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

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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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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

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In addition to being traded on the MICEX, the Russian exchange, these companies all have listings in foreign markets (Yandex has a US listing and the other three are listed on the London Exchange). A few weeks ago, I posted my valuation of the FANGAM stocks and noted that only one of them was under valued, at the prices prevailing then.

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

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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. While some of the companies in this data trace their existence back decades, there is a healthy proportion of younger companies, many in emerging markets and new industries.

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Interest Rates, Earning Growth and Equity Value: Investment Implications

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While some of this reversal is to be expected in any market, there are questions about whether it has anything to do with rising rates, as well as whether there may be light at the end of the tunnel for some investor groups who were left out of the market run-up in the last decade.

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

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In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. trillion below their values from the start of 2022. that was lost last year.

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

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I do believe that too much is often made of these differences, as it is generally more the rule than the exception that markets, when they are up strongly, get the bulk of that rise from a small sub-set of stocks or sectors. The results are similar if you break stocks down based upon price to book ratios or revenue growth rates.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world. Standard deviation in stock price 2. Price to Book 3. Cost of Capital 3. High-Low Price Risk Measure 5. EV/Sales and Price/Sales 5. Cost of Equity 1.