Remove Firm Value Remove Market Capitalization Remove Risk-free Rate
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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

Musings on Markets

Since I am lucky enough to have access to databases that carry data on all publicly traded stocks, I choose all publicly traded companies, with a market price that exceeds zero, as my universe, for computing all statistics. Costs of equity & capital 1. Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3.

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Data Update 5 for 2025: It's a small world, after all!

Musings on Markets

It is for this reason that I chose to compute returns differently, using the following constructs: I included all publicly traded stocks in each market, or at least those with a market capitalization available for them. I converted all of the market capitalizations into US dollars , just to make them comparable.