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Bank Valuation: Understanding Key Ratios and Metrics

Tom Spencer

A higher ratio of fee income implies less traditional credit risk and less balance sheet usage (therefore higher ROE) but also implies greater market risk related to securities portfolios and potentially higher revenue volatility related to volatility in capital markets. Valuation Metrics Price-to-earnings (P/E) Price-to-book (P/B) 2.1

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Companies often see the disruptive forces affecting their industry. After all, they have many capabilities that entrants are racing to replicate, such as access to markets, technologies, and healthy balance sheets.

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Blockchain Could Make the Insurance Industry Much More Transparent

Harvard Business

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Guest Post I mention the above to prove Culpepper is highly regarded in the industry. For the sake of comparison, Chicago has around $7.2 And since the legislation was drafted by the financial industry, that probably wasn’t an accident. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Ironically, Merkel immediately followed up with " The German government would not tolerate a weakening of German industry or job losses ". Here we are.