Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

Thus, as you peruse my historical data on implied equity risk premiums or PE ratios for the S&P 500 over time, you may be tempted to compute averages and use them in your investment strategies, or use my industry averages for debt ratios and pricing multiples as the target for every company in the peer group, but you should hold back.

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Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups Corporate Finance 119

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. In this example, for instance, business A, with a market value of equity of $150 million and a book value of equity of $60 million, will trade at 2.50

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Equity Book Value Marketability Start-ups 52

Equidam

APRIL 26, 2025

Key value drivers include intangible assets like intellectual property, the strength and experience of the founding team, the perceived size of the market opportunity, network effects, brand recognition, and, critically, the projected ability to generate significant cash flows in the future.

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Discounted Cash Flow Terminal Value Book Value Beta 59

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

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.

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Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Treasury 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the form of costs of equity and capital.

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Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 82

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. I do report on a few market-wide data items especially on risk premiums for both equity and debt. Equty Risk Premiums, by Country 4.

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Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

By focusing so much attention on a small subset of companies, you risk developing tunnel vision, especially when doing peer group comparisons. buy stocks that trade at less than book value or trade at PEG ratios less than one) for individual stocks.

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Risk Premium Market Capitalization Equity Start-ups 52