Global Finance

MAY 16, 2025

Thanks to a long series of strategic deals and acquisitions, Arnault has built the most powerful multinational in luxury retail and the largest by market capitalization. billion in 2011 and then with the purchase of US jeweler Tiffany for $16 billion in 2021. The Arnault family currently owns 49% of LVMH share capital and 64.8%

Market Capitalization 86

Market Capitalization Finance Marketability Corporate Finance 86

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. Macro Data I do not report much macroeconomic data for two reasons.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Market Capitalization Equity Start-ups 52

Global Finance

JUNE 18, 2024

In the second half of 2023 the Indian equity market crossed the $4 trillion mark and is currently valued at $4.9 trillion as per the National Stock Exchange of India, pushing Hong Kong aside to become the world’s fourth largest stock market by market cap, behind Japan, China and the US.

Marketability 105

Marketability Equity Start-ups Banking 105

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

That said, about 31% of the net profits of all publicly traded firms listed globally in 2021 were generated by financial service firms; that percent is lower in the US and higher in emerging markets.

Start-ups 99

Start-ups Equity Book Value Marketability 99

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.

Start-ups 106

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Dividends 106

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. Costs of equity & capital 4. Financing Flows 5. Dividend yield & payout 3. Default Spreads 3.

Dividends 106

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 106

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52