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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. These numbers, which felt crazy at the time, seem quaint compared to today. 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.

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Weekly Market Insights – January 8, 2024

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Math errors: Simple addition and subtraction mistakes can delay your return. Consider using electronic filing software that does the math automatically to avoid mistakes. Giving an incorrect account number can delay your refund even further. How many times will he have to paint the number 8? What is it?

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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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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). nor on valuation and IRR in order to avoid type 1 errors of inclusion.

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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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

The Big Picture

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s break that into two halves, starting with valuation. Explain why P/E isn’t the best way to measure valuation. People did whatever was working based more on gut feelings than data.

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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

Mr. Money Mustache

It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.). It’d be like retiring at the bottom of 2009 with still-decent numbers. Which translates to a full 25% more wealth from those shares in your future. . (It’s