Hurdle Rate Leverage Sales 
Musings on Markets
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
What is a hurdle rate for a business? In this post, I will start by looking at the role that hurdle rates play in running a business, with the consequences of setting them too high or too low, and then look at the fundamentals that should cause hurdle rates to vary across companies. What is a hurdle rate?
Musings on Markets
AUGUST 19, 2024
If you are concerned that you are going to be hit with a sales pitch for that book, far from it! 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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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. The table below shows a subset of the data items that I have on my website, with the links to the US versions of the data sets, in html.
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. EV/Sales and Price/Sales 5. Per-employee Statistics Profitability Financial Leverage Reinvestment 1. Cost of Capital 3.
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. Cean: Yep, yep.
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