Harness Wealth

MARCH 9, 2023

In 2021, in its first attempt and an IPO, Reddit reported advertising revenues as high as $100 million per quarter, with forecasts of reaching $1 billion per quarter by 2024. In the course of its IPO planning in 2021, Reddit reported having roughly 344,000 Premium users, equating to around $24 million per year in non-advertising revenue.

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David Nelson

JULY 31, 2023

Unfortunately for the Bears, any hope of cashing in those chips on Friday melted away once the inflation numbers started rolling in. Bloomberg Data The Employment Cost Index came in a full 10th of a percent better than advertised and now sits at 4.5% At 50x 2023 earnings, there isn’t much in the way of valuation support.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. It was about $170 million valuation.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 5, 2023

At the same time, be aware that valuations on used cars – which is what your trade-in will be – are more subjective. When you go on the valuation sites, be as objective as possible about this. If you’re accurate in evaluating the condition, you should get a pretty solid value of your car from the valuation sites.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 1, 2023

Download it here > Dear Fellow Investors, If we had to sum up 2022 in one word it would be valuation. War, inflation, recession, deglobalisation, decoupling, strikes, crypto-crash and energy (crisis) all featured but for us the overriding focus for 2022 was valuation. which was greater than our -1.1% relative underperformance.

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Trade Brains

DECEMBER 16, 2022

They use several valuation metrics to know more about the company. The ROE numbers from 2018 to 2022 are 57.17%, 49.79%, 42.74%, 71.64%, and 83.3% The consistency in such high returns can be attributed to its focus on driving consumer meaningful innovations backed by significant distribution expansion and strong advertising.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. What’s the valuation? Less, 20, 30%?

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 14, 2023

Download it here > The Hidden Trouble Within Dear Fellow Investors, We have fielded a number of questions over the past six months from clients and prospects about how we think about and control factor risks within the Global Leaders strategy. Numbers may not total due to rounding. Numbers may not total due to rounding.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? 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. We’ve seen valuations come way down for public companies.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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Carson Wealth

JUNE 16, 2023

If that’s the case with your organization, you could be missing out on the benefits of a business valuation, which can provide a comprehensive understanding of your company’s financial standing and overall health. What Is a Business Valuation? A business valuation is far harder to conduct during a crisis.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

I even went on advertising calls with the advertising director. But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And a, a number of things happened. It was so much fun and I learned so much.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work. So that’s, that’s number one.

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Trade Brains

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Education: The Shiksha platform of Info Edge is its educational platform that generates revenue from providing Branding and advertising solutions to Universities. Real Estate: The platform 99acres is India’s largest property marketplace covering almost all the major cities and a large number of agents and developers.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : Now, if I remember correctly, late nineties cracks in the facade were already showing of, you know, the, the monolithic radio, TV advertising world. I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million. Big advertisers would never give Barstool Sports a look the way they do now.

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Talon Wealth

AUGUST 18, 2022

I, what call Kristen: ‘Em flashing back to the advertisements. The July number was pretty good, but don’t forget when you have year over year inflation of eight and a half percent, everybody has different numbers. And then it drives valuations up on companies cuz their sales go up. Mike: I agree.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. I’ve interviewed a number of people from Revolution. But thankfully, the next decade, things really accelerated in terms of the growth of the company and growth in the valuation, things like that.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 12, 2017

Asked about using valuation tools, like aggregate market cap to GDP or cyclically adjusted P/E ratios to gauge markets, Buffett explained that neither of these is paramount. Berkshire’s ownership allowed GEICO to increase its advertising to attract new customers and grow its market share nearly fivefold.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 12, 2017

Asked about using valuation tools, like aggregate market cap to GDP or cyclically adjusted P/E ratios to gauge markets, Buffett explained that neither of these is paramount. Berkshire’s ownership allowed GEICO to increase its advertising to attract new customers and grow its market share nearly fivefold.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 9, 2025

Number 8860726. trillion and 121 million participant accounts along part of the $37 trillion overall in retirement assets, the pressure is causing many record keepers to dig deep and, for many, reinvent themselves or face exiting the market before their valuations drop even further just as it did for active asset managers years ago.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

 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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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis.

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

hunterwalk.com) Safe Superintelligence is raising capital at a $30 billion valuation. theatlantic.com) Economy Don't let big, scary numbers fool you. businessinsider.com) Big 'trend reports' are just corporate advertising. (spyglass.org) Meta ($META) is boosting payments for viral content. ft.com) How to be a better junior VC.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. I was traveling and on an airplane all the time. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. And I do think besides just the advertising aspect, I think one huge benefit to our business is we hire a lot of PhDs, including professors. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition to being a portfolio manager and running a number of mutual funds and ETFs, he is just a world-class technology investor who understands the sector like few other people do. And you want to get every, every number right? Doesn’t it deserve a, a richer valuation? I’m shocked it’s only 29%.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” ” (LAUGHTER) And he goes, and then he goes like this and tell Fred not to give up my (EXPLETIVE) phone number anymore. LINDZON: Lesson number two. And hangs up off it.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

The very first Masters in Business that was broadcast just about 10 years ago, July, 2014, episode number one, Jeffrey Gundlock, DoubleLine Capital. And you know, it’s the same thing when valuation gets outta control too. It will come home to roost at some point, but doesn’t mean the valuation can’t get worse.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

He’s really well known on the street and puts out a number of fascinating books, arguably a sort of parallel career to Michael Lewis. So that’s important, number one. RITHOLTZ: He had Bernie Madoff numbers, didn’t he? He is one of the co-founders of Puck. RITHOLTZ: Absolutely. COHAN: Okay. He was fine.

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Aleph

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Now, they have to adjust to a new era [link] Stock valuations are still top decile by the equity share model Dec 30, 2022 US automobile industry; Final Sales of 2022 and Trends for 2023 [link] Of the top 10 new car sellers: 1) 9 had their stock price fall. Dec 28, 2022 In Record Numbers, Venezuelans Risk a Deadly Trek to the U.S.

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