Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

While companies that were listed for much of the twentieth century waited until they had established business models to go public, the dot-com boom saw the listing of young companies with growth potential but unformed business models (translating into operating losses), and that trend has continued and accelerated in this century.

Valuation 106

Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 106

Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

Not surprisingly, the operating metrics change as companies age, with high revenue growth accompanied by big losses (from work-in-progress business models) and large reinvestment needs (to delivery future growth) in early-stage companies to large profits and free cash flows in the mature phase to stresses on growth and margins in decline.

Corporate Finance 98

Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 98

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In 2014, it introduced Paytm Wallet , a digital wallet that was accepted as a payment option by leading service providers and retailers. The last is the operating margin , it operating income (or loss) as a percent of operating income each year. As mobile access improved, Paytm has relentlessly added to its suite of products.

Valuation 75

Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Numbers 75

CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In Eswatini, the field isn’t very large, so as an auditor, you must be an all-rounder, moving from one division to another—operations, retail banking, corporate. Another major contributor to the economy is a US-based company called Conco, which produces the concentrate for Coca-Cola.

Finance 97

Finance Auditing CFO Leadership 97

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Another area where advisor expertise can add value for clients is in the decision-making process surrounding employee stock options or an otherwise concentrated stock position.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. I don’t know what you’re allowed to talk about, but it’s safe to say this was a big eight or nine figure profit, right? This was a giant win.

Concentration 67

Concentration Valuation Marketing Investments 67

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. The next question that you alluded to, which is really interesting about revenue and profits, how solid in inflation hedge are equities?

Investments 117

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 117

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. If you’ve got a undifferentiated, crappy retailer and you’re saying it’s going to have $5 of free cash flow in five years, and you’ve got Visa, MasterCard, most of the magnificent seven, and you say that’s $5, they’re not the same. So I took that.

Benchmarking 104

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 104

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

needed a comprehensive set of tools to protect them, and their merchants, from fraud losses. We concentrated on easy integration, appropriate pricing, sales support, client success, and four profitable (for the merchant aggregation points) use cases. From that meeting, Kount Central was born.

Concentration 40

Concentration Profit and Loss Technology Sales 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. As a result, bitcoin mining is concentrated in two countries : China, with 60 percent, and Georgia , with 15 percent of bitcoin processing power. The FBI reports that some $28 million in losses were reported to them in 2016, triple what they say they saw in 2015.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Among Indian institutions, LIC is the largest holder with just over 4% of the shares, but the retail investor presence in this company is small, largely because of the low float, though the surge in the company’s price in the last two years has drawn some traders to it.

Marketing 130

Marketing Investments Auditing Profit and Loss 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

Profit and Loss 119

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 119

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Among Indian institutions, LIC is the largest holder with just over 4% of the shares, but the retail investor presence in this company is small, largely because of the low float, though the surge in the company's price in the last two years has drawn some traders to it.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And it became the most profitable private equity investment ever made and — it is true. And Blackstone’s funds through that period, generated substantial profits because we had made those good choices, not just about the investments — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Is that true? That’s amazing. Cambridge U.K.,

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 62

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 62

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. .” RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all.

Treasury 52

Treasury Retail Economics Entertainment 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. In April, Charles Schwab introduced its Schwab Personalized Indexing platform, available to advisors and retail clients with a $100,000 account minimum. He can be reached at [email protected].

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

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

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

They had the access to loss and excel really. And I think that’s a loss. I create these concentric circles for people who have time and say, if you have this much time, try these extra things. RITHOLTZ: You would have to put some flesh on those bones, some numbers, to determine is it still profitable to do this or not?

Valuation 117

Valuation Education Finance Numbers 117