Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

The notion of computing a cost of capital for a bank is fanciful and fruitless, and any attempt to compute an enterprise value for a bank is destined to end in failure. Note the differences between the bank FCFE and bank dividend discount models. Note the differences between the bank FCFE and bank dividend discount models.

Banking 91

Banking Price to Book Dividends Book Value 91

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. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Dividend yield & payout 3. Buybacks 2.

Dividends 105

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 105

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

In the table below, I list the ten worst performing and best performing industry groups, based purely on market capitalization change in the first half of 2023: Download market performance in 2023, by industry The worst performing industry groups are in financial services and energy, with oilfield services companies being the worst impacted.

Marketability 98

Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Treasury 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Challenge rules of thumb and conventional wisdom : Investing has always had rules of thumb on how and when to invest, ranging from using historical PE or CAPE ratios to decide if markets are over valued, to simplistic rules (eg. buy stocks that trade at less than book value or trade at PEG ratios less than one) for individual stocks.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Market Capitalization Equity Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Download data Again, the steep drop off in invested capital that you see in 2015 is just a reflection of the restructuring of the company that year, as the invested capital in Adani Ports and Power was removed from the mix.

Start-ups 100

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Equity 100

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

If you want to check out which industry group a company falls into, please click on this file (a very large one that may take a while to download) for that detail. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Dividend yield & payout 3. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3.

Risk Premium 119

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups Corporate Finance 119