CFO Talks

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

However, a poorly executed deal can cause financial losses, employee dissatisfaction, and even the downfall of a company. Valuation: How to Determine the Right Price A major part of analysing an M&A deal is figuring out how much the target company is worth. Several methods are used to value businesses, including: 1.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 23, 2023

From 2001 to 2020, revenue growth at semiconductor businesses has dropped to single digits, as higher demand for chips in new uses has been offset by loss of pricing power, and declining chip prices. Sustained Profitability, with Cycles! While revenue growth has picked up again in the last three years, the business has matured.

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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 News Room

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Deere (DE) – The heavy equipment maker reported better-than-expected profit and revenue for its latest quarter and issued an upbeat outlook. Deere said it benefited from positive farm fundamentals and increased infrastructure investment. Its stock jumped 4.2%

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Musings on Markets

MAY 7, 2023

I also used the banking framework to argue that good banks have stickier deposits, with a higher precent of these deposits being non-interest bearing, that they invest in loans and investment securities on which they earn interest rates that cover and exceed the default risk in these investments. All Equity, All the time!

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The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This practice allows businesses, investors, and finance professionals to evaluate investment opportunities, assess risks, forecast future scenarios, and support strategic decision-making. Investment Evaluation - Assessing mergers, acquisitions, or new projects. Investment Evaluation - Assessing mergers, acquisitions, or new projects.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That bias notwithstanding, these seven companies have been extraordinary investments, not just in 2023, but over the last decade, and there are lessons that we can learn from looking at the past. First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1

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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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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As the price dropped below $200 today (October 30,2023), I decided that it was time for me to revisit and revalue the company, taking into account the news, financial and other, that has come out since my last valuation in January 2023, and to understand the dueling stories that are emerging about the company.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

related investing news. after the company reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and said its production would remain on track despite supply chain snafus. Additionally, Morgan Stanley reiterated it as overweight, noting hardware subscriptions as a key catalyst for moving the market toward a loan-to-value valuation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

India-based OYO has filed a valuation report with India’s ministry of corporate affairs indicating that the company did not expect to turn a profit until 2022, Reuters reported on Monday (Nov. The losses were six times higher in 2019 through March compared to 2018, but its revenue more than quadrupled for the same time period.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

In other news, Liquid.com has become the latest crypto unicorn after closing a Series C investment round from Bitmain and IDG Capital , reaching a valuation of over $1 billion. The crypto was up 26 percent on Wednesday (April 3), giving it a market worth of $381 million, according to Financial Times.

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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

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. Public market investors have historically expected firms to make a profit within around 18 months of an offering. However, investors have been willing to tolerate losses in light of fast growth.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

Big tech, big bets and big profits. Individual gains and losses are hard to ascertain, and commentary mentions certain holdings as contributing to overall unrealized results. That 408 billion yen, net, comes in contrast to SoftBank’s filing that unrealized losses from companies such as Uber totaled 195.3 billion yen ($1.8

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

While that cash return is not surprising for a company that has became a profit machine, it is at odds with the story that some investors were pricing into the stock of a company with almost unlimited growth opportunities in an immense new market (AI).

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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 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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CFO Simplified

AUGUST 7, 2023

This issue is compounded by the fact that most business owners have 80% or more of their net worth tied up in their company that is less liquid and more risky than other potential investments. To answer this question, they must rely on a certified valuation expert and wealth manager or financial advisor. What’s My Passion?

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Abercrombie & Fitch – Shares of the retail stock jumped 19% after the apparel retailer beat Wall Street’s revenue forecasts for the third quarter and posted unexpected quarterly profit. related investing news. AgroFresh Solutions – The chemical company focused on preventing food loss added 5.4%

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

suffered the largest-ever loss. companies as they reassess their valuations in anticipation of higher interest rates. John Lynch, chief investment officer at Comerica Wealth Management, which manages $175 billion. Prompting the turnaround: Snap posted its first quarterly profit. AMZN 13.54%. Meta Platforms Inc.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the first, I will look at the grocery business, both in terms of growth and profitability of grocery stores, since Instacart, as an intermediary in the business, will be affected by grocery business fundamentals. On the profitability front, the grocery business operates on slim margins, at every level.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The first was the response that I received to my last data update , where I looked at the profitability of businesses, and specifically at how a comparison of accounting returns on equity (capital) to costs of equity (capital) can yield a measure of excess returns.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Rakuten’s sales come on the heels of its operating loss of 40 billion yen, or $360 million, last quarter. Though it saw some gains in the financial technology business, it had losses when it came to ride-hailing investments, like the one it had in Spain’s Cabify.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In the context of valuing companies, and sharing those valuations, I do get suggestions from readers on companies that I should value next. He suggested Blue Lagoon, a well-regarded Icelandic Spa with a history of profitability, that was finding its existence under threat, as a result of volcanic activity in Southwest Iceland.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2020

In the past 18 months, both startups were vying for new customers, especially in Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country and the most profitable market for the two firms. The talks point to the changing environment in Asia, where profits were given a backseat to the growth of entrepreneurs and investors. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

On-demand workspace startup WeWork has secured significant funding from investors and has aggressive plans for global expansion, but the company’s losses are ballooning, according to reports in The New York Times this week. According to the company’s latest financial disclosure, the firm’s losses have hit $1.9

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In this post, I will look at the levers that drive Paytm's value, and you can make your judgments on where you think this offering will lead in terms of valuation and pricing. In 2018, it added a Paytm Money , for investment and wealth management, and in 2019, it launched a Paytm for Business app for merchants to track payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Berkshire Hathaway plans to invest more than $570 million in cloud data company Snowflake , which has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of stock. The target valuation points to the high expectations for the company, whose technology aims to handle large volumes of data. Revenues, however, are not profits. million.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the WeWork IPO – rather, the shelving of that IPO , at least for now – heralds the end of rich valuations for firms viewed as entrenched in the early stages of disruption. The implication, too, is that the public market is a fickle master. Cross-border: Remittances are paying off.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Some have become victims of rising interest rates , changing consumer tastes and stretched valuations. As a group, it was very strong over the past 10+ years,” said Amy Kong, chief investment officer of Barrett Asset Management. “At Meta Platforms, parent of Facebook, recently suffered the biggest-ever loss for a U.S.

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Musings on Markets

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. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations. trillion, and their share of the overall equity value of all US stocks also surged from 6.5%

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2019

Uber is seeking a valuation as high as $120 billion, although some analysts have said it will be closer to $100 billion. Neither Uber nor Lyft are profitable. However, it also saw its net loss grow to $911.3 However, it also saw its net loss grow to $911.3 Lyft’s IPO papers showed that the company earned $2.16

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

billion loss on Wednesday (Nov. The $10-plus billion WeWork bailout — an investment chief executive officer (CEO) Masayoshi Son called an error in judgment — triggered a loss of ¥970 billion ($8.9 For the July-September quarter overall, SoftBank recorded a net loss of ¥704.4 Japan’s SoftBank reported a $6.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

WeWork , which recently renamed itself The We Company, has built a multibillion-dollar valuation with its business model of renting out spaces. The company now wants to expand into owning the buildings as well, according to a report from CNBC. The fund will be called ARK, and will start with $2.9 billion of total equity capital.

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