The Finance Weekly

MARCH 5, 2024

Next, came a new solution, Datarails Connect , which leverages Excel's success to transform it into a kind of self-service BI solution, enabling finance professionals to become truly independent by connecting their entire data stack to Excel in a simple and self-service manner.

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Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Finance Leverage Cash Management 52

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

a share, a price that would decrease Uber’s $60 billion valuation by 30 percent. SoftBank and Dragoneer have received indications from Benchmark, Menlo Ventures and other early investors of their intent to sell shares in the tender offer,” the company said in a statement. billion in funding.

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Valuation Benchmarking Restructuring Numbers 57

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Loans were primarily issued to SMB merchants that sell on the site, and bank partnerships were leveraged in some foreign markets. In Amazon’s case, the value of logistics is about $1 trillion, which is the valuation the company reached again this week, after the firm’s results and investments managed to impress investors.

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eCommerce Benchmarking Restructuring Credit Risk 52

Jedox Finance

APRIL 12, 2023

Does HR understand our workforce’s current capabilities and talents, and how they can be leveraged so that teams can work together efficiently? When setting expectations, the ability to calculate target productivity ratios of employees against industry benchmarks is illuminating for boards and potential investors.

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) 52

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Planning Budgeting Benchmarking 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? And I think that’s reflective of employee having a lot of leverage over employers. And last market question, so we’ve seen equity valuations come down. How do you track performance? TROPIN: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 122

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And so I kind of leveraged that when I went to Morningstar because they’re very focused on quality, the whole concept of economic moats, but also about buying companies when they’re trading at a discount to intrinsic value. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling.

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Investments Valuation Concentration Marketing 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And you can go long, you can go short, you can have leverage, you could have higher exposure levels, but the securities are in the liquid public markets versus private equity, which are in illiquid private markets. The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation.

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Investments Marketing Numbers Valuation 64

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But when you look at emerging markets and when you look at value, the opportunity for alpha is much, much greater than it is in traditional large cap growth stocks in the US And a lot of managers in that space actually beat their benchmark. So I had some experience in Africa that was able to leverage for this role. 00:35:18 Right.

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Investments Economics Marketing Benchmarking 59

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments. That’s amazing leverage.

Concentration 69

Concentration Valuation Marketing Investments 69

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. But while benchmarking surveys can be helpful to see what tactics the ‘average’ firm is using, some firms might not be optimizing the use of their own internal firm data to discover ways to generate more referrals.

Planning 130

Planning Education Investments Benchmarking 130

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. But I would say generally, there’s less leverage in the system. There were some fairly aggressive kind of investment strategies being pursued.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

CONROD: I — I think the — in this low interest rate environment people are looking for yield and income, and how do they — they have a — they have a benchmark. RITHOLTZ: Is that valuation issue ongoing? And when zero — when bonds are returning zero, you know, they need to look at other income-related or alternatives.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. The, the security that 00:19:47 [Speaker Changed] Is 5% is high yield these days 00:19:49 [Speaker Changed] You had the, the Fed come in and, and push a lot of the banks and say, Hey, you, you can’t have a tunnel of leverage on the high yield issuance. They were down 3.8%.

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Investments Numbers Marketing Leverage 59

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. You know, the leverage in the system builds. There is alpha.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 59

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 59

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. BERNSTEIN: Correct. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Quantitative Analysis 64

Quantitative Analysis Investments Valuation Marketing 64

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

Profit and Loss 69

Profit and Loss Valuation Forecasting Investments 69

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

00:21:21 [Speaker Changed] So this story came out that, oh, value is defensive because it has this valuation buffer to it 00:21:28 [Speaker Changed] In that one example. Most clients, whether they’re individuals or institutions, have some sort of benchmark, a policy portfolio, some strategic asset allocation that they start with.

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Leverage Investments Marketing Math 59