growth. Then the pandemic struck.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Profits do too. Perhaps the looming $999 price tag has something to do with it? where the smartphones start at $699 for the 8 and $799 for the 8 Plus), which drops down to the operating profit line. The X factors heavily into sell-side forecasts for double-digit growth (in unit sales) on Wall Street moving forward.

Profit and Loss 40

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

You know, is it going to be better from the client perspective or better in terms of just more profitable business? Scale helps with reducing the complexity that’s largely come from growth, right? If you want to grow quickly, you need to capture that scale in order to combat the complexity that comes with that growth.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. RITHOLTZ: When did it dawn on you that, hey, this could be a business and maybe generate a profit? Huge deal.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You work at Capital Growth Financial and in former global markets before you join investing Giant Merrill Lynch in 2007, what was that transition like from smaller shops to a really, really big one? Their profits are a quarter of a trillion dollars. So, so you work, you leave that world and you go to a few boutique shops.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

I mean, that paper on economic growth is a transcendent piece of work and really sort of shaped the way generations of economists have thought. And it’s not their profits they’re making, it’s so expensive though, that’s in there too. Tag on top of that for healthcare. But it’s just that they exist.

Healthcare 56

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And, and so there was so much growth going on in Goldman when I went there in the nineties, and I had a unique seat, you know, in, in, in, and the partners there provided me a unique seat, and they gave me enormous amount of latitude and responsibility to keep building businesses. Or who has this profit? That’s unbelievable.

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