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Data Update 3: Inflation and its Ripple Effects!

Musings on Markets

Measuring inflation is not as simple as it looks, and measures of inflation can vary depending on the basket of good/services used, the perspective adopted (consumer, producer, GDP deflator) and the sampling used to collect prices.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

In the table below, I list the ten worst performing and best performing industry groups, based purely on market capitalization change in the first half of 2023: Download market performance in 2023, by industry The worst performing industry groups are in financial services and energy, with oilfield services companies being the worst impacted.

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Is Hyundai’s Parallel Strategy a Potent Value Play?

Andrew Stolz

Download the full report as a PDF. Price signal unclear, but volume supports bullish signal. Book value is the value attributable to shareholders in case the company sells all its assets and repays its liabilities (also called liquidation value). Download the full report as a PDF. Low PB multiple of 0.8x

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

Musings on Markets

Consider, for instance, an investor who picks stocks based upon price to book ratios, who finds a stock trading at a price to book ratio of 1.5. Data Use: I know that those who download my data use it in many different contexts.

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The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms!

Musings on Markets

History and Business Model Zomato was founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah, as Foodiebay, in response to the difficulties that they noticed that their office mates were having in downloading menus for restaurants. Overall, I will attach a likelihood of failure of 10%, reflecting this balance.

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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

Consequently, you can only value the equity in a bank, and by extension, the only pricing multiples you can use to price banks are equity multiples (PE, Price to Book etc.). The Pricing of Bank Equity You have heard me say this before, but I don't think there is any harm in repeating this.

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

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%. The results are similar if you break stocks down based upon price to book ratios or revenue growth rates. Download past implied ERP That said, there are two reasons for concern.