Economics Hurdle Rate Manufacturing 
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In this post, I will focus on how companies around the world, and in different sectors, performed on their end game of delivering profits, by first focusing on profitability differences across businesses, then converting profitability into returns, and comparing these returns to the hurdle rates that I talked about in my last data update post.
CFO News Room
JANUARY 18, 2023
The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again. Costs grow at a slower rate than revenues. Superior unit economics. Economies of scale. High gross margins.
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Global Finance
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
By providing immediate cash flow, SCF helps suppliers avoid the pitfalls of traditional loans that can be challenging to secure during economic downturns. SCF also helps buyers and sellers mitigate the impact of high interest ratesproviding welcome relief from the rising cost of manufacturing goods.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
The last few years have been eventful for all companies, with the COVID crisis and ensuing economic shut down causing pain for companies, with recovery coming in 2021, as the global economy opened up again. I will use this data to draw three broad conclusions: Low Hurdle Rate ?
Musings on Markets
AUGUST 19, 2024
In the manufacturing-centered twentieth century, it took decades for companies like GE and Ford to scale up, but they also stayed at the top for long periods, before declining over decades. With declining businesses, facing shrinking revenues and margins, it is cash return or dividend policy that moves into the front seat.
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Some of that variation can be attributed to different mixes of businesses in different regions, since unit economics will result in higher gross margins for technology companies and commodity companies, in years when commodity prices are high, and lower gross margins for heavy manufacturing and retail businesses.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 12, 2021
During 2020, as I watched companies and investors struggle with the after shocks of the economic shut down created by COVID, I wrote a series of fourteen posts (linked below) on what I was learning, unlearning and relearning about corporate finance and valuation. Debt can handcuff even large, established companies & put them at risk.
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