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.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

While that cash return is not surprising for a company that has became a profit machine, it is at odds with the story that some investors were pricing into the stock of a company with almost unlimited growth opportunities in an immense new market (AI).

Marketing 133

Marketing Valuation Profit and Loss Forecasting 133

Centage

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While revenue is also an important number to understand for the health of your business, it doesn’t represent cash that you can use to pay bills like rent, inventory, and salaries. The projections are pulled from the profit and loss and balance sheets and balance sheet items, like purchases or depreciation, are added or subtracted.

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Cash Flow Forecasting Forecasting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Profit and Loss 98

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 21, 2023

And then I used to do those numbers by hand using the Barron’s MarketLab pages and, you know, underlining stuff and using an anti machine and all that by hand work, which was Educational. Since January has has had some trouble recently with a lot of profit taking. Pretty good numbers. It came out in the ’73 Almanac.

Profit and Loss 128

Profit and Loss Marketing Investments Forecasting 128

Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

Marketing 99

Marketing Valuation Profit and Loss Advertising 99

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 10, 2022

For those of you who like to see the numbers, here’s an example of compound interest at work: Suppose you invest $1,000 in a five-year certificate of deposit, paying 5% and compounded annually. Actual Number of Years to Double Your Investment. You’re probably already aware of cryptocurrencies’ potential gains (and losses).

Investments 130

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Close behind were food services and drinking places, with 53,000 new jobs; government, 45,000; construction, 42,000; and professional and technical services gaining 32,000 jobs. From December to January, retail trade noted a loss of 8,300 jobs — a month after the December holiday hiring season.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Combined with growing advisor (and consumer) interest in comprehensive financial planning services, the number of ways advisors can add value for their clients has expanded greatly. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The latest news is that the $100 billion fund’s holdings (where filings indicate more than $70 billion in committed/deployed capital) are encountering any number of operational challenges. There’s an old business maxim that goes something like this: You cannot cut your way to profitability. billion loss), more bumps may lie ahead.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

From 2001 to 2020, revenue growth at semiconductor businesses has dropped to single digits, as higher demand for chips in new uses has been offset by loss of pricing power, and declining chip prices. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! While revenue growth has picked up again in the last three years, the business has matured.

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Valuation Profit and Loss Investments Marketing 103

PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

The headlines about Nike’s Q4 earnings announcement focused on what would be a staggering loss at any other time. Nike reported a loss of $790 million during the period ended May 31, compared with net income of $989 million for the same quarter in 2019. Across all 12 of our key cities, Nike remains consumer’s number one favorite brand.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). Executive Summary. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook’s most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022. .

Marketing 130

Marketing Advertising Profit and Loss Investments 130

CFO Strategic Partners

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Not surprisingly, an overwhelming number of organizations who participated in the survey are struggling with staffing shortages and inability to find talent to optimize profits. Short staff = sales coming short Staffing issues have led to loss in revenue. See below for a full breakdown of our results.

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Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The objective of TCI is to indemnify the supplier against losses which arise as a consequence of a buyer’s inability to pay. It does not aim to replace profits lost on the transaction. increase which was followed by the construction industry at 1.2% Compared to FY19Q1, insolvency rates were up by 0.6%. from 45 last month.

Construction 52

Construction Manufacturing Economics Profit and Loss 52

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

Spotify missed big on earnings per share, where it saw a loss of -€2.20 In addition, Spotify saw a net loss of €394 million and operating loss of €91 million this quarter, showing it’s still a long way from turning a profit. And a certain number of fans must make requests before the company sends the information to bands.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the next post, I will use Facebook's most recent earnings surprise to talk about inconsistencies in how accountants categorize corporate spending, and why these inconsistencies can skew investors perceptions of corporate profitability and financial health. billion in the third quarter of 2022.

Advertising 105

Advertising Profit and Loss Investments Marketing 105

PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

How to construct a payments platypus of sorts — you know, a mish-mosh of opposites that may not on the surface dovetail well but still get put together once in a while, less evolution than, perhaps, ever-amusing? The pre-order numbers are rolling in, and they are very encouraging. So what happened, and what does it all mean?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We took that number the 15 times before we die. It, it is the actual way that you construct and create your life that is, has to be free. Then you use the profits from that to buy a second boat. And we are, we are wired to wanna see the number go up. It is to recognize time is your most precious asset to make a change.

