Accounting Hurdle Rate Leverage 
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 10, 2025
Not surprisingly, the company listings are across the world, and I look at the breakdown of companies, by number and market cap, by geography: As you can see, the market cap of US companies at the start of 2025 accounted for roughly 49% of the market cap of global stocks, up from 44% at the start of 2024 and 42% at the start of 2023.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
What is a hurdle rate for a business? In this post, I will start by looking at the role that hurdle rates play in running a business, with the consequences of setting them too high or too low, and then look at the fundamentals that should cause hurdle rates to vary across companies. What is a hurdle rate?
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Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In this post, I will focus on how companies around the world, and in different sectors, performed on their end game of delivering profits, by first focusing on profitability differences across businesses, then converting profitability into returns, and comparing these returns to the hurdle rates that I talked about in my last data update post.
Global Finance
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Financial institutions can better understand the risk profiles of small suppliers by leveraging alternative data and machine learning, thus expanding access to financing. It requires accurate data, robust technology, and thorough risk assessment, crucial to ensuring the creditworthiness of suppliers at all levels.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 7, 2023
When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (risk premiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage. Thus, market capitalization, interest rates and risk premiums, the data is as of that date.
Musings on Markets
AUGUST 19, 2024
Setting the Stage The notion of a business life cycle is neither new nor original, since versions of it have floated around in management circles for decades, but its applications in finance have been spotty, with some attempts to tie where a company is in the life cycle to its corporate governance and others to accounting ratios.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 6, 2023
When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (risk premiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage. Per-employee Statistics Profitability Financial Leverage Reinvestment 1. Bond Default Spreads Growth Rates Accounting Clean up Tax Rates 1.
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