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Data Update 8 for 2025: Debt, Taxes and Default - An Unholy Trifecta!

Musings on Markets

However, remember that the added debt is going into investments (projects, joint ventures, acquisitions), and these investments will generate earnings and cash flows. When the debt is within reasonable bounds (scaling up with the company), a company can borrow money, and not lower its ratings.

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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!

Musings on Markets

The first is the role that cash holdings play in a business , an extension of the dividend policy question, with an examination of why businesses often should not pay out what they have available to shareholders. In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written about in the past.

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Has Volvo’s Strong Value Creation Been Overlooked by the Market?

Andrew Stolz

Value play with strong dividend growth potential. However, most recently, the 50 DMA started to rise, and it seems like it can cross the 200DMA very soon. Instead of exporting to China, Volvo aims to ramp up sales by establishing a production site in the country. With the acquisition, Volvo aims to ramp up its sales in China.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

The effect of impact investing in the inclusionary and exclusionary paths is through the stock price , with the buying (selling) in inclusionary (exclusionary) investing pushing stock prices up (down), which, in turn, decreases (increases) the costs of equity and capital at these firms. in the 1998-2010 time period to 5.95

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Buy the Dip: The Draw and Dangers of Contrarian Investing!

Musings on Markets

There are strands of research in both behavioral finance and empirical studies that back up contrarian strategies, but as with everything to do with investing, it comes with caveats and constraints. In the third, constrained contrarianism , you buy the stocks that are down, but only if they pass your screens for qualify and safety.

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