Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

In this post, I will look at corporate profitability, in all its different dimensions, and how companies across the globe, and across industries, measured up in the most recent years. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to researcher Giuliano Bologna at Compass Point Research and Trading , Inc: In the third quarter of 2023, only six us banks had non-mortgage consumer loans (personal, student, etc), measured at fair value, with SoFi’s loans making up more than 95% of the total. and its CET1 ratio would be cut from 14.3 percent to 8.9

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

To set the stage, I will start by laying out the differences measure of earnings that reported on an income statement: At the top of the profit ladder is gross income , the earnings left over after a company has covered the direct cost of producing whatever it sells.

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Class VI Partner

JULY 28, 2021

Start with this exit checklist. Adjusted Net Book Value Adjusted Net Book Value is the Book Value of a business that has been adjusted to reflect the current market value of the assets and liabilities of a company. Exit Checklist. Want to get a sense for what it takes to sell your company?

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That may reflect the concern that once a person or entity starts borrowing to fund its needs, it is easy to overuse debt, and risk its wellbeing in the process. In that case, the optimal debt ratio for a company is the one that maximizes value, not necessarily the one at which the cost of capital is minimized.

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Sun Acquisitions

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s an excellent way to establish a business’ fair value as the valuation itself is conducted by an independent third party. Business valuation experts may look into the organization’s earnings multipliers, market cap, and book value in order to give an objective estimation of the company’s worth. Offer-to-Purchase Agreement.

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Valutico

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Pharmacies are valued at 0.8x – 1.2x Wind farms are valued at €0.8m – €1.2m SaaS start-ups are valued at 10x Sales”. The ratio is either related to the Equity Value or ratios related to the Enterprise Value. . Price/Book : This multiple compares the price to the book value of a firm.

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Valutico

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Pharmacies are valued at 0.8x – 1.2x Wind farms are valued at €0.8m – €1.2m SaaS start-ups are valued at 10x Sales”. The ratio is either related to the Equity Value or ratios related to the Enterprise Value. . Price/Book : This multiple compares the price to the book value of a firm.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the figure below, I trace out where operating, capital and financing expenses show up in the three financial statements: Operating expenses become part of cost of good sold or other operating expenses (like SG&A and adverting costs) in an income statement, and are key inputs in determining operating income. billion.

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 15, 2021

Which basically means that before you do the transaction you have to have started the process that would enable you to do an audit of your internal controls for the year that you were in.”. You’re probably going to have to staff up. Some De-SPAC transactions reveal exorbitantly high figures allotted to goodwill, as much as 85 percent.

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Chris Mercer

AUGUST 1, 2022

This 2008 version had information on 477 restricted stock transactions, up from 430 transactions in the 2004 version. There were 231 transactions after April 1997, when the SEC’s period of restriction was reduced from two years to one year (up from 182 transactions in the 2004 version). Conclusion.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this post, I start by looking at the end game for businesses, and how that choice plays out in investment rules for these businesses, and then examine how much businesses generated in profits in 2023, scaled to both revenues and invested capital. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

First, these categorizations were created close to twenty years ago, when I first started looking a global data, and many countries that were emerging markets then have developed into more mature markets now. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. Fundamenal Growth in Operating Earnings 3.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering , and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. That would suggest that intangible assets are being valued and incorporated into balance sheets much more now than in the past.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

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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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

At the start of the year, the consensus of market experts was that this would be a difficult year for markets, given the macro worries about inflation and an impending recession, and adding in the fear of the Fed raising rates to this mix made bullishness a rare commodity on Wall Street. That pessimism was not restricted to market outlooks.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

Thus, the notion that a company that pays dividends is viewed as a failure strikes me as odd, since just farmers seed fields in order to harvest them, we start businesses because we plan to eventually collect cash flows from them. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.

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FE International

DECEMBER 31, 2021

At FE International we value and broker the sale of internet businesses with a wide range of monetization strategies (e.g. up to >6x (more on that later) and seen more than a few interesting valuations devised by buyers! billion up to $6.8 At the time of writing, Facebook’s enterprise value is $527 billion.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And, since they are not able to expense an asset in one single period, depreciating the value of the asset over its useful life and charging it as an expense helps companies better match asset uses with the benefits it provides. It also helps with asset valuation, enabling clients to more accurately report an asset at its net book value.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. That is not true!

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

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. The Zomato IPO clocks in at 420 pages , much of it designed to bore readers into submission.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

But over time, trends like market liberalization, deregulation, the shift to renewables, and the ESG religion “movement” have shaken up a sleepy sector. We’ll get into these fun developments, but I want to start with the basic definitions: Power & Utilities Investment Banking Defined.

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The company still pays interest on the full $1000 and must repay it upon maturity, but you can buy the issuance at a steep discount because there’s a significant chance of default (see: book value vs. market value vs. face value ). A sharply declining stock price does not necessarily mean a company is “distressed.”

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The second is that these disclosures have become less readable and more difficult to navigate, partly because they are so bulky, and partly because disclosures with big consequences are mingled with disclosure with small or even no consequences, often leaving it up to investors to determine which ones matter.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The Lead In As noted in the introductory paragraph, I start from a position of ignorance about the Adani Group, and it thus made sense to fill in that gap. First, they are infrastructure businesses , requiring large up-front investments and having long gestation periods, with regulatory and government oversight.

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