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Walgreens, Coinbase, Duolingo, Ralph Lauren

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Walgreens – Shares rose 6% after an upgrade to buy from hold Deutsche Bank, which said it liked Walgreens’ merger and acquisition plans. Duolingo – Shares of the foreign language learning platform lost 10% after the company reported revenue below expectations while also posting a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss.

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Uber, Abiomed, Peloton, Carvana, Molson Coors and more

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Uber plans to cut spending and hiring in an attempt slow the company’s plummeting stock price, which is down nearly 50 percent for the year. . Johnson & Johnson is looking to boost growth at its medical devices unit after it completes plans for a spinoff of its consumer health business next year. Scott Olson | Getty Images.

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The Difference Makers: Key Person(s) Valuation

Musings on Markets

We will end with a discussion of how enterprises try, with mixed effects, to build protections against the loss of key personnel. We will then follow up with a framework for thinking about how key people can affect the value of a business, with practical suggestions on valuing and pricing key people. Who is a key person?

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Managing Your Company’s Inventory

CFO Simplified

Think of restaurants, grocery stores, pharmaceutical companies. This requires more management because the risk of loss is greater, and the loss is instantaneous, and irrecoverable. In the pharmaceutical industry, drugs have a certain shelf life before they become unsafe, or their efficacy is reduced.

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Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO!

Musings on Markets

Even a cursory examination of the the Nifty Fifty , the stocks that drove US equities upwards in the early 1970s, reveals companies like Coca Cola and Gilette, where brand name was a significant contributor to value, as well as pharmaceutical companies like Bristol-Myers and Pfizer, which derived a large portion of their value from patents.

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Trade Credit Insurance

Finvisage

The objective of TCI is to indemnify the supplier against losses which arise as a consequence of a buyer’s inability to pay. It does not aim to replace profits lost on the transaction. Industry groups have started stockpiling vital goods, for instance non-perishable food products, pharmaceutical supplies and vaccinations.

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Breaking up Big Tech: Cui Bono?

Musings on Markets

In that paper, she posited that platform-based companies prioritized growth over profits, using their platform size to decimate competition, and that antitrust laws would have to be retooled to rein in these companies. In short, while Ms.