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

Musings on Markets

Inflation and Value When in doubt about how any action or information plays out in value, I find it useful to go back to value basics, and trace out the effects of that action/information on value drivers. The former is short hand for the small cap premium and the latter is the proxy for the value factor in returns.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

Thus, without a sense of what comprises a high or low profit margin for a firm, or what the cost of capital is for the typical company, it is easy to create "fairy tale" valuations and analyses. Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world.