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Valuing and Investing in Equities

  • 1st Edition
  • November 19, 2020
  • Francesco Curto
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 9 9 2 4 - 6
Valuing and Investing in Equities: CROCI: Cash Return on Capital Investment develops a common-sense framework for value investors. By distinguishing investors from speculators, it acknowledges the variety of styles and goals in the financial markets. After explaining the intuition behind due diligence, portfolio construction, and stock picking, it shows the reader how to perform these steps and how to evaluate their results. Francesco Curto illuminates the costs and opportunities afforded by valuation strategies, inflation, and bubbles, emphasizing their effects on each other within the CROCI framework. Balancing analytics with an engaging clarity, the book neatly describes a comprehensive, time-tested approach to investing. Annual returns from this investment approach demand everyone’s attention.

Valuing and Investing in Equities

  • 1st Edition
  • April 16, 2020
  • Francesco Curto
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 8 4 8 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 3 8 4 9 - 6
Valuing and Investing in Equities: CROCI: Cash Return on Capital Investment develops a common-sense framework for value investors. By distinguishing investors from speculators, it acknowledges the variety of styles and goals in the financial markets. After explaining the intuition behind due diligence, portfolio construction, and stock picking, it shows the reader how to perform these steps and how to evaluate their results. Francesco Curto illuminates the costs and opportunities afforded by valuation strategies, inflation, and bubbles, emphasizing their effects on each other within the CROCI framework. Balancing analytics with an engaging clarity, the book neatly describes a comprehensive, time-tested approach to investing. Annual returns from this investment approach demand everyone’s attention.

Handbook of the Economics of Marketing

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 1
  • September 19, 2019
  • Jean-Pierre Dube + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 7 5 9 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 7 6 5 - 9
Handbook of the Economics of Marketing, Volume One: Marketing and Economics mixes empirical work in industrial organization with quantitative marketing tools, presenting tactics that help researchers tackle problems with a balance of intuition and skepticism. It offers critical perspectives on theoretical work within economics, delivering a comprehensive, critical, up-to-date, and accessible review of the field that has always been missing. This literature summary of research at the intersection of economics and marketing is written by, and for, economists, and the book's authors share a belief in analytical and integrated approaches to marketing, emphasizing data-driven, result-oriented, pragmatic strategies.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities

  • 9th Edition
  • July 12, 2017
  • Donald DePamphilis
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 6 1 0 - 7
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Ninth Edition, is the most current, comprehensive and cutting-edge text on M&A and corporate restructuring available. It includes many of the most up-to-date and notable deals and precedent setting judicial decisions, as well as new regulations, trends and tactics employed in M&As. The implications of recent developments such as negative interest rates on valuation and the backlash against globalization for cross-border M&As are discussed. More than 90% of the case studies are new for this edition, involving deals either announced or completed during the last several years. It is comprehensive in that nearly all aspects of M&As and corporate restructuring are explored from business plan development to target selection and valuation to negotiation and post-merger integration. It is cutting edge in that conclusions and insights are anchored by the most recent academic research, with references to more than 160 empirical studies published in leading peer-reviewed journals just since the release of the last edition in 2015.

Negotiating in the Leadership Zone

  • 1st Edition
  • August 22, 2015
  • Ken Sylvester
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 3 4 0 - 4
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 4 1 0 - 4
Negotiating in the Leadership Zone expertly addresses the question: How do leaders become better negotiators? Much has been written about leadership, and negotiating skills have long been the subject of academics and business consultants. This book successfully brings negotiation and leadership together for the first time, building separate insights about them into practical, applied lessons and tools that can be used immediately. Leaders will find unique cases, examples, and insights for high-stakes and routine negotiations alike. Mixng a readable, non-jargon approach with real-world stories and wide applicability, the author's use of 50+ years of experience as a business owner, negotiation consultant, and teacher to convey the fundamental logic and strategies underlying negotiations. The results are more than convincing.

