Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

Beta & Risk 1. Equity Risk Premiums 2. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5. Working capital needs Thus, I compute pricing multiples based on revenues (EV to Sales, Price to Sales), earnings (PE, PEG), book value (PBV, EV to Invested Capital) or cash flow proxies (EV to EBITDA). Return on Equity 1. Debt Details 1.

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Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 100

Simply Treasury

AUGUST 2, 2022

Concept of notional interest : It is proposed to introduce notional interest, the idea of which is to allow the deduction during 10 consecutive years of this "synthetic" interest, within the famous limit of 30% of the company's EBITDA. risk premium if the company is an SME as defined by European law).

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Equity Risk Premium Banking Finance 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

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.

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Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 78

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

By the same token, it is impossible to use a pricing metric (PE or EV to EBITDA), without a sense of the cross sectional distribution of that metric at the time. 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.

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Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

In short, if you don't like betas and have disdain for modern portfolio theory, your choice should not be to abandon risk measurement all together, but to come up with an alternative risk measure that is more in sync with your view of the world.

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Risk Premium Beta Start-ups Equity 95

Global Finance

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Global Finance: What surprised you in 2024? In the second quarter, growth in Ebitda [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization] outpaced interest expense growth for high-yield corporates. There are certain sectors that we think are offering better risk/reward. That’s a level we haven’t seen since 2005.

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Start-ups Finance Equity Private Equity Firm 52

Musings on Markets

JULY 24, 2024

After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity risk premiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in risk premiums, i.e., my definition of a crisis.

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Risk Premium Equity Start-ups EBITDA 74