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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3.

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Forecasting Future Fraud: Q&A With Joanne Horton Of Warwick Business School

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You start off small, and then it starts escalating. And theres a recent paper that says youre more likely to round up your earnings-per-share number about five years before. So, they ended up, in 2015 and 2016, creating fictitious revenues, valuing the inventory upward, channel stuffing, and many other things.

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Netflix hikes up prices after successful quarter

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Many Netflix originals prove to be performing well which is part of the reason why they expect their Q4 revenue to be $8.7B, up 11% year-over-year. After this dramatic shift downward, Netflix was able to regain some consumer confidence and they have started to reclaim some of their lost ground. Youtube), Apple Inc.

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

Musings on Markets

First, these categorizations were created close to twenty years ago, when I first started looking a global data, and many countries that were emerging markets then have developed into more mature markets now. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. Revenue Multiples 4.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. That is not true!

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Meta’s Threads: A New Rival to Twitter’s Throne

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This inherent interconnection has given the new platform a head start, providing a massive user base at the get-go.It The success of Threads will hinge on its ability to one-up Twitter. Users need an Instagram account to join Threads, and eradicating Threads means eliminating their Instagram account too. Microsoft Corporation.

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Methods of Business Valuation by Their Profitability

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In practice, professionals rely on several results, assessed at different levels of the income statement: - the gross operating surplus (EBIT or EBITDA) - net operating surplus (ENE or EBIT) - the Current Result Before Tax (RCAI) - Net Income (NR) - Self-Financing Capacity (CAF) or operating cash flow. EBITDA and EBIT).