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Distressed Debt Hedge Funds: How to Become a Vulture Capitalist

Brian DeChesare

The company still pays interest on the full $1000 and must repay it upon maturity, but you can buy the issuance at a steep discount because there’s a significant chance of default (see: book value vs. market value vs. face value ). A sharply declining stock price does not necessarily mean a company is “distressed.”

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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?

Musings on Markets

Looking at accounting returns, broken down by sector, for US and global companies, here is what 2023 delivered: In both the US and globally, technology companies deliver the highest accounting returns , but these returns are skewed by the accounting inconsistencies in capitalizing R&D expenses.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

The market debt ratio, in contrast, uses the market's estimate of the value of equity, i.e., its market capitalization, as the value of equity. It is one reason that a banking focus on total assets and market value, when lending to a firm, can lead to dysfunctional lending and troubled banks.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

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. Price to Book 3. Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. Cost of Equity 1. PE & PEG 2.

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The Zomato IPO: A Bet on Big Markets and Platforms!

Musings on Markets

The second is the cost of capital, a number that most valuation classes and books (including mine) belabor to the point of diminishing returns. It is a money loser There are good arguments to be made against investing in Zomato at is proposed offering price, but one of the emptiest, and laziest, is that it is losing money right now.

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

Musings on Markets

Beta & Risk 1. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. 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.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

Musings on Markets

Beta & Risk 1. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. Employee Count & Compensation I nvesting Principle Financing Principle Dividend Principle Hurdle Rate Project Returns Financing Mix Financing Type Cash Return Dividends/Buyback s 1. Return on Equity 1. Debt Details 1. Buybacks 2.