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

Musings on Markets

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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ISS Discusses Where ESG Performance Matters Most for Company Valuation

Reynolds Holding

The January 2023 report ESG Performance and Enterprise Value: Do Firms with Stronger ESG Performance Have Higher Valuation Ratios? investigated the relationship between the ISS ESG Performance Score (a normalized version of the ISS ESG Corporate Rating ) and two valuation ratios from the ISS Economic Value Added (EVA) framework.

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

Equilest

Candidates should highlight their commitment to staying updated on industry trends, regulations, and emerging technologies. Difference between Enterprise Value and Equity Value? Understanding the Difference: Enterprise Value encapsulates a broader financial picture, considering both debt and equity holders.

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M&A Valuation Methods: Your Essential Guide with 7 Key Methods

Valutico

Special considerations for valuing M&A deals include synergies, regulatory issues, economic conditions, tax implications, technology/IP valuation, financing structure, buyer type, and purchase price allocation. This method provides a value based on the current cost of assets without considering depreciation.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

Consider, for instance, an investor who picks stocks based upon price to book ratios, who finds a stock trading at a price to book ratio of 1.5. By focusing so much attention on a small subset of companies, you risk developing tunnel vision, especially when doing peer group comparisons.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

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. Standard deviation in stock price 2. Price to Book 3. Cost of Equity 1.

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The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms!

Musings on Markets

It would be churlish on my part to take issue with the bloat and selective disclosure in Zomato's prospectus, since they are following the script that other technology companies around the world have written for going public, but it is frustrating to read through 420 pages, and still be left in the dark on key numbers.