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. Return on Equity 1. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Return on (invested) capital 2. Return on Equity 2.

Dividends 98

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 98

Benzinga

JULY 10, 2023

With the completion of this transaction, SMGI's balance sheet is significantly improved, including a large increase in the book value of the combined company. The merger unlocks attractive growth opportunities, strengthens customer relationships, and increases market capitalization.

EBITDA 40

EBITDA Book Value Capital Structure Marketability 40

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

While this may seem perverse, the first step in understanding and assessing where we are in markets now is to go back and examine where things stood then. trillion in market value in the first six months in the year , but the severity of last year's decline has still left them $14.4 US Equities in 2023: Into the Weeds!

Marketability 95

Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Treasury 95

Chris Mercer

AUGUST 1, 2022

Were also bigger and had higher market capitalizations and better operating performance, on average. The median market value of equity (MVE) for dividend-paying stocks was $133 million, and the average MVE was $248 million. The median P/B multiple for dividend paying stocks was 1.7x, while the average was 2.2x.

Dividends 52

Dividends Appraisal Marketability Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this post, I will look at another initial public offering, Birkenstock, that is likely to get more attention in the next few weeks, given that it is targeting to go public at a pricing of about €8 billion, for its equity, in a few weeks.

Intangible Assets 104

Intangible Assets Book Value Equity Start-ups 104

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. Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends EBITDA Start-ups 52

Valutico

AUGUST 23, 2023

These cash flows typically include operating income, tax payments, and changes in working capital and capital expenditures. b) Determining the Discount Rate: The discount rate, often the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), reflects the risk associated with the company’s cash flows.

Discounted Cash Flow 52

Discounted Cash Flow Comparable Company Analysis EBITDA Enterprise Value 52

Valutico

AUGUST 10, 2023

These cash flows typically include operating income, tax payments, and changes in working capital and capital expenditures. b) Determining the Discount Rate: The discount rate, often the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), reflects the risk associated with the company’s cash flows.

Discounted Cash Flow 52

Discounted Cash Flow Comparable Company Analysis EBITDA Enterprise Value 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

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.

Start-ups 100

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Equity 100