Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

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. That portfolio will have the benefit of stability, but expecting it to contain ten-baggers and hundred-baggers is a reach.

Corporate Finance 98

Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 98

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Furthermore, do they optimize they debt ratios to deliver the lowest hurdle rates. Looking at 2022, the most striking aspect of the time series is that there is almost no discernible change in delinquencies or defaults in the year, with both remaining at the low rates that we have seen for much of the decade.

Corporate Finance 52

Corporate Finance Finance Marketing Leverage 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

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.

Hurdle Rate 95

Hurdle Rate Concentration Investments Finance 95