Musings on Markets

JANUARY 31, 2024

In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the form of costs of equity and capital.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income. Returns on Invested Capital (or Equity).

Marketing 130

Marketing Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting 130

Musings on Markets

MARCH 5, 2025

It also follows that the investment, financing, and dividend decisions , at most firms, are interconnected, since for any given set of investments, borrowing more money will free up more cash flows to return to shareholders, and for any given financing, investing more back into the business will leave less in returnable cash flows.

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Corporate Finance Investments Finance Hurdle Rate 52

Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

This is the last of my data update posts for 2023, and in this one, I will focus on dividends and buybacks, perhaps the most most misunderstood and misplayed element of corporate finance. Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions.

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Hurdle Rate Corporate Finance Investments Finance 102

CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

That said, to use mean reversion in analysis or investing, you need to know what these averages are, either over time or across companies, and data can help in that pursuit. . Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing.

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Marketing Valuation Corporate Finance Financial Analysis 130

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Income from financial holdings (including cash balances, investments in financial securities and minority holdings in other businesses) are added back, and interest expenses on debt are subtracted out to get to taxable income.

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Hurdle Rate Investments Accounting Entertainment 98

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the investment data business, to compute an industry average. Return on (invested) capital 2. Ratings & Spreads 2. Tax rates 4. Excess Returns on investments 4. Financing Flows 5.

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Valuation Financial Analysis Analyzing Data Profit and Loss 105

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Corporate Finance : Corporate finance is the development of the first financial principles that govern how to run a business. It is that mission that makes corporate finance the ultimate big picture class, one that everyone (entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, business observers) should take.

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Valuation Corporate Finance Finance Investments 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

That said, to use mean reversion in analysis or investing, you need to know what these averages are, either over time or across companies, and data can help in that pursuit. Check rules of thumb : Investing and corporate finance are full of rules of thumb, many of long standing. Return on Invested Capital 2.

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Valuation Corporate Finance Financial Analysis Leverage 52

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

. “ Global Corporate Banking 2016: The Next-Generation Corporate Bank ” found that less than a third of corporate banking divisions across North America and Asia, and less than half in Europe, experienced “positive and growing economic profit” between 2013 and 2015. ”

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Banking Hurdle Rate Benchmarking Economics 43

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

Put simply, I possess no exclusivity here, and staying consistent with my thesis, I don't expect to expect to make money by investing based upon this data. The first is that I do not have a macro focus, and my interests in macro variables occur only in the context of corporate finance or valuation issues. So, why bother?

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Valuation Currencies Numbers Corporate Finance 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Debt's place in business To understand debt's role in a business, I will start with a big picture perspective, where you break a business down into assets-in-place, i.e., the value of investments it has already made and growth assets, the value of investments you expect it to make in the future.

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Corporate Finance Finance Marketing Banking 52

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. According to Chancellor, interest is the single most important feature of finance, both ancient and modern.

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Valuation Finance Investments Banking 59

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and investing, but one that is surprisingly misunderstood and misconstrued. Risk Measures There is almost no conversation or discussion that you can have about business or investing, where risk is not a part of that discussion. What is risk?

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Musings on Markets

JULY 24, 2024

Country Risk: Determinants At the risk of stating the obvious, investing and operating in some countries is much riskier than investing and operating in others, with variations in risk on multiple dimensions. Political Structure Would you rather invest/operate in a democracy than in an autocracy?

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