What’s the most overrated metric in corporate finance?
I’ll go first: EBITDA margin. Useful, but I’ve seen people weaponize it without context.

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Growth rate in users / customers / clients because until you can monetize them and recoup the CAC then it’s noise

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Makes sense

Which metric would you prefer using?

Good question

I’ll just say it. Anything projected. Especially if it’s projected out more than a year.

So true

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