Corporate Finance Dividends Market Capitalization 
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. Return on (invested) capital 2.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 8, 2022
Regional Breakdown My data sample for 2022 includes every publicly traded firm that is traded anywhere in the world, with a market capitalization that exceeds zero. A few of these variables are macro variables, but only those that I find useful in corporate finance and valuation, and not easily accessible in public data bases.
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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. Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world. Dividend Payout & Yield 1. Return on Invested Capital 2.
Musings on Markets
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.
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.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 9, 2021
While the universe of companies is diverse, with approximately half of all firms from emerging markets, it is more concentrated in market capitalization, with the US accounting for 40% of global market capitalization at the start of the year. Macro Data I do not report much macroeconomic data for two reasons.
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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