Investments 59

Investments Finance Profit and Loss Numbers 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And so there was a number of less liquid markets that made for quite wide spreads. And so there was certainly a number of different movements, but there was certainly downside of these things. And you know, I think ultimately there was a number of opportunities that came out. And so we have a number of business lines.

Investments 59

Investments Numbers Marketing Leverage 59

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. 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? It would go up, it should go up. That’s really bad. This was a giant win.

Concentration 69

Concentration Valuation Marketing Investments 69

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You had 1987, you had 1997, you had 1998 there were a number of really substantial. Because obviously fundamental underpinning to the secular bull market, you know, number one is the fact that households are in better financial conditions than they have been since, you know, the GFC. RITHOLTZ: Right. Let me explain.

Marketing 52

Marketing Construction Valuation Investments 52

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. Number one, a school district is a business. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit.

Economics 59

Economics Education Profit and Loss Banking 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. Number one, longevity.

Investments 52

Investments Valuation Numbers Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

When we go back and look at the team that we had assembled in the early 2000s in the Goldman Sachs distressed trading desk, an extraordinary number of those folks went on to become partners and founders of very successful multi-billion dollar asset management firms. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had.

Investments 52

Investments Profit and Loss Accounting Restructuring 52

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

But I was really buying, and what I wanted to do was the construction. And they had a belief at the time of driving growth profitably whereby you could organically acquire customers. Was it a loss? That that’s a serious 01:08:03 [Speaker Changed] Media number. They needed a partner who could drive audience.

Entertainment 59

Entertainment Investments Math Advertising 59

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

RAMPULLA: I went to Drexel part time while I was at Vanguard, did that commute down to Philadelphia from the suburbs, you know, three times a week for a number of years. I was employee number one in London. They’ll construct the portfolio. So the harvest losses to offset future gains. RAMPULLA: — starting up.

Investments 114

Investments Profit and Loss Education Advertising 114

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so today, I think that part of the IG fixed rate corporate bond market, obviously part of the real estate, and we’ve been talking at length about that, we have to suffer some of the pain or losses in some way shape or form. And so at times it’s effectively when the essential is at stake that people can react constructively.

Investments 59

Investments Banking Entertainment Marketing 59

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? RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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

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 122

Profit and Loss Foreign Exchange Valuation Investments 122

PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2020

The hospitality group behind Ruth’s Chris Steak House — operator or franchiser of 159 restaurants — showed a profit of $42 million on $468 million in revenue in 2019 and a workforce topping 5,000, according to The Wall Street Journal. Blue states like California got a pathetic number of loans issued.”. million and got $10 million.

Profit and Loss 113

Profit and Loss Construction Sales Securities 113

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And actually, interestingly, Joe was director of research there for a number of years before I moved on to start Perceptive. Either you’re betting Covid was gonna stick around in a much broader way than it did and continue to drive profits, but then the rest of your portfolio has other issues. Lindsay Rosenwald was the founder.

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Investments Pharmaceutical Profit and Loss 59

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. But 00:15:04 [Speaker Changed] It takes that long for the losses to get through to the securities.

Profit and Loss 59

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 59

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Another way of presenting this FCFE is to consolidate the working capital, capital expenditure and depreciation items into a reinvestment number ($19,370 million) and net this reinvestment out of net income to estimate FCFE. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.)

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Valuation Profit and Loss Forecasting Investments 107

CFO News Room

JANUARY 8, 2023

Another way of presenting this FCFE is to consolidate the working capital, capital expenditure and depreciation items into a reinvestment number ($19,370 million) and net this reinvestment out of net income to estimate FCFE. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.).

Valuation 130

Valuation Profit and Loss Forecasting Investments 130

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!). He has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

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

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

And in my career, I feel like the Canadian, they produce a large number of economists. I mean, when we had that first employment number that sort of knocked the lights on, everyone was kind of surprised because we were all keying off the initial claims data, right? It’s a giant number. DUTTA: — and he still is.

Economics 59

Economics Marketing Manufacturing Profit and Loss 59