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

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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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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. The post Quality of Earnings Reports Impact Valuation appeared first on vcfo. EBITDA is not a complete indication of financial performance for a business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Stripe, the payments startup, has raised $245 million in a new round of venture funding, giving the company a valuation of $20 billion. According to the report, the company plans to use the funding to hire more employees for its global engineering team. “We

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 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

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. Further, the company is stepping into the FinTech arena, with plans to roll out financial products like credit facilities for retail buyers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

FinTech Stripe is raising $250 million in its latest funding round and has reached a pre-money valuation of $35 billion, according to a release on Thursday (Sept. The company recently launched in eight new countries: Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia, with more planned in the coming months. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2019

Lime and Bird , the two electric scooter startups that raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding in 2018, are aiming to raise more but at a lower valuation. That is under the $3 billion or higher valuations they were fetching in years past. But with the lower valuations, it appears that business is starting to fray.

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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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CFO News Room

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this post, I will begin with a quick review of my 2021 valuation, then move on to the price action in 2021 and 2022 and then update my valuation to reflect the company’s current numbers. . My IPO Valuation. I valued Zomato, soon after it filed its prospectus for its initial public offering, in July 2021.

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CFO Selections

JULY 22, 2024

A business valuation is a critical component of securing a company’s future. An experienced CFO plays a key role in any business valuation by leveraging their financial expertise to offer strategic insights along the way and ensure an accurate final assessment of the company’s value.

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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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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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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. per share in 2022. Growth potential : I underestimated the company’s capacity to grow, by limiting its product reach.

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Fpanda Club

JULY 24, 2022

oracle Aesop formulated his investment insight "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and since that time the model for calculating the value of an asset as the present value of the cash generated by this asset throughout its life has remained unchanged. In about 600 B.C. and help identify most probable outcomes.

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CFO Simplified

AUGUST 7, 2023

Too often business owners are forced to make exit decisions without any advance planning based on factors that are largely out of their control including health, divorce, and owner disputes. According to the Estate Planning Institute, 80% of U.S. As stated by the Exit Planning Institute , exit planning is a smart business strategy.

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CFO Network

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

But did you know that business valuation can give you more insight into your business than just the economic value? Keep reading to learn more about why business valuation is such an important process for every business. Business valuation is the best way to get proof of how well your business is doing year to year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Silicon Valley-based Chime has raised $500 million in a Series E funding round that sent its valuation soaring to $5.8 The funding, led by DST Global, is the largest individual equity investment for a challenger bank, surpassing NuBank’s $400 million, which was also led by DST Global, according to CB Insights. 5), citing sources.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Airbnb and DoorDash are expected to release higher-than-expected valuation ranges for their upcoming initial public offerings (IPOs), which shows strength for the market, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. exchanges, with soaring valuations catching the attention of numerous companies to join the public market. billion.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The firm plans to invest $310 million in early-stage startups and $370 million in growth-stage startups, the report stated. Venture capital firm Greycroft , based in New York and Los Angeles, has raised $680 million to fund new startups, according to Bloomberg , looking for "the next Bumble or Venmo.".

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

SoftBank Group is considering a gamble on Brazil and might advise high-growth firms to invest in the country, Reuters reported on Friday (Sept. Although he did not explain, Maciel also said that SoftBank was going to announce a large investment in Brazil. office-sharing startup WeWork. Creditas is aiming to change that.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Cybersecurity returned to the top of the B2B startup investment list as three companies in the enterprise security realm landed nearly half of the $246 million in B2B venture capital this week. But Software-as-a-Service emerged as a hot spot, too, with the largest investment round of the week going to a B2B eCommerce SaaS provider.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent has invested in Argentinian mobile banking startup Uala, according to a report from Reuters. Point72 Ventures and George Soros have also invested in the mobile payment company. He did not reveal the amount of the investment, but said it would significantly raise the company’s valuation.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2021

Social Capital Hedosophia is one of three special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) on the lookout for investment opportunities. The deal would give SoFi a post-money valuation in excess of $8.65 Noto — formerly an investment banker with Goldman Sachs — has expressed wanting to go public via a SPAC. billion in cash proceeds.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 10, 2024

could save retirement plan participants $55 billion over the next 10 years (due to an expectation of more low-cost fees being offered in plans) and those rolling over workplace plans into IRAs to purchase annuities another $32.5 billion (thanks to expected reductions in commissions and the embedded costs in these annuities).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

forecasts that its initial public offering (IPO) valuation will be far under the approximate $1 billion it had for its most recent funding. The IPO would provide the company with a valuation of $768 million and would bring in $182.4 eCommerce mattress merchant Casper Sleep Inc. Casper , for its part, was valued at $1.1

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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. I agree, but I remain a believer that intrinsic valuation is the only tool that you have for assessing whether g.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In response, I have been told that the problem is not with the idea of ESG, but in its measurement and application, and that impact investing is the solution to both market and society's problems. It is human nature to want to make the world a better place, but does impact investing have the impact that it aims to create?

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was planning to start this post by telling you that Tesla was back in the news, but that would be misleading, since Tesla never leaves the news. My Tesla History When I write and teach valuation, I describe it as a craft, and there are very few companies that I enjoy practicing that craft more than I do with Tesla.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

The company is planning to next debut a carpooling service called FlixCars.mm. The two companies rely heavily on data from their user base to help with the planning of routes, matching of drivers and cars and ways to optimize peoples’ plans to get around. The European Investment Bank also participated. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

The lasting impacts of Covid-19 aren’t going away and it is critical that retailers pivot their investments to where consumers are spending their money: online,” Poore said at the time, according to the report. NCino, for example, announced it was planning to raise as much as $253.5

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. to 14.9%.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

In this post, I will be valuing each of these companies, both to assess whether to invest in them individually, and to examine whether there are lessons for the market in their price entrails. . My September 2020 Valuations. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. The FANGAM Valuations: February 2022.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And be certain to read to the end, where we have provided an update to our popular "Financial AdvisorTech Solutions Map" (and also added the changes to our AdvisorTech Directory) as well!

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