Sentences with phrase «valuation question of»

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That may be why WeWork has a tech - level valuation of $ 20 billion — though skeptics question whether it should be treated like a tech company, given that real estate is so integral to its main product.

But its focus on institutional holdings in unicorn companies is particularly well - timed, as numerous questions have arisen in recent months over whether such companies can continue to support their extraordinary valuations, some of which have stretched into the billions of dollars.

Achieving that unworldly valuation in such a short time has Butterfield fielding lots of questions lately about tech bubbles and whether these sudden fortunes are built on solid foundations or merely the giddiness of a moment.

The second edition of Damodaran on Valuation stands out as the most reliable book for answering many of today's critical valuation qValuation stands out as the most reliable book for answering many of today's critical valuation qvaluation questions.

It said it expected to price its shares at around $ 13 to $ 14 a share, raising questions about whether the company would be valued at less than its private company valuation of nearly $ 2 billion.

They asked graduates of accelerator programs to fill out surveys about their experiences, including questions about valuations, exits, and their general satisfaction with the program.

Jones says that he developed the list of questions based on his own experience performing valuations — and he's always adding to the list.

But getting back to the question of whether you can time the market based on valuation, I think that's extraordinarily difficult.

In answering this question, as my co-author Terry Simpson and I write in the new Market Perspectives paper, «Assessing the Value of Valuations,» it's helpful to look at what today's valuations can tell us about the possible distribution of future U.S. stock markeValuations,» it's helpful to look at what today's valuations can tell us about the possible distribution of future U.S. stock markevaluations can tell us about the possible distribution of future U.S. stock market returns.

Other companies facing similar questions about whether they can make good on early investor expectations — and lofty private - market valuations — include online storage service Dropbox Inc., note - taking company Evernote Corp., music - streaming service Deezer SA and blood - testing company Theranos Inc., said Anand Sanwal, chief executive officer of CB Insights, a firm that tracks startup investing.

While there's no question that our own discipline has been subject to the most reckless bout of Fed - induced speculation in history, we also have reason to believe that valuations are much closer to a two - sigma event than may be apparent.

In it, he's got a bunch of questions, along with detailed discussion, that you should ask your potential employer if you are considering a job at a unicorn (company with > $ 1b private valuation.)

At present, the better question is «do I prefer a zero loss to the prospect of a 40 - 60 % interim loss in a market that is strenuously overbought and overbullish, and has returned to valuations that are more than double reliable historical valuation norms?»

If one has the wisdom to question their beliefs by actually testing them against data, thinking carefully about valuations, and studying the course of market cycles across history, none of these points should be surprising.

In his latest investor letter, the founder of Greenlight Capital raised an interesting question about valuation.

The group includes private social - network Path, which raised $ 30 million at a valuation of $ 250 million last year; question - and - answer site Quora, which raised $ 50 million at a $ 400 million valuation last year; and microblogging service Twitter, which raised $ 400 million in new funding and another $ 400 million to buy out existing investors at an $ 8 billion valuation in 2011.

Recently, Buffett has been fielding a lot of questions about stock market valuations and how one should value individual businesses.

Corporate valuation, equities, bonds and interest rates, and mergers and acquisitions are only some of the areas covered here in detail and presented in sample interview questions and cases with easy - to - follow charts and frameworks.

Some have already started to question whether the company can live up to its $ 68 billion valuation in the wake of all of its problems, and in the meantime, a number of regional rivals continue to raise funding in a bid to position themselves as credible alternatives in a rapidly evolving market for mass transportation.

So decent returns aren't out of the question just because valuations are a bit stretched at the moment.

The funds were from Y Combinator's new Continuity Fund, which supposedly would be making pro rata investments at < $ 250 million valuations in all of Y Combinator's startups gaining additional funding, but the question as to whether or not Y Combinator has reversed its previously stated policy for the fund is less interesting than the fact the firm is also moving up market.

These questions come as EM stocks have had a rollercoaster year, with valuations beaten up by concerns about China's economy, slowing global growth and lower commodity prices, just to name a few of the headwinds facing developing markets.

Maintaining the BTC valuation premium may eventually become challenging in view of this, but obviously that remains open to question — the first mover advantage and name recognition effect were so far sufficient for BTC to maintain its top spot.

This gives rise to the all - important question: does one's entry level into the market, i.e. the valuation of the market at the time of investing, make a significant difference to subsequent investment returns?

