2024 Beta Market Capitalization 
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 10, 2025
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.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 5, 2024
Since I am lucky enough to have access to databases that carry data on all publicly traded stocks, I choose all publicly traded companies, with a market price that exceeds zero, as my universe, for computing all statistics. Beta & Risk 1. Return on (invested) capital 2. Return on Equity 1. Debt Ratios & Fundamentals 1.
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Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
In data update 4 , I looked at movements in corporate default spreads during 2024. There are three company-specific numbers that enter the calculation, all of which contribute to costs of capital varying across companies; Relative Equity Risk , i.e., a measure of how risky a company's equity is, relative to the average company's equity.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 6, 2023
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.
Equidam
APRIL 22, 2025
10] Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): While the ultimate pricing of an IPO is determined by public market demand and conditions, pre-IPO valuations set by late-stage private rounds guide expectations and internal planning. [11] 23] Collectively, rising interest rates and increased market risk lead to higher discount rates.
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