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5 Valuation Factors for Retiring Financial Professionals to Consider When Selling Their Businesses

James Hendries

If you are getting ready to retire and thinking about selling your financial firm, you have to decide how much your business is worth, and it can be challenging to put a number on something you’ve been building for your whole life. Brand Identity Have you been working with clients as an individual financial professional?

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Market Commentary: Checking In on Market Fundamentals

Carson Wealth

Pockets of attractive valuations exist despite above-average valuations in some high-profile areas of the market. gain, but not a bad number by any means. That means labor productivity continues to run strong, as workers are producing above-trend output while working the same number of hours. Following the huge 11.2%

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Market Commentary: Earnings Season Flouts Calendar Effects

Carson Wealth

Another data point from the recent GFS caught our attention: The number of managers looking for ‘no landing’ is rising. NVIDIA Earnings Show AI Demand Ramping Up Faster than Supply The economic story behind NVIDIA’s blockbuster earnings is very simple in some ways and goes back to Econ 101. billion versus $6.2

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Weekly Market Insights – April 10, 2023

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Stocks ended a shortened week of trading mixed amid revived recession fears on Wall Street triggered by weak economic data. Stocks trended lower again after a lower-than-expected open-jobs number and a slowdown in private-sector hiring. 6 This Week: Key Economic Data Wednesday: Consumer Price Index (CPI). FOMC Minutes.

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Equity Beat: Is A Continuation Of The Market Rally A Bridge Too Far?

Brown Advisory

The question for investors today is whether this optimistic scenario is largely priced into valuations. Additionally, the elevated valuation multiple is founded on an expectation of 11-12% EPS growth in 2024, at a time when near-term earnings expectations have been substantially lowered. At year-end, the S&P 500 Index traded at 19.5x

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Weekly Market Insight – July 11, 2022

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Presented by Cornerstone Financial Advisory, LLC. In a holiday-shortened trading week, stocks rallied despite mixed economic data and vacillating energy prices and bond yields. Employers added 372,000 jobs in June, a number that was above economists’ estimates of 250,000. This Week: Key Economic Data.

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Weekly Market Insights – January 17, 2023

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

This Week: Key Economic Data. Source: Econoday, January 13, 2023 The Econoday economic calendar lists upcoming U.S. economic data releases (including key economic indicators), Federal Reserve policy meetings, and speaking engagements of Federal Reserve officials. UAL), The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.