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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Return on (invested) capital 2.

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The Sugar Daddy Effect? Assessing Corporate venture capital, Sovereign funds and Green Energy!

Musings on Markets

Over its lifetime, Google Ventures has picked some big winners, including iUber, Airbnb and Slack, all of which are now public companies with substantial market capitalization. In contrast, just one fossil fuel company, Exxon Mobil alone had a market capitalization of $532 billion, and revenues of $479 billion.