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- Equilibrium Insurance Pricing, Market Value of Liabilities & Optimal Value of Market Capitalization
- This paper reviews an insurance pricing model for a simple one period economy with shares in productive firms, insurance firm?s real estate. The paper considers the valuation of insurance firm?s liabilities in the model and in the optimal capitalization of the firm. The relationship of the results to standard financial...
- White papers 2003-06-05
- Tech Firms Should Buy Media Companies Now
- Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a one word answer, no, to the question of whether his company would buy the New York Times. The answer was as definitive as you can get, but might be as wrong-headed as many other decisions that management there has made over the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Pep Boys: Insanity Dominates the Share Price
- Mark Krieger submits: Pep Boys PBY has never traded as low as its current share price of $3.25 since it became a public company in the mid-seventies. At a current market cap of $169 million, PBY's 562 locations average a paltry $300,000 each, after dividing the market cap by...
- External links 2008-10-26
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- Analyzing Borrowing Costs and Capitalization
- When a company borrows money, there are essentially two costs involved: the issuance expenses, which are fees charged to issue the loan, and the interest payments on the debt. If interest is added to the principle balance of the loan—rather than paid off—it's known as capitalization.Interest rates are usually based...
- Articles 2007-12-12
- When to Ally and When to Acquire
- The Idea in Brief Many companies view acquisitions and alliances as interchangeable strategies for spurring growth. But each strategy has unique advantages and disadvantages. Firms that ignore those differences risk acquiring companies they should have collaborated with...
- Articles 2007-12-14
- Learning to Lead at Toyota
- The Idea in Brief Many companies try to emulate Toyota's vaunted production system TPS, which uses simple real-time experiments to continually improve operations. Yet few organizations garner the hoped-for successes Toyota consistently achieves: unmatched quality,...
- Articles 2007-12-14
- Seth Klarman's Baupost Group Starts Activism in Facet Biotech Position
- Market Folly submits: Seth Klarman's hedge fund Baupost Group has amended the 13D they filed on Facet Biotech FACT which we originally covered here. This amendment comes due to activity on April 27th, 2009 and Baupost still shows a 17.8% ownership stake in FACT. The aggregate amount of shares beneficially...
- External links 2009-04-30
- Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: How to Survive (and Win)
- Thanks to new regulations, Sarbox compliance has become a lot less costly and more efficient. Here's how to use it to your best advantage. Create a Controls-Friendly Culture From the Top Goal: Lay the...
- Articles 2008-02-26
- Leveraging The Supply Chain To Create And Sustain A High Performance Business
- From the executive summary: ‘Transforming supply chain operations can have a substantial impact on growth in market capitalization. This enables improvement-driven companies to catch up with and even outpace the growth of traditional supply chain leaders.' The paper stresses on the leveraging of supply chain to create and sustain high...
- White papers 2004-06-15
- Chase and J.P. Morgan Merge; Create Preeminent Global Financial Services Firm
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 2, 2001 The Chase Manhattan Corporation and J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated today said that they have completed the merger of their holding companies, effective December 31, 2000. The name of the new firm is J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. J.P....
- Research articles 2001-01-02
- Robert Half International Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Andrew Steinerman with Bear Stearns. Go ahead, please. Andrew Steinerman - Bear Stearns Good evening, gentlemen. I am going to need a little more explanation on why Protiviti operating margins didn’t increase sequentially even though there...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Smartphone wars - BlackBerry's plan to win
- Fortune Magazine -- For two Canadian guys who've spent the past 17 years together building one of the world's most important tech companies, Research in Motion co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have surprisingly little in common. Balsillie, 48, is tall, sinewy, and bald. He likes to spend his free...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Tanger Outlet Centers Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptTanger Outlet Centers SKT Q1 2008 Earnings Call May 1, 2008 10:00 am ET Executives Stanley K. Tanger- Chairman, CEO, and Founder Steven B. Tanger- President and COO Frank Marschisello, Jr. - Executive VP and CFO Analysts Christy McElroy- Banc of America Securities Michael Bilerman- Citigroup Jonathan...
- Earnings calls 2008-05-01
- ING to split in two, launch â?¬7.5bn rights issue
- Reuters AMSTERDAM -- Dutch bancassurer ING Group NV will split in two, shrinking itself into a smaller Europe-focused bank, in the most striking example yet of the deep changes the EU wants to force on banks that received state aid. The company also said it would pay back 50 per...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Buying CPI Puts Bunge in the Big Leagues of Grain
- What happens when a low-margin commodity becomes -- in fairly short order -- a hot product? Mergers. The soaring price of corn is behind Bunge's decision to buy Corn Products International, a supplier of high fructose corn syrup and other products to such customers as Coca-Cola, Nestle...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- 5 Attractive Small/Midcaps Poised for Strong Returns
- Daniel Weiss submits: Below, is a list of 5 names which I find extremely attractive in the small and mid cap space several of which are not covered by any analysts at the present time. My research process is focused on those names which are underfollowed, undervalued and have some...
- External links 2008-09-14
- Exelon Corporation Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Hugh Wynne - Sanford Bernstein. Hugh Wynne - Sanford Bernstein I was just looking at the balance sheet and you seem to have some favorable developments here. Shareholders equity is up by about $1.1 billion or 10%. You...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-24
- Canon Seeks Printer Power With $1.1 Billion Oce Bid
- By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Gilbert KreijgerTOKYO/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Japan's Canon plans to buy Dutch copier and printer maker Oce OCEN for 730 million euros ($1.09 billion), challenging rivals Ricoh and Xerox XRX in a hunt for growth during the sector downturn.Copier and digital camera maker Canon and Oce...
- News items 2009-11-16
- A New Game Plan for C Players
- The Idea in Brief How to sustain a 23% annual shareholder return? Push your growth rate from 4% to 10% in one year? Triple your market capitalization in three years? Clothing retailer The Limited,...
- Articles 2008-03-10
- 6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Friendster
- The Twitter outage yesterday would have caused much uproar on the service had anyone been able to complain about it. Those in the media, frequently heavy users themselves (I include myself: @ErikSherman), poured on about the long incident. But I think that this was another in a list of prompts...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
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