Musings on Markets

MAY 20, 2022

Inflation and Value When in doubt about how any action or information plays out in value, I find it useful to go back to value basics, and trace out the effects of that action/information on value drivers. The former is short hand for the small cap premium and the latter is the proxy for the value factor in returns.

Price to Book 102

Price to Book Dividends Beta Equity 102

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Consider, for instance, an investor who picks stocks based upon price to book ratios, who finds a stock trading at a price to book ratio of 1.5. Finally, fair or not, companies in developed and more liquid markets are in the spotlight more than their counterparts in emerging markets.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Market Capitalization Equity Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

To obtain company-level information, you needed to find its annual reports in physical form and for industry-level data, you were dependent on services that computed and reported industry averages, such as Value Line and S&P. Standard deviation in stock price 2. Price to Book 3. Cost of Capital 3.

Risk Premium 52

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups EBITDA 52

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. The results are similar if you break stocks down based upon price to book ratios or revenue growth rates.

Risk Premium 99

Risk Premium Risk-free Rate Start-ups Equity 99

Musings on Markets

MARCH 25, 2021

Interest Rates and Value As interest rates have risen, the discussion in markets has turned ito the effects that these rates will have on stock prices. Download data While the chart itself has too much noise to draw conclusions, the correlations that I have calculated provide more information.

Equity 52

Equity Risk-free Rate Treasury Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Start-ups 100

Start-ups Market Capitalization Marketability Equity 100

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2025

I follow up by looking at companies broken down by market capitalization, with an eye on whether the much-vaunted small cap premium has made a comeback. In the process, I also look how much the market owes its winnings to its biggest companies, with the Mag Seven coming under the microscope. The Value Premium?

Price to Book 76

Price to Book Start-ups Book Value Marketability 76