Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The private equity backer of Six Nations Rugby is drawing up plans for a £1.5bn bid for Audiotonix, the British-based manufacturer of equipment used by bands such as Coldplay. On Thursday, City sources said that Cinven, another sizeable buyout firm, is also preparing to lodge a bid as part of a formal sale process.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2023

EQT, who you can meet at the Benelux Private Equity Conference, was understood to have bid upwards of $1.4bn in the first round – giving VetPartners the same multiple implied by TPG Capital’s sale of a 45 per cent stake in GreenCross last year. It has owned European and North American vet roll-up IVC Evidensia and its 2500 clinics since 2014.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 13, 2023

billion into India’s renewable sector over 2014 to 2022. Amp Energy India has been bidding for green energy projects and recently won CESC’s 150MW wind-solar hybrid power project auction. Global investors have been drawn to India’s promising clean energy initiatives, bolstered by the government’s commitment and supportive policies.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Another reason to steer clear of Nvidia or bid its stock adieu is that executives and board members have done nothing but sell their shares for more than three years. It's almost hard to believe that Nvidia was regularly valued at less than 20X cash flow as recently as 2014, 2015, and 2018. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Its peak came after it bought the remaining 55% stake in British pharmacy Alliance Boots right before the end of 2014. in its fiscal year 2014 to 19.5% Walgreens stock hit an all-time high of $96.68 back in August 2015, but it has been all downhill since then. Over the past decade, its gross margins have gone from 28.2%

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, that stock has been bid to nosebleed valuations, dramatically increasing the risk. When Lisa Su became CEO in 2014, she shifted AMD's focus to CPUs and GPUs. It also means that investors may have a more lucrative opportunity in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It has moved in this direction for a long time.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

That bid was also rejected. Although its so-called "A Bold New Chapter" strategy looks and sounds like a compelling revitalization plan, the retailer has made several such efforts since its sales peaked all the way back in 2014. Arkhouse and Brigade raised their offer one last time early this month, valuing Macy's at $6.9

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

So it wasn't all that surprising when Chevron made a bid to buy Permian exploration and production (E&P) company Anadarko Petroleum for $65 per share later that year. However, Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) , another E&P, outbid Chevron, offering $76 per share, or 17% more than Chevron's bid.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In 2014, Carvana sold 2,105 cars on its e-commerce platform. Investors have seriously bid up the stock this year, riding improved market sentiment following a terrible 2022. The thinking was, why couldn't this be done with cars? In 2022, that figure totaled 412,000 -- incredible growth any way you look at it.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 10, 2024

The report noted that Alphabet had met with investment bankers to discuss the size of any potential bid and whether the proposed tie-up would pass muster with regulators. Since HubSpot's initial public offering (IPO) in October 2014, the stock -- which was then priced at $25 per share -- has gained 2,260%.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Appian’s US$375m Fund I closed in 2014 while its US$775m Fund II closed in 2021. Read more Morgan Stanley, Pacific Equity Partners, QIC, ICG, & Partners Infrastructure Bid $500m+ for Cura Day Hospitals Australia’s biggest private hospital operator, Ramsay Health Care, has lobbed a first-round offer.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For Jabil, you'll see the usual single-day spike when the stock graduates from the S&P MidCap 400 to the more prestigious S&P 500 index, followed by slightly higher average daily trading volumes and narrower gaps between the stock's bid and ask prices. The ongoing recovery started when Mark Mondello moved into the CEO office in 2013.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 27, 2023

Vivienne Jupp, chair of PLI, said that the company had “moved from strength to strength” since first winning the licence to operate the Irish lottery in 2014. PLI was first acquired by the Canadian fund in 2014 for €405m via a deal which included a 20-year licence to operate the Irish lottery. An Post also welcomed the sale.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In the last 10 years, inventory to sales ratios for 220-horsepower tractors for Deere have only been this low twice: in April 2014, just prior to the last down cycle; and in January 2022, due to post-pandemic supply constraints.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We have gradually but continuously optimized our portfolio of assets since 2014 resulting in a fleet that is technologically differentiated from that of our peers. And so, we're not going to be really bidding them for 2026. On my last point before I hand it over to Keelan, I would like to spend some time on asset quality.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I don't know what the all-time low is, but it's lower than at any point, I think, since 2014. Or has the market become more deep and liquid and bid-ask spreads have narrowed somewhat? So maybe for Bob or you, Taylor as well. I think the 4.2 times leverage today is a decade low. Pickett -- Chief Executive Officer Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In both DRAM and NAND, there is intense focus on lowering bid cost through efficient reuse of the installed base. And I just mentioned, since paying our first dividend in 2014, we have now raised the dividend in 10 consecutive years. We have $9.8 billion remaining on our board-authorized share repurchase plan.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They have been able to grow revenue 20% annualized from 2014-2022. I sent it to my Hollywood agent first and by Friday of that week, we had a bidding war with five studios bidding on it. But when you look at the actual numbers here it's really impressive. In 2022, they generated $1.24 billion in revenue.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The system fully exited its stakes in eight European funds in 2014, a move that “jump-started” the performance of its European PE portfolio, according to John Bradley, senior investment officer for private equity at Florida SBA. The pension’s European private equity portfolio saw its IRR increase from 6.9 percent in 2013 to 12.4

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Investors know that they're growing more quickly and they bid up the price of those stocks. Alicia Alfiere: Well, so she founded Bumble back in 2014 and when you think about it, her journey of just about 10 years, had to have been massive and exhausting. Well, the reason is the same as countries underperform. She took a company public.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Five years later, at the end of 2014, the stock finally hit $60 a share. First of all, the market is willing to bid Rule Breakers to exceedingly high, and I would also say exceedingly low points as stocks. I rerecommended Nvidia. The stock was back to 47. I wrote at the time, and I quote, "The timing is right, and so is the price".

