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

Musings on Markets

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. Markets, as is their wont, live to surprise, and the first six months of 2023 has wrong-footed the experts (again).

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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows

Musings on Markets

This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky year for Equities! Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cash Flows

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Exit Through the Virtual Door: Tips for Selling Your E-commerce Business

Viking Mergers

Know the Virtual Landscape E-commerce is a rapidly expanding way to do business, with over one-fifth of worldwide sales estimated to take place online in 2023. Since these values all mean different things to your company, an advisor or broker will use their expertise to determine the most appropriate figures to use in negotiations.

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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

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 been updated for 2023. The threshold for an indirect acquisition of control is C$50 million in asset value ($5 million in certain instances).

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

Musings on Markets

As a final component of bank equity value, and 2023 has brought this home to us is the reality that even a healthy, profitable bank can see its value melt away in days, if its depositors decide, for good, bad or no reasons at all, to withdraw their deposits and put the bank into the death spiral from which recovery can be close to impossible.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

Looking at the top ten companies in 2020 and 2023, you see the dominance of technology companies, many of which sell products that you cannot see, often in production facilities that are just as invisible. That would suggest that intangible assets are being valued and incorporated into balance sheets much more now than in the past.

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Coty Divests 3.6% Stake In Wella Brand For $150M

Benzinga

stake in Wella for $150 million, reflecting a 4% premium to the book value of Wella as of March 31, 2023. Coty Inc (NYSE: COTY ) has entered into a binding letter of intent to sell a portion of its Wella beauty and hair care brand stake to investment firm IGF Wealth Management. Coty will sell a 3.6%