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And the Award for Most Creative Attempt to Evade a Book Value Buy-Sell Provision Goes To.

Farrel Fritz

“Under any standard of value, the true economic value of a business enterprise will equal the company’s accounting book value only by coincidence.” So why do so many shareholder buy-sell agreements require that the shares be purchased for book value? Neville, Rodie and Shaw, Inc. 16, 2024) is the latest.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. The Value of Growth As investor tastes have shifted from earnings power to growth, there has been a tendency to put growth on a pedestal, and view it as an unalloyed good, but it is not.

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Some Things Change, Some Things Stay the Same: 2023 Investment Canada Act Thresholds Increase, Competition Act Thresholds Remain the Same

Deal Law Wire

Direct acquisitions of control of a Canadian business by investors controlled from WTO member countries (WTO investors) that are not SOEs and not trade agreement investors will generally be subject to pre-closing review where the enterprise value of the Canadian business exceeds C$1.287 billion (up from C$1.141 billion in 2022).

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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

Over time, I expect some improvement in the return on equity, which was 8.78% in 2022, to its five-year average of 9.50%, which is still lower than the cost of equity of 11.67% that I am using for large commercial banks (see picture below for how I am computing an implied cost of equity for the 25 largest banks).

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Greenleaf Capital Enters into Agreement to Sell Parcel for $13.4 Million Gain

Benzinga

May 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Greenleaf Capital, LLC, the real estate division of HCI Group, Inc. million compared with a net book value of $1.1 million compared with a net book value of $1.1 TAMPA, Fla., After transaction costs, Greenleaf expects to receive net proceeds of approximately $14.5

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How to Value a Website or Internet Business in 2022

FE International

How to Value an Advertising Business. How to Value an Affiliate Business. How to Value an App. As the father of value investing taught in his seminal investment book , value means different things to different people and, as a result, the price offered by different buyers for the same asset can be quite substantial.

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Middlefield Banc Corp. and Liberty Bancshares, Inc. Announce Merger

Benzinga

billion Expected to be accretive to earnings per share in year one Earn back of tangible book value dilution in approximately three years. MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio and ADA, Ohio, May 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Middlefield Banc Corp. on May 25, 2022, the transaction is valued at approximately $64.4