Episodes

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Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the incentive horizon gap and explains what happens when executives are rewarded over three years for capital-allocation decisions whose true economic returns may not become observable for seven or ten.
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Oct 23, 2026

3 min

The Financing Moat

Oct 23, 2026

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the financing moat and explains what happens if balance-sheet capacity becomes part of the product and companies able to finance their customers gain a competitive advantage unavailable to financially weaker rivals. 
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the backlog liability and explains when a record backlog stops being evidence of future revenue and starts becoming evidence of the capital a company still has to raise, spend, and successfully execute. 
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the contingent balance sheet and explains what happens when a company's true financial exposure increasingly sits in guarantees, backstops, and contractual promises rather than conventional reported debt.
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the valuation identity problem and explains what happens when investors classify the company using an outdated business model, and therefore apply the wrong valuation framework before they even debate the multiple. 
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the orphaned multiple and explains what happens to valuation when fewer investors are economically incentivized to maintain an independent model of the company and automated analysis begins filling the resulting information vacuum.
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the distribution signal and explains what happens if the options market starts repricing the range of possible outcomes for a company before investors change their forecasts or their target prices. 
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the non-owner premium and explains what happens if the largest constraint on your valuation is not what existing shareholders believe, but the assumption preventing sophisticated non-owners from becoming shareholders.
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses the source-of-truth premium and explains what happens to valuation when AI increasingly interprets the company before an investor does and the company's own disclosures are no longer the clearest source of truth. 
Browse the Breakwater Capital Markets website to learn more about our podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 23, 2026

3 min

Oct 22, 2026

19 min

Join us for a podcast-exclusive episode of our Catalyst for Impact webinar series! Mark Hayes answers key questions about the earnings call and how leading IROs are reinventing guidance, narrative, and Q&A.
Learn more about Breakwater Capital Markets and browse our resources: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/

Oct 22, 2026

19 min

Oct 22, 2026

19 min

Join us for a podcast-exclusive episode of our Catalyst for Impact webinar series! Mark Hayes answers key questions about the valuation gap war room and how to rebuild investor confidence before the market moves on.
Learn more about Breakwater Capital Markets and browse our resources: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/

Oct 22, 2026

19 min

Oct 16, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses why conventional corporate risk-management processes are capable of keeping pace with increasingly autonomous cybersecurity threats, and what should investors expect companies to prove. 
Explore our website to discover more from Breakwater Capital Markets' podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 16, 2026

3 min

Oct 16, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses what happens when technological productivity improves corporate margins but changes the employment, income, or pricing environment supporting customer demand. 
Explore our website to learn more about Breakwater Capital Markets' podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 16, 2026

3 min

Oct 16, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses how companies should value the trade-off between supply-chain resilience and the higher fixed costs of operating across multiple jurisdictions. 
Explore our website to learn more about Breakwater Capital Markets' podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 16, 2026

3 min

Oct 16, 2026

3 min

Join Mark Hayes as he discusses how access to electricity could become a greater determinant of future earnings growth than product demand or corporate strategy. 
Explore our website to learn more about Breakwater Capital Markets' podcasts: https://breakwaterstrategy.com/capital-markets/elevating-ir-a-global-conversation/

Oct 16, 2026

3 min