Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since I am lucky enough to have access to databases that carry data on all publicly traded stocks, I choose all publicly traded companies, with a market price that exceeds zero, as my universe, for computing all statistics. Costs of equity & capital 4. Dividend yield & payout 3. Default Spreads 3. Margins & ROC 3.

Dividends 105

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 105

Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 23, 2024

Class Action Settlements of All-Time” report, to be published in January 2024. in August 2019, wiping out about $36 billion in market capitalization. The claims against Bioverativ director Alexander Denner and his hedge fund, Sarissa Capital, for insider trading are still ongoing with a trial set for April 2024.

Banking 59

Banking Private Equity Firm Alpha Compliance 59

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

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.

Risk Premium 119

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups Corporate Finance 119

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Founded in 2009, and with Alphabet as its only funder, Google Ventures had over $10 billion in invested, in 2024, in more than 400 technology startups, spread across multiple businesses including healthcare, the life sciences and even financial services.

Start-ups 68

Start-ups Alpha Equity Marketability 68