Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 1, 2023

Tech Concentration : Yes, a handful of giant tech stocks are driving market gains. But we won’t know how big a losing trade it might be until early 2024, when we see the updated valuations. Some folks who are more familiar with the numbers than I have suggested it will not be pretty. Never forget: Forecasts are marketing.

Forecasting 98

Forecasting Concentration Valuation Economics 98

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Wish’s filing follows a number of startups, including Snowflake, Palantir Technologies and Asana, seeking opportunities amid a crush of investors, Reuters reported. Led by General Atlantic, a New York growth equity firm, the round boosted Wish’s valuation to $11.2

eCommerce 70

eCommerce Concentration Valuation Startups 70

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Wish’s filing follows a number of startups, including Snowflake, Palantir Technologies and Asana, seeking opportunities amid a crush of investors, Reuters reported. Led by General Atlantic, a New York growth equity firm, the round boosted Wish’s valuation to $11.2

eCommerce 56

eCommerce Concentration Valuation Startups 56

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Last week, was my data week, where I download and analyze data on all publicly traded companies, listed anywhere in the world, and I will post extensively on what the numbers look like after a most tumultuous year. As we approach the turn of the calendar year, I have my own set of rituals that prepare me for the new year.

Valuation 52

Valuation Corporate Finance Finance Investments 52

Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

That has not happened either, as employment numbers have stayed strong, housing prices have (at least up till now) absorbed the blows from higher mortgage rates and the economy has continued to grow. In the process, the implied equity risk premium, which peaked at 5.94% on January 1, 2023, is back down to 5% at the start of July 2023.

Marketing 98

Marketing Treasury Currencies Valuation 98

PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

The fact remains that venture capital firms are in the midst of raising money at a level not seen in a decade and a half, and yet, as The Wall Street Journal noted this week, the valuations of some of the highest fliers in the land of startups have started to move back toward earth, which brings to mind Icarus and the sun. With hesitation.

Valuation 40

Valuation Concentration Startups eCommerce 40

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: DPL Partners launches a new advisor-matching solution to solve for the inbound demand of consumers increasingly seeking out a new crop of no-commission annuity products. next-generation investors with smaller balances).

Planning 130

Planning Technology Valuation Communication 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Tax cuts and incitements (last month regulators advocated slashing interest rates for small and mid-sized firms) mean that spending activity is concentrated within China’s borders. Valuation is at risk, and valuations are high. Ostensibly, valuation is underpinned by fundamentals.

Valuation 40

Valuation Concentration Currencies Retail 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2020

Sujith Narayanan and Sumit Gwalani, both co-founders of Google Pay India — formerly called Google Tez — said the seed funding brings the neo-bank startup epiFi to a valuation of roughly $50 million. Last year digital payments topped 1 billion transactions in October from over 100 million people and those numbers have been steady ever since.

Concentration 40

Concentration Startups Valuation Financial Systems 40

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.

Investments 59

Investments Valuation Concentration Marketing 59

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. 00:18:19 [Speaker Changed] Right?

Concentration 69

Concentration Valuation Marketing Investments 69

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.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Valuation Numbers Investments 52

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.

Valuation 64

Valuation Investments Economics Marketing 64

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They run long short across each of these, and they’ve put up some pretty impressive numbers over the past couple of years. And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. It’s beta neutral, market neutral.

Healthcare 64

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 64

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So there are a number of us heading in out of college into the BLS. And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? NORTON: Within Morningstar Investment Management, we are very much high conviction investors probably — RITHOLTZ: Meaning concentrated portfolio? I was on the Producer Price Index.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Benchmarking Marketing 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

So, last year, valuations were high, interest rates were low. And I said, “Look, you’ve got to look at where we are with valuations, and you have to look at where the 10-year Treasury is at. And so, that can move the numbers, as well. And so, that can move the numbers, as well. Is it at 1.5%? Cean: Correct.

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Marketing Accounting 130

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. billion dollars in AUM.

Investments 64

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 64

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. In a reflection of the times, there have been two developments.

Investments 98

Investments Currencies Treasury Hurdle Rate 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. In closing, I also want to dispense with the notion that data is objective and that numbers-focused people have no bias.

Valuation 52

Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. I revisited my valuation of the index, with the updated values: Spreadsheet to value the S&P 500.

Economics 130

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. to 25% for the Eurozone.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. If it’s a cyclical low Yeah.

Benchmarking 105

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 105

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about valuations relative to risk and reward.

Investments 59

Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 59

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. What’s the valuation? Less, 20, 30%?

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Marketing Treasury 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. Maybe we’ll get down to 4% or 5%, but that’s the number the Fed doesn’t like. TROPIN: Correct. TROPIN: Yeah.

Profit and Loss 122

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 122

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? MCCARTHY: Yeah, absolutely.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 64

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 64

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

This ignores the fact that the processing rails for this system — bitcoin — is concentrated in a handful of miners in China and the exchanges used to turn bitcoin into the real money that people can spend are routinely hacked. Uber invested in Lime in July as part of a $335 million capital raise that valued the company at $1.1

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Accounting 44

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

There’s Saunders is not spelled with a z There’s no numbers added to it. If 00:34:44 [Speaker Changed] You, so wait, gimme those numbers again. You still get these, you know, cap driven concentration problems in the market like last year. Pretty, pretty good numbers. But, but the big ones he really nailed.

Investments 59

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 59

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Given the historical roots of the biggest Indian family groups, the Adani Group has been a recent entrant, not making the top ten list (in terms of either operating metrics like revenues or market-based numbers like market capitalization or enterprise value) as recently as ten years ago, and barely making the top ten list five or six years ago.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Profit and Loss 130

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2025

That "small cap premium" has found its way into valuation practitioners playbooks, manifesting as an augmentation (of between 3-5%) on the cost of equity of small companies. To get a sense of how market capitalization was related to returns, I classified all publicly traded US companies, by market cap, and looked at their returns in 2024.

Investments 76

Investments Marketing Economics Concentration 76

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

Valuation 119

Valuation Education Finance Numbers 119

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition to being a portfolio manager and running a number of mutual funds and ETFs, he is just a world-class technology investor who understands the sector like few other people do. And you want to get every, every number right? Doesn’t it deserve a, a richer valuation? I’m shocked it’s only 29%.

Technology 52

Technology Investments Numbers Concentration 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation. 00:16:27 [Speaker Changed] How much of what’s been going on in the 2020s has been a focus on that same top 10% of tech companies as being overly concentrated and wildly expensive. The parallels are that there is a concentration of interest.

Technology 52

Technology Manufacturing Investments Education 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

We also have a number of articles on taxes and end-of-year planning: The importance for advisors of understanding current RMD rules to ensure their clients take the proper distributions (and avoid a 50% penalty in the process!). While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Profit and Loss Investments Securities 130

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. Is that a fair statement?

Investments 117

Investments Marketing Numbers Entertainment 117

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

’cause L-I-B-O-R was probably the most important number, certainly in credit, maybe in all of finance. Number one, the economy’s a lot stronger than they thought it was gonna be. We just had a giant number, a giant upside surprise in payrolls. He said, oh, it’d take at least two or three weeks, really?

Treasury 59

Treasury Marketing Banking Economics 59