Valutico

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Price/Book : This multiple compares the price to the book value of a firm. Dividend Yield (Dividend/Price): The dividend yield is used to compare the returns from owning shares (without taking share price appreciation or depreciation into account) with cash dividend returns. Which Year to Use?

Precedent Transaction Analysis 52

Precedent Transaction Analysis EBITDA Comparable Company Analysis Enterprise Value 52

Valutico

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Price/Book : This multiple compares the price to the book value of a firm. Dividend Yield (Dividend/Price): The dividend yield is used to compare the returns from owning shares (without taking share price appreciation or depreciation into account) with cash dividend returns. Which Year to Use?

Precedent Transaction Analysis 52

Precedent Transaction Analysis EBITDA Comparable Company Analysis Enterprise Value 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, I have seen it asserted that a stock that trades at less than book value is cheap or that a stock that trades at more than twenty times EBITDA is expensive. In January 2023, I ended up with 47,913 publicly traded firms in my sample , with the pie chart below providing a geographic breakdown. Return on Equity 1.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends EBITDA Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis. Markets, as is their wont, live to surprise, and the first six months of 2023 has wrong-footed the experts (again).

Marketability 95

Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Treasury 95

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Dividend yield & payout 3. Buybacks 2.

Dividends 98

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this post, I start by looking at the end game for businesses, and how that choice plays out in investment rules for these businesses, and then examine how much businesses generated in profits in 2023, scaled to both revenues and invested capital. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game? trillion ($1.8

Equity 79

Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 79

Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intact Financial Corporation (TSX: IFC ) (Intact, IFC or the Company) and its subsidiary RSA today announced that they have reached an agreement with Direct Line Insurance Group plc (Direct Line) to acquire Direct Line's brokered Commercial Lines operations.

Discounted Cash Flow 40

Discounted Cash Flow Net Present Value Book Value Dividends 40

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Start-ups 100

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Equity 100