Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

The notion of computing a cost of capital for a bank is fanciful and fruitless, and any attempt to compute an enterprise value for a bank is destined to end in failure. The other was that the bank regulatory framework operated effectively , preventing banks from overreaching on risk or being under capitalized.

Banking 63

Banking Price to Book Dividends Book Value 63

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Even when you are successful in dissuading these companies from "bad" investments, but may not be able to stop them from returning the cash to shareholders as dividends and buybacks, rather than making "good" investments. trillion of cumulated enterprise value at fossil fuel companies.

Market Capitalization 82

Market Capitalization Enterprise Value Start-ups Marketability 82

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

My two most recent valuations were in June 2019 and January 2020, and I am going to go back to them, not just because they are recent, but because they led to investment decisions on my part. Between June 2019 and January 2020, the stock went on a tear, as the stock price more than tripled, and I revisited my Tesla valuation.

Start-ups 99

Start-ups Dividends Marketability Market Capitalization 99

Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

07 Question: In each of 2020 and 2021, a registrant provided the same list of companies as a peer group in its Compensation Discussion & Analysis (“CD&A”) under Item 402(b) but provided a different list of companies in its CD&A for 2022. In what circumstances is such market capitalization-based weighting required?

Compliance 40

Compliance Total Shareholder Return Dividends Market Capitalization 40

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. It is also why I report only aggregated data on industries, rather than company-level data.

Risk Premium 91

Risk Premium Start-ups Market Capitalization Corporate Finance 91

Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Activist Directors – Determinants Our research shows that activists are more likely to demand or acquire board representation if the firm has higher levels of institutional ownership, a smaller market capitalization, worse stock market performance, and, in particular, lower dividend payouts.

Dividends 72

Dividends Marketability EBITDA Market Capitalization 72

ThomsonReuters

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Do you have a shortage of working capital? Are you able to pay dividends or payments on lines of credit from suppliers? A decline in market capitalization is also a factor to consider when determining whether a triggering event for an impairment test has occurred. Are you in compliance with requirements?

Discounted Cash Flow 52

Discounted Cash Flow Technology Dividends Market Capitalization 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Return on (invested) capital 2.

Dividends 98

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 98

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this post, I want to focus on that point, starting with a discussion of why stories matter to investors and traders and the story that propelled the company to a trillion-dollar market capitalization not that long ago. billion in revenues in 2021.

Start-ups 90

Start-ups Marketability Market Capitalization Technology 90

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The largest sector, in the US, in terms of market capitalization, is information technology and I have argued that tech companies age in "dog years" , with compressed life cycles. Not surprisingly, then, the net effect of growth will depend on how much is reinvested back, relative to what the company can harvest as future growth.

Start-ups 80

Start-ups Equity Book Value Marketability 80

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 21, 2023

It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget about the latter during market booms, they recur at regular intervals, if for no other reason than to remind us that risk is not an abstraction, and that stocks don't always win, even in the long term.

Equity 70

Equity Risk Premium Start-ups Dividends 70

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

To the extent that some of that risk capital is coming back into the markets, equity markets have benefited, with benefits skewing more towards the companies and markets that were punished the most in 2022. trillion) to market capitalizations, regaining almost half of the value lost in last year's rout.

Marketability 95

Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Treasury 95

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

Start-ups 98

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Dividends 98

Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2021

In a predictable consequence, US multinationals chose to leave their foreign income outside the US, creating the phenomenon of trapped cash, i.e., income held in foreign locales to avoid taxes, but also trapped because that income could not be used to pay dividends, buy back stock or invest in projects in the United States.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups Debt Financing Finance Equity 52

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

An intuitive reading of the FCFE is that it is cash available to be returned to equity investors, either in the form of dividends or as cash buybacks. It is the rare firm that follows a residual cash policy, returning its FCFE every year as dividends and/or buybacks.

Dividends 92

Dividends EBITDA Equity Start-ups 92