CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

Updating the Numbers In the eighteen months since I valued these companies, much has happened, to the economy, to US equities collectively, and to these six companies, in specific. For the latter, I am reporting on the trailing 12-month numbers, to ensure that I have the calendar year numbers.)

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Updating the Numbers. The Numbers. Since I last valued the FANGAM stocks in September 2020, there have been six quarterly earnings reports from each of these companies, and I report on two key operating measures, revenues and operating income, in the table below, for the last three fiscal years for each of the companies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The company isn’t profitable yet, and probably won’t be for a while. Since PDD went public, it has been hit with net losses of $981.4 Q4 revenue jumped 697 percent year-on-year to $491 million, although the operating losses increased as well. The social component is especially popular with women. million in Q2 and $159.9

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As smart phones have become ubiquitous in India, their usage has soared, partly because they are the only digital devices that many Indians have available to them to get online, and thus use to access social media, entertainment and shopping. The first is the number of users on its platform, using one or more of its many services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The companies include iQiyi, a video platform company and Nio, an electric car maker, as well as Tencent Music Entertainment. The high number of listings did not necessarily translate into strong performance, as investors saw losses of about 16 percent on those stocks.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Updating the Numbers In the eighteen months since I valued these companies, much has happened, to the economy, to US equities collectively, and to these six companies, in specific. For the latter, I am reporting on the trailing 12-month numbers, to ensure that I have the calendar year numbers.)

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

He held the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at CBS Corporation, a major media player, for a good number of years. With over two decades of experience in media and entertainment, Ianniello was among the key persons behind one of the world's largest media companies. Ianniello is well-known in finance circles.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

In fact, revenue was well up across all of Alibaba’s segments — cloud computing brought in $314 million, up 103 percent, and digital media and entertainment raked in $571 million, up a full 234 percent. While cloud computing and digital entertainment division revenues have surged, they’ve yet to turn a profit.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2017

According to American Express, the decline is due to the loss of the U.S. As we’ve said for a while now, we expect the large and global client segment to remain slower growth rates as corporations look to manage their travel and entertainment expenses,” he said. Costco card products, bought by Citi last year. Fifth Third Bancorp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

While social media platforms, if utilized effectively , can be beneficial for any retail business, those with an established brand obviously have a leg-up — in terms of financial assets, infrastructure and reach — on more nascent companies in their ability to quickly turn social presence into profit. and are increasing sales as a result.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Though not explicitly broken out in filings by Alibaba, The Wall Street Journal estimated that pre-tax profit at the unit slumped to 2.4 Also, while there have been rumblings about government restrictions on gaming , the digital media and entertainment unit rose 46 percent to 5.9 billion yuan from 5.3 billion yuan last year.

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Finvisage

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Derivative contracts make it possible to multiply the impact of the short making it possible to profit from a short position larger than the actual shares borrowed. During the pandemic and lockdowns, with people stuck at home and schools closed, wasn’t a gaming company due to make profit? There are also costs related to shorting.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” I think your number at the time was somewhere like 15 great fit clients to take on every year. And it was just an unmanageably large number of clients. He did an immense number of sales, and had cultivated a huge number of relationships. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

When Best Buy first started appearing on the scene to a mass number of consumers in the mid and late 1990s, it was itself a disruptive force in electronics sale. In 2007, unable to turn a profit in an increasingly crowded market, specialty electronics retailer Tweeter went bust. Or Walmart. The Great Digital Upgrade.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I found that subsegment really interesting because we did studies on kind of decision making biases, human biases like loss aversion and other biases that impact otherwise what should be rational decisions and make them less than rational. So during my time there, I was probably employee number four or five. Absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. So obviously, we’re seeing some relief in the commodity sector, but more broadly it’s, you know, whether or not how quickly are we going to see that number come down. So derivatives were a part where I was very intimidated.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We took that number the 15 times before we die. Then you use the profits from that to buy a second boat. And we are, we are wired to wanna see the number go up. And I, I think in 10 years of knowing Tim, the number of times we’ve talked about Apple, I can probably count on like one hand. We made a change.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

