Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

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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Viking Mergers

MAY 3, 2022

Nearly every industry had record activity in 2021, though. Even with 2021’s widespread increase in activity across industries, the technology sector continued to dominate, setting records for volume and value. The second-largest sector by value and by volume in 2021 M&A activity was industrials and chemicals. Technology.

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 7, 2022

After all, Poshmark — an Instagram-like site specializing in apparel resale — went public in 2021 at $42 a share. That's a humongous discount from the company's peak market capitalization of $7.3 billion when it went public in January 2021. (NASDAQ: POSH ) at $17.90 On Thursday, it closed at $17.80.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It has been a rocky year so far, in 2022, with worries about inflation competing with hopes about recovery for the market's attention. Netflix and Facebook saw drops of 20% or more in market capitalization, following negative earnings reports, but Amazon and Google beat market expectations. to 14.9%. to 14.9%.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

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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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In this post, I will look at three high profile companies, Intel, Starbucks and Walgreens, that have seen market turmoil and management change, and examine what the options are for the future. The Market turns With hundreds of stocks listed and traded in the market, why am I paying attention to these three?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. I was a believer in big data and crowd wisdom, well before those terms were even invented.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I have been writing about, and valuing, Tesla for most of its lifetime in public markets, and while it remains a company that draws strong reactions, it is also one that I truly enjoy valuing. Tesla: The Back Story I first valued Tesla in 2013 , as a "luxury automobile company" and I have valued almost every year since.

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Benchmark Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the past decade, the green economy’s market capitalization grew from $2 trillion in 2009 to more than $7 trillion in 2021. It also nearly doubled its share of the global investable market from 4% to more than 7%. The global green industry is forecast to grow at a significant rate between 2022 and 2026.

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Value Scope

DECEMBER 1, 2023

viewership of F1 races jumped about 545,000 in 2017 and 2018 to 672,000 to 949,000 in 2021 and 1.2 It’s current market capitalization is approximately $15 billion. Average U.S. million in 2022. Formula One Group, founded in 1950, was purchased for $4.4 billion in 2016 by Liberty Media. The subsidiary reports $2.8

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 4, 2022

Today, you’ve invited me to talk about the roughly $2 trillion crypto markets. The dot-com bubble burst, though, created significant tremors in our markets. There’s no reason to treat the crypto market differently just because different technology is used. has the greatest capital markets because investors have faith in them.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a non-profit that tracks the growth of this investing movement, estimated that more than $1.16

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 21, 2024

What GameStop put on display was how much has changed—in technology and business models—since 2005 when we last comprehensively updated our equity market rules. The markets have moved to overwhelmingly trade electronically, with transaction volume in listed equities tripling in the last 17 years. [3] 6] The $55 trillion U.S.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Financial globalization has allowed issuers more freedom to shop among jurisdictions and thus intensified stock market competition. Against this backdrop, the Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and UK stock markets have accepted the dual-class share structure (DCSS). billion, while the total market capitalization of the latter was $898.9

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2022

Inflation numbers have been coming in high now, for more than a year, but for much of the early part of 2021, bankers, investors and politicians seemed to be either in denial or casually dismissive of its potential for damage. While the implied inflation in bond rates is low, investors seem to be anticipating higher inflation.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI story. Love-Hate Relationship with Markets! I will start this post with a couple of confessions.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

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. IFRS and GAAP now treat as leases as debt, but that is still not the case in many other markets that are not covered by either standard).

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market reaction to it, offers an opportunity for us to talk about bigger issues. If you are a number cruncher like me, you will find that adding a story to your valuation will only augment your number skills and improve your valuations.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 31, 2023

This update discusses shareholder activism activity involving NYSE- and Nasdaq- listed companies with equity market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion and below $100 billion (as of the last date of trading in 2022) during 2022. Announced shareholder activist activity increased relative to 2021.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

While total user numbers have leveled off in recent years, albeit with a jump in 2021, the daily active user count has continued to climb. To give a measure of Twitter's disappointing performance, note that the company's actual revenues in 2021 amounted to $5.1 The stock dropped below $6 in 2019, before mounting a comeback in 2021.

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Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 17, 2024

That positive result notwithstanding, the recovery was uneven, with a big chunk of the increase in market capitalization coming from seven companies (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, NVidia and Tesla) and wide divergences in performance across stocks, in performance. increase in market capitalization.

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Valutico

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The market leader for CRM software is currently trading at around $133 per share, down more than 50% from its all-time-high of $300 per share, achieved in November 2021. . billion, an increase of 14% compared to Q3 in 2021. The current price of $133 represents a market capitalization of $145 billion.

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Valutico

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The market leader for CRM software is currently trading at around $133 per share, down more than 50% from its all-time-high of $300 per share, achieved in November 2021. . billion, an increase of 14% compared to Q3 in 2021. The current price of $133 represents a market capitalization of $145 billion.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 6, 2024

No EU company with a market capitalization over €100 billion has been set up from scratch in the last 50 years, while all six US companies with a valuation above €1 trillion have been created in this period. In 2021, EU companies spent about half as much on research and investment as a share of GDP as US companies.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Digital assets and blockchains can lead to financial innovations with a range of applications across countries, markets, and industries. In a recent article , we provide an empirical study of regulatory fragmentation in digital asset markets. agencies in global markets. First, in 2022, the White House urged various U.S.

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Benzinga

MAY 25, 2022

The move would follow up a busy 2021, which saw several large transactions in the space. A transaction that includes Wendy’s would be one of the biggest in the restaurant industry in the past few years, with a current market capitalization of $3.5 of Wendy’s with its partners. million, up 6% year-over-year.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

Thus, looking at only the companies in the S&P 500 may give you more reliable data, with fewer missing observations, but your results will reflect what large market cap companies in any sector or industry do, rather than what is typical for that industry.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The stock market reaction to the findings was brutal and immediate. Within a few days, Adani Enterprises, the top company promoted by billionaire Gautam Adani, lost 50 percent of its market capitalization. [3] Between 2015 and 2021, six of the group’s companies raised about $10 billion through U.S.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 21, 2023

It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget about the latter during market booms, they recur at regular intervals, if for no other reason than to remind us that risk is not an abstraction, and that stocks don't always win, even in the long term.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 5, 2023

The overarching questions for us all are whether this crisis will spread to the rest of the economy and market, as it did in 2008, and how banking as a business, at least in the US, will be reshaped by this crisis, and while I am more a dabbler than an expert in banking, I am going to try answering those questions.

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Valutico

JANUARY 17, 2023

The company has a leading position in the Southeast Asian market with their e-commerce platform Shoppee and their gaming offers by Garena. Sea currently has a market capitalization of $29.8 million which was an improvement of 34% compared to 2021’s third quarter. As market sentiment changed globally during 2022, Sea Ltd.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

billion in 2021. The company has the goal to consistently grow its market share and ultimately reach sales of $200 billion in the next few years. This target should be accomplished by increasing the market share not only in their consumer segment but also by selling more products to professionals. . About Home Depot.

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Valutico

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

billion in 2021. The company has the goal to consistently grow its market share and ultimately reach sales of $200 billion in the next few years. This target should be accomplished by increasing the market share not only in their consumer segment but also by selling more products to professionals. . About Home Depot.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That attention has worked in the company's favor over much of its lifetime, as it has gone from a start-up to one of the largest market cap companies in the world, disrupting multiple businesses in the process.

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