Intangible Valuation Continues to Fuel Controversy

There is a great discussion here on the blog of IAM Magazine (IAM stands for Intellectual Asset Management) on the question of intangible value. Editor Joff Wild put out the question whether the declining stock market implies that the value of intangibles has disappeared. A spirited debate has followed with 12 comments to date. Here are some of the ideas that I included in my comments.

The stock market intangible gap: The gap between the stock market capitalization of companies and their tangible book value has narrowed due to the severe downturn in equity prices. Read more