Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. Valuation Pricing Growth & Reinvestment Profitability Risk Multiple s 1. Beta & Risk 1.

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Corporate Finance Valuation Finance Numbers 119

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In this post, I will focus on how companies around the world, and in different sectors, performed on their end game of delivering profits, by first focusing on profitability differences across businesses, then converting profitability into returns, and comparing these returns to the hurdle rates that I talked about in my last data update post.

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Hurdle Rate Accounting Investments Economics 72

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 5, 2024

That year, I computed these industry-level statistics for five variables that I found myself using repeatedly in my valuations, and once I had them, I could not think of a good reason to keep them secret. After all, I had no plans on becoming a data service, and making them available to others cost me absolutely nothing.

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Valuation Financial Analysis Analyzing Data Profit and Loss 105

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Thus, you and I can disagree about whether beta is a good measure of risk, but not on the principle that no matter what definition of risk you ultimately choose, riskier investments need higher hurdles than safer investments. pm (New York time) Valuation (MBA): Mondays & Wednesdays, 2.00 Don't get me wrong!

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Valuation Corporate Finance Finance Investments 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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Restructuring Planning Marketing Accounting 130

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. All these factors have an interest rate embedded in them.

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Valuation Finance Investments Banking 59

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

What was the original career plan? SALISBURY: Honestly, I didn’t really have a long-term plan. SALISBURY: Yes, I’d love to tell you there was some great master plan. A great example, you know, some of these things you can plan for and some you can’t. You begin in audit practice at KPMG.

Investments 119

Investments Banking Advertising Numbers 119