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.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again. Costs grow at a slower rate than revenues. Superior unit economics. Economies of scale. High gross margins.

Marketing 130

Marketing Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again. I will use this data to draw three broad conclusions: Low Hurdle Rate ?

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Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting Entertainment 99

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Because the economics of profitability start showing up particularly when you’re starting to hire other advisors and staff and team. ” look at the Monte Carlo simulations, look at what is the hurdle rate. You really have to start crystalizing an org chart and who does what, and clarifying roles and responsibilities.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So I wanted to challenge myself, improve my communication skills, you know, through, through the writing process. And economic indicators, like the unemployment rate or the claims data, and you know, we actually did some scenario analysis around that recently, just talking about, Hey, what happens if the employment rate rises versus falls?

Marketing 65

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 65

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

There’s very few, I would argue probably no consistent predictors of, of any sort of economic or market cyclicality. So you’ve got, you’ve got a modeling hurdle rate that you need to figure out when you’re adding diversifiers. I think ity economics would argue you have to protect your capital to survive.

Leverage 59

Leverage Investments Marketing Math 59