Global Finance

AUGUST 1, 2024

In a prepared statement on X.com, Ackman posted: “While we have received enormous investor interest in PSUS, one principal question has remained: Would investors be better served waiting to invest in the aftermarket than in the IPO? It’s tough to pinpoint the perfect valuation,” he added, skeptical that it was indicative of a trend. “It’s

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CFO News

JULY 19, 2024

Further, how does it impact investment decisions, market valuations, ease of doing business, and foreign investment?

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 15, 2023

On some measures of user engagement and influence, it has performed better than expected, but in the operating numbers measuring its success as a business, it has lagged, and the market has responded accordingly. Like Twitter, Snapchat had a rousing debut in the market, rising 40% to hit $24.48 The Twitter Story. Corporate governance.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

For much of the last two years, rather than teach my classes in a classroom, I taught my classes from my home office, making a few low-cost, low-tech investments to improve my set up. My classroom teaching at Stern has been mostly corporate finance and valuation, to both MBAs and undergraduates.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I have been writing about, and valuing, Tesla for most of its lifetime in public markets, and while it remains a company that draws strong reactions, it is also one that I truly enjoy valuing. If you are interested, you can see my valuations from 2014 , 2016 and 2017.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Real estate investing can be intimidating to new investors – you must search for the right property, obtain financing, purchase the property, and then find tenants. Real estate investing takes work and can be risky, and many don’t have the time or risk tolerance to commit. You can also find tenant-occupied investment properties here.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Of course, and with small businesses, especially those built around personal services (a doctor or plumber’s practice), it is part of the valuation process, where the key person is valued or at least priced and incorporated into valuation. To estimate key person value, there are three general approaches: 1.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 6, 2024

Financial advisors often discuss how futile it is to try and predict what will happen in the stock market, and yet the reality is that a core component of creating a financial plan involves making a prediction for how markets will behave, at least in the long run. Read More.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I wrote about my most recent valuation of Tesla just over a week ago , and as has always been the case when I value this company, I have heard from both sides of the Tesla divide. Based at least on the reactions, I have realized that some may be misreading my story and valuation, ore reacting just to a picture in a tweet.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2021

The parent fund already invested $200 million in the space, according to the release. The unique understanding of this market as well as the rich network with many tens of insurance players around the globe give us access to the most lucrative investment opportunities in the field.”.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. This dance between companies and investors, playing out in expected and actual earnings, is a feature of every earnings season, especially so in the United States, and it has always fascinated me.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In my last post, I used Facebook’s recent troubles to talk about the importance of corporate governance, and how we, as investors, have abandoned the power to change management at many younger tech companies in return for being able to invest in young tech companies, with growth potential and well-regarded founders.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That recovery notwithstanding, uncertainties about inflation and the economy remained unresolved, and those uncertainties became part of the market story in the third quarter of 2023. The Markets in the Third Quarter Coming off a year of rising rates in 2022, interest rates have continued to command center stage in 2023.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

on Friday notched the largest-ever one-day gain in market value for a U.S. companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. Both stocks have surged so far, so fast in recent years that any big move can rattle the broader market and set various records. by market value, behind.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The US IPO market is seeing renewed momentum as the 2024 presidential election approaches, with investors and analysts eyeing potential opportunities ahead. This resurgence follows a prolonged period of stagnation, sparking confidence that the market is turning a corner. “In Valuations today are more grounded in reality,” said Ritter.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

On a day that saw a stock market rout – particularly on the tech-heavy NASDAQ, which was down a percent – in at least some areas of finance, investors remain sanguine. Perhaps “overly optimistic” might be the mindset that marks private markets. Regional players like BankUnited have even smaller market caps (at about $2 billion).

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 4, 2023

At a high level, we're currently seeing a 'tale of 2 economies': While the market for services has expanded steadily since the beginning of the year (with both employment and the price of services growing in kind), the U.S. manufacturing sector, by the measures of employment and service prices, has been in a recession for nearly 12 months.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

billion I estimated in 2021 (year 8 in my IPO valuation) as revenues in my IPO valuation of the company in November 2013, and its operating margin, even with generous assumptions on R&D, was 19.02% in 2021, still below my estimate of 19.76% in that year. billion, well below the $9.6 billion, with a value per share of $10.91.

