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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

Historical Data: 1930-2019 To see how this framework works in practice, let's start by looking at the performance of US stocks, across the decades, and look at the returns on stocks, broadly categorized based on market capitalization and price to book ratios.

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Review the concept of WACC

Andrew Stolz

This is a Valuation Master Class student essay by Teeradon Piyakiattisuk from March 19, 2019. In the case of cost method, dividends are recorded separately as income in the profit and loss, whereas in the case of the equity method, dividends lower the investment value as dividends reduce the investee company’s equity.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

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. Beta & Risk 1. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Return on Equity 1.