Who Is The Biggest Trader On ET ?

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Fundlord, Jan 19, 2016.

  1. Fundlord

    Fundlord

    Do you know anything about private businesses ?

    The magazine lets say did 10m in revenue, typical profit margins are 23% for media companies.

    2.3m in profit based on an estimated 10m revenue is a 10x+ valuation which is already to high.

    The magazine probably had 20m in revenue and somewhere around 5m in profits for a 5x multiple.
     
    #61     Jan 24, 2016
  2. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    buying puts at the bottom?
     
    #62     Jan 24, 2016
  3. destriero

    destriero


    You're a rare idiot.

    You stated that the mag was "making" 8-figures. WMT earns about 3% on revs. They don't "make" $450 billion a year. There is a cost associated with that box of Cheerios.

    Do you count the Wendy's franchise revenue when you receive your paycheck for working the drive-thru?

    The mag NEVER turned a profit. IIRC they had revs under $3MM. Under three million dollars. So their revenue was a fraction of "8-figures."
     
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    #63     Jan 24, 2016
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  4. Fundlord

    Fundlord

    LOL chill.
     
    #64     Jan 24, 2016
  5. destriero

    destriero

    Great debate, Bro. Cool story.
     
    #65     Jan 24, 2016
  6. NKVI>NH

    NKVI>NH


    dude, he is so beyond right to call you out. u said "making 8 figs" not revenue..huge difference.

    it would be wrong to let people say the strangest things and untruths
     
    #66     Jan 24, 2016
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  7. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    Sorry, I meant calls, although buying puts would require bigger balls... :)
     
    #67     Jan 24, 2016
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  8. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    http://www.foliomag.com/2009/breaking-doubledown-media-shuts-down/

    From press release revs for parent were 12MM at peak and that was for 4 magazines. My guess is that Trader Monthly was the biggest part of their revenue base but unlikely 10MM.

    The parent co only hemorrhaged money.
     
    #68     Jan 24, 2016
  9. destriero

    destriero

    They never had revs exceeding $7MM, in fact, much less. I cannot go into details, but the subscription revenue was a joke, among other revenue sources. A shitbag of soft-dollar BS. They went from a chart projecting like 50% YOY top-line projections to shuttering the office, inside 18 months. They were fucking pushing that Dykstra thing as a huge synergy. omfg.

    One of the guys being pitched was this billionaire from telecom. They used the term "reciprocal comp" to discuss this soft-dollar magic, and he literally walked out at that moment, laughing, as it's apparently purely a telecom-term.

    I don't know when they talked to MD, but at the time the revs where around $3MM for that toilet paper and the audit was suspect. Anyway, a far cry from earning anything. This site is populated with retards who believe VIX is a breakfast cereal. These threads are surreal.
     
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    #69     Jan 24, 2016
  10. destriero

    destriero

    Good call, Bro.
     
    #70     Jan 24, 2016