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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 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021). The year that was.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

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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Is Hyundai’s Parallel Strategy a Potent Value Play?

Andrew Stolz

Hyundai has allocated 2022 CAPEX of US$1.1bn, roughly 15% of its total CAPEX budget, to develop two further fuel cell plants. Book value is the value attributable to shareholders in case the company sells all its assets and repays its liabilities (also called liquidation value). Contrarian bet on hydrogen could be a winning strategy.

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ISS Discusses Where ESG Performance Matters Most for Company Valuation

Reynolds Holding

Continuing the ESG Performance and Enterprise Value series, this post applies regression analysis to a global sample of companies over a five-year period (June 2017 to June 2022), in order to explore the relationship from a regional perspective. ,” which dove deeper into this relationship from a sector-specific standpoint.

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

Musings on Markets

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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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.