Chris Mercer

APRIL 7, 2023

The definition of fair market value, the standard of value employed in most appraisals, calls for a hypothetical transaction to occur on the valuation date. All marketing, due diligence and documentation has occurred before or on the valuation date and a hypothetical transaction occurs on the valuation date. Does anyone care?

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this post, I want to focus on that point, starting with a discussion of why stories matter to investors and traders and the story that propelled the company to a trillion-dollar market capitalization not that long ago. billion in revenues in 2021.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2021

Financing Mix : Companies can raise capital either from equity or debt, and the costs of equity and debt can be altered when the tax rate changes. To see if this is true, across companies, I broke US companies down my market capitalization into ten deciles and looked at the tax behavior in each grouping.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

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