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Data Update 3: Inflation and its Ripple Effects!

Musings on Markets

Inflation numbers have been coming in high now, for more than a year, but for much of the early part of 2021, bankers, investors and politicians seemed to be either in denial or casually dismissive of its potential for damage.

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

Musings on Markets

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. Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk!

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

It is true that economic activity has leveled off and housing prices have declined a little, relative to a year ago, but given the rise in rates in 2022, those changes are mild. If anything, the economy seems to have settled into a stable pattern, albeit at the high levels that it reached in the second half of 2021.

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The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms!

Musings on Markets

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public. The service was initiated in 2017 and it had 1.5

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Is Hyundai’s Parallel Strategy a Potent Value Play?

Andrew Stolz

In 2021, it sold more than 100,000 battery electric vehicles (BEV). The company missed its 2021 sales target by 4% amid the chip crisis. Book value is the value attributable to shareholders in case the company sells all its assets and repays its liabilities (also called liquidation value). Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV).

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Inflation and Investing: False Alarm or Fair Warning?

Musings on Markets

As we approach the mid point of 2021, financial markets, for the most part, have had a good year so far. Source Data The two estimates move together much of the time, but the consumer expectations are consistently higher, and at the end of April 2021, the consumer survey was forecasting inflation of 3.2%, about 1.1%

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

I also report on pricing statistics, again broken down by industry grouping, with equity (PE, Price to Book, Price to Sales) and enterprise value (EV/EBIT, EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, EV/Invested Capital) multiples. Standard deviation in stock price 2. Price to Book 3. High-Low Price Risk Measure 5.