Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A key tool in both endeavors is a hurdle rate a rate of return that you determine as your required return for business and investment decisions. It deepens the acquaintance because you encounter hurdle rates in almost every aspect of finance, and it ruins it, by making these hurdle rates all about equations and models.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

Noise in predictions : One reason that the expert class is increasingly mistrusted is because of the unwillingness on the part of many in this class to admit to uncertainty in their forecasts for the future. Hiding behind their academic or professional credentials, they ask people to trust them to be right, but that trust has eroded.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 20, 2023

That expected devaluation in the high-inflation currency is not risk, though, since it can and should be incorporated into your forecasts. If a firm is badly managed, and you expect it to remain badly managed, you can and should build in that expectation into your forecasts of that company’s earnings and value.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That expected devaluation in the high-inflation currency is not risk, though, since it can and should be incorporated into your forecasts. If a firm is badly managed, and you expect it to remain badly managed, you can and should build in that expectation into your forecasts of that company's earnings and value.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Financial institutions can better understand the risk profiles of small suppliers by leveraging alternative data and machine learning, thus expanding access to financing. Suppliers can instantly track invoice payments and upcoming payment totals for improved forecasting. Santanders 50 million Brazilian real ($8.3

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In fact, that may explain why firms that trade at low EV to EBITDA multiples are more likely to become targets in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) or leveraged recapitalizations. Business risk : Not surprisingly, for any given level of cash flows and marginal tax rate, riskier firms will be capable of carrying less debt than safer firms.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

So I sell my stocks to make room for gold and it doesn’t, turns out my forecast is wrong. So you’ve got, you’ve got a modeling hurdle rate that you need to figure out when you’re adding diversifiers. This is implicitly leverage. Leverage is a tool that accentuates both the good and the bad.

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