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. .

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

billion in annual revenue, has a stock market valuation of $10 billion and an employee headcount that is expected to surpass 10,000 by the end of 2018. But its second problem attracts more attention — it is not, nor has it ever been, profitable. But net loss in the quarter was $100.7 And that growth has carried on since then.

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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 firm got $600 million in the latest funding round, giving it an implied valuation of $7.5

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

They're constructed to answer specific questions relevant to one or more of the financial statements. Pro forma income statement The income statement (also known as the profit & loss or P&L statement) mainly evaluates revenue and operating expenses, along with other metrics related to each like cost of goods sold (COGS) or net income.

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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. 00:04:02 That’s what value add software was originally. It would go up, it should go up.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. Construction employment last year was a record.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I had no money back in 87, but certainly, you know, some of the managing directors and other people that had some money, they, they made quite a, quite a bit of of profits on, on some of the left for dead Microsoft and others that were just, you know, sold to very low levels as 00:06:28 [Speaker Changed] Opposed. We do a lot of surveys.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. But it makes a big, big difference to your long-term outcomes if you can just avoid those big losses. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference. That’s the $2 that the lottery is worth for me.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

But I was really buying, and what I wanted to do was the construction. I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million. That, that gives Barstool a half a billion dollar valuation. Was it a loss? I was a media buyer, so I could buy what someone else proposed to me.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

If revenue goes up, if profits go up, stock prices are going to go up. The, the longest period we had in our data was 17 years of losses of purchasing power, so after inflation, purchasing power. How should investors think about equities when valuations are a little elevated? for inflation. Barry Ritholtz : Right?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But that is a different kind of approach to portfolio construction. 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.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And I think what I’m trying to imply is there’s a lot of informational value that’s already held within the valuations where these equities are trading that you can calculate, you know, a sense of the implied market probability of success for an opportunity for a company. There, 00:10:35 [Speaker Changed] There is.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I will use this section to clarify what free cash flows are trying to measure, how they get used in investing and valuation, and the measurement questions that can cause measurement divergences. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.) What is Free cash flow (FCF)?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 8, 2023

I will use this section to clarify what free cash flows are trying to measure, how they get used in investing and valuation, and the measurement questions that can cause measurement divergences. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.).

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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.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

While private valuations have soared in recent years, public markets continue to be less kind to RIAs. Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Enjoy the ‘light’ reading! Author: Adam Van Deusen. Team Kitces. He can be reached at [email protected].

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