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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

I then examine how equities have performed in the less than five months of 2022, where inflation has returned to the front pages. In 2022, the collective market capitalization of all US firms has dropped by 19.75% , with the bulk of the drop occurring after April 1, 2022.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

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In my last post, I noted the decline in costs of capital for firms over time, noting that the median cost of capital at the start of 2022 is only 6.33%, across global firms, and argued that companies that demand double-digit hurdle rates risk being shut out of investments.

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

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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. at the start of that year.

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Data Update 2 for 2024: A Stock Comeback - Winning the Expectations Game!

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While stocks had their ups and downs during the year, they ended the year strong, and recouped, at least in the aggregate, most of the losses from 2022. Energy, one of the few survivors of the 2022 market sell-off, had a bad year, as did utilities and consumer staples. increase in market capitalization.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

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In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. That pessimism was not restricted to market outlooks.

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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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trillion was invested by impact investors in 2021, with a diverse range of investors: Global Impact Investing Network, 2022 Report Not surprisingly, the balance between social impact and financial return desired by investors, varies across investor groups, with some more focused on the former and others the latter.