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Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io at $1.6bn Valuation

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Tribe Capital, Nexus, and NewView Capital also joined the Series C round. Founded in 2015, Apollo.io The domestic venture capital firm’s US investments have served as a hedge against its India portfolio. Read more Bain Capital Invests in Sales Tech Startup Apollo.io

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Is Kinder Morgan a Millionaire Maker?

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Slow business growth is likely to be the norm, largely driven by modest capital investments, regular (but small) fee increases, and occasional acquisitions. In late 2015, Kinder Morgan told investors that the dividend could increase by as much as 10% in 2016. That high yield is going to represent most of the return.

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Why It Makes No Sense to Invest in the Airline Industry (and Why Boeing and General Electric Investors Will Do It Anyway)

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Airlines aren't productive (at least for shareholders) The ultimate test of whether a company is allocating capital productively for shareholders is the comparison between its return on invested capita l (ROIC) and its weighted average cost of capital (WACC).

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Is Kinder Morgan Stock a Buy?

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This was done because management had to choose between paying the dividend or putting money to work in capital investment projects that would grow the company. At the end of 2015, management was telling investors that it would be able to increase the dividend by as much as 10% in 2016.

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2 High-Yield Dividend Stocks That Are No-Brainer Buys

The Motley Fool

Kinder Morgan had increased its dividend for six consecutive years, rebuilding its dividend track record after the company slashed the payout in late 2015 when it faced high capital investment needs and a potential credit rating downgrade. The stock's dividend yield is a robust 6.8% at the current share price. per share.

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$9,000 Invested in ExxonMobil and Each of These 2 Dividend Stocks to Generate Over $1,000 in Passive Income per Year

The Motley Fool

It's a win for Kinder Morgan because it collects predictable cash flows and a win for its customers so that they don't have to shell out multibillion-dollar capital investments to transport fuels from areas of production to areas of consumption and export. But it wasn't always this way. The company paid a $0.51-per-share

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Is Kinder Morgan Stock a Buy?

The Motley Fool

The story goes back to 2015, when management told investors on Oct. 21: "While we are at the beginning of our budget process for 2016, we currently expect to increase our declared dividend for 2016 by 6 to 10 percent over the 2015 declared dividend of $2.00 Kinder Morgan's history isn't particularly inspiring on this front.

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