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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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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. The Value of Growth As investor tastes have shifted from earnings power to growth, there has been a tendency to put growth on a pedestal, and view it as an unalloyed good, but it is not.

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

Musings on Markets

Over time, I expect some improvement in the return on equity, which was 8.78% in 2022, to its five-year average of 9.50%, which is still lower than the cost of equity of 11.67% that I am using for large commercial banks (see picture below for how I am computing an implied cost of equity for the 25 largest banks).

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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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Some Things Change, Some Things Stay the Same: 2023 Investment Canada Act Thresholds Increase, Competition Act Thresholds Remain the Same

Deal Law Wire

Direct acquisitions of control of a Canadian business by investors controlled from WTO member countries (WTO investors) that are not SOEs and not trade agreement investors will generally be subject to pre-closing review where the enterprise value of the Canadian business exceeds C$1.287 billion (up from C$1.141 billion in 2022).

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National Bank Holdings Corporation Announces First Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Agreement to Acquire Rock Canyon Bank

Benzinga

DENVER, April 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- National Bank Holdings Corporation (NYSE: NBHC ) reported: . . . . . . . . . . . . The transaction has a value of $136.0 on April 14, 2022. First Quarter 2022 Results (All comparisons refer to the fourth quarter of 2021, except as noted). at March 31, 2022.

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Greenleaf Capital Enters into Agreement to Sell Parcel for $13.4 Million Gain

Benzinga

May 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Greenleaf Capital, LLC, the real estate division of HCI Group, Inc. million compared with a net book value of $1.1 million compared with a net book value of $1.1 TAMPA, Fla., After transaction costs, Greenleaf expects to receive net proceeds of approximately $14.5