Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?)

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

On January 31, 2024, the company announced that it would clash its quarterly dividend from 4.17 With high interest rates, New York City rent control policies, and changing demand for commercial real estate in New York City, investors are concerned about the bank's future performance. 05, a 70 percent cut.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 15, 2021

During my teaching lifetime, I have taught a wide swath of classes, ranging from banking to equity instruments, but in the last twenty years, my focus has been on three classes, c orporate finance, valuation and investment philosophies , with the last one taught only online. The place to start is with accounting.

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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.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Access to finance was a huge concern at the start of the pandemic [in 2020] as thoughts turned to the global financial crisis and a potential repeat of bank insolvency,” notes Kristen Roberts, partner and head of the London corporate debt practice at HSF. “So It’s a predicament that started to emerge as far back as 2018. Now it’s 13%.

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Andrew Stolz

AUGUST 7, 2020

Within corporate finance, the agency problem is considered as the conflict of interest between the company’s managers and its stockholders. A secondary conflict is that managers want to re-invest profits in the business, while shareholders may prefer more dividends paid out. Definition of the Agency Problem.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

That said, it is my experience with markets that has also made me skeptical about the over selling of both notions, since we have an entire branch of finance (behavioral finance/economics) that has developed to explain how more data does not always lead to better decisions and why crowds can often be collectively wrong.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 10, 2023

As a capital allocation decision, share buybacks intersect all three of the main corporate finance activities of investing, financing, and dividends [1]. Buybacks for Financing A company can alter the debt-to-equity ratio of its capital structure by issuing debt and/or buying back shares.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Corporate Finance : Corporate finance is the development of the first financial principles that govern how to run a business. It is that mission that makes corporate finance the ultimate big picture class, one that everyone (entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, business observers) should take.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 16, 2024

Other corporate distributions that have a similar effect on ownership are cash financed acquisitions and going private transactions. Our article formalizes these insights, showing how fund fees, capital gains returns, dividend and capital gains distributions, and balance sheet effects shape institutional growth.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

Corporate Finance : The role of the equity risk premium in determining the expected return on a stock makes it a key input in corporate finance, as well, because that expected return becomes the company's cost of equity.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. The second is that in my line of work, which is corporate finance and valuation, the numbers I need lie in micro or company-level data, not in the macro space. Dividend Payout & Yield 1. Return on Equity 1.

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

AUGUST 10, 2022

As we showed in the text, dividends and stock repurchases affect a company and investors in much the same way. The tax may push companies toward dividends, although since the new tax wouldn't take effect until 2023, analysts are expecting large repurchases to be completed by the end of 2022.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In the four decades that I have been teaching finance, I have always started my discussion of risk with a Chinese symbols for crisis, as a combination of danger plus opportunity: Over the decades, though, I have been corrected dozens of times on how the symbols should be written, with each correction being challenged by a new reader.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

Traditionally, the sector was viewed as a defensive play for investors who wanted stable dividends and no drama. 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.

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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.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

Integrated Oil & Gas can also work, but at the large banks, you’ll mostly advise huge corporations on prospective asset deals and the occasional financing. Finally, these companies are so big and geopolitically sensitive that significant corporate-level M&A deals are rare. meaning there are few sell-side M&A targets.

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

Determining a company’s “Cost of Capital” is vital in corporate finance and valuation, and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) provides a specific way of doing so. These costs are then combined into a “weighted average” which represents the overall cost of financing a business.

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

Determining a company’s “Cost of Capital” is vital in corporate finance and valuation, and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) provides a specific way of doing so. These costs are then combined into a “weighted average” which represents the overall cost of financing a business.

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Valutico

APRIL 12, 2023

Determining a company’s “Cost of Capital” is vital in corporate finance and valuation, and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) provides a specific way of doing so. These costs are then combined into a “weighted average” which represents the overall cost of financing a business.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 10, 2022

trillion to buy back their shares, which is significantly more than these firms spent on dividend payments to their shareholders (Lazonick, Sakinç, and Hopkins, 2020). We, like many who recently studied finance and accounting, consider a firm’s CSR ratings as a sign of commitment to ethical behavior. Accounting & Finance.

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 24, 2024

These pre-MBA programs are the most prominent in consulting , finance, and technology , which makes sense since most MBA students target these industries. We’ll return to this point later, but in finance, it’s more common to do a pre-MBA internship at a small VC/PE firm or boutique bank rather than a bulge bracket bank.

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In the textbook, we discussed how buybacks have a tax advantage over dividends because it results in a lower effective tax rate for shareholders. A new law being proposed in the Senate would levy a 2 percent excise tax on all funds used for share buybacks.

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Of course, you will never receive a dividend and have no say in the operations of the Packers. The Green Bay Packers are offering 300,000 shares of stock at a price of $300 per share.There are currently a little over 5 million shares of the Packers outstanding.

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Finally, many renewable energy debt deals take place within Project Finance teams at banks – but Project Finance and corporate finance are very different ! The same criteria as always apply: High grades, a good university or business school, previous finance internships, and a good amount of networking and interview prep.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On November 21, 2023, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Corporation Finance issued eight new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs), and revised two previously issued C&DIs, relating to the final pay-versus-performance (PVP) disclosure rules adopted last year. Answer: Yes.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 31, 2022

For simplicity, I am ignoring the interest, dividends, borrowing costs, and other fees, but this example is the general idea with convertible arbitrage. Convertible Securities: A Complete Guide to Investment and Corporate Financing Strategies. billion, up from $4.7 The increased volatility is the key.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

That would have left you lagging the 181% price appreciation that you would have earned on the S&P 500 during the period, and even more so, if you consider the fact that you would have earned no dividends on Facebook, while generating about a 2% dividend yield, every year on the index.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

A Life Cycle View If you have been reading my posts for a while, you know that I find the corporate life cycle a useful device in explaining everything from what companies should focus on, in corporate finance, to the balance between stories and numbers, when investor value companies.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 5, 2023

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Corporate Finance recently issued guidance to address open questions related to the final pay-versus-performance (PVP) disclosure rules adopted in 2022. However, it is not clear whether or how this informal guidance from 2014 applies to the PVP rules.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues. If you use it at their jobs as corporate finance or equity analysts, I am glad to take some of that burden off you, and I hope that you find more enjoyable uses for the time you save.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 5, 2022

Share Repurchases on Trial: Large-Sample Evidence on Market Outcomes, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Finances. Tags: Capital allocation , Dividends , Executive Compensation , Firm performance , Incentives , Repurchases , Shareholder value. Posted by Nicholas Guest (Cornell University), S.P.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and investing, but one that is surprisingly misunderstood and misconstrued. I do believe that, in finance, we have significant advances in understanding what risk, I also think that as a discipline, finance has missed the mark on risk, in three ways. What is risk?

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Musings on Markets

MAY 11, 2021

The Taxation of Investment Income In much of the world, income from investments (interest, dividends) is treated differently than earned income (salary, wages), by the tax code, and the reasons for the divergence are both practical and political: 1.

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Global Finance

MARCH 7, 2025

The oil giant cut its dividend to balance shareholder payouts with rising capital investments amid lower crude prices and evolving market conditions. Saudi Arabian Oil, better known as Aramco, is recalibrating its dividend strategy as it navigates weaker oil prices and rising capital investment demands. billion from $121.3

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 5, 2025

I also look at a clear and discernible shift away from dividends to stock buybacks, especially in the US, and examine both good and bad reasons for this shift. Some of that cash will be held back in the company as a cash balance, but the balance can be returned either as dividends or in buybacks.

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