Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cash generating capacity : Debt payments are serviced with operating cash flows, and the more operating cash flows that firms generate, as a percent of their market value, the more that they can afford to borrow. To the retort from some bankers that you can liquidate the assets and recover your loans, I have two responses.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. Price to Book 3. Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. Cost of Equity 1. PE & PEG 2.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

The second is the cost of capital, a number that most valuation classes and books (including mine) belabor to the point of diminishing returns. It is a money loser There are good arguments to be made against investing in Zomato at is proposed offering price, but one of the emptiest, and laziest, is that it is losing money right now.

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Marketability Start-ups Equity Price to Book 86