CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5% to 14.9%.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

Online gaming and entertainment platform Roblox is holding off on a public listing after the U.S. Roblox was planning to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange in the fourth quarter of 2020 but in an SEC filing on Jan. 8, the company changed its plans to a direct listing to occur in February. . 29), citing an employee memo.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Narrative and Value As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation. Even as data has become more accessible and our tools have become more powerful, it is my belief that the quality of valuations has degraded over time.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

My September 2020 Valuations. I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. The FANGAM Valuations: February 2022. to 14.9%. Updating the Numbers.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. Growth potential : I underestimated the company's capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

I must admit I was surprised by my own valuations, since, given the low riskfree rates prevailing at the time, only one stock (Apple) looked significant over valued. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5% to 14.9%.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

A company recently created by billionaire Virgin Atlantic Founder Richard Branson plans to raise between $400 million and $460 million to acquire a yet-to-be identified business that is available at an attractive price due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Wednesday (Sept. VG Acquisitions Corp., VG Acquisitions Corp.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Further, the company is stepping into the FinTech arena, with plans to roll out financial products like credit facilities for retail buyers. The firm has since expanded into additional market segments, including travel, entertainment, retail, gaming and more. The firm, which now has a valuation of $10.2 Privacy.com.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. Investors are intensely focused on the Federal Reserve’s plans to begin raising interest rates in mid-March, ratcheting back the monetary stimulus that has helped power stocks since early in the Covid-19 pandemic. Meta Platforms Inc.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. To get from these numbers to a value per share, I use the existing share count, in conjunction with the information in the prospectus that the company plans to raise ?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

While one nation (guess which one) ponders whether it wants to entertain an existential crisis or not, firms can have their own moments of soul-searching, too. The site noted that both funds have seesawed their valuations across the past several quarters. We promise not to mention the U.S. election in this week’s Unicorn Tracker.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It sounds like the career plan was always finance. Was that the plan? Heather Brilliant : It was not the plan. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration. How far out do you plan it?

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

If you want to see how intrinsic valuation would work at a sports franchise, you are welcome to check out my intrinsic valuation of the Los Angeles Clippers , when Steve Ballmer offered $2 billion for that franchise in 2014. billion pricing with an intrinsic valuation is beyond reach. billion, with current profitability, $2.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Within payments processing, Stripe raised $150 million, with an implied valuation of more than $9 billion. And with the new funding, Tripathy said Helpshift is planning to expand its teams across multiple fronts. This means that traditional banking carried quite a bit of weight within the week’s investment activity.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And if you have not planned carefully as to how much capital you need to get there or what milestones you need to hit, that’s another way to see a venture run out of fuel before it actually gets to the point of sustainability. Can you just explain what extrapolation is? It’s a London-based game maker. Many people will know it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

It was a good week for Amazon’s stock price, with a valuation that briefly exceeded $1 trillion before falling back into the far more conservative $927 billion range, reaffirming its membership in the trillion-dollar club along with Microsoft ($1.27 trillion market value), Apple ($1.38 million U.S. CEO John Furner.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

It took video games two decades to go from a brand new form of niche entertainment to a mainstream, multi-billion dollar global industry. Since games can stay up on Steam for years, this subjects them to a number of spikes and dips according to finicky currency valuations.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What, what was the career plan? And speaking of the.com implosion, like Microsoft via a case study where we, in previous strategies, we held Microsoft for a very long time, that’s where the valuation could help us in the.com bus. It’s great to be here. Let, let, let’s start there. 00:18:41 [Speaker Changed] Yep.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. Was investing always the career plan? Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work.

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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

That year, I computed these industry-level statistics for five variables that I found myself using repeatedly in my valuations, and once I had them, I could not think of a good reason to keep them secret. After all, I had no plans on becoming a data service, and making them available to others cost me absolutely nothing.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. All our economic actions are taking place across time.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. What’s entertaining the family?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I think it was just a bit of poor planning more than anything else. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? And like all things, it took longer, was more complex. NORTON: No.

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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. What’s been been keeping you entertained? I’ve been looking forward to this conversation for a while. Let, let’s jump right into it.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And when you saw the US Ag down 13% last year, for folks, again, who are investing for retirement and in their 529 plans, they’re not concerned about it. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. DAVIS: And you had- RITHOLTZ: Hey, 500 basis points of rate increases, we’ll do that.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

What was the original career plan? SALISBURY: Honestly, I didn’t really have a long-term plan. SALISBURY: Yes, I’d love to tell you there was some great master plan. A great example, you know, some of these things you can plan for and some you can’t. What’s been keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

What, what was the career plan? So I remember writing the merger, our business plan there. What happened over the last year and a half or so is rates went up and valuations went down. What’s been keeping you entertained either video or audio, Netflix or, or podcasts? What, what’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. I think 401(k) plans are starting to use ETFs more broadly. BERRUGA: You know, great question.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

So, is it, is it safe to say finance was always in the career plans? 00:02:24 [Speaker Changed] Finance and business was always in the career plans. It isn’t like that was the plan 40 years ago. I have worked at Booz Allen and Hamilton, I’m a strategic planning guy. I get hired by Citibank in planning.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It was the worst month for the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite since March 2020 as investors consider how rising interest rates could weigh on the tech sector’s pricey valuations. The earnings, released after markets closed on Wednesday, followed a rough January for U.S. 7 through its close on Tuesday. How the Biggest Companies Are Performing.

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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? 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. RITHOLTZ: Yes, I can imagine. Well guess what?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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’s keeping you entertained? MILLER: A lot hotter.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Was that the plan or was he just going to announce it? That was never part of the plan, didn’t happen. It’s part of their own tax planning. What’s the valuation? It’s just entertainment. ” One about five years ago, I’m planning a trip to Silicon Valley. SEIDES: Oh no.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about BlackRock. You said BlackRock absorbed R3. I don’t think so.

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