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

Musings on Markets

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.

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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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Japan Megabanks’ Strategic Share Sale Marks Big Priority Shift

Global Finance

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.

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Analyzing MetLife Stock: Is Buy Strategy the Right Move?

Benzinga

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

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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. Price to Book 3.

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

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).

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Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

Musings on Markets

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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