What is Value?

Issue #45 December 16, 2019

Value can be defined in several ways and in today’s markets (financial, professional, enterprise, and societal) it seems like where we place “value” has recently shifted in unsettling ways to an unsustainable path. As we approach a new year, I think it’s important that investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurs look for value that can be sustained as both an offensive and defensive hedge against the inevitable correction whenever it may come.

VALUE \ (ˈval-(ˌ)yü) : relative worth, utility, or importance

~as defined in Merriam Webster

Value in the investment and financial markets can be categorized as the current agreed market price (buyers and sellers) of an asset, but that is merely the perception of a moment in time and speaks nothing to the act of what creates value.

What creates value?

The Gartner team led by Johanna Robinson and Dennis Gannon have published their recent research findings looking at the Global S&P 1200 companies between 2010-2017. They found some very insightful…