Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

While differentiating between good and bad banks can be straightforward, it does not follow that buying good banks and selling bad banks is a good investment strategy, since its success depends entirely on what the market is incorporating into stock prices.

Banking 91

Banking Price to Book Dividends Book Value 91

Equilest

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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Business Valuation 40

Business Valuation Discounted Cash Flow Book Value Liquidation Value 40

IBG Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recognize the Three Types of Business Buyers ”), financial buyers’ scrutiny of your financial information stems from the importance they place on EBITDA – earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization – as an indicator of market value. Sell or dispose of unproductive assets or unsalable inventory.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups EBITDA Equity Price to Earnings 52

IBG Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

If the value of your company would suffer in your absence, the biggest threat to its marketability might be you. In case you have forgotten or are too young to know, the “E-Myth” (or “entrepreneurial myth”) is that most businesses are started by people with tangible business skills. That, Gerber argues, is simply not the case.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups Intangible Assets Book Value Marketability 52

Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Distressed debt investing offers advantages over other hedge fund strategies , but the marketing often oversells the benefits. These percentages mean the market is pricing in a high likelihood of creditor losses in a restructuring or bankruptcy. “Distressed assets offer non-correlated returns, similar to global macro.”

Equity 103

Equity Banking EBITDA Start-ups 103

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The second is that these disclosures have become less readable and more difficult to navigate, partly because they are so bulky, and partly because disclosures with big consequences are mingled with disclosure with small or even no consequences, often leaving it up to investors to determine which ones matter.

Start-ups 96

Start-ups Banking Marketability Technology 96

IBG Business

AUGUST 1, 2024

A wise business seller understands that price is just one of multiple factors that determine, after the dust has settled, the actual value of their deal. In most business sales, it’s natural for the seller to focus on the price as the defining measure of their company’s market value and their satisfaction with the sale.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups Book Value Marketability 52

Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Thus, it includes not only the direct costs of producing the product or service the firm sells, but also other expenses associated with operations, including S, G & A expenses and marketing costs.

Finance 97

Finance Start-ups Equity Equity Financing 97

Class VI Partner

JULY 28, 2021

Start with this exit checklist. Adjusted Net Book Value Adjusted Net Book Value is the Book Value of a business that has been adjusted to reflect the current market value of the assets and liabilities of a company. Exit Checklist. GET THE CHECKLIST. unusual litigation, moving, etc.)

Book Value 52

Book Value Equity Enterprise Value Fair Market Value 52

Sun Acquisitions

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Every business owner markets their business as a successful and profitable venture. Next, you need to evaluate the existing market and economic conditions. It’s an excellent way to establish a business’ fair value as the valuation itself is conducted by an independent third party. Step 6: Start looking for buyers.

Business Valuation 52

Business Valuation Earnings Multiplier Private Equity Firm Book Value 52

Valutico

MAY 6, 2024

Different methods are used, like looking at market prices, predicting future profits, and evaluating assets. Some techniques include comparing companies in the market, estimating future cash flows, and assessing the value of tangible assets. to its market value.

Discounted Cash Flow 52

Discounted Cash Flow Precedent Transaction Analysis Weighted Average Cost of Capital Comparable Company Analysis 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

To set the stage, I will start by laying out the differences measure of earnings that reported on an income statement: At the top of the profit ladder is gross income , the earnings left over after a company has covered the direct cost of producing whatever it sells.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups Equity Risk Premium Risk-free Rate 52

Valutico

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Below, we outline what this method is, the different ways it works as well as key considerations when using this approach to value a company. Valuations using multiples is one of the three main approaches to valuing a business, sometimes referred to as the ‘market-based approach’. Surveys of market participants.

Precedent Transaction Analysis 52

Precedent Transaction Analysis EBITDA Comparable Company Analysis Enterprise Value 52

Valutico

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Below, we outline what this method is, the different ways it works as well as key considerations when using this approach to value a company. Valuations using multiples is one of the three main approaches to valuing a business, sometimes referred to as the ‘market-based approach’. Surveys of market participants.

Precedent Transaction Analysis 52

Precedent Transaction Analysis EBITDA Comparable Company Analysis Enterprise Value 52

Chris Mercer

AUGUST 1, 2022

This 2008 version had information on 477 restricted stock transactions, up from 430 transactions in the 2004 version. There were 231 transactions after April 1997, when the SEC’s period of restriction was reduced from two years to one year (up from 182 transactions in the 2004 version).

