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Does Mandatory Board Gender Balancing Reduce Firm Value?

Reynolds Holding

As a social-policy instrument, forced board-gender balancing is in principle unrelated to firms’ economic performance. Nonetheless, imposing such a policy may have unintended consequences (positive or negative) for firm value, which is important for all of a firm’s constituencies – not only shareholders – to understand properly.

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Announcement: Valutico Provides Easier Way to Value Startups

Valutico

As some recent start-up valuations are falling amidst investor caution, this new development comes at an opportune time to positively impact how effectively financial firms value young businesses. For growth or mature SMEs, this discrepancy between the WACC of listed vs private companies is accounted for with a Cost of Equity Premium.

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

Return on Equity 1. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Costs of equity & capital 4. Costs of equity & capital 1. Fundamental Growth in Equity Earnings 2. Return on Equity 2. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5.

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The Seven Key Drivers of Business Valuation

Biz Equity

Debt-to-equity : Compares a company’s total debt to total equity. The formula for debt-to-equity ratio is total liabilities divided by total shareholder equity. The higher the ratio, the more risk creditors, lenders and investors face, which is why they tend to lean toward companies with lower debt-to-equity ratios.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

I do report on a few market-wide data items especially on risk premiums for both equity and debt. I also report on pricing statistics, again broken down by industry grouping, with equity (PE, Price to Book, Price to Sales) and enterprise value (EV/EBIT, EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, EV/Invested Capital) multiples. PE & PEG 2.