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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

Musings on Markets

Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. 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. Cost of Equity 1.

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

Musings on Markets

In my corporate finance class, I describe all decisions that companies make as falling into one of three buckets – investing decisions, financing decision and dividend decisions. Financing Flows 5. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. EBIT & EBITDA multiple s 5.

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

Musings on Markets

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Financing Flows 5. Book Value Multiples 3.