Musings on Markets

JANUARY 19, 2022

At the start of 2022, it feels like Groundhog Day, with the same questions about economic growth and inflation looming for the year, and the same judgment about stocks, i.e., that they look expensive. The year that was. that was earned in 2019 (pre-COVID). Sustainable Payout Ratio = 1 - g/ ROE; with a 16.10% return on equity and a 2.5%

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Musings on Markets

MAY 20, 2022

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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Valutico

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 6 December 2022. Salesforce is a US-based software company, specializing in customer relationship management technologies. 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. .

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Valutico

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 6 December 2022. Salesforce is a US-based software company, specializing in customer relationship management technologies. 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. .

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Valutico

JANUARY 5, 2023

Tencent is a multinational technology company specializing in online advertising, entertainment, and artificial intelligence. The company has a strong presence in the technology sector and has made strategic investments in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing. About Tencent Holding.

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Valutico

JANUARY 5, 2023

Tencent is a multinational technology company specializing in online advertising, entertainment, and artificial intelligence. The company has a strong presence in the technology sector and has made strategic investments in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing. About Tencent Holding.

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Valutico

JANUARY 5, 2023

Tencent is a multinational technology company specializing in online advertising, entertainment, and artificial intelligence. The company has a strong presence in the technology sector and has made strategic investments in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing. About Tencent Holding.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sentient Brands Holdings Inc. The Company's objective is to represent a strong value proposition for potential investors and to increase its market capitalization through M&A. NEW YORK, Sept.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Note, though, that while sovereign CDS spreads increased almost 51% between January 1, 2022 and March 16, 2022, in these countries, the overall riskiness of the region remains low, the average spread at 1.30%. lower than the traded value of 4766.

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Valutico

JANUARY 3, 2024

Today, Visa has emerged as a global payments technology company that facilitates money movement and transactions across more than 200 countries and territories through VisaNet. As the overall market recovered and digital payments replaced cash, Visa’s stock grew by almost 50% in July 2021 from the lows of March 2020.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 28 November 2022. ABB is a Swiss-based technology company, active in the fields of electrification, robotics, automation and motion with software. The IPO of ABB’s E-Mobility division was planned for mid-2022 but has been delayed due to unfavorable market conditions.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 28 November 2022. ABB is a Swiss-based technology company, active in the fields of electrification, robotics, automation and motion with software. The IPO of ABB’s E-Mobility division was planned for mid-2022 but has been delayed due to unfavorable market conditions.

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Valutico

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 28 October 2022. Alibaba is a Chinese technology company, participating in the local and international e-commerce, cloud and the digital media markets. Alibaba’s current market capitalization of $167 billion suggests that the company is undervalued. About Alibaba.

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Valutico

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 30 September 2022. The company researches, develops, designs, manufactures, integrates, and operates technology systems, products, and services in the defense industry. Lockheed Martin stock has been a strong performer in 2022, gaining 13% compared to the broader S&P which has declined by 23%.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 25, 2022

On July 21, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commenced the first ever lawsuit charging insider trading in cryptocurrency markets. As of July 2022, even after a sharp fall in valuations, the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies and digital tokens is over $1 trillion.

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Valutico

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 8 February 2023 Link to valuation About Visa Visa is an American payment technology company headquartered in California, offering electronic transactions between merchants, financial institutions, and cardholders, facilitating billions of transactions each year.

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Valutico

MARCH 20, 2023

This acquisition is expected to strengthen HSBC’s commercial banking franchise and enhance its ability to serve innovative and fast-growing firms, particularly in the technology and life science sectors, both domestically and globally. In comparison to BP’s market capitalization of GBP 112 (USD 137.2) USD 1.68) billion.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

First, in 2022, the White House urged various U.S. Next, Congress introduced several bills in 2022 and 2023 to address jurisdictional uncertainty and fragmentation in digital asset markets. Our article examines this regulatory fragmentation and responds to several policy developments.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this post, I want to focus on that point, starting with a discussion of why stories matter to investors and traders and the story that propelled the company to a trillion-dollar market capitalization not that long ago.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 12, 2022

