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Not Your Grandpa’s Railroad

Fortune Financial

Many of these businesses, and many of the things that move on rails are just captive volumes that can’t economically move via truck or via plane. Since 2002, overall carloads on Union Pacific’s network have declined by a bit less than 1% per year, but Union Pacific’s revenues per car have increased 4% per year.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. Specifically, economics has a half-life of 9.4 By this valuation method, the portfolio cashflow duration is in the 16 to 17-years range.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

The Big Picture

So it’s got this math angle where it, you know, it’s all numbers, but then there’s this behavioral angle and psychological angle where, you know, it’s, it’s kind of a fun problem to tackle. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

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Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets

Brown Advisory

We believe that the current environment offers a number of strategic planning opportunities to improve your financial plan, enhance wealth transfers to heirs or charities, minimize the impact of income taxes and broadly help you advance your progress toward long-term goals. We are working to help you take those steps forward.

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Strategic Planning in Volatile Markets

Brown Advisory

We believe that the current environment offers a number of strategic planning opportunities to improve your financial plan, enhance wealth transfers to heirs or charities, minimize the impact of income taxes and broadly help you advance your progress toward long-term goals. We are working to help you take those steps forward.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

The Big Picture

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. back in sort of 2012. RITHOLTZ: Yes. CHANCELLOR: Yes. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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