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

faced a 2012 takeover bid from U.S. That caused us political grief, but it was the right decision to make, and the Caisse decided,” says Carlos Leitão, who was Quebec’s finance minister from 2014 to 2018 and now serves on the Bank of Canada’s board of directors. “I There have been, and always will be, politically sensitive investments.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

As recently confirmed by Westwood Global Energy Group, this asset class is now effectively sold out with committed utilization at 100% for the first time since 2014. In Brazil, the Petrobras pooled two tenders in its final stages, with Petrobras recently announcing the winning bids, including the deepwater Qila.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That's one of your tactical focuses in 2014. And what's terrific about that, not only does it open up that scarcity to new bidding and new advertisers, but it's also driving pricing. Could you talk -- I know you said you're focusing on the home page more. Can you talk about other than just adding more brands to city?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The reason we do this R&D day, as I said before, we've just completed our 10-year journey that we started in 2014 were engaging in the next phase of our-in the next 10 years. So we are bidding for Part D in the course of 2024. And equally, we're going to bid for Part D in the course of this year as well. environment.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And as we've demonstrated now for about a decade, with the exchange business, by taking a very targeted focus within that market from its inception in 2014 to today, we continue to see that as a complementary aspect to our business. Yet, we are able to successfully leverage our collaborative accountable care relationships.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 2, 2022

And, you know, I have bids out on …. RITHOLTZ: … Cars & Bids …. RITHOLTZ: And I think they stopped them in 2014. RITHOLTZ: I came very close to buying a 2014 911 Turbo, the 996.2. ELLIOTT: OK. RITHOLTZ: So my — I’m sitting outside, reading a book, and my wife says, “John from Salt Lake City on the phone.”

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

The original investments were made between 2012 and 2014. As I highlighted, there are some markets that are still quite robust, the renewable energy and infrastructure space, but Office is in a price discovery mode for sure , trying ot find a clearing price (bid-ask spread). including two in St.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

This is — I might have been starting to look at this in 2014-’15. My partner, Josh Brown, calls this the “relentless bid.” And that’s when I really — I look back at this. That’s when I really got on this whole notion that bear markets are actually going to speed this thing up …. RITHOLTZ: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2025

There could be a bidding war in theory. You could see a bidding war and now get a lot of interest in this company, and that'll that'll make investors excited. Goncalves has been CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs since 2014. He made a bid for US Steel in 2023, and I was trying to figure out, I hadn't paid much attention to him in the past.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

For those of you not familiar with Cain, which, as of year-end 2024, had nearly $18 billion in assets under management, it was founded in 2014 by Jonathan and his partner Todd Boehly and is affiliated with Eldridge Industries, an investment company founded and led by Todd Boehly. Look, I think there's news almost every day.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And so I told you earlier that I track, I started in 2014 tracking any sales that actually closed for 50 million or higher. And I went back in time, back to like 2000, and really that world began in about 2014, where there were maybe 17 or 18 nationally sales, 50 million or higher. RITHOLTZ: And now?

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

Founded in 2014 by Gerry Cardinale, RedBird integrates sophisticated private equity investing with a hands-on business building mandate that focuses on three core industry verticals– Media & Entertainment, Sports and Experiential Consumer, and Financial Services. Clearly Brookfield won that bidding war paying more than $5.5

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Given where this criticism is mostly coming from — a few domestic equity-centric fund managers, I suspect they are hoping to see our billions of additional dollars chasing Canadian stocks and therefore bidding prices higher. They don’t mention that the Maple 8 large Canadian pension funds collectively have around 13.5%

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2024

Since 2014, we have spun off both Alcon and Sandoz in shareholder-friendly ways. And importantly, at that dose range, 25 milligrams BID, we saw no liver signals in those dermatology studies. We continue to pursue as well remibrutinib in other immunology indications where we think there is an opportunity given it's a safe profile.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I realize not many people play Bridge anymore, but anybody who ever played the card game Bridge knows that you really have to learn how to bid. You need to know the dos and don'ts of standard bidding in the card game of Bridge. I want to thank again my Palestinian hosts in 2014 for the generous hospitality and what I saw there.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Thoma Bravo, which manages $166bn in assets, first acquired SailPoint in 2014 before taking it public in 2017. read more The saga continues: Brookfield enters $1.9bn bidding war for Insignia Financial Brookfield Asset Management joined Bain Capital and CC Capital in the race to acquire Insignia.

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