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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

My version of the corporate life cycle is built around six stages with the first stage being an idea business (a start-up) and the last one representing decline and demise. Even a cursory glance at the companies that surround you should tell you that there are wide variations across companies, on these dimensions.

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Deja Vu #11: Can Restricted Stock Studies Be Used to Estimate DLOMs for Dividend-Paying Companies?

Chris Mercer

This eleventh post in the Deja Vu series involving restricted stock studies addresses an issue that is rarely mentioned in the context of the studies – of the impact of dividends on restricted stock discounts (RSDs). This 2008 version had information on 477 restricted stock transactions, up from 430 transactions in the 2004 version.

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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will begin by looking at how to value banks and follow up with an examination of investor views of banking have changed, by looking at pricing, before examining divergences in how banks are priced in the market today. Note the differences between the bank FCFE and bank dividend discount models.

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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will look at corporate profitability, in all its different dimensions, and how companies across the globe, and across industries, measured up in the most recent years. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

At the start of the year, the consensus of market experts was that this would be a difficult year for markets, given the macro worries about inflation and an impending recession, and adding in the fear of the Fed raising rates to this mix made bullishness a rare commodity on Wall Street. That pessimism was not restricted to market outlooks.

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Valuation Using Multiples—What Is It and How Does It Work? Core Ideas Explained

Valutico

Pharmacies are valued at 0.8x – 1.2x Wind farms are valued at €0.8m – €1.2m SaaS start-ups are valued at 10x Sales”. The ratio is either related to the Equity Value or ratios related to the Enterprise Value. . Price/Book : This multiple compares the price to the book value of a firm.

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Your Guide to Valuing a Company Using the Multiples Approach

Valutico

Pharmacies are valued at 0.8x – 1.2x Wind farms are valued at €0.8m – €1.2m SaaS start-ups are valued at 10x Sales”. The ratio is either related to the Equity Value or ratios related to the Enterprise Value. . Price/Book : This multiple compares the price to the book value of a firm.