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

Musings on Markets

Along the way, more people than I ever imagined have found my data of use, and while I still have no desire to be a data service, I have an obligation to be transparent about my data analysis processes. Costs of equity & capital 4. Dividend yield & payout 3. Default Spreads 3. Margins & ROC 3.

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AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!

Musings on Markets

As the semiconductor business has acquired heft, in terms of revenues and profitability, investors have priced those operating results into the market capitalization assigned to these companies. After a long stretch at the top, Intel has dropped back down the list and ranked third, in terms of revenues, in 2022.