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IPO Market Maintains Momentum Despite Ackman’s Nixed Plans

Global Finance

The hedge fund manager grabbed headlines on Wednesday, July 31, when he decided to no longer plan an initial public offering (IPO) for his firm, Pershing Square USA. The withdrawal comes shortly after the fund announced plans to raise $2 billion—significantly lower than the previously touted $25 billion.

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Enhancing Business Valuation: Aligning Owner Perception with Market Realities

VCFO

Yet, this perception often differs from the view of the market. Owner’s opinions of their business value can be influenced by inherent biases, flawed valuation methodologies, and factors lurking beyond their control. Financial factors in valuation serve as indicators of your business’s capacity to generate revenue efficiently.

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Valuation and Corporate Governance Consequences

CFO News Room

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 Users: Numbers and Engagement.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

CFO News Room

In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market reaction to it, offers an opportunity for us to talk about bigger issues. As someone who has spent the last four decades talking, teaching and doing valuation that we have lost our way in valuation.

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The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation

Musings on Markets

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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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

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. trillion during the course of the year.

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Musings on Markets: Back in the Classroom: Time to Teach!

CFO News Room

During my teaching lifetime, I have taught a wide swath of classes, ranging from banking to equity instruments, but in the last twenty years, my focus has been on three classes, c orporate finance, valuation and investment philosophies , with the last one taught only online.

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