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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

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Historical Data: 1930-2019 To see how this framework works in practice, let's start by looking at the performance of US stocks, across the decades, and look at the returns on stocks, broadly categorized based on market capitalization and price to book ratios.

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29 Valuation Interview Questions and Answers: Mastering the Art of Crackling Interviews

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Uncover the intricacies of financial modeling, from understanding fundamental concepts like Free Cash Flow to Firm and Dividend Discount Model, to navigating advanced methodologies such as LBO and DCF. It provides a clearer picture of a company's ability to reward its shareholders with dividends or share buybacks.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. For example, I have seen it asserted that a stock that trades at less than book value is cheap or that a stock that trades at more than twenty times EBITDA is expensive.

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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The PE ratio for the stock has gone from a modest 15 times earnings in the 2016-21 time period to 214 times earnings in the most recent two years, and the enterprise value has jumped from about 12 times EBITDA during 2016-21 to 53 times EBITDA in the most recent two years. times revenues in the most recent two years.

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