Investing Caffeine

JUNE 1, 2023

the computing engines behind the AI revolution. Some pundits are comparing AI proliferation to the Industrial Revolution – on par with productivity-enhancing advancements like the steam engine, electricity, personal computers, and the internet. To put these numbers in context, Apple’s $2.8 Source: NVIDIA Corp. –

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Validea

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Houston-based Bridgeway Capital, founded in 1993 by MIT graduate John Montgomery, has always used number-crunching as a fundamental, well before ETFs began relying on computer algorithms to select value or growth stocks. Montgomery began his career as an engineer in the transit industry, until earning his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1985.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. 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. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2024

She has a number of investments as as really a entrepreneur and a venture investor. And Microsoft was an, an insanely good company to work for to learn how to work at an engineering led company. So I went to a company called Demand Media, which was sort of the first reverse engineering of the algorithm. Barry Ritholtz : Huh.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

’cause then I figure I could always be employed either managing the numbers or doing law and get those two degrees. And I got to see firsthand what Bain was doing in strategic consulting and understand their view of business separate from the numbers. And Bain was kind enough to offer me a job to facilitate.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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Truemind Capital

MARCH 12, 2024

The numbers look fantastic from all angles. Would you consider it a buying opportunity, given the fact that the stock is now available at much lower valuation multiples (PE/PB, etc) compared to a few weeks ago? It could all just be fiction, engineered to present a rosy picture. You may be tempted to.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : The the funny thing is, the behavioral aspect of mutual funds seems to have been when people finally learn about a manager who’s put up great numbers, by the time it makes to make makes it to Forbes, hey, most of that run is probably over and a little mean reversion is about to kick in.

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Cornerstone Financial Advisory

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, beneath the headline number, consumer spending was cut to a 0.8 percent–a worrisome revision since consumer spending is the engine of the U.S. Answer: She bought house numbers. As her street address starts with the number 122, she purchased two carved “2s” and one carved “1.” What did she purchase?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: It’s a long story, but originally I went to school for engineering. Got to school, realized that I wasn’t very good at mechanical drawing, which is a big part of aerospace engineering curriculum. And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies.

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Cornerstone Financial Advisory

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Inflated Perspective Consumer Price Index data was one of the big pieces of news driving markets last week, with January’s numbers coming in at 3.1 Treasury note yield is expressed in basis points. percent compared to a year prior—cooler than December’s 3.4 percent year-over-year gain but warmer than the 2.9 percent consensus.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. 00:04:02 That’s what value add software was originally. That’s the opportunity set.

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Truemind Capital

JANUARY 24, 2024

In order to crush inflationary expectations, the US Fed had to engineer recession by increasing the interest rates to 20%, an unimaginable number at the beginning of the 1970s decade when interest rates were close to 4-6%. Similarly today, easy monetary policy has boosted the equity market valuations.

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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

Market capitalization is the aggregate valuation of the company based on its current share price and the total number of outstanding stocks. Market capitalization = (Current market price of 1 share)*(total number of outstanding shares). Engineering - Construction 302,631 Cr 2,153. What is Market Capitalization?

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Validea

AUGUST 25, 2024

Zweig’s disciplined, numbers-driven approach allowed him to identify high-quality growth stocks while avoiding the pitfalls that often plague growth investors. This helps eliminate companies boosting EPS through financial engineering or extreme cost-cutting. EPS growth Reasonable valuation: P/E of 9.2,

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 18, 2018

Balancing Act | For Good Measure: How We Value Global Leaders achen Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:03 Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 18, 2018

Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio. This makes ratios like the P/E ratio dangerous as a valuation tool. Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:03.

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Dear Mr. Market

MARCH 11, 2023

In other words, these investments (or “teams”) are ranked and seeded on a number of factors but one of the main drivers is how hot they recently performed within the past few months or recent year. IBM loses to QCOM based on valuation. MSFT’s search engine Bing just reached 100 million daily active users after its ChatGPT adoption.

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Trade Brains

DECEMBER 22, 2022

3 billion market valuation, after TCS and Infosys. is an Indian IT company that is a part of Mahindra Group that provides Network technology solutions and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to a large number of industries. and is a leading global pure-play Engineering Research & Development (ER&D) services company.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. All our economic actions are taking place across time.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. Is that a fair statement?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

ILMANEN: It’s always good to think of starting yields and valuation sort of two sides of the same coin. But in conclusions, I did put there that it just seems that stars are aligning for some fast pain and it wasn’t just high valuations but there was a catalyst. Explain that. RITHOLTZ: Right. So, everything gets diluted.

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Cornerstone Financial Advisory

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tip adapted from Fast Company 7 If a single-engine airplane taxied not onto a runway but onto an enormous conveyor belt whose speed precisely equaled that of the plane in the opposite direction, could the plane still manage to take off? Last week’s riddle: Two men played five games of chess in the park.

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Trade Brains

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Over the years, a few IPOs have made history by attracting massive numbers of applicants, reflecting the high confidence and expectations from both retail and institutional investors. This article highlights the IPOs in India that received the highest number of applicants, offering insights into what made these public offerings so popular.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And now we have a number of different hedge funds, some we have in the macro, we have multi-Strat, we have point hedge funds with in technology in the healthcare field. The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. 00:09:40 [Speaker Changed] Correct.

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The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 7, 2017

In it he wrote, "More than one industrial company in three selling for less than its net current assets, with a large number quoted at less than their unencumbered cash." The engine for the deal, after all, was debt. At a time when the CAPE ratio was just above 5, many businesses were worth more dead than alive. up to 32.56.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If you think about what AI is already doing for the enterprise, we’re seeing 30 to 50% productivity improvements in engineers. 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.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 22, 2020

Number of University Degrees in Science and Engineering 2000-2015 Source: National Science Board Science and Engineering Indicators A 2016 study from the World Economic Forum showed that China now produces more STEM graduates each year than any other country—4.7 and almost nine times the number of mobile payment users.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 22, 2020

Number of University Degrees in Science and Engineering 2000-2015. Source: National Science Board Science and Engineering Indicators. The BBC reported in 2016 that China was building nearly one university per week , and projected that the number of 25-34 year old university graduates in China would quadruple by 2030.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Pulitzer Prize winner’s second book, an epic about the engineering and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the mid-to-late 19th century has stood the test of time, much like its subject. The question for investors today is whether this optimistic scenario is largely priced into valuations.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. But number two is from a demographic standpoint.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JULY 24, 2018

The search-engine giant became the fastest company ever to reach $1 billion in revenue. After five years as a private business, they went public in 2004 at a valuation of $27B. A googol is the number one followed by 100 zeros (Larry Page thought it was spelled Google). They thought big from day one.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. Valuations go up and you saw it, of course, in the late ‘90s, in the tech sector. But you’re looking at valuations and what sort of multiples you want to pay.

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Steve Feinberg

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s why a good bookkeeping service is indispensable for most construction company owners, whose skills are geared to building and organizing things on a large scale—and who may want to leave the numbers to bookkeeping for construction professionals. How Is Construction Bookkeeping Different Than Regular Bookkeeping?

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. Unsurprisingly, as volume has increased, so have valuations.

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