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Thinking Big and Survivorship Bias

The Irrelevant Investor

After five years as a private business, they went public in 2004 at a valuation of $27B. In Google's 2004 Founders’ IPO Letter , Larry Page wrote: We will not shy away from high-risk, high-reward projects because of short term earnings pressure. Some of our past bets have gone extraordinarily well, and others have not.

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Making Private Public

The Irrelevant Investor

In a related but tangential matter, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States has been cut in half over the last twenty years. As you can see in the chart below from the 2018 IPO Report by WilmerHale, both the number and dollar volume of IPOs have been fairly steady over the last decade. The evidence backs this up.

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Market, Stocks, and Bonds Lessons Learned from 2022 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 9, 2023

James Hendries

When LPL Research released the Outlook 2022: Passing the Baton in December 2021, the team’s view was that the hit from inflation would be manageable and would therefore limit the number and magnitude of interest rate increases, enable the U.S. economy to avoid recession, and support above-average valuations.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. Number one, longevity.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks since the middle of 2004. But it is a meaningful change worthy of discussion after a long period of time.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks since the middle of 2004. But it is a meaningful change worthy of discussion after a long period of time.

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Bharti Hexacom IPO Review 2024 – GMP, Financials And More

Trade Brains

In 2004, it was acquired by Bharti Airtel and renamed Bharti Hexacom Ltd. Both FY21 & FY22 saw exceptional gains/losses that distorted numbers from normalized earnings. The Company is in the Northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya, and Tripura. Investment Rs.