Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. In 2022, I decided that I had hit critical mass, in terms of corporate life cycle content, and that the material could be organized as a book.

Corporate Finance 119

Corporate Finance Finance Start-ups Dividends 119

Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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.”

Equity 103

Equity Banking EBITDA Start-ups 103

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. The Value of Growth As investor tastes have shifted from earnings power to growth, there has been a tendency to put growth on a pedestal, and view it as an unalloyed good, but it is not.

Start-ups 98

Start-ups Equity Book Value Marketability 98

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Accounting 101 I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance. Since net income increases by the same magnitude, the company generated $42.5 billion , as reported. billion, which results in an adjusted PE ratio of about 6.

Finance 96

Finance Start-ups Equity Equity Financing 96

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cash generating capacity : Debt payments are serviced with operating cash flows, and the more operating cash flows that firms generate, as a percent of their market value, the more that they can afford to borrow. To the retort from some bankers that you can liquidate the assets and recover your loans, I have two responses.

Equity 52

Equity EBITDA Start-ups Net Debt 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

While private businesses are often described as profit maximizers, the truth is that if they should be value maximizers. In maturity, with debt entering the financing mix, net margins become good measures of profitability, and in decline, as earnings decline and capital expenditures ease, EBITDA margins dominate.

Equity 80

Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 80

Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. Of course, just as there are companies that choose other dysfunctional corporate finance choices.

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Dividends Start-ups Finance Corporate Finance 102