Editor, @stevecinelli Some many months back, in fact prior to their listings, I wrote a piece questioning the lofty valuations of...

«Cybersecurity can absolutely affect a valuation, and these are important questions that investors need to be asking,» said Jacob Olcott, vice president of BitSight Technologies, a security company.

It addresses key questions which challenge all entrepreneurs: how much money can and should be raised; when should it be raised and from whom; what is a reasonable valuation of the company; and how funding should be structured.

The question could be «is there any sign of bias in broker research valuations depending on whether the firm was a JLM on the IPO or not?»

Roger: Harking back to the days when the dotcom boom was first started and everybody was thinking about the valuation of these companies that were just growing up overnight and always the question was about the valuation, are these companies overvalued or not?

We'll look at financials and projections, and we'll look at valuation, and we'll put all that together in a summary, and then we'll allow the investors to do their own due diligence, and they can ask questions of the company, and the founders will answer.

While many in the coworking industry have questioned WeWork's business model and staggering $ 20 billion dollar valuation, there seems to be no uncertainty within the flexible office industry of valuation and business prospects for Blackstone's new majority stake acquisition of The Office Group, «the pioneer of the shared workspace concept» in the United Kingdom.

These factors call into question the ability of companies to increase profits enough to justify today's lofty valuations.

If we're living in a low - rate world, and our only option other than holding cash is to buy the S&P at 30 times earnings, or a 30 year treasury at 2 %, or whatever other shitty deal is on offer, and you ask me what we should do, I can only answer the question by asking whether there will continue to be a ready supply of buyers at those valuations into the future.

So the question naturally becomes, should «fair» or average equity valuations in a 1 1/2 -2 % GDP growth world be the same as what has considered fair valuation for equities in a 3 1/2 -4 % GDP growth world of the last 60 years?

I totally agree with you and with Buffett; nonetheless there's one question, that came to my mind regarding market valuations: Assuming bonds and interest rates go even lower as they are today, at which level (pe ratio or Shiller pe ratio — or whatever metric you'd like to take) would I call the market of today a bubble?

The differences in cost structure and client base raises the question of whether it makes more sense to rank on a relative valuation within the GICS groupings.

Credit Suisse analyst Larry Gandler, who puts a valuation of just 55 cents a share on the wagering business, questioned the Consortium's outlook for wagering earnings in an ultra competitive market.

In contrast to the main drift of the modern Western tradition, which asks how we can reconstruct or represent things within us and concludes that the activity of reconstruction or representation is almost wholly a matter of our own creation and projection, the theory of value and valuation suggests a different question.

To yet another side, or perhaps underneath all these issues, lie the questions of value: whether reality exhibits worth independent of interpretation, whether interpretation inevitably is valuation, whether political life which contests values is a struggle about reality or about the intentions in interpretations or merely about getting along socially.

The issue of divine temporal valuation transcends these theodical questions, for it concerns the very nature of God as a living God.

On the other hand, all historical research worth the name leads simply in the pursuit of its precision work to the question of decision, (I deliberately avoid such formulations as «the question of truth» or «the question of valuation».)

Residents of the district already pay a tax rate of 74 cents per $ 100 of equalized assessed valuation, one of the highest around, and there are questions of what will happen when the number of taxpayers decreases.

The supervisory boards of Volkswagen and Porsche have «broadly agreed» on the details for a deal to merge the two automakers.A member of Volkswagen's board told Reuters on Wednesday that «questions over valuation have been resolved.»

When Tata Motors paid $ 2.3 billion to buy JLR from Ford, many analyst questioned the decision because of high valuations.

These questions come as EM stocks have had a rollercoaster year, with valuations beaten up by concerns about China's economy, slowing global growth and lower commodity prices, just to name a few of the headwinds facing developing markets.

Valuation questions are tough, and it is much easier to mimic the seemingly successful actions of others.

I believe it's predominantly a question of valuation.

Answering your more general question, what do I think of this particular Price / Earnings based ratio as a way to signal asset allocation change i.e. Valuation Informed Investing?

Similar to the P / E Ratio, the Price - to - Book (or P / B) ratio seeks to answer a fundamental question about the valuation of a company.

Before we started our first company and began to ponder questions regarding business quality and valuation, I (John) got immersed in the world of machine learning.