’cause then I figure I could always be employed either managing the numbers or doing law and get those two degrees. And I got to see firsthand what Bain was doing in strategic consulting and understand their view of business separate from the numbers. And Bain was kind enough to offer me a job to facilitate.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 2, 2024

That wasnt especially profitable. Eva Shang : So I was thinking of going to law school, but what ended up happening was that in California there is a law office study program, right, where you can apprentice under a lawyer and you have to study for a certain number of hours per week. What’s the win-loss rate?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And so there was a number of less liquid markets that made for quite wide spreads. And so there was certainly a number of different movements, but there was certainly downside of these things. And you know, I think ultimately there was a number of opportunities that came out. And so we have a number of business lines.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. Number one, a school district is a business. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that. So the actual source of profitability in that trade is not the level of the vix, but the shape of the vol surface. I don’t know what you’re allowed to talk about, but it’s safe to say this was a big eight or nine figure profit, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. I — I couldn’t believe the numbers. And this is part of the story I was so fascinated with was why would someone set-up a company where they deliberately turn over all the future profits to the — to the people?

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

startled investors with a sharper-than-expected decline in profits and a gloomy outlook in its first earnings report since Chief Executive. and Canada, two of the company’s most profitable markets, the results show. billion profit for the fourth quarter, below analyst expectations of $10.9 Facebook parent. Meta Platforms Inc.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. Number one, longevity.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

That’s where you got your entertainment. 00:17:16 [Speaker Changed] And, and let’s be blunt and honest, Dave Portnoy is incredibly entertaining, even if that persona is an exaggeration of who he is, but no one wants him doing the payroll or the 00:17:30 [Speaker Changed] Healthcare. Was it a loss?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

ELLIS: Well, it starts with one very simple proposition, nobody is making a profit. Every other investment organization got a problem that somebody is taking money out of the pot every day, every month, every year as a profit. I start a business to make a profit. I’ll get bigger, I’ll make more profits.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. RITHOLTZ: There’s safety in numbers. That’s an amazing lesson in life, right, to take failure and losses as business as usual. MIELLE: It’s the probability and the severity of your loss, but sticking with it is, you know, what it takes.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so today, I think that part of the IG fixed rate corporate bond market, obviously part of the real estate, and we’ve been talking at length about that, we have to suffer some of the pain or losses in some way shape or form. It’s called FL Entertainment, great entrepreneur, Stéphane Courbit. It’s a real company.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

When we go back and look at the team that we had assembled in the early 2000s in the Goldman Sachs distressed trading desk, an extraordinary number of those folks went on to become partners and founders of very successful multi-billion dollar asset management firms. And it was the most profitable day of trading I’d ever had.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You had 1987, you had 1997, you had 1998 there were a number of really substantial. Because obviously fundamental underpinning to the secular bull market, you know, number one is the fact that households are in better financial conditions than they have been since, you know, the GFC. What’s entertaining the family?

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In that paper, she posited that platform-based companies prioritized growth over profits, using their platform size to decimate competition, and that antitrust laws would have to be retooled to rein in these companies. Apple has been more restrained, but it too has tried its hand at entertainment and other businesses.

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Finvisage

JANUARY 2, 2020

The objective of TCI is to indemnify the supplier against losses which arise as a consequence of a buyer’s inability to pay. It does not aim to replace profits lost on the transaction. The sector mainly comprises of finance and business services, consumer-focused industries, such as retail, food and beverage, and entertainment.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

The numbers that I computed opened my eyes to how much perspective on the high, low, and typical values, i.e., the distribution of margins, helped in valuing the company, and how little information there was available, at least at that time, on this dimension. Aggregate operating numbers 3. Profit Margins 1. Return on Equity 2.

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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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