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The Margin of Safety: Tool for Action or Excuse for Inaction
In this session, I look at the margin of safety as a tool for dealing with uncertainty. While it is intuitive, there are serious misconceptions that …
2 months ago
Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what is it saying?
Every year, I start by updating data on my webpage on industry averages on variables that I find myself using in my corporate financial analysis and …
2 months ago
Session 26 (Undergraduate): Dividend Closing and Valuation Opening
In today's class, we put the closing touched on dividend policy analysis by going through the possess of estimating FCFE, the cash flow left over aft…
2 months ago
The School bell rings: Time for class!
I teach in the spring of each year, and ahead of my Spring 2024 classes (two sections of valuation for the MBAs and one for the undergraduates), I wo…
2 months ago
Session 24 (MBA): Dividend Analysis and First Steps on Valuation
In this class, we put the closing touched on dividend policy analysis by going through the possess of estimating FCFE, the cash flow left over after …
2 months ago
Data Update 2 for 2024: A Comeback Year for Stocks!
As we start on 2024, it is worth noting how much the mood has shifted in the last year. At the start of 2023, dark clouds were gathering. Inflation w…
2 months ago
Journeying to the Dark Side: Coping with Uncertainty
In this webcast, I look at why we feel that we are in the age of uncertainty and the natural responses (mostly unhealthy) that we have to its presenc…
2 months ago
Session 1 (Val Undergrads): introduction to class
The undergraduate class is officially rolling, and thank you tuning in. During the session, I told you that that this was a class about valuation in…
2 months ago
Session 23(MBA): Potential Dividends and Cash Balances
In this shortened class, we moved on to look at how much a company can afford to pay out as dividend. This measure, that I titled FCFE, is the cash l…
2 months ago
Session 2 (Val Undergrads): The Bermuda Triangle of Valuation
The class started with a test on whether you can detect the direction bias will take, based on who or why a valuation is done. The solutions are post…
2 months ago