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

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will begin by looking at how to value banks and follow up with an examination of investor views of banking have changed, by looking at pricing, before examining divergences in how banks are priced in the market today. All Equity, All the time!

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

Equilest

Understanding the Concept: In essence, FCFF encapsulates the cash that can be distributed to both debt and equity holders after meeting operational needs and capital expenditures. The resulting value represents the cash available to all contributors of capital—both debt and equity. What is Free Cash Flow to Equity?

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Is Hyundai’s Parallel Strategy a Potent Value Play?

Andrew Stolz

Book value is the value attributable to shareholders in case the company sells all its assets and repays its liabilities (also called liquidation value). A price-to-book ratio of less than 1x indicates that the market values the net assets less than the balance sheet suggests. Ratios – Hyundai.

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

Musings on Markets

The second was that, starting mid-year in 2020, equity markets and the real economy moved in different directions, with the former rising on the expectations a post-virus future, and the latter languishing, as most of the world continued to operate with significant constraints.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. trillion below their values from the start of 2022. that was lost last year.

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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. I do report on a few market-wide data items especially on risk premiums for both equity and debt. Cost of Equity 1. Standard deviation in stock price 2.

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The Importance of (and challenges with) Valuing Intangibles

IVSC

Comment: The importance of (and challenges with) valuing intangibles. Jeremy Stuber is a global equity analyst at Newton Investment Management , leading on valuation and accounting issues across all sectors. Searching for stocks with low price-to-book ratios was a good indication of a potential bargain.