Plastics China: Technologies, Markets and Growth Strategies to 2008

  • 1st Edition
  • May 24, 2005
  • Donald V Rosato
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 1 4 0 6 - 2
'Plastics China: Technologies, Markets and Growth Strategies to 2008' outlines the structure of the Chinese industry, assesses market and technological trends, offers market figures and forecasts to 2008 and identifies the major players.Contents include:* Market figures and forecasts to the year 2008* Assessment of the Chinese plastics market including enduse plastics analysis* Plastic technology and growth strategies in China* Comprehensive directories of Chinese plastics suppliers, fabricators and endusers, state contracts, trade associations, trade journals and trade shows* Includes numberous tables, diagrams, charts and graphics.

Profile of the International Valve Industry: Market Prospects to 2009

  • 1st Edition
  • December 2, 2004
  • Graham Weaver
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 1 5 0 8 - 3
This revised and updated 3rd edition outlines the structure of the global industry and future trends, highlights issues facing the industrial valve industry, assesses market and technological trends, offers market figures and forecasts to 2009 and identifies the major players.The report also provides a detailed overview of merger and acquisition activity in the industrial valve industry since 2000.

Profile of the International Fluid Sealing Industry - Market Prospects to 2008

  • 3rd Edition
  • December 19, 2003
  • K Sutherland
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 3 9 8 2 - 9
The definitive guide to the international fluid sealing industry to help you make the right business decisions. Will help you to keep track of the major issues affecting the market Will enable you to identify new business opportunities Includes Market forecasts, commentary and analysis sup.ported by primary research Completely revised and updated, the 3rd edition of Profile of the International Fluid Sealing Industry - Market Prospects to 2008 reviews the markets, technological trends and major manufacturers of fluid seals on a global basis. We have drawn on the expertise from our existing portfolio, Sealing Technology newsletter and World Pumps magazine to bring you vital information, analyses, forecasts that cannot be found anywhere else. The study deals with items and materials used, very largely, in the mechanical engineering sector, to effect hermetic closures or the separation of fluids. It therefore covers gaskets and packings, O-rings and mechanical and bellows seals. Profile of the International Fluid Sealing Industry covers the structure of the industry, highlighting developments, identifying future trends, and looking at recent mergers and acquisitions in the sector. Market estimates and forecasts to 2008, by region and seal type, are presented along with an analysis of the main end-user markets for fluid seals, as well as a technology overview. Forty leading international fluid sealing manufacturers are profiled. A directory of seal manufacturing companies is also included.

The Smart Card Report

  • 8th Edition
  • December 18, 2003
  • Wendy Atkins
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 1 9 0 0 - 5
The definitive guide to the smart card industry. Will help you to keep track of the major issues affecting the market Will enable you to identify new business opportunities Includes profiles of key players, assesses market trends and drivers, comprehensive technology review Completely revised and updated, the 8th edition of The Smart Card Report examines the smart card market and major end-use sectors, identifying their needs for smart cards, assessing growth prospects and highlighting market opportunities. The study looks at the structure of the industry, profiles key players, assesses market trends and drivers, discusses industry issues and investigates usage by geographical region and application area. A comprehensive technology review is also included. We have drawn on the expertise from our existing portfolio, Card Technology Today newsletter and ID Smart: Cards for Governement & Healthcare conference to bring you vital information, analysis and forecasts that cannot be found anywhere else.

Profile of the International Pump Industry - Market Prospects to 2007

  • 5th Edition
  • December 13, 2002
  • R. Reidy
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 4 9 2 4 - 6
This fifth edition of Profile of the International Pump Industry - Market Prospects to 2007 reviews the markets, technological trends, and major manufacturers of industrial pumps. Profile of the International Pump Industry covers both the international pump industry and its associated market, illustrating the structure of the industry, highlighting developments, identifying future trends, and looking at recent mergers and acquisitions. Market estimates and forecasts to 2007, by region and pump type, are presented along with an analysis of the main end-user markets for industrial pumps, and a technology overview. Forty leading international pump manufacturers are profiled and a Top 20 league table of pump manufacturers, ranked by sales of pumps, is given. A directory of pump manufacturing companies and an index of companies by product type are also included.