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EV/EBITDA Explained: A Key Valuation Multiple for Investors

Valutico

While the nuances differentiating EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA might appear subtle, they play a critical role in financial evaluations, particularly during M&A due diligence or when assessing companies with unusual financial events. One-time gains or losses: Expenses or income events that are not recurring and unusual in nature (e.g.,

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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

While I was working on my last two data updates for 2025, I got sidetracked, as I am wont to do, by two events. The first is that if markets are efficient, the price to book ratios will reflect the quality of these companies. Even with this very simplistic example, there are useful implications.

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Inflation and Investing: False Alarm or Fair Warning?

Musings on Markets

In the graph below, I look at the 10-year US T.Bond rate and the 10-year TIPs rate on a monthly basis, going back to the start of 2003, when TIPs started trading: The advantage of using interest rates to forecast inflation is that it not only is constantly updated to reflect real world events, but also because there is money riding on these bets.

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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

Consequently, you can only value the equity in a bank, and by extension, the only pricing multiples you can use to price banks are equity multiples (PE, Price to Book etc.). The other was that the bank regulatory framework operated effectively , preventing banks from overreaching on risk or being under capitalized.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

To the extent that crypto holdings may be more difficulties for authorities to trace and lay claim on, it will be interesting to see if you see a rise in the prices of crypto currencies as Russian wealth looks for sanctuary. to 25% for the Eurozone. as of March 16, 2022.

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