The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2024

They want to leverage the investments, they being Capital One, leverages the investments and their network they've put down for the last decades, and they can do that by getting larger very quickly with as you say an all-stock deal. In fiscal 2008, which their fiscal year is ending in February, it's always weird.

Financial Services 130

Financial Services Capital Mergers and Acquisitions Banks 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,271 !* like one of our leading CPG brands, which recently leveraged DB's fraud and viewability solutions in combination with Scibids to double its unique reach and improve its QCP, its proxy for return on ad spend by 52%. This was six weeks.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Due Diligence Accounting 130

SuperAngel.Fund

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The sharing economy was born from the global financial crisis of 2008. The need for genuinely inventive solutions only increases during a downturn. The Dot Com boom created the internet.

Venture Capital 64

Venture Capital Startups Deal Flow Due Diligence 64

Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We take a more muted view for the next cycle as multiple expansion was responsible for only 14% of the average annual total return from 1991 to 2008 when rates were both higher and more volatile. With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. Private credit funds tend to be levered ~1.0x

Leveraging 52

Leveraging Banks Debt Leveraged Buyouts 52

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When I read the first draft of the private fund rule, my first reaction was that the SEC must have subpoenaed a few hundred operational due diligence reports written by knowledgeable ODD practitioners across the industry. On a yearly basis this was the steepest decline since 2008, when All Equity REITs declined 41.1%.

Hedge Funds 64

Hedge Funds Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Pension Funds Funds 64

The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

Well, you have to have a certain track record, be around for certain length of period, be able to check all of their due diligence boxes, and that takes time and money. That looks — always looks good in a spreadsheet, but the — RITHOLTZ: Leverage is the problem. It’s more important than the leverage levels.

Consulting 119

Consulting Consultants Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 119

Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Based in Kansas, we operate nationally, leveraging our extensive banking experience and in-depth knowledge of financing to provide a seamless transaction process for both parties involved. In 2008 Bentley professionals worked with over 50 clients. Mr. Kerchner, Mr. Clark, Mr. Fay, Ms.

Investment Banking 52

Investment Banking Investment Banks Banks Mergers and Acquisitions 52

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $45,331 !* I think we're more likely to continue our string of pearls strategy that's served us so well, and we're likely to bring our leverage back down. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $527,508 !* Thank you, Mike.

Companies 130

Companies Consulting Consultants Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,133 !* But that really shows you the leverage on the costs in PV, which is one of our low-cost producers. We didn't do any due diligence if you recall. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $420,761 !*

Mergers and Acquisitions 130

Mergers and Acquisitions Liabilities Assets Capital 130

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And you can go long, you can go short, you can have leverage, you could have higher exposure levels, but the securities are in the liquid public markets versus private equity, which are in illiquid private markets. And so we, we kind of stay very stealth when we’re in the due diligence process.

Hedge Funds 64

Hedge Funds Mutual Funds Funds Due Diligence 64

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Committed US$150 million to Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners XI, which focuses on leveraged buyouts and growth capital opportunities in North America and Europe, primarily in the technology & software, healthcare, financials and consumer & retail sectors. The executive summary and full paper are available here.

Investing 59

Investing Buyout Stakes Assets 59

The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

There were financial experiments where the borrower hadn’t been through due diligence. My family and I moved to McLean, Virginia in, in 2008. Then as we dug in and dug in and dug in, we realized that there were a lot of loans that were really experiments. The LTV was very high. What, so what was that experience like?

Hedge Funds 59

Hedge Funds Banks Assets Due Diligence 59

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $42,390 !* In January, we launched our newly authorized $1 billion share repurchase program and will continue to leverage repurchases to underscore our confidence in our business. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $514,479 !*

Financing 130

Financing Finance Taxes Debt 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $46,607 !* This is about us building our technology platform to be able to enable our broader strategy, and it will leverage both across our existing markets in our power solutions segment and across the industrial filtration markets. Rob Mason -- Analyst Very good.

Capital 130

Capital Banks Taxes Due Diligence 130

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Somehow no one in due diligence ever asked them about any of this. And not being able to tell them or show them makes it harder for them to do due diligence to understand how it may have behaved. And then what happened in, in 2008? This is implicitly leverage. I’ve never been introduced.

Returns 59

Returns Mutual Funds Hedge Funds Leveraging 59

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $45,122 !* Our new private credit dataset provides terms and conditions transparency on more than 2,800 private credit funds and more than 120,000 private credit holdings to support various due diligence and portfolio management needs.

Asset Management 130

Asset Management Hedge Funds Assets Mergers and Acquisitions 130

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $45,122 !* We also improved our net debt-to-EBITDA ratio, which is now approximately three times and on track to our 2027 targets of two times leverage. And as we move forward, I think as the pipeline matures, we'll continue to show that due diligence.

Assets 130

Assets Capital Debt Portfolios 130