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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

Not surprisingly, the company listings are across the world, and I look at the breakdown of companies, by number and market cap, by geography: As you can see, the market cap of US companies at the start of 2025 accounted for roughly 49% of the market cap of global stocks, up from 44% at the start of 2024 and 42% at the start of 2023.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. 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.

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First Advantage Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2023 Results

Benzinga

Full Year 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $763.8 million Adjusted EBITDA of $237.6 million one-time special dividend payment, $59.0 million acquisition of Infinite ID Fourth Quarter 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $202.6 million Adjusted EBITDA of $68.2 Full Year 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $763.8

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

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.

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Valuation Using Multiples—What Is It and How Does It Work? Core Ideas Explained

Valutico

The ratio used might be EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, P/E or another, depending on the valuation performed and the type of business being valued. So another major assumption when adopting this method, is that the type of ratio chosen as the comparison point, such as P/E or EV/EBITDA should be similar across similar firms. .

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Your Guide to Valuing a Company Using the Multiples Approach

Valutico

The ratio used might be EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, P/E or another, depending on the valuation performed and the type of business being valued. So another major assumption when adopting this method, is that the type of ratio chosen as the comparison point, such as P/E or EV/EBITDA should be similar across similar firms. .

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

Even when you are successful in dissuading these companies from "bad" investments, but may not be able to stop them from returning the cash to shareholders as dividends and buybacks, rather than making "good" investments. in the 2011-2023 time period. in the 2011-2023 time period. in the 1998-2010 time period to 5.95