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Investment Giant BlackRock's Strong Finish To 2023: Dividend Boost, Accretive Acquisition & More

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billion a year ago, led by market beta on average AUM, positive organic base fee growth, and higher securities lending revenue. BlackRock Inc (NYSE: BLK ) reported Q4 FY23 revenue growth of 7% Y/Y to $4.631 billion, marginally above the consensus of $4.627 billion. billion from $3.40

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

In January 2023, I ended up with 47,913 publicly traded firms in my sample , with the pie chart below providing a geographic breakdown. At the company-level, I provide data on risk, profitability, leverage and dividends, broken down by industry-groups, to be used in both corporate finance and valuation. Dividend Payout & Yield 1.

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

Musings on Markets

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. Beta & Risk 1. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Return on Equity 1.

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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?

Musings on Markets

In this post, I start by looking at the end game for businesses, and how that choice plays out in investment rules for these businesses, and then examine how much businesses generated in profits in 2023, scaled to both revenues and invested capital. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game? trillion ($1.8

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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

Musings on Markets

In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023 , driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

Not surprisingly, the company listings are across the world, and I look at the breakdown of companies, by number and market cap, by geography: As you can see, the market cap of US companies at the start of 2025 accounted for roughly 49% of the market cap of global stocks, up from 44% at the start of 2024 and 42% at the start of 2023.