CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

In my last post, I noted the decline in costs of capital for firms over time, noting that the median cost of capital at the start of 2022 is only 6.33%, across global firms, and argued that companies that demand double-digit hurdle rates risk being shut out of investments.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

In my last post, I noted the decline in costs of capital for firms over time, noting that the median cost of capital at the start of 2022 is only 6.33%, across global firms, and argued that companies that demand double-digit hurdle rates risk being shut out of investments.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In the manufacturing-centered twentieth century, it took decades for companies like GE and Ford to scale up, but they also stayed at the top for long periods, before declining over decades. With declining businesses, facing shrinking revenues and margins, it is cash return or dividend policy that moves into the front seat.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Some of that variation can be attributed to different mixes of businesses in different regions, since unit economics will result in higher gross margins for technology companies and commodity companies, in years when commodity prices are high, and lower gross margins for heavy manufacturing and retail businesses.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Discount rates in intrinsic valaution have to change to reflect current market conditions, and can be expected to change over time. Investment strategies that create concentrations in manufacturing and captial intensive companies need to be balanced with firms that have more flexible cost structures.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

Whereas in 1980, 70% of it was manufacturing asset intensive, et cetera. But now we’re back to a more normal hurdle rate. 5% interest rates is not super high. Especially in, in light of the fact that the market itself is not one kind of monolith that’s, that’s always the same. 00:50:03 Not anymore.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 24, 2024

Country Risk in Business Most corporate finance classes and textbooks leave students with the proposition that the right hurdle rate to use in assessing business investments is the cost of capital, but create a host of confusion about what exactly that cost of capital measures.

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