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Data Update 8 for 2025: Debt, Taxes and Default - An Unholy Trifecta!

Musings on Markets

However, remember that the added debt is going into investments (projects, joint ventures, acquisitions), and these investments will generate earnings and cash flows. When the debt is within reasonable bounds (scaling up with the company), a company can borrow money, and not lower its ratings.

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Data Update 7 for 2025: The End Game in Business!

Musings on Markets

While accountants remain focused on balance sheets, with a fixation of bringing intangibles on to the balance and marking everything up to the market, much of the information that we need to assess the value of a business comes from income and cash flow statements.

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Quipt Acquires $60 Million in Revenues and $13 Million Adjusted EBITDA with Strategic Acquisition of Great Elm Healthcare, LLC

Benzinga

Based on an independent quality of earnings report, Great Elm had unaudited revenues for the 12 months ended August 31, 2022 of $60 million ‎with an Adjusted EBITDA (defined below) of $13 million. Adjusted EBITDA pre cost savings and synergies. Adjusted EBITDA post cost savings and synergies. Transaction Highlights.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

The effect of impact investing in the inclusionary and exclusionary paths is through the stock price , with the buying (selling) in inclusionary (exclusionary) investing pushing stock prices up (down), which, in turn, decreases (increases) the costs of equity and capital at these firms. in the 1998-2010 time period to 5.95

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

The Lead In To understand the market effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we need to start with an assessment of the two countries, and their places in the global political, economic and market landscape, leading in. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

While it is a financial decision, it is one that is freighted with moral overtones, since almost every religion inveighs against debt's sins, labeling those who lend as sinners and those who borrow as weak.

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Buy the Dip: The Draw and Dangers of Contrarian Investing!

Musings on Markets

There are strands of research in both behavioral finance and empirical studies that back up contrarian strategies, but as with everything to do with investing, it comes with caveats and constraints. In the third, constrained contrarianism , you buy the stocks that are down, but only if they pass your screens for qualify and safety.

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