Finance Market Capitalization Risk Premium 
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 21, 2023
No matter how you slice it, there is no denying that 2022 was the worst year for US equity investors since 2008, and the magnitude of the damage is even more staggering, if you consider it in market value terms. trillion in market capitalization, but for balance, it is also worth noting that US equities are still holding on to a gain of $6.9
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. Beta & Risk 1. Equity Risk Premiums 2. Return on (invested) capital 2.
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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. When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (risk premiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage.
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
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
The graph below contains Tesla's stock price, adjusted for stock splits, going back to 2010, and ending in November 2021: While the graph illustrates the surge in the stock price, the table embedded in the graph conveys the rise more vividly, by listing Tesla's market capitalization in millions of dollars. for mature markets.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 19, 2022
I do believe that too much is often made of these differences, as it is generally more the rule than the exception that markets, when they are up strongly, get the bulk of that rise from a small sub-set of stocks or sectors.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 8, 2022
After all, I have lived much of my professional life in financial markets, where we have always had access to lots of data and market prices are set by crowds of investors. 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.
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