Value Scope

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Value of X X, formerly Twitter, is now valued at $19 billion, according to the company’s employee equity compensation plan. Blackberry, the once dominant player in the smartphone market, failed to adapt to the evolution of touchscreen technology and app ecosystem in favor of physical keyboards and its web browser.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The Hurdle Rate - Intuition and Uses You don't need to complete a corporate finance or valuation class to encounter hurdle rates in practice, usually taking the form of costs of equity and capital, but taking a finance class both deepens the acquaintance and ruins it. Corporate Default Risk , i.e,

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 17, 2024

Heading into 2023, US equities looked like they were heading into a sea of troubles, with inflation out of control and a recession on the horizon. Energy, one of the few survivors of the 2022 market sell-off, had a bad year, as did utilities and consumer staples. increase in market capitalization.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Benchmark tech analyst Cody Acree argues that a private equity firm like Apollo is a better fit for struggling Intel. Intel’s market share continues to decline. Its stock price has plummeted 60% this year and its market capitalization fell below $100 billion in early August: the first time that has happened since 2012.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 21, 2024

What GameStop put on display was how much has changed—in technology and business models—since 2005 when we last comprehensively updated our equity market rules. The markets have moved to overwhelmingly trade electronically, with transaction volume in listed equities tripling in the last 17 years. [3]

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this post, I will look at another initial public offering, Birkenstock, that is likely to get more attention in the next few weeks, given that it is targeting to go public at a pricing of about €8 billion, for its equity, in a few weeks.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In the graph below, I plot the market capitalization of Chinese listed companies, in dollar terms, and as a percent of market capitalization of all global companies: World Bank Database Chinese equities have risen from a negligible share of global market capitalization, in 2000, to more than 10% of global market capitalization, in 2020.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

After paying taxes on this income, the residual amount represents net income, the final measure of equity earnings, and the basis for computing earnings per share and other widely used measures of profitability used by equity investors.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 26, 2022

Many leading publicly traded technology companies, representing over $1 trillion in aggregate market capitalization, count WTI as an early lender and partner. As a pioneer in venture debt, WTI has deployed $7.8 billion in loan commitments across more than 1,400 venture-backed companies since its founding in 1980.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I would be lying if I said that I have had clarity about Tesla's story over the last decade, because it has so many tangents, distractions and shifts along the way, flirting with narratives about being a battery company, an energy company and a technology company. In sum, the company's market cap has risen from $2.8

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As we get deeper into earnings season for the third quarter of 2022, the biggest negative surprises are coming from technology companies, with the tech giants leading the way. As Facebook's market capitalization has collapsed, it is worth stepping back and gaining perspective about its market performance in the long term.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

ABB is a Swiss-based technology company, active in the fields of electrification, robotics, automation and motion with software. Interogo Holding’s equity strategy fund, the family office Moyreal and Michael Halbherr, chairman of ABB E-Mobility, are participating in the private placement. billion using a Cost of Equity of 7.1%.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

ABB is a Swiss-based technology company, active in the fields of electrification, robotics, automation and motion with software. Interogo Holding’s equity strategy fund, the family office Moyreal and Michael Halbherr, chairman of ABB E-Mobility, are participating in the private placement. billion using a Cost of Equity of 7.1%.

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Valutico

JULY 3, 2023

Comparable companies are companies that operate in the same industry or market and have similar financial metrics, such as revenue, earnings, and market capitalization. Selecting Peer Companies Based on Size Size and market capitalization are important criteria in selecting comparable companies.

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Benzinga

JULY 30, 2024

Our investment in Helix represents a continuation of our strategy of partnering with leading companies aligned with our Mobility Thesis, particularly given their pioneering, high-performance motor and inverter technology," said John Stewart, MiddleGround Founding Partner. LEXINGTON, Ky.

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Valutico

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 8 February 2023 Link to valuation About Visa Visa is an American payment technology company headquartered in California, offering electronic transactions between merchants, financial institutions, and cardholders, facilitating billions of transactions each year.

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Benzinga

JUNE 2, 2023

The holders of outstanding ABM shares will receive equity in SGII valued at $160 million (subject to adjustments). ABM is focused on supplying domestically-sourced critical minerals, with a particular focus on lithium, to global markets.

