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Nov 2024
37m 29s

Valuation 101

The Motley Fool
About this episode

Price matters. But how do you build a case for what the right price is? 


Patrick Badolato is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. He joined Ricky Mulvey for a conversation about how to value companies. They also discuss:

- How to put P/E ratios in context – and how to look beyond that metric. 

- Levers Walmart could pull to double its earnings.

- Growth stories for Netflix that go beyond subscriber count. 


Companies discussed: NFLX, LULU, TSMC, WMT, NVDA, NFLX, IMAX


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guest: Patrick Badolato

Producer: Mary Long

Engineer: Rick Engdahl

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