Dividends 52

Dividends Appraisal Marketability Start-ups 52

Reynolds Holding

APRIL 18, 2024

Over hree-year and five-year windows starting in 2005 and 2011], CEFO firms paid audit fees that were up to 16.3 cents lower per dollar of total book value of assets than such fees for non-CEFO firms. Our research also revealed that CEFO firms paid significantly lower audit fees than did non-CEFO firms.

Start-ups 49

Start-ups Book Value Compliance Finance 49

Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The San Fransisco-based bank’s loan accounting uses “fair value” treatment rather than the standard amortized cost/CECL approach, which is delivering earnings — and more importantly capital levels — wildly different from those reported by other banks and consumer instalment lenders with similar products and credit profiles. percent to 8.9

Banking 45

Banking Book Value Start-ups Technology 45

FE International

DECEMBER 31, 2021

At FE International we value and broker the sale of internet businesses with a wide range of monetization strategies (e.g. up to >6x (more on that later) and seen more than a few interesting valuations devised by buyers! The traffic valuation method can be useful for devising a value for a non-monetized site (e.g.

Weighted Average Cost of Capital 52

Weighted Average Cost of Capital Business Valuation Precedent Transaction Analysis Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

Thus, the notion that a company that pays dividends is viewed as a failure strikes me as odd, since just farmers seed fields in order to harvest them, we start businesses because we plan to eventually collect cash flows from them. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.

Dividends 102

Dividends Start-ups Corporate Finance Finance 102

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this post, I start by looking at the end game for businesses, and how that choice plays out in investment rules for these businesses, and then examine how much businesses generated in profits in 2023, scaled to both revenues and invested capital. The End Game in Business If you start a business, what is your end game?

Equity 80

Equity Book Value Start-ups Corporate Finance 80

Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

Marketability 99

Marketability Start-ups Equity Price to Book 99

Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

But over time, trends like market liberalization, deregulation, the shift to renewables, and the ESG religion “movement” have shaken up a sleepy sector. We’ll get into these fun developments, but I want to start with the basic definitions: Power & Utilities Investment Banking Defined.

Banking 98

Banking Equity Book Value Capital Structure 98

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That may reflect the concern that once a person or entity starts borrowing to fund its needs, it is easy to overuse debt, and risk its wellbeing in the process. Even government-owned businesses fall under its umbrella, with the key difference being that equity is provided by the taxpayers.

Equity 52

Equity EBITDA Start-ups Net Debt 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

In my last post, I talked about the ritual that I go through every year ahead of my teaching each spring, and in this one, I will start on the first of a series of posts that I make at the start of each year, where I look at data, both macro and company-level. That is not true!

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Market Capitalization Equity Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

Thus, looking at only the companies in the S&P 500 may give you more reliable data, with fewer missing observations, but your results will reflect what large market cap companies in any sector or industry do, rather than what is typical for that industry.

Dividends 105

Dividends Risk Premium Equity Book Value 105

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The Lead In As noted in the introductory paragraph, I start from a position of ignorance about the Adani Group, and it thus made sense to fill in that gap. First, they are infrastructure businesses , requiring large up-front investments and having long gestation periods, with regulatory and government oversight.

Start-ups 100

Start-ups Market Capitalization Equity Marketability 100

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The second was a comment that I made on a LinkedIn post that had built on my implied equity premium approach to the Indian market but had run into a roadblock because of an assumption that, in an efficient market, the return on equity would equate to the cost of equity.

Equity 52

Equity Book Value Marketability Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. In the table below, we compare the changes in regional market capitalizations (in $ millions) over time.

Risk Premium 119

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups Corporate Finance 119

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2025

In my first two data posts for 2025, I looked at the strong year that US equities had in 2024, but a very good year for the overall market does not always translate into equivalent returns across segments of the market. trillion in market cap just in 2024 , and that over the last five (ten) years, the sector has added $11.3

Price to Book 76

Price to Book Start-ups Book Value Marketability 76

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

When the debt is within reasonable bounds (scaling up with the company), a company can borrow money, and not lower its ratings. The Debt Trade off As a prelude to examining the debt and equity tradeoff, it is best to first nail down what distinguishes the two sources of capital.

Equity 75

Equity EBITDA Risk Premium Gross Debt 75

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Indian and Chinese markets cooled off in 2024, posting single digit gains in price appreciation. First, they are indices and reflect a subset of stocks in each market, with different criteria determining how each index is constructed, and varying numbers of constituents. There are three problems with comparing returns in indices.

Risk Premium 67

Risk Premium Start-ups Enterprise Value Equity 67