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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

Valutico

Compared with last year’s net income of GBP 10.3 (USD billion in net debt, reducing total debt to GBP 17.5 (USD by using the Discounted Cash Flow method, specifically our Flow-to-Equity approach, as well as a Trading Comparables analysis. billion, profit increased by an unbelievable 120%. billion worth of shares.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

The Market Reaction As the rhetoric of war has heated up in the last few months, markets were wary about the possibility of war, but as Russian troops have advanced into the Ukraine, that wariness has turned to sell off across markets. As Russian equities have imploded, the ripple effects again are being felt across the globe.

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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.

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

Musings on Markets

To fund the business, you can either use borrowed money (debt) or owner's funds (equity), and while both are sources of capital, they represent different claims on the business. Even government-owned businesses fall under its umbrella, with the key difference being that equity is provided by the taxpayers.

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Is Radiant Opto-Electronics an Undervalued Dividend Play?

Andrew Stolz

It measures of how much free cash flow the company generates annually relative to the company’s size as measured in market capitalization. The company has almost no long-term debt, thought is does have short term debt, leading to a negative net debt-to-equity ratio of 0.7x.

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Company Valuation Methods—Complete List and Guide

Valutico

Market-based approaches gauge a company’s value by analyzing comparable market transactions and valuations. While many people are familiar with market capitalization as a method for understanding the general worth of publicly traded companies based on the current market sentiment (itself based on company performance, etc.),