We present a machine learning approach to firm valuation that requires only historical accounting data as input. The machine learning model generates a median absolute percentage error of 17.2% in out-of-sample firm value predictions. The model out-performs a sample of final-year finance...

Most large companies operate in more than one business. Valuing a diversified company requires separate valuations for each of its businesses and for the corporate headquarters. This method of valuing a company by parts and then adding them up is known as Sum-Of-The-Parts (SOTP) valuation and is...

The great economic growth paradox is unveiled, from a sustainable point of view. Whenever r (rent) exceeds g (growth), the socio-economic system reaches the stage (pg) of cyclical crisis; this Sisyphean economic result is caused today by the static interplay of 3 monopolies (1=land value;...