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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

Apple is on the cusp of a stock market first — becoming the first public company in history to capture a $2 trillion valuation. More than a 20 years later, the company is spitting distance from a $2 trillion valuation. So, will Apple make it to a $2 trillion valuation? Apple stock is trading at about $446 as of Tuesday (Aug.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In fact, I concluded the post by arguing that investors in Facebook were pricing in their belief that the billions of dollars the company had invested in the Metaverse would be wasted, and argued that Facebook faced some of the blame, for not telling a compelling story to back the investment.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In a Series E round headed up by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala state investment company, Spain’s on-demand delivery app Glovo has notched €150 million ($166 million) in funding. The startup, which is based in Barcelona, says the newest funding has put its valuation beyond a billion dollars, making it one of the rare Spanish “ unicorns.”

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The resulting debate among accountants about how to bring intangibles on to the books has spilled over into valuation practice, and many appraisers and analysts are wrongly, in my view, letting the accounting debate affect how they value companies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

SoftBank is set to make a $1 billion investment in Latin American delivery app Rappi. Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that the investment will probably be led by the newly formed Innovation Fund, which was launched by SoftBank Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure for technology investments in Latin America.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

In what is said to be one of the final investments prior to the trading of its shares publicly, Palantir Technologies Inc. Palantir has previously garnered praised for assisting firms such as Merck KGaA in the quest for new pharmaceuticals and the American military root out terrorists.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. Investment Implications: Asset Classes, Geographies and Companies. There are two things to note in this valuation.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Though it did not disclose how much it raised, Singapore FinTech platform Nium announced a new investment round led by Visa and several existing backers. million investment round, reports in ProlificLondon said. million in Series B funding, VCCircle reported this week, with Singapore’s Beenext leading the investment.

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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. Returns on Invested Capital (or Equity).

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Future CFO

APRIL 11, 2021

High-growth, new economy companies will still be the most well-received investments given their important roles demonstrated during the pandemic, the firm noted. But, in general, as investors deepen their understanding about the new economy businesses, their valuations are expected to return to a more reasonable level, Deloitte China added.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Consequently, I will concentrate this post on how this crisis is playing out in markets, and the effects it has had, so far, on businesses and investments, and whether these effects are likely to be transient or permanent. to 25% for the Eurozone. lower than the traded value of 4766.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Munchery came on the scene in 2010, and hit a valuation of $300 million in 2015. Careem will now provide food delivery services in Dubai and Jeddah, but the company sees the service eventually expanding to include pharmaceuticals. Careem plans to invest a sizable amount of money into the new service — to the tune of $150 million.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

But a lesser-discussed market grabbed the largest investment of the week: logistics. A slew of existing backers boosted the investment as well. The company could be looking for an additional investor to secure unicorn status, with the Series D funding landing the firm with a valuation of $945 million, according to reports.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

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.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

David Conrod, what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity from Guggenheim Partners to FocusPoint Capital, he really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about how that side of the investment world works. HSBC sponsored the team to invest in India and South Asia.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. I’m curious how your investing philosophy has evolved over, over the past 30 plus years.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Vincent Aita of Cutter Capital on the DNA of Biotech Investing , is below. So what was your first gig in the world of investing? Paramount was a small boutique biotech firm that had investments in both private equity side and public. 00:09:39 [Speaker Changed] Absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

He was the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch where he worked for more than 20 years. If you’re at all interested in thinking about asset allocation, top-down analysis, how to think about the world of investing, not as a stock picker, but as a broad macro perspective, none better than Rich Bernstein.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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