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Challenging The Banks

Global Finance

One avenue for the banking sector is to start from scratch, as KakaoBank did in South Korea and Nubank in Brazil. Equity investors value Visa at 29 times earnings and 13 times book value, according to Bloomberg. Elsewhere, online-only “digital-attacker banks” are shaking up the landscape, Bain’s Breeden says.

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Equitest's Review on techozens.com: "The Best & Trusted Business Appraisal Software for Startups, CPA"

Startup Valuation Blog

Equitest ‘s online valuation platform includes all the tools needed to value a firm, or for a start-up to succeed: Ideally, you would need to choose the best provider that will fulfill all of your requirements in a cost-effective package. Let’s get started. . Have you ever wondered how much does your company worth?

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering , and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. Within the investment community, there has always been a clear recognition of the importance of intangibles in driving investment value.

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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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META Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

Musings on Markets

In the figure below, I trace out where operating, capital and financing expenses show up in the three financial statements: Operating expenses become part of cost of good sold or other operating expenses (like SG&A and adverting costs) in an income statement, and are key inputs in determining operating income.

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Triggered Disclosures: Escaping the Disclosure Dilemma

Musings on Markets

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.