Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Intel’s market share continues to decline. Its stock price has plummeted 60% this year and its market capitalization fell below $100 billion in early August: the first time that has happened since 2012. This would translate to a market value of about $135 billion.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For the last two decades, China has been the dominant story for both the global economy and capital markets, as the country's immense growth and infrastructure investments have sustained commodity prices, and altered the balance of world economic power.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. If impact investing were measured entirely on fund flows into green energy companies and out of fossil fuel companies, it has clearly succeeded.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I have been writing about, and valuing, Tesla for most of its lifetime in public markets, and while it remains a company that draws strong reactions, it is also one that I truly enjoy valuing. Tesla: The Back Story I first valued Tesla in 2013 , as a "luxury automobile company" and I have valued almost every year since.

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Valutico

MARCH 9, 2023

With a market capitalization of €395 billion, it is the most valuable company in Europe. After reaching new highs in early 2020 of €420 per share, the share price fell due to economic conditions and Covid-19. Since trading at €320 in mid 2020, the share price has more than doubled to its current level of €780 per share.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 22, 2022

The stock market decline following the outbreak of COVID-19 prompted a resurgence of pills, and with the recent Williams decision, the structure and strength of pills have changed in meaningful ways. Pill Trigger Thresholds Should Be Assessed Against Market Capitalization. 5 billion market capitalization).

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Value Scope

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It’s current market capitalization is approximately $15 billion. Formula 1 in Las Vegas Despite the marketing hype beyond any Vegas headliner show or prior sporting event, preparations and demand for the race have hit a speed bump. It operates as subsidiary of Liberty under the Nasdaq ticker FWON.K. The subsidiary reports $2.8

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 15, 2022

Announced shareholder activist activity increased relative to 2020. Suchlevels of activism are comparable to those found prior to the market disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as reflected in public activist actions in 2019 (76 vs. 75), activist investors taking actions (48 vs. 49), and companies targeted by such actions (69 vs. 64).

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering , and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. There is another measure that you can use to see the futility, at least so far, of accounting attempts to value intangibles.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

Thus, looking at only the companies in the S&P 500 may give you more reliable data, with fewer missing observations, but your results will reflect what large market cap companies in any sector or industry do, rather than what is typical for that industry.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The company already paid over CHF 100 million in settlement in this matter in 2020. . The IPO of ABB’s E-Mobility division was planned for mid-2022 but has been delayed due to unfavorable market conditions. ABB performed particularly well in the COVID years 2020-2021, almost doubling its share price during this period.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The company already paid over CHF 100 million in settlement in this matter in 2020. . The IPO of ABB’s E-Mobility division was planned for mid-2022 but has been delayed due to unfavorable market conditions. ABB performed particularly well in the COVID years 2020-2021, almost doubling its share price during this period.

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Valutico

AUGUST 4, 2022

Microsoft posted its slowest revenue growth since 2020 in the quarter ended 30 June, at 12% year-on-year, and earnings per share were below consensus for the first time since 2016, with net income rising 2% to $16.74 We arrived at a result that is well below the market capitalization of about USD 2.02 Revenue: $51.87 trillion.

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Valutico

JANUARY 17, 2023

The company has a leading position in the Southeast Asian market with their e-commerce platform Shoppee and their gaming offers by Garena. Sea currently has a market capitalization of $29.8 After a breathtaking performance for one and a half years starting in 2020, the company suffered a dismal few months. Disclaimer.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Since so much of Paytm’s success has been driven by the rise if smart phone usage among Indian consumers, and the concurrent rise in mobile payments for goods and services, I will start with a review of that rise, before looking at how Paytm has put itself in position to take advantage of that market shift.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That attention has worked in the company's favor over much of its lifetime, as it has gone from a start-up to one of the largest market cap companies in the world, disrupting multiple businesses in the process.

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Equidam

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our multiples are based on public market conditions at the beginning of current year. Most of the parameters determining the discount rate have been updated to reflect the most recent market situation in terms of systemic and industry-specific risk. The biggest concern seemed to be what type of market crash this would create.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2022

By the end of 2021, it was clear that this bout of inflation was not as transient a phenomenon as some had made it out to be, and the big question leading in 2022, for investors and markets, is how inflation will play out during the year, and beyond, and the consequences for stocks, bonds and currencies.

