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

Real estate and utilities are the two sectors that have not come back fully from the COVID effect, but materials, technology and communication services are now reporting significantly higher earnings that before the shut down.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Real estate and utilities are the two sectors that have not come back fully from the COVID effect, but materials, technology and communication services are now reporting significantly higher earnings that before the shut down. I will use this data to draw three broad conclusions: Low Hurdle Rate ?

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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. So it’s gonna take a little more confidence, you know, and equities to, because you get your, your hurdle rates higher, you know? And since my writing skills weren’t all off the snuff, I just dove in.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

So you’ve got, you’ve got a modeling hurdle rate that you need to figure out when you’re adding diversifiers. You had all these retail traders who started trading crypto and the available functionality of what you could build in crypto really exploded. You had a market that was being dominated by retail.

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