Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

With these characteristics, the accounting balance sheets for these companies will be identical right after they start up, and the book value of equity will be $60 million in each company. The first is that if markets are efficient, the price to book ratios will reflect the quality of these companies.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my third post at the start of 2023, I looked at US treasuries, the long-touted haven of safety for investors. In 2022, they were in the eye on the storm, with the ten-year US treasury bond depreciating in price by more than 19% during the year, the worst year for US treasury returns in a century.

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Valutico

MAY 19, 2025

Preferred Equity: The value of the company’s outstanding preferred shares, which represent another source of capital with claims senior to common stock. Cash & Cash Equivalents: Highly liquid assets like physical cash, bank balances, marketable securities (short-term investments easily converted to cash), a nd treasury bills.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

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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