Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Challenge rules of thumb and conventional wisdom : Investing has always had rules of thumb on how and when to invest, ranging from using historical PE or CAPE ratios to decide if markets are over valued, to simplistic rules (eg. buy stocks that trade at less than book value or trade at PEG ratios less than one) for individual stocks.

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Risk Premium Market Capitalization Equity Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since I am lucky enough to have access to databases that carry data on all publicly traded stocks, I choose all publicly traded companies, with a market price that exceeds zero, as my universe, for computing all statistics. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Return on (invested) capital 2. Costs of equity & capital 4.

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Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 98

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In this section, I will lay out a mechanism for evaluating the effects of borrowing on the cost of funding a business, i.e., the cost of capital, and talk about why firms may under or overshoot this optimal.

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Equity EBITDA Start-ups Net Debt 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. 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.

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Risk Premium Dividends EBITDA Start-ups 52