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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Value Scope

Click to Download: ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up? It was a hot topic before the COVID pandemic, in discussions to measure and value how companies engaged in sustainable and societally beneficial activities. It started sometime last year, during the fourth quarter. Executive Summary.

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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

Inflation and Value When in doubt about how any action or information plays out in value, I find it useful to go back to value basics, and trace out the effects of that action/information on value drivers. The former is short hand for the small cap premium and the latter is the proxy for the value factor in returns.

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Announcement: Valutico Provides Easier Way to Value Startups

Valutico

Valutico has once again made finance professional’s lives easier by announcing the launch of the Venture Capital (VC) method for valuing start-ups, available for the first time within its online platform. . One difficulty with valuing start-ups is that they have less financial history behind them.

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

Musings on Markets

Thus, looking at only the companies in the S&P 500 may give you more reliable data, with fewer missing observations, but your results will reflect what large market cap companies in any sector or industry do, rather than what is typical for that industry.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. That is not true!

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ESG A Valuation Framework

Value Scope

It started sometime last year, during the fourth quarter. Do ESG programs impact firm value? Generally speaking, pre-COVID, the goal of ESG risk management was to minimize negative events that might impact value. That said, this lens of due diligence has changed how the market invests. These are fair questions.