The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Microsoft is starting to separate itself because it's tied to so many things and we saw what it is now trying to do in the gaming business with its Activision Blizzard acquisition of almost $70 billion. So I think the acquisition is exciting. With really no corporate acquisitions, they do it all internal house.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2024

dividend yield, but it has raised its dividend every year since 2013. With limited ways to expand the business beyond strategic mergers and acquisitions -- which Coke has done an excellent job of over the last few years -- it's pretty much impossible for the company to keep pace with a growth-fueled market. Apple only has a 0.6%

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2023

What investors may want to know about the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC. Ricky Moldy caught up with Thompson to discuss the early days of mixed martial arts, the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC, and what it takes to be the Alpha of a cage fighting organization. He's just gone from agency to acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Record volumes, strong financial performance, and the closing of the Magellan acquisition solidified 2023 as a year of significant growth and transformation for ONEOK. This program is complementary to the dividend growth rate when thinking about shareholder return in the future. Adjusted EBITDA totaled more than $1.5

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

Deidre Woollard: It's a Monday, so we get to talk some mergers and acquisitions. The shareholders are going to get half of that in cash, half of that in stock over 200 percent premium on the last closing price. It's good to see at least shareholders get some value from this. They're buying Matterport. We'll see.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Visit SouthWorth’s Profile “Cottonwood Acquisitions is a family office partnership focused on investing in small to mid-sized businesses. ” Visit Northwoods’ Profile “Meraki Investments, LLC is a private investment firm focused on small to medium-sized acquisitions of established quality businesses.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I found one of the things that was a little unsatisfying as a merger banker is you’d work on a transaction, you’d help a company buy something or sell something, or merged with another business. But I would say when it came to kind of what part of investing, I think being a merger banker did inform what I wanted to do next.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Prior to 2022, when rates were cheap, when rates were zero, when capital was plentiful, it seemed like the entire industry went through this wild merger frenzy. RITHOLTZ: Now, let’s talk a little bit about the roll-ups and the mergers and acquisitions that are going on. RITHOLTZ: The shareholder.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

And it has been a market-beating proposition since its 2013 initial public offering, more than quintupling investors' returns over that time. Whether helping our furry friends at home, keeping livestock healthy, or doing its part to battle the bird flu outbreak that has sent egg prices sky high, Zoetis is easy to root for these days.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2025

However, the company has continued to pay down debt and also completed the acquisition of Crown Rock in 2024, a transaction that is immediately accretive to free cash flow and adds the equivalent of 170,000 barrels of oil per day. Occidental has largely struggled due to falling oil prices and a more bearish outlook on oil for next year.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2025

As a reminder, the announcement of the acquisition of Discover constituted a material business change. Therefore, we continue to be subject to the Federal Reserve's pre-approval of our capital actions until the merger approval process has concluded. Pulling way up, the acquisition of Discover is a singular opportunity.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. RITHOLTZ: So when I think of GE in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the three things that come up; GE Capital, obviously; the rise of shareholder value, which a lot of people point to General Electric as a key driver of that; and then Six Sigma.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Tell us how you went from retail to mergers and acquisitions. When I started in 2013. And, and just to, to wrap up the M&A, you win another Loeb award in 2016 covering the Dow DuPont merger. That was a giant merger. His initial shareholder letter was, Hey, don’t expect profits for the next 10 or 20 years.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Cutting the corporate tax rate would support a multitrillion investment On paper, if select businesses are able to hang onto more of the cash they generate from their operations, it can result in an uptick in hiring, an increase in wages for existing workers, more merger and acquisition activity, and additional investment in innovation.

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