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Patria Investments Signs Agreement to Acquire Credit Suisse's Real Estate Business in Brazil

Benzinga

The funds represent permanent capital AUM with significant scale, with four funds each having a market capitalization over R$1.5

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Tesla's Trillion Dollar Moment: A Valuation Revisit!

Musings on Markets

If you are interested, you can see my valuations from 2014 , 2016 and 2017. In sum, the company's market cap has risen from $2.8 In sum, the company's market cap has risen from $2.8 Tesla: The Back Story I first valued Tesla in 2013 , as a "luxury automobile company" and I have valued almost every year since.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

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.

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META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

Musings on Markets

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.

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The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction

Musings on Markets

I will begin by laying out the pathways through which corporate taxes affect company value, and then looking at how the 2017 tax reform act, which lowered the federal tax rate from 35% to 21%, has affected corporate behavior. In a more telling statistic, the dollar value of taxes paid increased between 2017 and 2019 by 1.4%

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Earnings and Cash Flows: A Primer on Free Cash Flow

Musings on Markets

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.