CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Abercrombie & Fitch – Shares of the retail stock jumped 19% after the apparel retailer beat Wall Street’s revenue forecasts for the third quarter and posted unexpected quarterly profit. Dick’s raised its full-year financial forecast as well. Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Financial models are essential for organizations, helping forecast financial performance using historical data and future projections. This practice allows businesses, investors, and finance professionals to evaluate investment opportunities, assess risks, forecast future scenarios, and support strategic decision-making.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

billion loss on Wednesday (Nov. The $10-plus billion WeWork bailout — an investment chief executive officer (CEO) Masayoshi Son called an error in judgment — triggered a loss of ¥970 billion ($8.9 For the July-September quarter overall, SoftBank recorded a net loss of ¥704.4 Japan’s SoftBank reported a $6.5 billion yen ($6.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the WeWork IPO – rather, the shelving of that IPO , at least for now – heralds the end of rich valuations for firms viewed as entrenched in the early stages of disruption. Cross-border: Remittances are paying off. Freight fraught with macro headwinds: Competition is tough in logistics and the last mile.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As the price dropped below $200 today (October 30,2023), I decided that it was time for me to revisit and revalue the company, taking into account the news, financial and other, that has come out since my last valuation in January 2023, and to understand the dueling stories that are emerging about the company.

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Fpanda Club

JULY 24, 2022

They tend to avoid losses and prefer to keep the things as they are rather than invest in risky innovation. Being a promising alternative to NPV, real options valuation has not been widely adopted by the companies neither in its initial version, nor in modified ones. which will be part of the allowable cost.

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Global Finance

AUGUST 16, 2024

The decision, which was intended to help Anglo focus on its restructuring, swung the company from a net profit of $1.26 billion in the first half of 2023 to a $672 million loss in the first half of this year. The company took a $1.6

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

That’s because inventory is a key driver of several profit & loss (P&L) statement components, from revenue all the way down to net profit. Conversely, overstating inventory valuation will lead an organization to think it has too much inventory on hand. A benchmark exercise can also provide insight here.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

banks aren’t fooling themselves — they’re likely in for a long stretch of low interest rates putting a burden on their profits, the Financial Times (FT) reports. JPMorgan Chase cut its forecast by $1 billion, now expecting $55 billion as compared to $57 billion last year, FT wrote.

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VCFO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Key Questions: How do we establish a cash forecast for managing the company’s cash wisely? This hospitality business owner approaching retirement didn’t want to sell the company he built for more than 20 years for < $10M but valuation showed it would only yield $3-4M in the market. |

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Analysts forecasted a 40 percent increase in venture capitalist (VC) funding for construction startups between 2014 and 2017, with investments totaling $375 million last year. trillion global valuation by the end of the decade). There is a sudden surge in construction technology startups, and investors have perked up.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the first, I will look at the grocery business, both in terms of growth and profitability of grocery stores, since Instacart, as an intermediary in the business, will be affected by grocery business fundamentals. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the value crowd, bereft of victories for a long time, may be inclined to do a victory dance, it is worth noting that the same phenomenon occurred between February and March of 2020, at the start of the COVID crisis, but that growth companies quickly recouped their losses and finished ahead of mature companies by the end of 2020.

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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. The last is the operating margin , it operating income (or loss) as a percent of operating income each year.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

The biggest winner, and this should come as no surprise, has been technology, with a return of 43% in 2023, and almost entirely recovering its losses in 2022. Financials, handicapped by the bank runs at SVB and First Republic, have been flat for the year, as has been real estate. trillion in the first six months of 2023, 97.2%

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

The primary attraction of the company, to investors, comes not from its current standing (modest revenues and big losses), but from its positioning to take advantage of the potential growth in the Indian food delivery market.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The company also reported a loss of $151 million. The results sent shares down 12 percent to an all-time low, giving the company a valuation of $384 million. While restoring JCPenney to sustained profitable growth will be a lengthy process, I understand the need for quick action,” CEO Jill Soltau said in a statement.

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CFO Share

MAY 5, 2023

To improve your cash flow, perform the following steps: Use a financial planning tool to project cash flow 12 months.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

While the value crowd, bereft of victories for a long time, may be inclined to do a victory dance, it is worth noting that the same phenomenon occurred between February and March of 2020, at the start of the COVID crisis, but that growth companies quickly recouped their losses and finished ahead of mature companies by the end of 2020.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It extends into materiality, by reframing that concept in terms of value, rather than profits, and connecting it to disclosure, with disclosure requirements increasing proportionately with the value effect. We believe that investors should be given these measures on an ongoing basis. This will help on two levels.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018, and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. By The Numbers.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 12, 2023

For others, it can be the portion of their capital with the longest time horizon (pension fund savings or 401Ks, if you are a young investor, for example), where they believe that any losses on risk capital can be made up over time.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Grubhub reported a net loss of $5.2 28 from the pre-release forecast. However, the news that sent the stock price sinking was Grubhub’s forecast for the quarter ahead and the rest of the year. DoorDash raised $250 million in new funding in 2018 and quadrupled its valuation to $4 billion. By The Numbers.

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

Think of pro forma statements as a monetary crystal ball, a guiding financial forecast. Pro forma income statement The income statement (also known as the profit & loss or P&L statement) mainly evaluates revenue and operating expenses, along with other metrics related to each like cost of goods sold (COGS) or net income.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

But the category of perishables marks new territory for Amazon, which The Motley Fool thinks could present a challenge and put a deep dent in short-term profits. Now, Amazon is experimenting, it seems, in a sector with narrow profit margins, and it has the luxury to do so. In the U.S., UberEATS and GrubHub, however, are growing.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 1, 2022

For others, it can be the portion of their capital with the longest time horizon (pension fund savings or 401Ks, if you are a young investor, for example), where they believe that any losses on risk capital can be made up over time.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 9, 2021

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

After the rating downgrade, my mailbox was inundated with questions of what this action meant for investing, in general, and for corporate finance and valuation practice, in particular, and this post is my attempt to answer them all with one post. But what if government securities are viewed as risky?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 8, 2023

I will use this section to clarify what free cash flows are trying to measure, how they get used in investing and valuation, and the measurement questions that can cause measurement divergences. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.).

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I will use this section to clarify what free cash flows are trying to measure, how they get used in investing and valuation, and the measurement questions that can cause measurement divergences. and which ones to include (cash acquisitions, foreign exchange gains or losses etc.) What is Free cash flow (FCF)?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. ASNESS: There are a few reasons. RITHOLTZ: Okay. RITHOLTZ: Past decade.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Now you have to assume some losses. Barry Ritholtz : And these bonds are still profitable Jeffrey Sherman : And they don’t break, like they, they don’t, they don’t, they don’t lose money, especially at 50 cents on dollar. And you know, it’s the same thing when valuation gets outta control too.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And so you had a situation where you could take big positions in the euro dollar market, affect the price and the cash market and actually make a profit. But those forecasts are, you know, not particularly reliable. The Atlanta Fed GDP now forecast for the first quarter is over 4%. You have a big repo market.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Election Forecasts: From polls to political markets I watched the movie "Conclave"just a couple of days ago, and it is about the death of a pope, and the meeting to pick a replacement. (It It is based on a book by Robert Harris , one of my favorite authors.)

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