CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

My September 2020 Valuations. I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. Updating the Numbers. to 14.9%.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. To the extent that these numbers are used in computing financial ratios, it will affect your measures of operating income and return on invested capital.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 30, 2025

Crafting Strategic Visions with Roger Castle In the latest CFO Club podcast, Leana van der Merwe sat down with Roger Castle, an accomplished CFO and finance expert with decades of experience across industries such as cloud management, online advertising, financial services, and telecommunications. Roger Castle: Hi, Leana.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. For the latter, I am reporting on the trailing 12-month numbers, to ensure that I have the calendar year numbers.)

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 2, 2021

Just over a week ago, I valued Zomato ahead of its market debut, and as with almost every valuation that I do on this forum, I heard from many of you. The Prelude After I posted my valuation last week, I did find some of the portrayals of my post to be a little unsettling. Let me dispel both delusions.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Facebook also cited inflation as a weight on advertiser spending. The earnings report shows Facebook’s business is under pressure on a number of fronts, at a moment when Mr. Zuckerberg is betting the company’s future on VR headsets, AR glasses and virtual worlds, known as the metaverse, in which users can live and work.

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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. So, how far has accounting come in bringing intangible assets on to balance sheets?

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That skewing can affect valuation and pricing judgments about these firms, and correcting accounting inconsistencies is a key step towards leveling the playing field. Accounting 101 I am not an accountant, and have no desire to be one, but I have used their output (accounting statements) as raw material in valuation and corporate finance.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook’s troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

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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 This episode underscores that data for targeted customer offerings can come from anywhere and is not necessarily the result of meticulous number crunching. This issue is present in almost every industry, as the $70.3

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook's troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Since its launch in February 2019, the Brex eCommerce offering has grown rapidly and added a number of distribution partnerships, including MDS, Payoneer and Plastiq, as well as a suite of rewards specific to the online retail industry across software, shipping and advertising. billion.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Here are the numbers: $404.5 25 billion | Number Snapchat valuation could reach. $21 21 billion | Amount of diluted valuation as of 12/31/16. $1 10 percent | Level no one advertiser goes over. 10 percent | Level no one advertiser goes over. million | Revenue reported in 2016. 1.05 | Revenue per user in 2016.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. We’ve seen valuations come way down for public companies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

In the age of sky-high valuations, brands will look anywhere for hard numbers that prove they’re actually worth what they say they are. Twitter learned this the hard way when it first went public, and new numbers might take away yet another place to look for answers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

And as those figures increase, so are Poshmark’s consumer engagement numbers — 6.2 The RealReal advertises and markets itself as a luxury consignment marketplace; Poshmark’s range of goods and sellers is wider. After losing $14.5 million in 2018 and $48.7 million in 2019, Poshmark made $21.1 million in the June 30 quarter and $10.7

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

First, it will reduce the number of noise disclosures, i.e., those that pass the materiality threshold for earnings, but don't have a significant impact on value. Total Addressable Market (TAM) Companies going public have increasingly supported high valuations by pointing to market potential, using large TAMs as one of the justifications.

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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. Why Most Profitable and Most Valuable Aren't Synonymous? For instance, a company with 2.34

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Designed to focus on millennials and advertised as a high-minded community of users dedicated to paying it forward , the app allows users to take out as much as $1,000 in advances during a pay period. Once Earnin users have entered their data, bank account numbers and login, they can take out cash advances in increments as large as $100.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Lidya said the new funding will go toward product development and expanding staff numbers; while the company is today focused on Nigeria, the company said it hopes to broaden SMEs’ access to finance across Africa with its digital platform that builds a custom SME credit score and links borrowers to a loan. eProcurement. eProcurement.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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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. Verizon offers Yahoo its best turnaround option.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

The culprit was Google’s advertising revenue, the key top line contributor for the company. That startup is already in vaunted unicorn territory, having raised $220 million last September for a valuation north of $1 billion. It grew only 15 percent to a bit more than $30 billion (this is after traffic acquisition costs).

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 7, 2024

She has a number of investments as as really a entrepreneur and a venture investor. San Diego State studying journalism and advertising. Joanne Bradford : I was a journalism major because it was the easiest major at the time, and I went and took advertising courses and went to work at my college newspaper. It was fun.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

In the century since Pyrex took the kitchen by storm, the kitchen has been home to any number of innovations big and small. But with a valuation around $556 million, it is widely speculated that Instant Pot is the more monetarily valuable brand. A New Kind Of Pothead.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

Uber’s valuation is pegged at $100 billion. Lyft’s valuation is less than 20 percent of that. Cities were built for people and not cars, they note, and the sheer number of vehicles on the road has turned that upside-down. We’ve seen online advertising disrupted by Google, Facebook and now Amazon.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

I even went on advertising calls with the advertising director. But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And a, a number of things happened. It was so much fun and I learned so much.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

That included a number of smart speakers: The Panasonic GA10, the Sony LF-S50G, the Anker Zolo Mojo, the MobVoi TicHome Mini, and the JBL Link. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but Google by any other name would have a totally different valuation. XXVI is the Roman numeral for 26, the number of letters in the alphabet.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work. So that’s, that’s number one.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2016

. “You typically take the company public at some point,” noted JustFab co-founder and co-CEO Adam Goldenberg in a recent interview with the LA Times when speaking on his startup’s impressive track record of fundraising and their unicorn valuation of $1 billion about two years ago. The brand has run into controversy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2018

Adam Ferrier, consumer psychologist and the author of The Advertising Effect: How to Change Behaviour , told Fast Company that it comes down to a few main differences. According to research , the number one reason millennial fathers use their phones for retail is for product reviews and ratings, with comparing prices a close second.

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