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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

With more mature companies, as investment opportunities become scarcer, at least relative to available capital, the focus not surprisingly shifts to financing mix, with a lower hurdle rate being the pay off.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

Furthermore, do they optimize they debt ratios to deliver the lowest hurdle rates. In the late 1990s, it was an economic recession that was the precipitating factor, but the last three increases in delinquencies have had their origins in other forces. Do companies optimize financing mix?

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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

Musings on Markets

In particular, there are wide variations in how risk is measured, and once measured, across companies and countries, and those variations can lead to differences in expected returns and hurdle rates, central to both corporate finance and investing judgments.