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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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Uber , the ride-hailing startup gearing up to go public via an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly seeking a valuation of between $80 billion and $90 billion and is getting a $500 million investment from PayPal. It is also closer to the $76 billion valuation it had after its latest round of funding.

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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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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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Taxes are a central component of financial planning. Almost every financial planning issue – whether it is retirement, investments, cash flow, insurance, or estate planning – has tax considerations, and advisors provide a great deal of value in helping clients minimize their overall tax burden. Team Kitces. Read More +.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 23, 2024

Dustin is the Director of Investment Advisor Services of PPC LOAN, a firm based in The Woodlands, Texas that facilitates conventional bank loans to financial advisors. And be certain to listen to the end, where Dustin discusses current trends in advisory firm valuations, with firms frequently seeing multiples of 2.5–3X

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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

JANUARY 9, 2019

SoftBank is — yet again — increasing its stake in New York-based workspace sharing company WeWork , though the investment is significantly smaller than what SoftBank had reportedly been considering. Reports in The New York Times on Monday (Jan. billion — $6 billion of which came in the last six months.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Go big or go home — that could describe Tencent ’s aggressive investment philosophy, one whose pace will not ease, according to Martin Lau, president of the China-based internet firm that is responsible for WeChat and other digital tools. Both Tencent and rival Alibaba have poured money into international expansion efforts as well.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

According to people familiar with the discussions, the new valuation could hit as much as $70 billion or maybe as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg said. clients and making plans to acquire a startup from Nigeria to further African expansion.

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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

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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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

12) indicated that the company was looking to raise $299 million at a valuation of $3.6 The company is expecting to sell 26 million shares for $9 to $10 each , instead of the originally planned 36 million for $12 to $14, according to the filing. billion valuation last year, according to filings by PingAn.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

billion valuation, the publication said. Last month, it was revealed that Instacart raised $600 million, giving it a valuation of $7.6 The funding round was led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners, and came only six months after the startup closed on a $350 million round of investing. Instacart has raised $1.87

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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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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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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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E78 Partners

AUGUST 21, 2023

Macro Investment Market Challenges a Headwind for Private Equity Valuations Private Equity Sponsors are facing their most challenging valuation market since the great recession of 2008-09. Heightened inflation and interest rates will continue to be valuation headwinds. But you cannot stop there.

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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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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

DECEMBER 8, 2019

But Son said that he would “continue to invest more and more” despite the fact that the firm’s $10-plus billion WeWork bailout — an investment he called an error in judgment — triggered a loss of ¥970 billion ($8.9 Son added that the investments made through the Vision Fund were only “the beginning” for him.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

now has a valuation of $1.5 According to a report in CNBC , the San Francisco startup said the Series D round of venture funding was led by DST Global , as well as new investors Coatue, General Atlantic, ICONIQ Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group. billion valuation, with DST leading the round. billion valuation.

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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

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 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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Chinese eCommerce and social media startup Xiaohongshu , also known as “Little Red Book,” wants to raise funds at a $6 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. It’s teamed up with a financial plan adviser to identify possible investors. RED closed a $300 million series D round in 2018 and had a valuation of $3 billion.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Affirm , a FinTech that offers customers payment plans at the point of sale, is reportedly looking to raise around $1.5 Recently, Affirm raised $300 million in a Series F round led by Thrive, at a valuation of $3 billion. Affirm gives shoppers payment plans for smaller items, and allows them to create their own personalized plans.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

To help bolster the company’s growth, UNTUCKit has reportedly tapped a bank in an effort to bring in investment funds. The company, which is said to have enlisted the help of Morgan Stanley, is looking for a valuation north of $600 million, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

the commission-free online brokerage that offers a mobile app to invest in stocks, ETFs and options, announced a $200 million Series G funding, bringing its valuation to $11.2 the two-year-old New York-based global investment firm that deploys capital in public and private markets. Robinhood Markets Inc.,

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Cube Software

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, discounted cash flow determines the attractiveness of an investment. It shows the net present value of future cash flows to assess the investment's worth today. What is discounted cash flow?

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Future CFO

JUNE 22, 2021

The most digitally mature firms saw valuations 23% above pre-crisis levels, on average, within six months of the pandemic’s start, said BCG recently when releasing the results of a study. . Of the bionic companies in the study, 54% plan to upskill more than 20% of their workforce in AI and machine learning. .

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

billion valuation as it goes public, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday (Sept. billion valuation. billion valuation. You will see a lot of investors looking at this and saying what are the lessons learned from Uber and WeWork,” Michael Underhill, chief investment officer for Capital Innovations, told the FT. “You

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