Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

Regional Breakdown My data sample for 2022 includes every publicly traded firm that is traded anywhere in the world, with a market capitalization that exceeds zero. A few of these variables are macro variables, but only those that I find useful in corporate finance and valuation, and not easily accessible in public data bases.

Risk Premium 91

Risk Premium Start-ups Market Capitalization Corporate Finance 91

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Return on Equity 1. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Debt Details 1.

Dividends 98

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 98

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.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Market Capitalization Equity Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

After paying taxes on this income, the residual amount represents net income, the final measure of equity earnings, and the basis for computing earnings per share and other widely used measures of profitability used by equity investors.

Start-ups 80

Start-ups Equity Book Value Marketability 80

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world. Cost of Equity 1. Cost of Capital 3. PE & PEG 2.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends EBITDA Start-ups 52

Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On November 21, 2023, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Corporation Finance issued eight new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs), and revised two previously issued C&DIs, relating to the final pay-versus-performance (PVP) disclosure rules adopted last year. Answer: Yes.

Compliance 40

Compliance Total Shareholder Return Dividends Market Capitalization 40

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

Start-ups 98

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Dividends 98