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And the Award for Most Creative Attempt to Evade a Book Value Buy-Sell Provision Goes To.

Farrel Fritz

“Under any standard of value, the true economic value of a business enterprise will equal the company’s accounting book value only by coincidence.” So why do so many shareholder buy-sell agreements require that the shares be purchased for book value? Neville, Rodie and Shaw, Inc. 16, 2024) is the latest.

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Lower 2021 thresholds announced for merger reviews under Competition Act and Investment Canada Act

Deal Law Wire

The threshold for certain pre-closing net benefit reviews under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have now both been released for 2021. It is adjusted annually, and for 2021 the threshold is C$415 million, down from C$428 million in 2020.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

That said, about 31% of the net profits of all publicly traded firms listed globally in 2021 were generated by financial service firms; that percent is lower in the US and higher in emerging markets. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar.

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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. Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk!

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

Musings on Markets

Price to Book Ratio: Choice and Drivers There is no sector where price to book ratios get used more than in banking and financial services, for two reasons. To use the price to book ratio to price banks, I begin by identifying its drivers, and that is simple to do, if you start with an intrinsic equity valuation model.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

One way to measure progress on this issue is to look at the portion of the book value of equity at US companies that comes from tangible assets, in the chart below: Looking across all US firms from 1980 to 2022, the portion of book value of equity that comes tangible assets has dropped from more than 70% in 1998 to about 30% in 2022.

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

Musings on Markets

Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. Working capital needs Thus, I compute pricing multiples based on revenues (EV to Sales, Price to Sales), earnings (PE, PEG), book value (PBV, EV to Invested Capital) or cash flow proxies (EV to EBITDA). Fundamenal Growth in Operating Earnings 3.

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