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Unlocking the Hidden Value: Exploring the Relationship between Retained Earnings and Business Valuation

Equilest

As an essential component of shareholders' equity, retained earnings reflect the accumulated profits that a company has chosen to reinvest rather than distribute as dividends. Calculating retained earnings is relatively straightforward, involving subtracting dividends and distributions from net income over a specific period.

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

Musings on Markets

Along the way, more people than I ever imagined have found my data of use, and while I still have no desire to be a data service, I have an obligation to be transparent about my data analysis processes.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

That said, to use mean reversion in analysis or investing, you need to know what these averages are, either over time or across companies, and data can help in that pursuit. Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world.

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“Shadow Trading” Becomes Insider Trading

Reynolds Holding

As discussed below, this new insider trading theory – now being called “shadow trading” – significantly raises the danger level for market participants who possess nothing more than information that potentially affects an industry. percent premium to market and a 69.8 The SEC’s “Shadow Trading” Claim.