Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2019

But Lyft’s numbers also showed that revenue and growth have been borne atop a sea of red ink. million in the first quarter or year ago, and losses were $1.1 Adjusted results (backing out stock compensation, for example) still showed losses to the tune of $211 million, which translated to a bit more than $9 a share.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Manufacturing, mining, wholesale and retail trade, and transportation and warehousing saw little change in employment for the month, the BLS said. From December to January, retail trade noted a loss of 8,300 jobs — a month after the December holiday hiring season. Payroll services firm ADP Inc.

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VCFO

MARCH 17, 2023

That’s because inventory is a key driver of several profit & loss (P&L) statement components, from revenue all the way down to net profit. raw material, inbound freight, internal transport costs) All conversion costs (e.g., A key measure in this area is the Finished Goods Inventory Cost.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

The transportation company reported results Wednesday (Aug. 7) that topped expectations amid narrowing losses. In terms of headline numbers, the company said that revenues were up 72 percent to $867.3 The core ride-hailing business will be profitable in the future, and losses less than expected for the current year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

Say hello to the marriage of digital advertising and ride-hailing — and it seems, more potential for a bigger payday for those gig workers who provide that form of transportation. Firefly’s screens earn the average driver an additional $300 per month, the company claims, or roughly 20 percent more profit.”. In Q3 2018, 35.6 percent).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

The planet’s largest retailer by sales crushed their way through Q2, with bigger than expected gains in revenue, earnings, same-store sales and eCommerce sales than analysts were predicting before the numbers hit the wires. The headline number was the highly watched same-store sales figure. All-in revenue jumped up 3.8

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

Businesses have long played war games (certain veterans might take issue with the use of “war” to describe issues related to profit and loss, but capitalist society long ago embraced the idea that “business is war”). How much value is destroyed by the loss of sensitive business plans depends on the ability to adjust tactics quickly.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Lyft , of course, has set its sights on transportation. We are believers in the long-term potential of these marketplaces, but risks such as unclear pathway to profitability and the debate around gig economy workers labeled as 1099-contractors would likely weigh on near-term post-IPO performance.”. million, an improvement over the $16.3

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Here are the numbers: $400 million | Value of the estimated 130 deals blockchain-related firms inked in 2018. 25 percent | Percentage of no-show customers who are tied to a lack of transportation , according to Susan Jepson, co-founder of Hitch Health. billion in industry investments. FinTech funding spiked 31 percent to $11.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I think we are seeing a distinct possibility that delivery could grow up to be as significant as transportation as the crisis has introduced new customers into the segment at a velocity we could not have anticipated. Specifically, Khosrowshahi was asked if he thought delivery would ever surpass transportation as Uber’s core business. “I

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

However, small nonprofits may not have access to the same resources as for-profit businesses or large nonprofits. Familial leave policies, such as maternity and paternity leave, paid bereavement for loss of a pregnancy, and allowing new parents to step away from work and focus on their new child.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Early in my career as a Product Manager, I recognised the importance of understanding the financials behind the products I was managing, particularly the product profit and loss statements. This realisation, combined with my love for numbers, motivated me to further my education in accounting.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

By The Numbers. Walmart reported a net loss of $861 million (29 cents a share) for the quarter end on July 31, compared with a net income of $2.9 That loss was largely from the sale of a majority stake in Walmart Brazil. Beyond The Numbers. Q2 revenues jumped 3.8 billion (96 cents a share) a year ago.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

But the category of perishables marks new territory for Amazon, which The Motley Fool thinks could present a challenge and put a deep dent in short-term profits. Now, Amazon is experimenting, it seems, in a sector with narrow profit margins, and it has the luxury to do so. In the U.S.,

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Profit and Loss Valuation B2B Transportation 57

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

Hertz said Tuesday that losses are continuing; Avis cut its profit projections. The slow-motion crash may accelerate, and the numbers bear witness. At the same time, Uber and Lyft both grew their total take of ground transportation for road warriors by 2 percent. But perhaps not all is lost.

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Creative CFP

OCTOBER 2, 2020

When you pay the foreign supplier or receive money from a foreign client, Xero calculates the foreign exchange profit and loss and posts the journals automatically. I am now able to improve financial reporting and be innovative with bringing the business numbers to life so business owners can make better decisions.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. I — I couldn’t believe the numbers. And this is part of the story I was so fascinated with was why would someone set-up a company where they deliberately turn over all the future profits to the — to the people?

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Profit and Loss Marketing Investments Benchmarking 69

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I was thinking any number of things and mostly that I didn’t really know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I was not kind of at all informed by, you know, gender norms that people asked me a lot about now, in particular how do you know a woman, how did you think about ending up in this thing? RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. 00:30:21 [Speaker Changed] That’s the sort of number that comes out in these polls. He won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on consumption, poverty, welfare wealth and health inequality.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: I am interested in numbers. I’m naturally a numbers person. To me, storytelling is much more — I mean, if you think about the history of humanity, for thousands of years, the way we pass down information was with stories, not numbers. They had the access to loss and excel really.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

On Monday, the White House announced that it will let the Covid-related public health emergency declarations expire on May 11, 2023… [T]he numbers don’t lie. Stay safe out there! * * * • “China Covid: Coffins sell out as rural losses mount” [ BBC ]. Though CDC may be jiggering the numbers soon.

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