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

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In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. With declining businesses, facing shrinking revenues and margins, it is cash return or dividend policy that moves into the front seat.

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Risk = Danger + Opportunity!

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Risk and Hurdle Rates In investing and corporate finance, we have no choice but to come up with measures of risk, flawed though they might be, that can be converted into numbers that drive decisions. Not surprisingly, both these forces play a role in how companies and investors set hurdle rates.

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Data Update 4 for 2022: Risk = Danger + Opportunity!

Musings on Markets

Risk and Hurdle Rates In investing and corporate finance, we have no choice but to come up with measures of risk, flawed though they might be, that can be converted into numbers that drive decisions. Not surprisingly, both these forces play a role in how companies and investors set hurdle rates.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

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Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. If anything, as rates have decreased over the last decade, and costs of capital for companies hit historic lows, companies are finding it more difficult to earn returns that exceed their costs of capital. .

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Marking Time: A new year, a fresh semester and its class time!

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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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Data Update 5 for 2022: The Bottom Line!

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Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. I will use this data to draw three broad conclusions: Low Hurdle Rate ? The proverbial bottom line for success in business is the capacity to deliver profits, at least in the long term.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

I went into what’s called corporate finance, what people would see now as sort of M&A department. CHANCELLOR: Well, I was actually in a sort of subgroup there, which was called corporate strategy. But I didn’t last very long there because I thought I didn’t like corporate finance.