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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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The Importance of (and challenges with) Valuing Intangibles

IVSC

Searching for stocks with low price-to-book ratios was a good indication of a potential bargain. However, book values are no longer so informative as lots of intangibles are missing from the balance sheet, and some intangibles that are on the balance sheet, including many acquired intangibles and goodwill, are very hard to interpret.

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

Musings on Markets

In my second data update post from the start of this year , I looked at US equities in 2022, with the S&P 500 down almost 20% during the year and the NASDAQ, overweighted in technology, feeling even more pain, down about a third, during the year. trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2%

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

Valutico

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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The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation

Musings on Markets

That may explain why Berkshire's stock price was unaffected by Munger's passing. Are markets building in the recognition that Berkshire Hathaway's future will be in the hands of someone other than the two legendary leaders?

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Interest Rates, Earning Growth and Equity Value: Investment Implications

Musings on Markets

For much of the last year, I tracked the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ, the first standing in for large cap stocks and the broader market, and the latter proxying for technology and growth stocks, with some very large market companies included in the mix.

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Is Hyundai’s Parallel Strategy a Potent Value Play?

Andrew Stolz

Book value is the value attributable to shareholders in case the company sells all its assets and repays its liabilities (also called liquidation value). A price-to-book ratio of less than 1x indicates that the market values the net assets less than the balance sheet suggests. What does a PB-ratio of less than 1x indicate?

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