Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. New York Times ) • From Dylan to Bieber, catalogue sales are the megadeals taking over music : Some call it song management, others royalty acquisition. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. What happens if they fail?

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

As PYMNTS found in a study published earlier this month, 42 percent of consumers are engaging in even the most routine activities online, and as much as $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales are moving to digital channels. Some POS providers have robust digital offerings in place, and are able to develop networks around their solutions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

online sales to 37.7 In the April letter Amazon for the first time officially confirmed the percentage total gross merchandise sales in 2018 that came via third-party sellers — 58 percent. retail sales is only 4 percent. Amazon’s retail business competes in the worldwide market for retail sales,” the Amazon spokesperson said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It represents about half of their sales volume on the platform. But Robbins predicts that by summer, the math is going to look a lot different in terms of the importance of that digital pipeline. And to the chains, stabilizing their relationships is a big deal, Robbins noted. The Big Challenges To Overcome .

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Nike posted its lowest quarterly sales in two years, along with a $790 million quarterly loss, when it reported its Q1 2020 earnings in late June. That quarter, Nike CEO John Donahoe said that digital represented 30 percent of Nike’s sales. It reportedly purchased this digital upstart — one with a reported (and very small) $3.9

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Michigan CFO

JULY 13, 2021

Jason Calacanis, an early Uber investor, congratulated the company on Twitter for continuing to grow its sales while cutting its loss from $991 million in the previous quarter. I’ve met more than one business owner who after several or more years in business had a record sales year, but still lost money. “Revenue up. .”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Morgan management said in its commentary that debit was being used for “everyday spend,” while credit sales have been negatively impacted by slumps in travel and entertainment-related activity. As reported in July, Visa Installments, a new point-of-sale (POS) credit solution, debuted in pilot markets across the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 23, 2024

The bill, meant to force the sale of TikTok, passed by a landslide. link] • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon : Want to really understand how large language models work? [link] see also How the House quietly revived the TikTok ban before most of us noticed : An unusually fast process.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

While the company did not release any sales or financial data concerning the program or its decision to end it, a spokesperson was quoted in The Verge as saying the alternative financing method had “reached its capacity limits.”. 31, and we are no longer taking new members,” a sales representative told The Verge. percent to $39,259.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

Second, follow Charlie Munger’s advice and invert the sales pitch: 70% of the upside (you give up 16.62% per year for 2 years) with none of the downside sounds attractive – unless you think about what you are really giving up and getting in exchange. Giving up permanent gains to avoid impermanent drops seems like an awful exchange.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

To use the platform, merchants connect their different sales channels and import their products. Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. Krakaris saw a particular opportunity in serving marketplaces beyond Amazon through retailers like Walmart, eBay and Jet.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. have moved to collect sales tax from remote sellers, and it’s just the beginning. To date 43 states and Washington, D.C.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Amazon’s yearly sales represent about 15 percent of total online sales among consumers in the U.S., Once the marketplace sellers are added to the math, Amazon’s share of what U.S. online sales at 31.3 according to Amazon’s filings with the Commerce Department. percent as of today. “If

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2016

Through the Market platform, sales agents, who are billed as micro-entreprenuers, help with prepaid electric bills, for example. It’s simple math.”. Tapp Commerce management stated that its Market product helps people, through P2P, that do not necessarily have bank accounts buy goods and services online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

While rivals Papa John’s and Pizza Hut have said deliveries through Grubhub and DoorDash have helped them expand into new markets and boost sales, Domino’s Chief Executive Ritch Allison told The Wall Street Journal that the profit hit and reputational risk of working with those companies isn’t worth the extra revenue.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

We wanted to hear how they were doing, whether they had access to cash (and if so, how much and for how long), what they were doing to stem the tide of lost sales, and how they assessed the stability of their own businesses. Sixty percent of technology firms have seen their sales decline by more than half, as well.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound. Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. The election came and went and, with it, brought some stock market shock.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 31, 2023

Embattled First Republic Bank is no longer searching for a buyer as investment advisors and company executives seek to repair the company’s balance sheet before any sale might take place, FOX Business has learned. ( It’s how the world’s most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In a retail reality where everything is always on sale, coupons were the clever method by which brick-and-mortar shops drew in customers with deals. Because everything is always on sale and because there are any number of ways to collect digital coupons and discounts, who needs all the extra paper?

