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.

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Corporate Finance Finance Start-ups Dividends 123

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

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. Financing Flows 5. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3.

Dividends 106

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 106

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. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.

Dividends 102

Dividends Start-ups Finance Corporate Finance 102

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

Your answer to that question will determine not just how you approach running the business, but also the details of how you pick investments, choose a financing mix and decide how much to return to shareholders, as dividend or buybacks. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game?

Equity 81

Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 81

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. Capital expenses are expenses that provide benefits over many years.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

Companies tend to offer high, stable dividend yields, and they finance their massive capital expenditures primarily with debt , with the highest leverage ratios of any industry outside of financial institutions. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) (JPM, BAML, Barclays, and Citi) – Bankruptcy and Debtor-in-Possession Financing.

Banking 98

Banking Equity Book Value Capital Structure 98

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.

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Start-ups Equity Book Value Marketability 99