Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this post, I start by looking at the end game for businesses, and how that choice plays out in investment rules for these businesses, and then examine how much businesses generated in profits in 2023, scaled to both revenues and invested capital. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game? trillion ($1.8

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That may reflect the concern that once a person or entity starts borrowing to fund its needs, it is easy to overuse debt, and risk its wellbeing in the process. In that case, the optimal debt ratio for a company is the one that maximizes value, not necessarily the one at which the cost of capital is minimized.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. That is not true! Cost of Equity 1. PE & PEG 2. Cost of Debt 2.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Other technological innovations from these labs address everything from improving anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and easing underwriting processes to speeding up customer onboarding and improving cash management for small and midsize enterprise (SME) clients. We had automated machine-learning technology.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public. The Zomato IPO clocks in at 420 pages , much of it designed to bore readers into submission.

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FE International

MARCH 14, 2018

From sophisticated design suites, like Adobe Creative Cloud , to mobile communication tools like WhatsApp , apps increasingly power the engine of technology. For example, Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows online retailers to easily set up a digital storefront. Adobe Creative Cloud. Building Around Value.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

But before delving into the exit opportunities and the long-term outlook, let’s start with the fundamentals: Oil & Gas Investment Banking Defined. Because the risk of searching for new energy sources and experimentally drilling is so high, many E&P firms set up joint ventures to distribute the risk. TechnipFMC (U.K.),

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

micro uncertainties, into discount rates, and in the process, they end up incorporating risk that investors can eliminate, often at no cost. He followed up by showing that holding diversified portfolios can deliver much higher returns, for given levels of risk, for all investors.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. Beta & Risk 1. Return on Equity 1. Debt Ratios & Fundamentals 1. Debt Details 1. Buybacks 2.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In business financing decisions , the cost of capital becomes an optimizing tool , where businesses look for a mix of debt and equity that reduces the cost of capital , and where matching up the debt (in terms of currency and maturity) to the assets r educes default risk and the cost of capital. Corporate Default Risk , i.e,

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Value Scope

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It started sometime last year, during the fourth quarter. Technology. Unsuccessful investment in new technologies. Adjustments to Beta can accomplish this. Beta measures systemic risk, and the performance of a company as compared with a broad index like the S&P 500 or the Russell 2000. Exposure to litigation.

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