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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

Consequently, you can only value the equity in a bank, and by extension, the only pricing multiples you can use to price banks are equity multiples (PE, Price to Book etc.).

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ISS Discusses Where ESG Performance Matters Most for Company Valuation

Reynolds Holding

The January 2023 report ESG Performance and Enterprise Value: Do Firms with Stronger ESG Performance Have Higher Valuation Ratios? investigated the relationship between the ISS ESG Performance Score (a normalized version of the ISS ESG Corporate Rating ) and two valuation ratios from the ISS Economic Value Added (EVA) framework.

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29 Valuation Interview Questions and Answers: Mastering the Art of Crackling Interviews

Equilest

Difference between Enterprise Value and Equity Value? Definition: The distinction between Enterprise Value (EV) and Equity Value lies in their focus—EV centers on the market value of operating assets, while Equity Value pertains to the market value of shareholders' equity.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

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. buy stocks that trade at less than book value or trade at PEG ratios less than one) for individual stocks.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

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. Standard deviation in stock price 2. Price to Book 3. High-Low Price Risk Measure 5. Standard deviations in equity and firm value 4.

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

Musings on Markets

Third, I will confront the oft used contention that value is in the eye of the beholder, i.e., that Zomato is worth a lot because other investors believe it to be worth a lot, and examine a pricing rationale for Zomato.

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

Musings on Markets

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

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