Corporate Finance 101: A Big Picture, Applied Class!

In my last seven posts, I played my version of Moneyball with company data from the end of 2015, looking at how companies invest their share...

January 2016 Data Update 7: Dividends, Potential Dividends and Cash Balances

In the last six posts, I have tried to look at the global corporate landscape, starting with how the market is pricing risk in the US and g...

January 2016 Data Update 6: Debt, the double edged sword!

In corporate finance, the decision on whether to borrow money, and if so, how much has divided both practitioners and theorists for as long ...

January 2016 Data Update 5: Making a case for corporate governance

In my last post, I looked at the cost of capital , a measure of what it costs firms to raise capital. That capital, if put to good use by bu...

January 2016 Data Update 4: The Costs of Capital

In this post, the fourth in my data update series, I turn my focus to the cost of capital. While the discussion of cost of capital is often ...

January 2016 Data Update 3: Country Risk and Pricing

I had a long   post on country risk in July 2015, as part of series of posts on the topic. At the time of the post, the Chinese market was ...

January 2016 Data Update 2: Interest Rates, Exchange Rates and Currencies

In both corporate finance and valuation, interest rates and exchange rates play a big role, the former because they form the basis for estim...