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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

In my corporate finance class, I describe all decisions that companies make as falling into one of three buckets – investing decisions, financing decision and dividend decisions. Tax rates 4. Financing Flows 5. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. Profit Margins 1.