Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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1 Investment and valuation |
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The challenge of the real equity investors |
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The fundamentals of equities investing: capital and returns |
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The two sides of the investment process in an equation |
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The many names associated with the components of the investment equation |
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The many ways of presenting the investment equation |
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5 | (1) |
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The dark and the bright sides of valuation and how they drive price changes |
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6 | (2) |
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Modelling earnings into perpetuity and the relative challenges |
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8 | (3) |
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Section 1 CROCI on valuation |
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2 Valuing non-financial companies |
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The price-to-earnings ratio: what you see is not what you get |
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The shortfalls of accounting valuation are well known, or are they? |
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13 | (1) |
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The invisible hand at work in valuation |
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14 | (1) |
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Two wrongs do not make one right: risk premia and EV/EBITDA |
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Sector and country risk premia |
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Other valuation ratios are not the solution for real investors |
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How using accounting data also creates problems for portfolio construction |
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17 | (1) |
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Gazprom: why valuation was not attractive after it was adjusted |
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17 | (3) |
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Nothing new -- Coca Cola and Exxon in the 1980s |
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CROCI as a form of due diligence to assess the value of companies |
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21 | (3) |
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Moving from a reported to an investment basis |
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24 | (1) |
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A peek at our due diligence process |
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25 | (1) |
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The impact of such adjustments on valuation of sectors and regions |
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Some examples of adjustments and their impact on valuation |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (1) |
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Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) - a painful due diligence process |
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3 The analytical idiosyncrasies of banks |
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Banks, an important sector filled with valuation ambiguities |
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39 | (2) |
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41 | (1) |
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The creation of a CROCI banks model |
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42 | (1) |
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The postcrisis financial reforms -- Basel III |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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Difficulties in covering the insurance subsector |
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45 | (1) |
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CROCI's adjustments to the valuation of banks |
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45 | (3) |
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The impact of our adjustments on valuation and terms of comparison with nonfinancial companies |
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Epilogue: banks and the financial crisis |
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50 | (3) |
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4 Stock picking based on economic fundamentals |
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The challenges of looking at the future |
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54 | (2) |
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Stock analysis based on price, earnings and the discount rate |
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56 | (1) |
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The discount rate -- the dark side of valuation |
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57 | (1) |
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How to think about the discount rate |
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How the discount rate defines the market level and its changes |
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How changes in the discount rate affect the economy |
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59 | (1) |
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The bright side of valuation |
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Step 1 Economic earnings and implied economic earnings |
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Step 2 The drivers of earnings, capital and return |
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Step 3 How the market has valued the company historically Value/returns analysis |
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65 | (2) |
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Step 4 Estimating upside/downside to fair price |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (11) |
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Section 2 CROCI on investing |
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5 The performance of economic value |
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How index providers address the concept of value in the market |
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80 | (1) |
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The CROCI approach to value |
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81 | (1) |
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Risk-adjusted PIE as a measure to adjust for type B value traps |
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82 | (3) |
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A Fama and French test on the performance of value using CROCI data |
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85 | (1) |
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Regional results confirm the strength of the CROCI value factor |
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86 | (1) |
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Value investing using CROCI |
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86 | (2) |
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CROCI's value approach is markedly different to conventional value |
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88 | (3) |
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The risks of concentrated value investment strategies |
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91 | (1) |
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Investment and portfolio construction |
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92 | (1) |
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The CROCI `a la Buffett' approach to systematic investing |
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The CROCI systematic benchmark aware approach |
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A la Buffett or benchmark aware? |
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6 Value investing and dividends |
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Dividend is an important component of your total equity return |
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Dividends ought to be important in a low-growth environment |
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96 | (1) |
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High dividend yield strategies do not give exposure to attractively valued stocks |
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97 | (2) |
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Building an economic approach to a dividend yield strategy |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (3) |
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Performance review, sectors and regional characteristics |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (1) |
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7 Diversified investments: CROCI real earnings weighted |
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105 | (12) |
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Market cap-weighted indices do not serve Real Investors well |
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105 | (1) |
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The Real Investor and the Efficient Market Hypothesis |
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106 | (1) |
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Fundamental weighting -- the challenge is in the implementation |
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107 | (1) |
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Earnings is the preferred fundamental weighting factor |
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108 | (1) |
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Weighting by book (or operating assets) does not give exposure to real value |
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108 | (1) |
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Fundamental weighting and growth |
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109 | (4) |
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CROCI Real Earnings Weighting - methodology, operational characteristics and performance |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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Sector weights and valuation at the peak of the 2000 bubble |
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115 | (2) |
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8 Thematic investments -- CROCI intellectual capital |
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The rising importance of intellectual capital in the investment world |
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118 | (1) |
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The new economy is driving growth |
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119 | (2) |
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The rise of the intangible economy |
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121 | (2) |
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Weak revenue growth for the average listed stock |
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123 | (1) |
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Asset-light companies have delivered higher earnings growth |
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124 | (1) |
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Only companies with intangible assets have been able to generate earnings growth recently |
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125 | (2) |
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Share price performance has followed earnings growth |
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127 | (1) |
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Intangible intensity not a driver of performance |
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128 | (1) |
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Intangible intensity is not a driver of stock performance |
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128 | (1) |
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Earnings growth reflect underlying macroeconomic changes |
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129 | (1) |
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The labour-light economy and the decline of middle-skilled labour |
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130 | (1) |
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Technology is polarising the job market and is changing the structure of the economy |
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130 | (1) |
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The increasing importance of brands within the economy |
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131 | (1) |
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CROCI intellectual capital |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (2) |
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Investment strategy for the knowledge driven economy |
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134 | (1) |
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Performance, sector and regional characteristics |
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Operational characteristics and an evolutionary conclusion |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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Why investors cannot ignore intangible assets11 |
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There is wide evidence for the relevance of intangible capital |
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CROCI treats intellectual capital as a genuine asset |
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138 | (2) |
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Capitalising intangibles can substantially alter profitability |
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140 | (2) |
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Capitalising intangibles and the economics of sectors |
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142 | (2) |
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Intangibles in financials |
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144 | (5) |
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Section 3 Through the looking glass |
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9 Equities, inflation and valuation |
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149 | (22) |
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How inflation affects valuation - a model based approach |
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150 | (3) |
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Companies with different profitability and capital intensity will be affected in a different way by inflation |
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153 | (1) |
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Earnings growth in line with inflation, when inflation is rising, actually translates into falling EBITDA margins |
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153 | (1) |
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The inflation cost of tax |
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154 | (1) |
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The inflation cost of inventories to investors |
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155 | (1) |
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Rising inflation and the banking sector: different sector, same dynamics |
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155 | (1) |
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The illusion of value and the shortfalls of P/E and P/BV |
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156 | (4) |
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Evidence confirms the hypotheses on how inflation impacts valuation |
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160 | (1) |
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Data on cash earnings is limited to early 1980s |
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A recap of how inflation affects accounts and valuation |
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161 | (3) |
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Implications for economists and academics |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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Real life examples from the early 1980s of how inflation distorted valuation |
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166 | (5) |
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171 | (12) |
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171 | (2) |
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Bubbles seen through CROCI's lens |
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173 | (4) |
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Bubbles can result in boom and bust cycles |
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177 | (2) |
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Equity bubble at the end of 2018 and implications |
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179 | (4) |
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11 Odysseus on valuing and investing in equities |
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183 | (6) |
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Twenty years of CROCI fundamental analysis in four pages |
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184 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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Accounting-based valuations |
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187 | (1) |
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187 | (2) |
Bibliography |
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189 | (2) |
Index |
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