Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cash generating capacity : Debt payments are serviced with operating cash flows, and the more operating cash flows that firms generate, as a percent of their market value, the more that they can afford to borrow. Debt to EBITDA, Interest Coverage Ratios If debt to capital is not a good measure for judging over or under leverage, what is?

Equity 52

Equity EBITDA Start-ups Net Debt 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. For example, I have seen it asserted that a stock that trades at less than book value is cheap or that a stock that trades at more than twenty times EBITDA is expensive.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Without contesting the basic conclusion that Facebook had a bad operating quarter, after its earnings report for the third quarter of 2022, let's review the accounting numbers to see how bad it truly was, and why. billion in the last twelve months (ending September 2022). billion to $49.3 billion , as reported. billion , as reported.

Finance 97

Finance Start-ups Equity Equity Financing 97

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As I have argued in all four of my posts, so far, about 2022, it was year when we saw a return to normalcy on many fronts, as treasury rates reverted back to pre-2008 levels, and risk capital discovered that risk has a downside.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups Equity Risk Premium Risk-free Rate 52

Benzinga

JULY 10, 2023

The successful closing of this strategic acquisition not only approximately doubles SMGI's annual revenue and increase its adjusted EBITDA, but also brings operational and revenue diversification, strengthens the Company's balance sheet and adds exceptional expertise to its leadership team. million (including $2.5

EBITDA 40

EBITDA Book Value Capital Structure Marketability 40

Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

The same amount of cash is paid out in either case, the effects on equity are identical (in both book value and market value terms) and the operations of the company remain unchanged. In short, the default mechanism for returning cash at US companies has become buybacks, not dividends.

Dividends 102

Dividends Start-ups Corporate Finance Finance 102

Benzinga

JULY 26, 2023

Financial Highlights of the Transaction The total estimated consideration of $395 million: i) represents less than 2.75x of expected EBITDA in 2024, ii) is estimated to be less than the book value of MacKellar's assets and iii) is expected to be over 50% accretive based on incremental earnings per share. billion $1.15

EBIT 40

EBIT Debt Financing Book Value Finance 40

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The company's return on invested capital has steadily declined, even as it has scaled up, hovering just over 3% in 2021-2022. You see similar movements in the price to book, where the stock has gone from trading under book value to 6.7 times revenues in the most recent two years.

Start-ups 100

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Equity 100

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Across regions, and looking just at non-financial firms, the US has the highest debt ratio, in book value terms, but among the lowest in market value terms. Note that the divergence between book and market debt ratios in the last two columns varies widely across sectors and regions.

Equity 75

Equity EBITDA Risk Premium Gross Debt 75