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He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. But generally starts with the economic cycle. Where are you in the economic cycle? I, I love that area.
And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. 00:04:29 [Speaker Changed] So you start at the healthcare group as an analyst in Citi in the early two thousands, obviously the background in neuro had to help.
There’s also quantitative metrics that we look at Those have evolved, but always within that capa, that cluster of high returns on investment stability across the economic cycle are consistent and strong balance sheets. And big consumer and healthcare. 00:18:41 [Speaker Changed] Yep. So Microsoft now is on 30 times earnings.
economics, correct. RITHOLTZ: Oh, not the control, just the economics. capital problem helps improve our economic sharing …. But you’re seeing that in specialty industrial managers, health — healthcare managers. RITHOLTZ: Is that valuation issue ongoing? Is that right? CONROD: Of the — of the G.P. CONROD: Yeah.
So, so let’s talk a little bit about your, your background ba in economics from Dartmouth. How, how are the higher rates affecting valuations amongst private companies? 00:37:43 [Speaker Changed] So there’s two issues that are affecting valuations. The auditors look at those valuations. You get a Stanford MBA.
And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. And now we’ve added privates to that.
Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. RIEDER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.
SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. What’s the valuation? SEIDES: So it’s Hartford HealthCare. So, it cost the firm $320,000, well worth every penny? Or was this a, like, to me it sounds like the whole thing was spectacular. RITHOLTZ: Right. Is there any chance of fraud?”
So you have almost a doubling of the interest coupon paid by some of these businesses against the backdrop of c ovid 19 inflation and some of the economic pressures that come with, with those factors. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act. Tell us about that.
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.
And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.
The fund will be focused on AI, cloud technology, commerce and healthcare among other avenues. What this does is force more capital through the narrow aperture of the winner,” he told Webster, and then the valuations get lofty as “investors say ‘I do not care what I have to pay, I need to be in the winners.’”. Seed Rounds Sprouting.
So healthcare is your focus, your entire career. You don’t go for a doctorate in economics. And one of the professors at Columbia who was a mentor of mine and, and I had worked with Izzy Edelman, his son, Joe Edelman, founded Perceptive, which is a firm that has been tremendously successful as, as healthcare investors.
You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?
And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. So we’re now in an environment where all the 45-year-old portfolio managers out there have been, have worked their entire careers in these momentum fueled markets, and they’ve been trained to believe that valuation doesn’t matter.
And it, you know, it was a very challenging economic environment. These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation. The other thing that’s different is, is that today the companies with the most spectacular valuation levels are private. We’ll buy the rest of it at a, a full valuation, which we did.
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But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that. Take healthcare, the healthcare really is going to require systems level change to really revolutionize how we think about our health. And increasingly, healthcare is using telemedicine.
Meghan Robson: The economic landscape has been positive and driven credit spreads to multiyear tights. Robson: We have a modest preference for Europe over the US, given where valuations are. So, we do like noncyclical sectors like utilities and healthcare, which we think could perform better should we see a pickup in volatility.
WA was the career plan, always economics and finance. And I studied economics in university. And I spent a year in Princeton in the economics department in 95, 96 when Ben Panke was the chairman of the economics department. I’m curious how different studying economics is in Denmark versus United States.
But it allowed me to go into the healthcare vertical straight out of Stanford. 00:13:05 [Speaker Changed] But you are also on the advisory board for the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy and Research. 00:24:49 [Speaker Changed] So let’s talk a little bit about valuation in the public markets.
Healthcare. It’s counterintuitive, but when valuations are high, it is the worst time to retire,’ said Morningstar personal finance director Christine Benz.” • What an insane system. Rapture Index: Closes down one on Israel. Israel has been rarely calm in the past few days” [ Rapture Ready ]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189.
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