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Equity Valuation and Negative Earnings

The Case of the dot.com Bubble

by Ana Paula Matias Gama, Liliane Cristina Segura, Marco Antonio Figueiredo Milani Filho ยท 2016

ISBN: 981103009X 9789811030093

Category: Business & Economics / Finance / General

Page count: 167

Building upon Feltham and Ohlson models, this book examines positive loss-earnings within the context of the dot.com bubble during the boom years of the late 1990s bull market. The strong demand for equity financing captured the imagination of investors from Europe and U.S. like never before. With a focus on U.S. Internet companies, the book explores both the birth and the death of the new economy, and how negative earnings and losses still garnered large investments and successful IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). As Internet based ventures and the digital economy keep attracting large amounts of equity financing, this book explains that there is something unique in the valuation and pricing of tech companies. The book was written for corporate financiers, capital market professionals, and academics to further their understanding of equity valuation and the effects of equity trading.