Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

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).

Marketability 98

Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Treasury 98

Global Finance

JULY 23, 2024

Significantly, Mizuho CEO Masahiro Kihara said the bank will either pass on the proceeds from its sales of equity holdings to investors as dividends or invest them in growth-directed activities, and Sumitomo Mitsui aims to reduce the market value of its equity holdings to less than 20% of the value of its consolidated net assets.

Price to Book 111

Price to Book Banking Dividends Equity 111

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. Price to Book 3.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52

Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

from the 2023 reported figure. billion, implying a rise of 2% from the 2023 figure. Valuation Price-to-book (P/B) is one of the multiples used for valuing insurance stocks. Robust Growth Prospects The Zacks Consensus Estimate for MetLife's 2024 earnings is pegged at $8.67 The consensus mark for revenues is $73.2

Price to Book 59

Price to Book Finance Dividends Marketability 59

Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

Consequently, you can only value the equity in a bank, and by extension, the only pricing multiples you can use to price banks are equity multiples (PE, Price to Book etc.). Note the differences between the bank FCFE and bank dividend discount models.

Banking 91

Banking Price to Book Dividends Book Value 91

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 19, 2022

When you augment this price change with the dividends on the index during 2021, the total return on the S&P 500 for 2021 was 28.47%. The results are similar if you break stocks down based upon price to book ratios or revenue growth rates. that was earned in 2019 (pre-COVID).

Risk Premium 99

Risk Premium Risk-free Rate Start-ups Equity 99

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

You see similar movements in the price to book, where the stock has gone from trading under book value to 6.7 times book value, and the enterprise value, which was less than revenue in 2016-21 to 2.71 times revenues in the most recent two years.

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Start-ups Market Capitalization Equity Marketability 100