Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

We will end with a discussion of how enterprises try, with mixed effects, to build protections against the loss of key personnel. In sports and entertainment, for instance, business can gain value from having a celebrity representing them in a paid or unpaid capacity. Who is a key person?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Disney also suspended its quarterly dividend and slashed $700 million in expansion spending at domestic theme parks as it sought to offset some of the massive net quarterly loss, which came in $4.72 Disney announced that its streaming empire – Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ — has grown to about 100 million subscribers worldwide.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

The company reported the second-quarter profit of its fiscal year at $460 million, or 26 cents a share, on sales of $18.01 Disney executives did not speculate on near-term financial effects beyond saying that the direct-to-consumer (D2C) segment – which includes Hulu and Disney+ – would see a loss of more than $1 billion in Q3.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

suffered the largest-ever loss. Amazon relieved investors with a near doubling in profit in the holiday period and said it is raising the price of its Prime membership in the U.S. Prompting the turnaround: Snap posted its first quarterly profit. AMZN 13.54%. company—just a day after Facebook parent. Meta Platforms Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

billion, said it’s planning on selling 37 million of its shares to raise the new billion, or even $1.25 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 The company, which went public six months ago and raised $1.6 million in Q2 and $159.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It’s a tale of two malls: With closings of large anchor stores on the horizon, some mall owners would welcome the opportunity to find more profitable tenants. Other mall owners, however, find the loss of anchor stores to be a challenge. Sears has occupied a 250,000-square-foot building in the Cross County Mall for roughly four decades.

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The Finance Weekly

MARCH 25, 2024

His main job is to handle all money matters at SoFi, like planning, accounting, and dealing with investors. 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. He cooks up strategies to help SoFi grow and score funds for its goals.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Uber Eats, facing losses and stiffening competition from both Grubhub and DoorDash, is changing its leadership and reorienting its efforts around profitability. Powering that plan, Walmart had two big announcements last week. An executive will head up each team and eventually purchase each product Walmart sells in the U.S.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. In 2010, Michael was recognized with one of the FPA’s “Heart of Financial Planning” awards for his dedication and work in advancing the profession.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is worth noting, though, that Facebook’s loss of half a million users in the most recent quarter may have been more attributable to Apple tightening privacy protections on its devices than government action. As for Google, I have never held it, to my regret, and don’t plan to add it on, at the current stock price.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2016

We are profitable in the U.S., And Uber’s billion-dollar loss comes as the battle over capturing the Chinese market seems to be growing fiercer by the day. But now Uber has another plan up its sleeve. Uber wants to be the all-in-one app that offers consumers rides, food and entertainment. But there are challenges. “We

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

That was the thought that came to mind, as I was writing about the US government's plans to break up big tech, and chronicling how much the big tech companies have struggled, trying to enter new businesses, notwithstanding the capital and brainpower that they have at their disposal.

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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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Entertainment Profit and Loss eCommerce Forecasting 48

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.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It is worth noting, though, that Facebook’s loss of half a million users in the most recent quarter may have been more attributable to Apple tightening privacy protections on its devices than government action. As for Google, I have never held it, to my regret, and don’t plan to add it on, at the current stock price.

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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? It had already put in place a reboot plan.

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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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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It is worth noting, though, that Facebook's loss of half a million users in the most recent quarter may have been more attributable to Apple tightening privacy protections on its devices than government action. As for Google, I have never held it, to my regret, and don't plan to add it on, at the current stock price.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The early 2000s were highlighted by growth and the opening of hundreds of stores nationwide, acquisitions (notably Magnolia home entertainment systems and Geek Squad) and even international expansion. In 2007, unable to turn a profit in an increasingly crowded market, specialty electronics retailer Tweeter went bust.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

BITTERLY MICHELL: Meaning custodians, of course, like in terms of — of counterparty, but also thinking of like your wealth planning and the structure of your assets, the trusts that are available to you, how you want to think about trust and estate planning. And so, within the U.S., RITHOLTZ: Right. BITTERLY MICHELL: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 28, 2024

00:11:35 [Speaker Changed] I mean, I couldn’t wish for better shareholding group because with AEOs we got a, a tremendous powerhouse behind us, a very financially profitable organization. 00:21:25 [Speaker Changed] How, how do you plan for that? How do you plan for that? How do you cope with that loss of talent?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And so these were two stories, maybe three, before I’m 9-years-old of bad economics, bad culture, and a bad business plan. Different risk tolerance and different business plan. When you’re going to chill in the evening, I’m preparing my next business plan. They have a dumb business plan. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

What was the initial career plan? Mike Green : Well, the, the initial career plan, actually, so I grew up on a farm in Northern California. My initial career plan was that I was gonna go into science. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

After all, I had no plans on becoming a data service, and making them available to others cost me absolutely nothing. Valuation Pricing Growth & Reinvestment Profitability Risk Multiple s 1. Profit Margins 1. Is Apple a personal computer company, an entertainment company or wireless telecom company?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

She has a, a fascinating career, and the new book is really interesting that basically teaches people to, you know, take control of their own careers, develop a vision and a plan, and then execute it. Was there any sort of career plan there? I didn’t really have a career plan. I could buy the plan.

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Entertainment Investments Math Advertising 57

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What was the original career plan? Michael Fisch : 00:01:39 [Speaker Changed] The original career plan was to be employed and provide a safety net for my mother and my two sisters. So we had some form of a track record that we could talk to people about and a very specific investment objective about what we were planning to do.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Valuation Numbers 69

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

What was investing always the career plan? So there’s a, there’s a, a whole planning that goes on in terms of when you launch different funds. 00:46:52 And so, and the sicknesses and, and loss of life. I’ve been looking forward to this conversation for a while. Let, let’s jump right into it.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Really quickly, what were the career plans? I always found the traditional economic homo economist of humans as rational, calculating profit, maximizing actors as just complete contradiction of real life experience. So when you say people, are you planning to vote? Oh yeah, I’m planning to vote.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The plan was to do an IPO to raise $200 million in new client assets for the funds. 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. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

You’ve seen job losses in goods producing sectors, manufacturing, auto, construction. The AI boom is coming at the right time where you could see wages, profits rising simultaneously where inflation is relatively contained. What’s entertaining the family? I actually believe the labor market is in a secular tightness.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

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? I run it at a loss. Is that the market share loss Jack was talking about? It’s unique. It just — it makes no sense. RITHOLTZ: It’s Marxist.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2016

Following the release of that film, notes the AP story, demonstrations against the captivity of killer whales contributed to notable dropoffs in attendance at all three SeaWorld parks, as well as the loss of sponsorships.

Entertainment 40

Entertainment Profit and Loss Education Forecasting 40

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

Was the plan when you were going to school in Paris always to go into finance, or were you originally leaning in another direction? We’re investing in profitable mid-market companies making 20 million, 25 million, 50 million EBITDA and needed capital in. It’s called FL Entertainment, great entrepreneur, Stéphane Courbit.

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Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Was that where you plan to go? It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. 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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. And the division that I was in was below plan. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. 00:31:27 [Speaker Changed] So, so it sounds like you start out planning on holding to these stocks for a long time. So big loss.

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