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Global Finance

JUNE 18, 2024

The Hyundai India IPO that was announced earlier this year has become a bellwether for the health of Indian stock markets and particularly its IPO market, now that the South Korean carmaker has reportedly filed a draft red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on June 15.

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VCFO

MARCH 30, 2023

Building Blocks and Best Practices for Driving Business Value Business valuation is not an original or uncommon topic. Products are eventually going to suffer if investments are not being made into improving their use, refining their aesthetics, and understanding who is using them.

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CFO Dive

AUGUST 2, 2022

as the investment firm’s performance faces pressure amid the slump in fixed-income and equity market valuations. KPMG veteran Brad Watkins is joining Oppenheimer & Co.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Investors, used to a decade of better-than-expected earnings and rising stock prices at these companies, have been blindsided by unexpected bad news in earnings reports, and have knocked down the market capitalization of these companies by hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few weeks.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A key value proposition for financial advisors is helping clients avoid common behavioral biases that can lead to suboptimal investment decisions. Which often leads to advisors counseling their clients to stay diversified and stick with a disciplined investment strategy to optimize their risk and return over the long term.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI story. Love-Hate Relationship with Markets! I will start this post with a couple of confessions.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

Even though we live in an age where user platforms and hyper revenue growth can drive company valuations, that adage remains true. To make comparisons, profits are scaled to common metrics, with revenues and book value of investment being the most common scalar. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 3, 2024

economy) contracted for the 12th consecutive month, the services sector (constituting about 78% of GDP) expanded for the 11th consecutive month, serving as a primary driver behind continued wage inflation as well as tightness in the labor market. The labor market, while still remarkably resilient, has also started to show signs of stress.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

The stats suggest the strength of the B2B FinTech market’s ability to attract big-ticket funding rounds despite an overall dip in investment. PYMNTS outlines the latest investments below. The firm has since expanded into additional market segments, including travel, entertainment, retail, gaming and more.

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VCFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

How Quality of Earnings Reports Impact Valuation Securing a Quality of Earnings (QoE) report is often a routine step in the due diligence process for acquisitions. Market trends and regulatory changes are additional areas of focus. The post Quality of Earnings Reports Impact Valuation appeared first on vcfo.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

I started in the MBA program at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979, at the tail-end of its basketball glory days, fully expecting to move on to a career in consulting or investment banking, when I was done.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 3, 2024

Notably, the work-from-home movement has resulted in a dramatic drop in office valuations that could lead to a whole host of issues, including lending constraints in the banking sector, which is already sitting on a mountain of unrealized losses on Treasuries and mortgages.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

The market clearly had a very different view, as the stock premiered at ₹ 74 per share and soared into the stratosphere, peaking at ₹ 169 per share in late 2021. My IPO Valuation. On July 21, 2021, I valued Zomato just ahead of its initial public offering at about ₹ 41 per share.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 27, 2023

Another is that when valuing companies, I am, in addition to valuing a company to see if it is fairly priced, interested into the broader insights about business and valuation that emerge from the company. Growth potential : I underestimated the company’s capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It has sometimes got me some blowback, when I expressed my views about value investing being rigid, ritualistic and righteous and the absolute emptiness of virtue concepts like ESG and sustainability, but so be it. I am aware of things that I need to work on.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2021

Soros Fund Management , Coatue , Fidelity Investments and Baron Capital Group are among the company's existing investors, Bloomberg writes. market, which is one of the most highly coveted new types of vehicles. The vehicle is aiming for an untested market, though, according to Bloomberg. Rowe Price Group Inc. BlackRock Inc.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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Future CFO

MAY 17, 2022

The Southeast Asia private equity market had one of the most impressive turnarounds in its history, with deal value reaching an all-time record high of $25 billion, which more than doubled the 2020 figures, said Bain recently. . Highlights from Bain & Company’s 2022 annual Southeast Asia Private Equity Report. Robust secular fundamentals.

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