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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

The Big Picture

Call it ” ‘ America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake. For the record, Census published its first study on the valuation of so-called “in-kind transfer benefits” in 1982. Since 2008, the Census Bureau has included government transfers in its Supplemental Poverty Measure. ” Was this ignorance?

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A Billion Dollars isn’t Cool

The Irrelevant Investor

A private company with a billion-dollar valuation used to be special. This number comes from Crunchbase , who just published a report showing that the number of newly minted decacorns hit a record high in 2021. Today there are 1,000 of 'em. Now it's ordinary. These numbers, which felt crazy at the time, seem quaint compared to today.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. Is valuation significant, or is it, hey, we’re going to make 100 investments and if two or three workout, the valuations are irrelevant? How do you fall in that spectrum?

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From Rocket Ship to Roller Coaster

Investing Caffeine

T he stock market has been like a rocket ship over the last three years 2019/2020/2021, advancing +90% as measured by the S&P 500 index, and +136% for the NASDAQ. Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

Investing 130
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High ROE Stocks in India – Large, Mid and Small Cap!

Trade Brains

They use several valuation metrics to know more about the company. And when used for ROE, as per the basic rule of math, if the denominator decreases, the fraction as whole increases i.e, Company 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average 5 yr. Company 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average 5 yr. higher ROE. Nestle India Ltd.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

But if you go back to the period before 2022, from 2019 to 2021, a 60/40 portfolio actually produced 14% returns over that time horizon, which is above the long-term average. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: Right. And that’s all sentiment. DAVIS: That’s exactly it.

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