CFO News Room

JANUARY 7, 2023

When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (risk premiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage. will become dated as the year goes on, and especially so if the market moves up or down significantly.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

The dividend principle, which is the focus of this post is built on a very simple principle, which is that if a company is unable to find investments that make returns that meet its hurdle rate thresholds, it should return cash back to the owners in that business.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

With more mature companies, as investment opportunities become scarcer, at least relative to available capital, the focus not surprisingly shifts to financing mix, with a lower hurdle rate being the pay off.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (risk premiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage. Per-employee Statistics Profitability Financial Leverage Reinvestment 1. EV/EBIT and EV/EBITDA 4. High-Low Price Risk Measure 5.

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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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And then we have the 0% cap.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But the true change comes when, hey, you know what, those loyal to that technological change figure out over not one, two, but three, five years, how to drive change and how to leverage it. That means a low hurdle rate. And that’s been true through time. We’re going to be a lower fee than almost everybody out there.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

But I would say generally, there’s less leverage in the system. But I don’t think this is a wholesale shift, we’re in a higher rate environment, obviously, for now. So you’ve got to be really mindful that you’re getting paid enough on a nominal return basis versus the risk-free rate.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I mean, I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet up too much because most of the positions were in place, the quality funds, which more defensive and less leveraged, and low allocation to — a relatively low allocation to equities, and then the hedge funds sort of long/short positions that benefited in the financial crisis.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The cost of debt is lower than the cost of equity : If you review my sixth data update on hurdle rates , and go through my cost of capital calculation, there is one inescapable conclusion. Data Update 4 for 2025: Interest Rates, Inflation and Central Banks! Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question!

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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. And you need to be aware of the leverage risk that’s embedded. The second is behavioral.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures. So it’s gonna take a little more confidence, you know, and equities to, because you get your, your hurdle rates higher, you know? You can see it also in futures positioning.

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