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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

I am not a market prognosticator for a simple reason. I am just not good at it, and the first six months of 2023 illustrate why market timing is often the impossible dream, something that every investor aspires to be successful at, but very few succeed on a consistent basis.

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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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EV/EBITDA Explained: A Key Valuation Multiple for Investors

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The core idea behind relative valuation is to estimate a company’s value by comparing it to similar companies based on how the market prices their financial metrics. EV typically includes Market Capitalization, Debt, Minority Interest, and Preferred Equity, minus Cash & Cash Equivalents. What is EV/EBITDA?

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Data Update 3: Inflation and its Ripple Effects!

Musings on Markets

By the end of 2021, it was clear that this bout of inflation was not as transient a phenomenon as some had made it out to be, and the big question leading in 2022, for investors and markets, is how inflation will play out during the year, and beyond, and the consequences for stocks, bonds and currencies.

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What is ‘Business Valuation’ in Shark Tank?

RNC

Business valuation methods can vary, but they often include assessing the startup’s financial health, projected growth, market potential, and competitive landscape. Asset-Based Valuation Asset-based valuation values a company based on the market worth of its assets minus liabilities. How Business Valuation is Determined?

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

Musings on Markets

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

Counter made-up numbers : It remains true that people (analysts, market experts, politicians) often make assertions based upon either incomplete or flawed data, or no data at all. For instance, is it true, as some assert, that inflation was high last year because companies raised prices to increase profits? Price to Book 3.