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Japan Megabanks’ Strategic Share Sale Marks Big Priority Shift

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billion by March 2025. With the Japanese economy sluggish, Wu points out, the TSE has become concerned about the low price-to-book ratios of its listed companies, including banks; half of Prime members traded below book last year. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group said it plans to sell $2.2

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Analyzing MetLife Stock: Is Buy Strategy the Right Move?

Benzinga

The consensus mark for 2025 earnings is pegged at $9.83 Valuation Price-to-book (P/B) is one of the multiples used for valuing insurance stocks. MET's earnings estimates witnessed seven upward revisions over the past 60 days against no downward movement. per share, suggesting an improvement of 13.4% from the 2024 estimate.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

After the run up in stock prices in the first six months, stocks look fairly valued, given estimated earnings and cash flows, and assuming that long term rates have found their steady state. trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2% trillion increase in value for all US equities.

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Buy the Dip: The Draw and Dangers of Contrarian Investing!

Musings on Markets

Technical Contrarianism In technical contrarianism, you start with the same basis as knee-jerk contrarianism, by looking at stocks and markets that have dropped significantly, but with an added requirement that the price has to meet a charting or technical indicator constraint before becoming a buy.

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Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics!

Musings on Markets

While I was working on my last two data updates for 2025, I got sidetracked, as I am wont to do, by two events. The first is that if markets are efficient, the price to book ratios will reflect the quality of these companies. Even with this very simplistic example, there are useful implications.

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Data Update 3 for 2025: The times they are a'changin'!

Musings on Markets

In my first two data posts for 2025, I looked at the strong year that US equities had in 2024, but a very good year for the overall market does not always translate into equivalent returns across segments of the market. In this post, I will remain focused on US equities, but I will break them into groupings, looking for differences.