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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

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Historical Data: 1930-2019 To see how this framework works in practice, let's start by looking at the performance of US stocks, across the decades, and look at the returns on stocks, broadly categorized based on market capitalization and price to book ratios.

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29 Valuation Interview Questions and Answers: Mastering the Art of Crackling Interviews

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Difference between Enterprise Value and Equity Value? Definition: The distinction between Enterprise Value (EV) and Equity Value lies in their focus—EV centers on the market value of operating assets, while Equity Value pertains to the market value of shareholders' equity.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. For example, I have seen it asserted that a stock that trades at less than book value is cheap or that a stock that trades at more than twenty times EBITDA is expensive.

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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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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