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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

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The Variables As I mentioned at the start of this post, this entire exercise of collecting and analyzing data is a selfish one, insofar as I compute the data variables that I find useful when doing corporate financial analysis, valuation, or investment analysis. Insider, CEO & Institutional holdings 2. Beta & Risk 1.

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Musings on Markets: Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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Data: Trickle to a Flood! It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. In the three posts that follow, I will look at the shifts in corporate hurdle rates (in post 6), debt loads and worries (in post 7) and dividends/cash returned in post 8.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

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As the risk-free rate rises, expected returns on equities will be pushed up, and holding all else constant, stock prices will go down., and the reverse will occur, when risk-free rates drop.

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table!

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It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. Sectors and Industries : To make data useful for corporate financial analysis and valuation, I break the companies down into groupings, based upon the sectors and industries that they operate in.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

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Since my interests lie in corporate finance and valuation, the statistics that I compute are numbers that I will find useful when doing a corporate financial analysis or valuation of a company. Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question. Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk!

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Country Risk: A July 2023 Update!

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My suggestion is that for countries where recent political or economic events would lead you to believe that sovereign rating is dated, you should switch to using sovereign CDS spreads. The disadvantage is that they are focused on just default risk, and do not explicitly factor in the other risks that we enumerated in the last section.