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

Musings on Markets

Historical Data: 1930-2019 To see how this framework works in practice, let's start by looking at the performance of US stocks, across the decades, and look at the returns on stocks, broadly categorized based on market capitalization and price to book ratios.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

I also report on pricing statistics, again broken down by industry grouping, with equity (PE, Price to Book, Price to Sales) and enterprise value (EV/EBIT, EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, EV/Invested Capital) multiples. Standard deviation in stock price 2. Price to Book 3. High-Low Price Risk Measure 5.

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The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms!

Musings on Markets

The second is the cost of capital, a number that most valuation classes and books (including mine) belabor to the point of diminishing returns. Finally, dismissing Zomato as an investment, just because it does not make money now, or fails to meet some conventional value tests on pricing (PE, Price to Book), is investing malpractice.