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

Musings on Markets

Since I am lucky enough to have access to databases that carry data on all publicly traded stocks, I choose all publicly traded companies, with a market price that exceeds zero, as my universe, for computing all statistics. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. Revenue Multiples 4.

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Lower 2021 thresholds announced for merger reviews under Competition Act and Investment Canada Act

Deal Law Wire

Under the size of transaction test, the value of the assets in Canada or the annual gross revenue from sales (generated from those assets) in or from Canada of the target operating business and, if applicable, its subsidiaries, must be greater than C$93 million. This is down slightly from the 2019 transaction size threshold of C$96 million.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

In 2021, companies recovered entirely from the damage done in 2021, at least in the aggregate, with earnings in 2021 higher than 2019 earnings, by almost 33%. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

Challenge rules of thumb and conventional wisdom : Investing has always had rules of thumb on how and when to invest, ranging from using historical PE or CAPE ratios to decide if markets are over valued, to simplistic rules (eg. buy stocks that trade at less than book value or trade at PEG ratios less than one) for individual stocks.