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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?
Following up on my previous data updates, where I looked at the ingredients that moved hurdle rates in 2023, I look at profitability at companies. I …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Valeant: Information Vacuums, Management Credibility and Investment Value
In this session, I take a follow-up look at Valeant, after six months of information blackout, management confusion and legal jeopardy. While the com…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Session 20 (Undergraduate): The Cost of Capital and Financing Mix
In this session, we continued our discussion of the cost of capital approach to deriving an optimal financing mix: the optimal one is the debt ratio…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Session 4 (Val MBA): DCF Structure and Risk free Rates!
We started this class with a discussion of structuring a DCF and the different groupings of risk, and why some types of risk matter more than others,…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 18 (MBA): The Cost of Capital and Optimizing Debt
In this session, we continued our discussion of the cost of capital approach to deriving an optimal financing mix: the optimal one is the debt ratio…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Mag(nificent) Seven: The Seven Stocks that Saved the Market in 2023!
In 2023, seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) increased their collective market capitalization by $5.1 trillion,…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 19 (Undergraduate): More on the debt trade off and the cost of capital approach
In this session, we continued discussing the trade off on debt. We started with the Miller Modigliani theorem and then continued by looking at the fi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 6 (Val Undegrads): Implied Equity Risk Premiums and First Steps on Relative Risk
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In this session, we started by doing a brief test on the relat…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 17 (MBA): The MM Theorem and Cost of capital approach
In this session, I look at the Miller Modigliani theorem through the prism of the debt tradeoff. I then move on to looking at how the cost of capital…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 5: End Game Closure and First Steps on Risk
We started the class by wrapping up the question of at the end game in business, and why I (and you don’t have have to) still trust markets, over man…
1 month, 3 weeks ago