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Valutico

DECEMBER 4, 2023

What’s happening with the company Netflix has just experienced its largest rise of new subscribers since the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. Stock Market Implications In the recent past, most notably in 2020 and 2021, Netflix experienced considerable growth in the stock market. Last quarter, Netflix managed to add 8.8

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Valutico

MARCH 28, 2023

UBS Group AG Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 28 March 2023 Link to the valuation Context In recent days, the financial markets have experienced increased turmoil, causing growing concerns about financial stability. As a result, they have been pouring into money market funds at the highest rate since the COVID pandemic began.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market reaction to it, offers an opportunity for us to talk about bigger issues. If you are a number cruncher like me, you will find that adding a story to your valuation will only augment your number skills and improve your valuations.

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Valutico

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The market leader for CRM software is currently trading at around $133 per share, down more than 50% from its all-time-high of $300 per share, achieved in November 2021. . billion acquisition of Slack in 2020. The current price of $133 represents a market capitalization of $145 billion. Link to detailed valuation.

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Valutico

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The market leader for CRM software is currently trading at around $133 per share, down more than 50% from its all-time-high of $300 per share, achieved in November 2021. . billion acquisition of Slack in 2020. The current price of $133 represents a market capitalization of $145 billion. Link to detailed valuation.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 21, 2023

It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget about the latter during market booms, they recur at regular intervals, if for no other reason than to remind us that risk is not an abstraction, and that stocks don't always win, even in the long term.

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Valutico

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This led to a market cap of €78 billion after the IPO, which is higher than the current market capitalization of its parent company Volkswagen AG (€72 billion). . billion, showing a continuation of the robust performance achieved during the challenging economic conditions of 2020 when it grew profit before tax by 8%. .

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Valutico

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Alibaba is a Chinese technology company, participating in the local and international e-commerce, cloud and the digital media markets. After this announcement the company’s share price hit a six-year low of HKD 60 ($7.60), an 80% decline from its all-time high of HKD 300 ($38) in October 2020. . Link to detailed valuation.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For example, if a three-year time-vesting grant of 300,000 shares is made to a CEO on Jun 30, 2020, the CEO typically will have full ownership of 100,000 shares on June 30, 2021; another 100,000 shares on June 30, 2022; and the remaining 100,000 shares on June 30, 2023. firm-years (i.e., We find that only 6.4

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the process, it has altered the financial characteristics of the companies in the business in ways that the market is still trying to come to terms with, which may explain the market turmoil this year. Source While the 2020 drop can be attributed to the shut down, movie production has not bounced back in the years since.

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Valutico

MAY 24, 2023

Connecting NGL supply across the Mid-Continent, Permian, and Rocky Mountain regions to vital market centers, Oneok plays a pivotal role in the country’s energy industry. ’s share price witnessed growth leading up to 2020, bolstered by its solid financial performance and stable business model. Energy Transfer L.P.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 31, 2023

The Federal Reserve’s consent order included an unprecedented “ asset cap ” that prevented Wells Fargo from growing its assets until it satisfied requirements — a punishment market commentators referred to as the “ Fear of God Penalty.” The truth was finally revealed in March 2020, when members of the U.S.

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Valutico

JANUARY 3, 2024

As per the statistics published by Nilson Report in May 2023, the market share of Visa in the total purchase transactions on global general card networks for 2022 was 39% whereas the shares of Mastercard and UnionPay were 24% and 34% respectively. Visa is currently the 11th most valuable company globally in terms of market capitalization.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Class Period: August 19, 2020 – May 9, 2021. Litigation Funder: Court House Capital. The a2 Milk shareholder class action alleges the Company with breaches of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 and Fair Trading Act 1986. Class Period: June 30, 2018 – January 28, 2020. Class Period: August 19, 2020 – May 9, 2021.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The company has the goal to consistently grow its market share and ultimately reach sales of $200 billion in the next few years. This target should be accomplished by increasing the market share not only in their consumer segment but also by selling more products to professionals. . Share Price Performance.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The company has the goal to consistently grow its market share and ultimately reach sales of $200 billion in the next few years. This target should be accomplished by increasing the market share not only in their consumer segment but also by selling more products to professionals. . Share Price Performance.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 25, 2022

Dramatic trading in GameStop, AMC, and other “meme stocks” has reignited debates about the efficiency of the stock market, its purposes, and whose interests it should serve. In a recent article , I discuss the evolving role of retail investors in price discovery and the stock market. Both conceptions oversimplify.

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