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

These data points are deeply troubling, Global Head of Visa Direct Sales Cecilia Frew told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Fifty-five percent of Americans surveyed believe that the pandemic will last longer than their personal savings will. They reflect the extent to which people’s lives have been shattered over the last 12 weeks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The MATH doesn’t add up,” Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to clients. For fiscal 2018, L Brands now expects earnings per share to fall within a range of $2.70 and $3, down from a prior estimate of $2.95

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

There are challenges to overcome, as always, but the math works out well for adopters. The ROI of Orchestration. Tech stacks are using orchestration layers to achieve this, with some eye-opening results.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

When Stripe did the back-of-the-envelope math on that misallocation of time, the company found it to be worth nearly $300 billion in potential gross domestic product (GDP) on an annual basis. That means, she noted, that sales and marketing professionals are going into organizations ready for the wrong type of conversation with their audience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

States continue to grapple with how collections of taxable and nontaxable items listed together under a single sales price should be treated. Many allow retailers to only pay taxes on the portions of their bundles’ sales prices that refer to taxable items, a process known as “unbundling.”

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Jedox Finance

JULY 6, 2021

A friendly warning: This involves some math, which is necessary to explain how these metrics work. intermittent demand/sales data). In this blog post we will cover some commonly used metrics for time series forecasting, how to interpret them, as well as the limitations of each metric. For such cases, WAPE can be used.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S Commerce Department report that showed a spike in retail sales last month — thereby, clearing doubts of a softening American economy. economy — retail.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The installment pay plans allow customers to know up-front exactly what they are paying each month over the duration of the loan – no math required. And, he noted, this is even more true when it comes to the sorts of big-ticket sales that Bread and other installment players deal with directly.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 17, 2022

You can grasp nonprofit accounting basics in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never taken an accounting course (and even if you hated math in high school). However, it can also be cash from sales of products, courses, or subscriptions. Sales of products or services. Examples of nonprofit revenue sources: Cash donations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The math gets a bit more involved when it comes to why the consumer is returning an object. But no matter the reason, merchants can always keep 50 percent of the sale, and not have to take on the irritation of managing a returns process simply by extending the appropriate discount.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2018

Papa John’s has hired Bank of America and Lazard as financial advisors, as the national chain tries to recover from weak sales and negative publicity surrounding its founder. According to CNBC , the company’s shares have fallen by almost 45 percent over the last year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

Different merchants can seemingly set different MSRPs (and advertise different amazing deals accordingly) with no apparent oversight, and while courts have consistently sided with retailers on the basis of buyer beware-type logic, consumer protection groups call the practice a blatantly deceptive way to drive higher sales.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy. Or at least if you do and you believe your services are that good, you might have a sales and marketing problem you’ve got to solve for. If you charge 1.1

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

NoMoreOffice has a 80-person team scattered around the country; 60 are already remote, and 20 work in one of three offices: a 5-person marketing team in Utah; 10-person customer service team in Arkansas; and 5 sales reps in Florida (see screenshot below). Let’s look closer at the headcount math. Current staff.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Analysts expect the online retail giant to report a 25 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to $44.7 Revenue could largely be boosted by the company-reported best-ever holiday sales. All toys selected will in some way be related to science, technology, engineering and math. 2 after market close.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Thanksgiving weekend — including the evening of Thanksgiving itself and the sales that go with it — only generates around 15 percent of holiday spending, according to retail consulting firm Customer Growth Partners. And while that 15 percent is substantial — with eCommerce sales up 17 percent on Black Friday to hit a record $5.03

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2019

Nike drafting Colin Kaepernick as a spokesperson last fall led to a rash of people burning their Air Jordans on YouTube and Instagram, and a spike in sales for Nike. In fairness, PYMNTS has high standards for marketing stunts, and their objective quality can be hard to judge – one person’s or analyst’s success is another’s miss.

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