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Data Update 8 for 2025: Debt, Taxes and Default - An Unholy Trifecta!

Musings on Markets

Measuring the Debt Burden With that tradeoff in place, we are ready to examine how it played out in 2024, by looking at how much companies around the world borrowed to fund their operations. to3.5%) during the year.

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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

Global Finance

In a recent interview, the US Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) enforcement director said they had a record $600 million in penalties in 2024 just for 70 cases. Its going to change your equity, your retained earnings, your profits, your earnings per share, your EBIT, your EBITDAall these numbers would change.

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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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Tariffs & The Job Market: How the Trade War Will Affect Finance Internships, Jobs, Deals, and Valuations

Brian DeChesare

This is a follow-up to my 2024 Election article , where I predicted that the Trump administration would be much less business friendly than hyperventilating influencers had forecast. So I thought I would add one more feature so you can say youve read 523,862 articles about the topic. This is the neutral case.

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

Musings on Markets

EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5. Thus, when computing my accounting return on equity in January 2024, I will be dividing the earnings from the four quarters ending in September 2023 (trailing twelve month) by the book value of equity at the end of September 2022. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3.

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Oneok shakes up the midstream industry

Valutico

This merger is expected to be earnings accretive from 2024, with projected annual EPS accretion of 3%-7% (2025-2027) and average free cash flow per share growth exceeding 20% (2024-2027). billion by applying the observed trading multiples EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT and P/E. About the deal Oneok has confirmed an USD 18.8

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Visa: Dominating the Global Payments Industry

Valutico

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | January 03, 2024 Link to the Valuation Inside Visa The origin of Visa Inc. Additionally, the Trading Comparables analysis generated a v aluation range of USD 220 billion to USD 290 billion, by utilizing observed metrics such as EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT, and P/E ratios.