After CENAQ shareholder approval and closing of the transaction, the combined company is expected to have a pro forma enterprise value of $280 million and a pro forma implied market capitalization of $500 million assuming no redemptions by CENAQ shareholders. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CENAQ Energy Corp. HOUSTON, Aug.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission today [November 15] announced that it filed 760 total enforcement actions in fiscal year 2022, a 9 percent increase over the prior year. Similarly, the SEC’s June 2022 action against Ernst & Young LLP featured the largest penalty ever imposed by the SEC against an audit firm. investors.”.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 4, 2022

There’s no reason to treat the crypto market differently just because different technology is used. We should be technology-neutral. retail investors have no direct right of redemption for the two largest stablecoins by market capitalization. When a new technology comes along, our existing laws don’t just go away.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 23, 2024

was also up 18% from 2022. in August 2019, wiping out about $36 billion in market capitalization. This allegedly subjected investors to “undisclosed risk and ultimately led to the massive losses the funds incurred in February and March of 2020,” when the COVID-19 pandemic roiled markets. in November 2015 to $26.50

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Benzinga

JULY 10, 2023

Based on audited pro forma 2022 combined revenues of $153 million and pro forma 2022 estimated adjusted EBITDA of $18.2 million in estimated cost saving synergies), this acquisition positions SMGI as a leading regional transportation and logistics player across multiple markets in the United States. million (including $2.5

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. That pessimism was not restricted to market outlooks.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 13, 2022

Posted by Tim Davis, Robert Massey, and Carey Oven, Deloitte LLP, on Monday, June 13, 2022 Editor's Note: Tim Davis is a Principal, Robert Massey is a Partner, and Carey Oven is a National Managing Partner at Deloitte LLP. Digital assets are disrupting the entire financial market, driving changes in the financial ecosystem. trillion.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we look ahead to the 2024 proxy season (and beyond), let’s review the key 2023 trends and developments from activism playbooks, with a sharp focus on the ever-changing landscape in the technology and healthcare sectors. 1] Activism in Europe was a core driver of activity, representing 28% of all campaigns and a 30% increase from 2022. [2]

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 17, 2024

While stocks had their ups and downs during the year, they ended the year strong, and recouped, at least in the aggregate, most of the losses from 2022. Energy, one of the few survivors of the 2022 market sell-off, had a bad year, as did utilities and consumer staples. increase in market capitalization.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As we get deeper into earnings season for the third quarter of 2022, the biggest negative surprises are coming from technology companies, with the tech giants leading the way. On May 12, 2012, Facebook's debuted in financial markets, with a capitalization of $104 billion, making it one of the most valuable IPOs of all time.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Forced to divest themselves of movie theaters and of their control of movie stars, the studios were able to offset the negatives with the positives from new technologies (Technicolor, stereo sound) and an almost unchallenged claim on American leisure time, with close to two-thirds of Americans going to the movies at least once a week in the 1950s.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

In the last four decades, computer chips have become part of almost everything we use, from appliances to automobiles, and the companies that manufacture these chips have seen their fortunes rise, and sometimes be put at risk, as technology shifts. From High Growth to Maturity!

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Valutico

JUNE 15, 2023

NVIDIA Corporation Weekly Valuation – Valutico | June 15, 2023 Link to the valuation About the company NVIDIA Corporation, based in Santa Clara, California, is a leading multinational technology company known for designing state-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) and system on a chip units (SoCs). and Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

billion and predicted operating margin of 25% in that year reflected my optimistic take for the company, with substantial reinvestment (in acquisitions and technology) needed along the way (as seen in my reinvestment). My forecasted revenues for 2023 of $11.2 The Musk Entree! stake in the company.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023’s much-discussed downturn in mergers & acquisitions – with global M&A volume and value down 6% and 17%, respectively, from 2022 – was largely driven by the slowdown in the tech sector, with global tech M&A volumes down 51% year over year, while other sectors saw marked increases. [1] in 2022 to 5.9x

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

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