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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

In my last post , I discussed how inflation's return has changed the calculus for investors, looking at how inflation affects returns on different asset classes, and tracing out the consequences for equity values, in the aggregate.

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Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data

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Standard Deviation in Equity/Firm Value 2. Book Value Multiples 3. In short, if the ten-year treasury rate climbs to 5% and equity risk premiums surge, you can update those numbers in the cost of capital worksheet , and get updated values. Historical Growth in Revenues & Earnings 1. Profit Margins 1.

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

Musings on Markets

Thus, if the US treasury bond rate (4.5%) is the riskfree rate in US dollars, and the expected inflation rates in US dollars and Brazilian reals are 2.5% Thus, if the US treasury bond rate (4.5%) is the riskfree rate in US dollars, and the expected inflation rates in US dollars and Brazilian reals are 2.5%