Musings on Markets
JANUARY 8, 2022
Happy New Year, and I hope that 2022 brings you good tidings! 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.
Musings on Markets
MAY 20, 2022
I then examine how equities have performed in the less than five months of 2022, where inflation has returned to the front pages. In 2022, the collective market capitalization of all US firms has dropped by 19.75% , with the bulk of the drop occurring after April 1, 2022.
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Musings on Markets
JANUARY 19, 2022
At the start of 2022, it feels like Groundhog Day, with the same questions about economic growth and inflation looming for the year, and the same judgment about stocks, i.e., that they look expensive. When you augment this price change with the dividends on the index during 2021, the total return on the S&P 500 for 2021 was 28.47%.
Benzinga
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The funds represent permanent capital AUM with significant scale, with four funds each having a market capitalization over R$1.5 Notably, Patria acquired 50% of VBI, one of the largest independent real estate asset managers in Brazil in mid-2022, and recently closed a new joint venture with Bancolombia to anchor its.
Valutico
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 30 September 2022. Founded in 1995, Lockheed Martin Corporation is a Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace company with a $106 billion market capitalization. . Founded in 1995, Lockheed Martin Corporation is a Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace company with a $106 billion market capitalization.
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.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
In my last post, I noted the decline in costs of capital for firms over time, noting that the median cost of capital at the start of 2022 is only 6.33%, across global firms, and argued that companies that demand double-digit hurdle rates risk being shut out of investments.
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