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.

Marketing 52

Marketing Profit and Loss Investments Accounting 52

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the value crowd, bereft of victories for a long time, may be inclined to do a victory dance, it is worth noting that the same phenomenon occurred between February and March of 2020, at the start of the COVID crisis, but that growth companies quickly recouped their losses and finished ahead of mature companies by the end of 2020.

Economics 130

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

While the value crowd, bereft of victories for a long time, may be inclined to do a victory dance, it is worth noting that the same phenomenon occurred between February and March of 2020, at the start of the COVID crisis, but that growth companies quickly recouped their losses and finished ahead of mature companies by the end of 2020.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. The visibility on earnings they grew but they stayed profitable as, as they grew.

Benchmarking 105

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 105

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

But as a private equity owner, again, first of all, you do invest heavily of your own money in the transactions, plus you have additional ownership through, you know, the carried interest, the profits interests. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 You got 60 percent of losses ahead of you. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 105

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Leverage Numbers 105

Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

Blue-collar workers in developed markets : The flip side of the rise of China and other countries as manufacturing hubs, with lower costs of operation, has been the loss of manufacturing clout and jobs for the West, with factory workers in the United States, UK and Europe bearing the brunt of the cost.

Investments 128

Investments Profit and Loss Valuation Economics 128

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Profiteering fraud. It just, the, the, the profiteering really was utterly insane. That the focus on profits, on pleasing shareholders and on profits that can be sustainable means that, that, that the response in a pandemic isn’t going to be what you think. Absolute disaster. And that was it.

Manufacturing 59

Manufacturing Healthcare Leadership Profit and Loss 59