CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook’s recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That bias notwithstanding, these seven companies have been extraordinary investments, not just in 2023, but over the last decade, and there are lessons that we can learn from looking at the past. First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has invested $200 million in the Swedish FinTech unicorn Klarna , the buy now, pay later service for shoppers, both companies announced on Thursday (Jan. CBA gave Klarna an initial investment of $100 million in August. This new funding is at the same valuation — $5.5 percent stake. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

To help bolster the company’s growth, UNTUCKit has reportedly tapped a bank in an effort to bring in investment funds. The company, which is said to have enlisted the help of Morgan Stanley, is looking for a valuation north of $600 million, CNBC reported.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 7, 2023

From film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Known as the Dean of Valuation, he teaches Corporate Finance and Valuation to the MBA students at Stern where he has been voted “Professor of the Year” by the graduating M.B.A.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A key value proposition for financial advisors is helping clients avoid common behavioral biases that can lead to suboptimal investment decisions. Which often leads to advisors counseling their clients to stay diversified and stick with a disciplined investment strategy to optimize their risk and return over the long term.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. to 14.9%.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. . My September 2020 Valuations. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. The FANGAM Valuations: February 2022.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook's recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. John Lynch, chief investment officer at Comerica Wealth Management, which manages $175 billion. The company also saw growth in its cloud-computing and advertising businesses. . Meta Platforms Inc. suffered the largest-ever loss. Pinterest Inc.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Having valued and invested in Facebook multiple times in the last decade, I will throw my two cents in, but rather than make the earnings report the center of attention, I will use the company’s recent travails to talk about three issues that I think are big issues not only at Facebook, but for the entire market.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5%

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CFO Share

MARCH 27, 2024

Return on Investment Definition (ROI) ROI measures the bang for your buck. It helps small businesses by answering a simple question: for every dollar you invest in your business, how much profit do you get back? A law firm investing in bitcoin may generate an ROI, but likely does not align with the company’s mission or strategy.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In sum, the overall grocery pie is growing slowly, and the slice of the pie that is profit for those in the grocery game is slim, effectively limiting the valuation stories (and values) for every player in that game. Advertising revenues, though, are assumed to keep track with gross transactions on the platform.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

These issues include a broader correction in valuations compared to the highs of 2021, uncertainty surrounding the profitability pathways of some companies and a challenging capital market environment which makes potential exits more difficult to achieve. Online Media’s GMV grows to $26 billion, increasing 10% YoY.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

The business model for the company is built upon intermediation, where customers can connect to restaurants on the platform, and order food, for pick up or delivery, and advertising. It stands to reason that disagreements about the story will be largely on those macro components, rather than in the company-specific components.

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The Finance Weekly

JUNE 24, 2024

The broader range of products and services that Microsoft offers in software and cloud computing, along with an anticipated 16% growth rate, has bolstered investor confidence and contributed significantly to its high valuation. He also noted the increasing investments in artificial intelligence. Meta As of 2024, Meta Platforms Inc.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

They are a publicly traded investment manager, stocks symbol DHIL, that have been public since day one since 2016. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t. And so I felt like all of those experiences just really led me to love investing. Brilliant is CEO of Diamond Hill.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2016

There’s also the fact that the reported cause of the big drop in Yahoo’s proposed valuation was the reveal at the Sunnyvale meetings last month that Yahoo’s online advertising business is declining more rapidly than once supposed. Investments for the week ended 06-03-16. billion range. Don’t be alarmed.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Having valued and invested in Facebook multiple times in the last decade, I will throw my two cents in, but rather than make the earnings report the center of attention, I will use the company's recent travails to talk about three issues that I think are big issues not only at Facebook, but for the entire market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

According to The Economic Times , Udaan hit the $1 billion valuation mark after 26 months. The incoming investment would follow last February’s $50 million investment, which was placed by Lightspeed and Apoletto Asia, according to reports. Reports said a $225 million fund raise would increase its valuation fivefold.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

According to Recode , the new venture capital investment is being led by Iconiq Capital, the investment firm that has managed money for the Silicon Valley uber-wealthy, including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. And with the new valuation, it is likely the company will pursue an eventual IPO over attempting an acquisition.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

billion spent on TV advertising in 2019 illustrates. Big Data analytics reached a market valuation of $29.87 Its Corporate Investment Group (CIG) used a data analytics system to calculate the default probability of approximately 9.5 This issue is present in almost every industry, as the $70.3

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last brought in money in August from Toyota Motor Company and had a valuation of approximately $72 billion. While it is unclear what valuation Uber would have at its IPO, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said that the company is looking for a target date in the second half of next year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

“We still think that AMZN is the best long-term growth investment available to investors today,” Sanderson wrote, according to CNBC. Earlier this month, Piper Jaffray predicted that in three years’ time, advertising will bring in more revenue for Amazon. Earlier in August, Apple became the first U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The company received a valuation of $1.7 billion in December of 2017 after General Atlantic invested $200 million in the company. Other firms, including Accel and Index Ventures, have also invested. Squarespace ’s advertising strategies vary from podcasts to the Super Bowl.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

s classified advertising business, private equity companies seeking to win the auction could arrange for as much as $2.6 It has valuation exceeding 20 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). With the last bids due in early July for eBay Inc.’s billion worth of debt to finance the transaction.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2018

If it were to hit the $2,500 price target, it would result in a market valuation of $1.2 We have increasing confidence that Amazon’s rapidly growing, increasingly large, high margin revenue streams (advertising, AWS , subscriptions) will drive higher profitability and continued upward estimate revisions,” said Nowak. trillion. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

million customers decide how much to pay for services and advertised “fossil-fuel-free deposits,” giving 10 percent of earnings to charities. An anonymous source reportedly told the news outlet that Aspiration wanted at least $200 million and a $1 billion-plus valuation. It let its 1.5 s Monzo and Revolut are also planning U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

In the fall Reuters reported Yunji was preparing to go public via an initial public offering (IPO), aiming to raise $1 billion at a valuation of between $7 billion and $10 billion. billion via a listing on the Nasdaq, makes the majority of its money from advertising fees levied on merchants, noted the reports. Yunji ended 2018 with 23.2

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

billion from various growing valuations of its investments in gaming and finance companies around the world. Tencent is trying to make up for the slowdown in advertising and game revenue by exploring new business opportunities. The rise was aided by a one-time gain of upwards of $1.5 billion yuan estimate by analysts.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Good Thinking Society has reported the company to the country’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and the National Trading Standards, CNBC reported. All in, that fresh investment brought the company’s total funds raised to around $82 million at the time — meaning its total valuation was in the neighborhood of $250 million.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

All in, that fresh investment brings the company’s total funds raised to around $82 million — meaning its total valuation is in the neighborhood of $250 million. The website has just snatched up $50 million in Series C venture funding from NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Felix Capital, according to news from Fortune.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. Was investing always the career plan? So I was really investment banking. MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern.

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