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Corporate Fraud and the Consequences of Securities Class Action Litigation

Harvard Corporate Governance

If a large shareholder or a group of investors becomes concerned with the firm’s operations and management, and takes legal steps to assert their claims, it may affect a firm’s outlook, competitive position, its risk premium, and hence discounted value.

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

Note, though, that 2021 is the third consecutive year of very good returns on the index, with 2019 delivering 31.21%, and 2020 generating 18.02%, and that the cumulative return over the three years (2019-21) is 98.95%. the 2019-21 time period would rank 8th on the list of 92 3-year time periods.

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In Search of a Steady State: Inflation, Interest Rates and Value

Musings on Markets

Equity Risk Premium Path : The equity risk premium of 5.24%, estimated at the start of May 2022, is at the high end of historical equity risk premiums , but we have seen higher premiums, either in crises (end of 2008, first quarter of 2020) or when inflation has been high (the late 1970s).

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

Musings on Markets

For instance, I have always computed the present value of lease commitments in future years and treated that value as debt, a practice that IFRS and GAAP have adopted in 2019, but that computation requires explicit disclosures of lease commitments in future years.

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

Musings on Markets

trillion on their market capitalization at the end of 2019. Historical Equity Risk Premium The conventional wisdom, at least as taught in business schools and practiced by appraisers, is that the only practice way to estimate equity risk premiums for the future is to use equity risk premiums earned in the past.

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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. The formula implies the return an investor expects from a risk-free investment plus the return from the stock in relation to market volatility. The market risk premium is calculated from a market rate of return less a risk-free rate.

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Tesla's Trillion Dollar Moment: A Valuation Revisit!

Musings on Markets

My two most recent valuations were in June 2019 and January 2020, and I am going to go back to them, not just because they are recent, but because they led to investment decisions on my part. In June 2019, Tesla had hit a rough spot, partly due to concerns about production bottlenecks and debt, and partly due to self inflicted wounds.