Banking Dividends Price to Book 
Global Finance
JULY 23, 2024
The plan by the Big Three banks to unwind their cross-shareholdings points to a long-awaited turn to better corporate governance. As such, the big banks’ pledges suggest that Japanese business is taking the need for change seriously, Wu says. The announcements in June by Japan’s three megabanks that they will sell $5.4
Valutico
MAY 19, 2025
It is generally not suitable for valuing banks and financial institutions and early stage companies. Interest Expense: This represents the cost of borrowing money, such as the interest accrued on bank loans or equipment financing. Other metrics like Price-to-Book or Dividend Yield are typically more relevant for these sectors.
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Musings on Markets
JULY 17, 2023
That does not surprise me, since I have never bought into the “Fed did it” theme, and have written multiple posts about why it is inflation and economic growth that drive interest rates, not central banks. Financials, handicapped by the bank runs at SVB and First Republic, have been flat for the year, as has been real estate.
Equilest
NOVEMBER 25, 2023
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Musings on Markets
MAY 7, 2023
I also used the banking framework to argue that good banks have stickier deposits, with a higher precent of these deposits being non-interest bearing, that they invest in loans and investment securities on which they earn interest rates that cover and exceed the default risk in these investments. All Equity, All the time!
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 9, 2021
Consider, for instance, an investor who picks stocks based upon price to book ratios, who finds a stock trading at a price to book ratio of 1.5. The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 19, 2022
When you augment this price change with the dividends on the index during 2021, the total return on the S&P 500 for 2021 was 28.47%. The results are similar if you break stocks down based upon price to book ratios or revenue growth rates.
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