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

Musings on Markets

At the start of the year, the consensus of market experts was that this would be a difficult year for markets, given the macro worries about inflation and an impending recession, and adding in the fear of the Fed raising rates to this mix made bullishness a rare commodity on Wall Street. That pessimism was not restricted to market outlooks.

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The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation

Musings on Markets

We will then follow up with a framework for thinking about how key people can affect the value of a business, with practical suggestions on valuing and pricing key people. We will end with a discussion of how enterprises try, with mixed effects, to build protections against the loss of key personnel.

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Interest Rates, Earning Growth and Equity Value: Investment Implications

Musings on Markets

for the year are at war with its concurrent promise to keep rates low; after all, adding those numbers up yields a intrinsic risk free rate of 8.7%. The Stocks Story As treasury rates have risen in 2021, equity markets have been surprisingly resilient, with stocks up during the first three months. for 2021 and inflation of 2.2%

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M&A Valuation Methods: Your Essential Guide with 7 Key Methods

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Special considerations for valuing M&A deals include synergies, regulatory issues, economic conditions, tax implications, technology/IP valuation, financing structure, buyer type, and purchase price allocation. Other techniques like Leveraged Buyout (LBO) and Real Options Valuation offer unique perspectives on valuation.

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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021). The year that was.

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Russia in Ukraine: Let Loose the Dogs of War!

Musings on Markets

The Lead In To understand the market effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, we need to start with an assessment of the two countries, and their places in the global political, economic and market landscape, leading in. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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