Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook's most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It extends into materiality, by reframing that concept in terms of value, rather than profits, and connecting it to disclosure, with disclosure requirements increasing proportionately with the value effect. Many subscription companies explicitly disclose contribution profits (e.g., StitchFix).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The economic potential is also considerable, as in 2018 it is estimated that gig workers earned $1.7 We are believers in the long-term potential of these marketplaces, but risks such as unclear pathway to profitability and the debate around gig economy workers labeled as 1099-contractors would likely weigh on near-term post-IPO performance.”.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the 1970s, Hollywood discovered the payoff from blockbuster movies, and the movie business became increasingly dependent on the biggest blockbusters delivering enough revenues and profits to cover a whole host of movies that either lost money or broke even. With Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime, the game is even more difficult to gauge.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 4, 2024

Cash Flow Management Tips to Apply to Your Business Problem 1: Misreading Cash Flow and Profit Cash flow is about tracking how money moves in and out of a business. Profit, however, is what's left over after you take away all the costs from what you earn. If that happens, selling them at a loss can hurt the business financially.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. In addition, growth in the experiences business will also push this metric upwards, since Airbnb keeps a 20% share of those revenues.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

The economics work thanks to the law of averages. It’s not large enough to draw advertising from the movie industry, which is its apparent goal for financial stability in the future, but it’s also not small enough to have a business model that is such a flagrant money loss.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. While an economic and market downturn might give investors a short-term lesson in the dangers of greed, a market upturn often brings back many of these demons as investors succumb to FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Aside from a few complaints from those with glasses who needed a little extra help getting it to work exactly as advertised, consumers seem to feel as though it is a much more reliable and safer way to authenticate themselves via the mobile phone. Jet.com is not profitable and has no clear path to profits, critics say.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We didn’t do advertising. Actually, Jack Bogle wouldn’t let us say the word seller, product or advertising. How does Vanguard operate and not advertise, not pay shelf space? You know, we do the typical stuff, market economic outlooks and research there, product research. RITHOLTZ: Sure. We didn’t sell.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. He previously worked at a financial planning firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a journalist covering the banking and insurance industries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

.” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance. Options, you’re on the hook no matter where it goes.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

I had an economics lesson, I had a life lesson, I had an epiphany, I had a race relations lesson, I had a self-esteem and confidence lesson. Being broke is economic, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind, a depressed condition of your spirit. It’s home economics class, doesn’t exist anymore. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Law in Spirit and Letter In the latter part of the nineteenth century, as the United States was transitioning from an emerging market to a global economic power, its growth was powered by three industries - steel, railroads and oil - all requiring large investments in infrastructure. In short, while Ms.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The name “Black Friday,” of course, came from the numbers entered on ledgers: black for profits, red for losses. The Christmas season was often the first time all year that retailers reached profitability. Many retailers advertise “Black Friday week” specials rather than restricting deals to a single day. South America.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Example 2 : Alice is a 55-year-old advertising executive earning wages of $200,000 per year. Suppose, however, that early in 2024, Alice is offered a job by a competing advertising company, and they agree to pay her an annualized salary of $250,000. IRA Catch-Up Contributions To Be Indexed For Inflation.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

They had the access to loss and excel really. And I think that’s a loss. And the second was, of course, the Warren Buffett story that came out the same week, where he essentially called people who post buybacks, you know, economically illiterate. It’s not a great advertising model — RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

That said, to value companies today, I have no choice but to bring in the economics and politics of the world that these companies inhabit. China : The biggest winner from globalization has been China, which has seen its economic and political power surge over the last four decades.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

But let’s start with your background in your career, applied mathematics and economics from Brown and then a Harvard MBA. And, you know, therein began, I think the unraveling and, and a little bit of the, the loss of that, you know, cultural juice that had kind of historically made that firm special. Lisa Shalett : Not at all.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. Profitability, they tend to be fairly unprofitable. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : And then economics, which I really only took a little bit of, a lot fewer than my peers I later competed with in grad school, was kind of in between like the three little bears, you know, it was, there was, I love that. How does that relate to economics and decision making and investing?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

He is so knowledgeable about so many unusual areas in economics. You’re the author of 200 plus papers, six books, deaths of Despair, which you wrote with Anne Case who happens to be your wife, was a New York Times bestseller and your latest book, economics in America, an Immigrant Economist, explores the Land of inequality.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Now you have to assume some losses. Barry Ritholtz : And these bonds are still profitable Jeffrey Sherman : And they don’t break, like they, they don’t, they don’t, they don’t lose money, especially at 50 cents on dollar. He, he’s really telling you trickle down economics, right?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bank’s illegal conduct led to billions of dollars in financial harm to its customers and, for thousands of customers, the loss of their vehicles and homes. During the most recent quarter, revenues slid four percent year over year while profits slid 52 percent to 4.4

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Stay safe out there! * * * • “China Covid: Coffins sell out as rural losses mount” [ BBC ]. Advertising: “Fame: Brands wanna live forever” [Bob Hoffmann, Campaign ]. “If Traditional marketers and advertisers will often assert that differentiation or positioning or ‘brand meaning’ are the key advertising drivers of brand success.

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