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Equidam

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One reason is the increased importance of technology to the economy in general, and the “post-pandemic” economy in particular. For decades, the technology sector’s part of global GDP has been gradually increasing, as has its share of world market capitalization.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

To deliver this growth, I did assume that Tesla would have to invest large amounts of capital in capacity, and that this would create a significant drag on value, resulting in a equity value of just under $10 billion.

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Valutico

MARCH 20, 2023

This acquisition is expected to strengthen HSBC’s commercial banking franchise and enhance its ability to serve innovative and fast-growing firms, particularly in the technology and life science sectors, both domestically and globally. In comparison to BP’s market capitalization of GBP 112 (USD 137.2) USD 1.68) billion.

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Valutico

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Alibaba is a Chinese technology company, participating in the local and international e-commerce, cloud and the digital media markets. Alibaba’s current market capitalization of $167 billion suggests that the company is undervalued. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Weekly Valuation – Valutico | 28 October 2022.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

That drop of more than $200 billion in market capitalization in response to what looked like good news, at least on the surface, puzzled market observers, though, as is their wont, they had found a reason by day end. There are two interpretations of these results, and there is truth in both of them.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 15, 2022

Study covers selected activist campaigns involving NYSE- and Nasdaq-traded companies with equity market capitalizations of greater than $1 billion as of December 31, 2021 (unless company is no longer listed). By the Numbers—2021 Public Activism Trends.

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Valutico

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The company researches, develops, designs, manufactures, integrates, and operates technology systems, products, and services in the defense industry. Founded in 1995, Lockheed Martin Corporation is a Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace company with a $106 billion market capitalization. . A WACC of 5.7%

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The first is that the costs of smartphones have decreased , and especially so in India, as technology and competition have worked their magic. In the 1980s, when technology companies first entered the market in big numbers, we classified them all as high growth, high risk investments. 2000 billion at the 90th percentile.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we look ahead to the 2024 proxy season (and beyond), let’s review the key 2023 trends and developments from activism playbooks, with a sharp focus on the ever-changing landscape in the technology and healthcare sectors. a sale, divestiture, change in strategy or management, return of capital to shareholders, etc.).

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this post, I want to focus on that point, starting with a discussion of why stories matter to investors and traders and the story that propelled the company to a trillion-dollar market capitalization not that long ago.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

The second was that, starting mid-year in 2020, equity markets and the real economy moved in different directions, with the former rising on the expectations a post-virus future, and the latter languishing, as most of the world continued to operate with significant constraints.

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Andrew Stolz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It measures of how much free cash flow the company generates annually relative to the company’s size as measured in market capitalization. LG) shift to OLED technology. 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. Conclusions.

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Valutico

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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.),

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world. I do report on a few market-wide data items especially on risk premiums for both equity and debt. Cost of Equity 1. Cost of Capital 3. Return on Equity 1.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 12, 2022

After CENAQ shareholder approval and closing of the transaction, the combined company is expected to have a pro forma enterprise value of $280 million and a pro forma implied market capitalization of $500 million assuming no redemptions by CENAQ shareholders. HOUSTON, Aug. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CENAQ Energy Corp.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 4, 2022

There’s no reason to treat the crypto market differently just because different technology is used. We should be technology-neutral. It’s at the core of what makes markets work. ATSs for the equity and fixed income markets, though, are generally used by institutional investors. Conclusion.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 24, 2024

Among the dual class ranks are technology companies Facebook (Meta) and Google (Alphabet), food and beverage companies Coca-Cola and Tyson Foods, and media companies The New York Times and 21st Century Fox. They allow founders and other insiders to control a majority of the voting power while holding relatively little equity.

Dividends 45

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

billion and predicted operating margin of 25% in that year reflected my optimistic take for the company, with substantial reinvestment (in acquisitions and technology) needed along the way (as seen in my reinvestment). My forecasted revenues for 2023 of $11.2 The Musk Entree!

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Appraisal Rights

JUNE 5, 2017

The various problems facing the company led the court to embrace the respondents’ theory that SWS would continue to face an uphill climb given its relatively small size, which prevented it from scaling its substantial regulatory, technological, and back-office costs. Hilltop’s Influence on the Sale Process Rendered Merger Price Unreliable.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Compressed Life Cycle: Implications for Founder CEOs It is a testimonial to how much technology companies have changed the economy and the market that some of the best-recognized names in business are those of the founders of successful technology company. In contrast, consider Yahoo!,

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