Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I would be lying if I said that I have had clarity about Tesla's story over the last decade, because it has so many tangents, distractions and shifts along the way, flirting with narratives about being a battery company, an energy company and a technology company. In sum, the company's market cap has risen from $2.8

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. trillion below their values from the start of 2022. that was lost last year.

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Valutico

JUNE 15, 2023

NVIDIA Corporation Weekly Valuation – Valutico | June 15, 2023 Link to the valuation About the company NVIDIA Corporation, based in Santa Clara, California, is a leading multinational technology company known for designing state-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) and system on a chip units (SoCs). and Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As we get deeper into earnings season for the third quarter of 2022, the biggest negative surprises are coming from technology companies, with the tech giants leading the way. On May 12, 2012, Facebook's debuted in financial markets, with a capitalization of $104 billion, making it one of the most valuable IPOs of all time.

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Sun Acquisitions

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Rather than merely chasing financial gains, successful acquirers meticulously assess how the target’s capabilities, market position, and culture complement their strategic objectives. A prime example is Salesforce’s acquisition of MuleSoft, a leading integration software provider, for $6.5

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Valutico

MARCH 20, 2023

This acquisition is expected to strengthen HSBC’s commercial banking franchise and enhance its ability to serve innovative and fast-growing firms, particularly in the technology and life science sectors, both domestically and globally. HSBC is also planning a special dividend of $0.21

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In this context, the cost of capital become a measure of the cost of funding a business: In dividend decision s, i.e., the decisions of how much cash to return to owners and in what form (dividends or buybacks), the cost of capital is a divining rod.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

ABB is a Swiss-based technology company, active in the fields of electrification, robotics, automation and motion with software. Currently the company is trading at CHF 30 per share with a market capitalization of CHF 56.1 At this level the dividend yield is 2.8%. . In comparison to ABB’s market capitalization of CHF 56.1

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

ABB is a Swiss-based technology company, active in the fields of electrification, robotics, automation and motion with software. Currently the company is trading at CHF 30 per share with a market capitalization of CHF 56.1 At this level the dividend yield is 2.8%. . In comparison to ABB’s market capitalization of CHF 56.1

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Valutico

MAY 18, 2023

IBM Corporation Weekly Valuation – Valutico | May 18, 2023 Link to the valuation About the company IBM is a global technology company based in New York that specializes in computing solutions, cloud computing, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. and Alphabet Inc.

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Benzinga

JUNE 6, 2023

Recruiter and GoLogiq plan to review the market capitalization of Recruiter six months following the closing of the business combination. If the market capitalization of the combined company is at least $130 million at that time, additional shares may be issued to GoLogiq.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 11, 2023

(NYSE: EGLE ) ("Eagle"), one of the world's largest owner-operators within the midsize dry bulk vessel segment, today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger on a Net Asset Value to Net Asset Value ("NAV") basis with a pro forma market capitalization of approximately $2.1

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

That drop of more than $200 billion in market capitalization in response to what looked like good news, at least on the surface, puzzled market observers, though, as is their wont, they had found a reason by day end. There are two interpretations of these results, and there is truth in both of them.

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Valutico

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The income-based approach determines a company’s value by assessing its anticipated future income-generating potential, employing methodologies such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis, Capitalization of Earnings, the Income Multiplier Method, Dividend Discount Model (DDM), and Earnings-Based Valuation.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world. At the company-level, I provide data on risk, profitability, leverage and dividends, broken down by industry-groups, to be used in both corporate finance and valuation. Return on Equity 1.

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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.

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ThomsonReuters

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Financial Reporting in the COVID-19 Era: Technology Can Help Accounting Professionals Ask—and Answer—the Right Questions. Do you have a shortage of working capital? Are you able to pay dividends or payments on lines of credit from suppliers? And that’s where technology comes in. Are you in compliance with requirements?

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Real estate and utilities are the two sectors that have not come back fully from the COVID effect, but materials, technology and communication services are now reporting significantly higher earnings that before the shut down.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 24, 2024

Among the dual class ranks are technology companies Facebook (Meta) and Google (Alphabet), food and beverage companies Coca-Cola and Tyson Foods, and media companies The New York Times and 21st Century Fox. The three most common triggers are dividends or distributions, liquidation events, and transactions.

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Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

Against this inauspicious backdrop, China Construction Bank (CCB) impressed judges with an array of initiatives demonstrating innovative technological thinking and a keen eye on ESG alignment, regional development and inclusivity. Maybank’s 60 sen (about $0.13) dividend was the highest payout since the pandemic. billion in 2022.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Thus, an analyst who follows young technology companies may decide that paying ten times revenues for a company is a bargain, if all of the companies that he tracks trade at multiples greater than ten times revenues. increase over the year, as new listings outnumbered companies that defaulted during the course of the year.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 19, 2022

When you augment this price change with the dividends on the index during 2021, the total return on the S&P 500 for 2021 was 28.47%. With equities, the cash flows take the form of dividends and buybacks, and in addition to estimating them using future growth rates, you have to assume that they continue in perpetuity.

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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. It is also why I report only aggregated data on industries, rather than company-level data.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While management decisions have clearly contributed to the problems, it is also true that the pharmacy business, which forms Walgreen's core, has deteriorated over the last two years, and that can be seen by comparing its market performance to CVS, its highest profile competitor.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2021

In a predictable consequence, US multinationals chose to leave their foreign income outside the US, creating the phenomenon of trapped cash, i.e., income held in foreign locales to avoid taxes, but also trapped because that income could not be used to pay dividends, buy back stock or invest in projects in the United States.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Khan's high profile thesis on the need for antitrust enforcement against technology companies, the bulk of the challenges have been directed at more traditional businesses. And just as a bonus, Bell Labs was renamed Lucent Technologies, and after an initial burst of enthusiasm about promise and potential, sank under its contradictions.

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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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Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2025

To examine the kinds of companies that you would invest in, with a knee-jerk contrarian investing strategy , I looked at all US stocks with a market capitalization exceeding a billion dollars on December 31, 2024, and found the companies that were the biggest losers, on a percent basis, between March 28 and April 18 of 2025: You will note that technology (..)

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Musings on Markets

MAY 3, 2025

At the start of the month, as has been the case for much of the last decade, the focus was on technology, partly because of its large weight in overall equity value at the start of 2025, and partly because of the punishment meted out to tech stocks during the first quarter of the year. trillion that they lost in the first week of the month.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Seen with this perspective, corporate venture capital investments can be framed in one of two ways: Replacement for internal R&D : For some companies, corporate venture capital investments displace internal R&D, designed to generate future products and develop new technologies.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

While there are other forces (social media, technology) at play that may explain this shift as well, the cynicism that globalization has created about the capacity to create change at home has undoubtedly contributed to the shift away from democracy.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 8, 2025

It also clarifies that compliant payment stablecoins are not securities and prohibits them from offering any interest or dividend payment. While these concerns echo those of other academics and previous regulators, they do not fully account for recent advances in regulation, technology, and practical adoption.

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Global Finance

MAY 2, 2025

Stablecoins often act as a bridge between crypto and national currencies; they share the same underlying blockchain technology as tokens like bitcoin and Ethereum. Fintechs like Tether (USDT) and Circle (USDC) are pioneering the issuance of stablecoins, but other issuers may soon jump in.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It is not clear how market capitalization would be calculated in this contexte.g., This is relevant because leading crypto market structure bills would propose to classify many digital assets as digital commodities that are subject to CFTC, rather than SEC, jurisdiction. Study on algorithmic stablecoins Would direct the U.S.

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