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Speaking as a former M&A financial advisor and valuation nerd, historical financial data is very close to worthless for any valuation work, except perhaps for vaguely connecting the dots to your proprietary, forward looking financial model which is based on a deep understanding of a particular company and industry. This reads to me like garbage in, garbage out... just like 99.9999% of current resources on financial d…
Speaking as a former M&A financial advisor and valuation nerd, historical financial data is very close to worthless for any valuation work, except perhaps for vaguely connecting the dots to your proprietary, forward looking financial model which is based on a deep understanding of a particular company and industry. This reads to me like garbage in, garbage out... just like 99.9999% of current resources on financial d…
I always hear these finance people dick waving about how crap everyone else's methodologies are without examples of their own. This leads me to conclude it's all snake oil anyway.
So I'm asking, speaking as a former M&A financial advisor... What _does_ work?
Speaking as a former M&A financial advisor and valuation nerd, historical financial data is very close to worthless for any valuation work, except perhaps for vaguely connecting the dots to your proprietary, forward looking financial model which is based on a deep understanding of a particular company and industry. This reads to me like garbage in, garbage out... just like 99.9999% of current resources on financial d…
That's a lot of "this won't work" without very much "here's what does work" leading me to conclude this is bluster and ego. I always hear these finance people dick waving about how crap everyone else's methodologies are without examples of their own. This leads me to conclude it's all snake oil anyway. So I'm asking, speaking as a former M&A financial advisor... What _does_ work?
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That's a lot of "this won't work" without very much "here's what does work" leading me to conclude this is bluster and ego. I always hear these finance people dick waving about how crap everyone else's methodologies are without examples of their own. This leads me to conclude it's all snake oil anyway. So I'm asking, speaking as a former M&A financial advisor... What _does_ work?
nothing. There is no way to predict the stock market. Even the way you're probably thinking of. Even the ones in the replies to this comment. Even the really basic ones and the really advanced ones.
Speaking as a former M&A financial advisor and valuation nerd, historical financial data is very close to worthless for any valuation work, except perhaps for vaguely connecting the dots to your proprietary, forward looking financial model which is based on a deep understanding of a particular company and industry. This reads to me like garbage in, garbage out... just like 99.9999% of current resources on financial d…
That's a lot of "this won't work" without very much "here's what does work" leading me to conclude this is bluster and ego. I always hear these finance people dick waving about how crap everyone else's methodologies are without examples of their own. This leads me to conclude it's all snake oil anyway. So I'm asking, speaking as a former M&A financial advisor... What _does_ work?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a lot of "this won't work" without very much "here's what does work" leading me to conclude this is bluster and ego. I always hear these finance people dick waving about how crap everyone else's methodologies are without examples of their own. This leads me to conclude it's all snake oil anyway. So I'm asking, speaking as a former M&A financial advisor... What _does_ work?
What makes you confident a methodology that consistently beats the market exists?
This reads like a sponsored/promoted article. Would be nice to see a disclosure if it is or they get affiliate link revenue
Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a lot of "this won't work" without very much "here's what does work" leading me to conclude this is bluster and ego. I always hear these finance people dick waving about how crap everyone else's methodologies are without examples of their own. This leads me to conclude it's all snake oil anyway. So I'm asking, speaking as a former M&A financial advisor... What _does_ work?
What makes you confident a methodology that consistently beats the market exists?
Genuinely wondering. Is this because they have so much money to play with that they can move markets in their favour?
Speaking as a former M&A financial advisor and valuation nerd, historical financial data is very close to worthless for any valuation work, except perhaps for vaguely connecting the dots to your proprietary, forward looking financial model which is based on a deep understanding of a particular company and industry. This reads to me like garbage in, garbage out... just like 99.9999% of current resources on financial d…