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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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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

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I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Return on (invested) capital 2.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

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Even when you are successful in dissuading these companies from "bad" investments, but may not be able to stop them from returning the cash to shareholders as dividends and buybacks, rather than making "good" investments.

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

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The first is the dividends you receive, while you hold stocks, a cash flow stream that provides a measure of stability to investors who seek it. trillion in market capitalization, but for balance, it is also worth noting that US equities are still holding on to a gain of $6.9

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Tesla's Trillion Dollar Moment: A Valuation Revisit!

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My two most recent valuations were in June 2019 and January 2020, and I am going to go back to them, not just because they are recent, but because they led to investment decisions on my part. In June 2019, Tesla had hit a rough spot, partly due to concerns about production bottlenecks and debt, and partly due to self inflicted wounds.

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META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

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Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

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

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Furthermore, the company increased dividends by 10% and announced that it will buy back GBP 2.3 (USD In 2019, the company announced that it plans to reduce its oil and gas output by 40% by 2030. In comparison to BP’s market capitalization of GBP 101 (USD 122) billion we suggest that the company is slightly undervalued.