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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

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Recent M&A deals KHC has been making headlines with strategic moves like acquiring Cerebos Pacific in 2018 and selling off assets such as its Indian nutritional beverage and Canadian natural cheese businesses in 2019. Despite a flat operating performance in 2021, the company successfully reduced its net debt to $22 billion.

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

Valutico

Recent M&A deals KHC has been making headlines with strategic moves like acquiring Cerebos Pacific in 2018 and selling off assets such as its Indian nutritional beverage and Canadian natural cheese businesses in 2019. Despite a flat operating performance in 2021, the company successfully reduced its net debt to $22 billion.

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

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Compared with last year’s net income of GBP 10.3 (USD billion in net debt, reducing total debt to GBP 17.5 (USD In 2019, the company announced that it plans to reduce its oil and gas output by 40% by 2030. billion, profit increased by an unbelievable 120%. billion worth of shares. billion worth of shares.

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

Musings on Markets

On the alternative energy front, as money has flowed into these companies, there has been a surge in enterprise value (equity and net debt) and market capitalization (equity value); I report both because impact investing can also take the form of green bonds, or debt, at these companies.

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AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!

Musings on Markets

As the semiconductor business has acquired heft, in terms of revenues and profitability, investors have priced those operating results into the market capitalization assigned to these companies. After a long stretch at the top, Intel has dropped back down the list and ranked third, in terms of revenues, in 2022.