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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

The second was a comment that I made on a LinkedIn post that had built on my implied equity premium approach to the Indian market but had run into a roadblock because of an assumption that, in an efficient market, the return on equity would equate to the cost of equity.

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Exit Through the Virtual Door: Tips for Selling Your E-commerce Business

Viking Mergers

With that kind of earnings potential, you may expect it to be a seller’s market with buyers lined up to take advantage of e-commerce popularity. A professional valuation will provide vital insight into where your business fits in the broader industry and global e-commerce market.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. In the table below, we compare the changes in regional market capitalizations (in $ millions) over time.

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

Musings on Markets

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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9 Startup Valuation Methods: 5 to Use, 4 to Avoid

Equidam

This approach encourages dialogue focused on the business fundamentals the team, the market opportunity, the product, the financial projections rather than anchoring the conversation to arbitrary figures potentially derived from selectively chosen, and often inappropriate, market comparisons.

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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

My version of the corporate life cycle is built around six stages with the first stage being an idea business (a start-up) and the last one representing decline and demise. Here again, the problem is that high growth industry groups begin to mature, just as companies do, and this has been true for some segments of the tech sector.

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

Musings on Markets

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.