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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

I then examine how equities have performed in the less than five months of 2022, where inflation has returned to the front pages. In 2022, the collective market capitalization of all US firms has dropped by 19.75% , with the bulk of the drop occurring after April 1, 2022.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

That, for instance, is the only way to explain why older telecom companies, which developed a practice of borrowing large amounts during their time as monopoly phone businesses, continue that practice, even as their business have evolved into intensely competitive, technology businesses. at least with technology companies).

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Tesla in November 2023 : Story twists and turns, with value consequences!

Musings on Markets

It was after one of these downturns in 2019, when the stock hit $180 (with a market cap of $32 billion), that I bought Tesla for the first time , albeit labeling it as my corporate teenager, an investment that would frustrate me because it would get in the way of its own potential. of the company's revenues in 2022 to 6.2%

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world. Cost of Capital 3. For market data , where the updating is continuous, that is data as of the January 1, 2023. Cost of Equity 1. PE & PEG 2. Standard deviation in stock price 2.