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

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will look at another initial public offering, Birkenstock, that is likely to get more attention in the next few weeks, given that it is targeting to go public at a pricing of about €8 billion, for its equity, in a few weeks. So, how far has accounting come in bringing intangible assets on to balance sheets?

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Data Update 5 for 2023: The Earnings Test

Musings on Markets

Finally, I look at the aggregated values across all companies on all three income measures, across all global companies, again broken down by sector: Collectively, global companies reported $16.9 billion in gross profit in the last twelve months leading into 2023, but operating income drops off to $6.4

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

Musings on Markets

In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the form of costs of equity and capital. trillion ($1.8

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

Musings on Markets

Return on Equity 1. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Costs of equity & capital 4. Costs of equity & capital 1. Fundamental Growth in Equity Earnings 2. Return on Equity 2. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. Beta & Risk 1. Debt Details 1.

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Equity Bancshares, Inc. Adds to Missouri Franchise, Will Acquire Bank of Kirksville

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06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Equity Bancshares, Inc. NYSE: EQBK ) ("Equity" or the "Company"), the Wichita-based holding company of Equity Bank, announced today its entry into a definitive merger agreement with Rockhold Bancorp ("Rockhold"), the parent company of the Bank of Kirksville in Kirksville, Missouri.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

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. In January 2023, I ended up with 47,913 publicly traded firms in my sample , with the pie chart below providing a geographic breakdown. Cost of Equity 1.