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HSBC: Chance for Success or Misstep?

Valutico

Recent Financial Performance In late February 2023, HSBC released its 2022 annual results, showing strong financial performance and higher capital distributions. They announced a 50% dividend payout ratio projected for 2023 and 2024 as well as a return to quarterly dividends from Q1 this year.

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Crash and Bailouts

Valutico

UBS maintained a strong capital position, ending the year 2022 with a CET1 capital ratio of 14.2% As of now, UBS is offering a dividend of USD 0.55 per common stock, with a dividend yield of 2.70%. In comparison to BP’s market capitalization of CHF 55.1 (USD and a CET1 leverage ratio of 4.42%.

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

Musings on Markets

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.

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

Valutico

Furthermore, the company increased dividends by 10% and announced that it will buy back GBP 2.3 (USD In early 2018 the company traded at GBP 4.7 (USD In comparison to BP’s market capitalization of GBP 101 (USD 122) billion we suggest that the company is slightly undervalued. billion worth of shares.

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The Class Certification of Exchange-Listed Options in Securities Class-Action Litigation

Reynolds Holding

In the Apple case, plaintiffs claimed that the company had inflated its share price in early November 2018 with misleading statements about demand for its products in China. Sterritt [6] recognized three additional factors: market capitalization, public float, and narrow bid-ask spreads. 4] Unger v. Amedisys [5] and Krogman v.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

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.

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META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

Musings on Markets

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. Obviously, at today's price of just over $100/share, it should be time for regrets, but I have none.