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

Musings on Markets

Historical Data: 1930-2019 To see how this framework works in practice, let's start by looking at the performance of US stocks, across the decades, and look at the returns on stocks, broadly categorized based on market capitalization and price to book ratios.

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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

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Consequently, you can only value the equity in a bank, and by extension, the only pricing multiples you can use to price banks are equity multiples (PE, Price to Book etc.).

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

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To the extent that some of that risk capital is coming back into the markets, equity markets have benefited, with benefits skewing more towards the companies and markets that were punished the most in 2022. trillion) to market capitalizations, regaining almost half of the value lost in last year's rout.

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Data Update 3: Inflation and its Ripple Effects!

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I also looked at how inflation plays out on equity sub-groupings, on two dimensions, the first being market capitalization and the second being price to book, with the former becoming a stand-in for the vaunted small cap premium and the latter for the value versus growth question.

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What is ‘Business Valuation’ in Shark Tank?

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By analyzing factors like the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, price-to-book (P/B) ratio, and enterprise value-to-EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) ratio, companies can determine if their shares are undervalued or overvalued compared to peers. It is suitable for firms with substantial tangible assets like real estate or machinery.

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The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation

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In an earlier episode, Nike also lost billions in market capitalizations, when Michael Jordan, an NBA superstar whose name-branded footwear (Air Jordan) had become a game changer for Nike, unexpectedly announced in 1993 , that he would be retiring from basketball, to play baseball.

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Interest Rates, Earning Growth and Equity Value: Investment Implications

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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. In January, the NASDAQ continued its 2020 success, and the S&P 500 lagged, losing value. In February and March, the tide shifted, and the S&P 500 outperformed the NASDAQ.

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