The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Sirius XM is the final inning of its merger with Liberty Media's Sirius XM tracking stock , Liberty Sirius XM Group (NASDAQ: LSXMA) (NASDAQ: LSXMB) (NASDAQ: LSXMK) , which is expected to stop trading after the closing bell on Sept. This merger is being undertaken to create a unified class of Sirius XM common stock.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Bain Capital, which led a management buyout of Japan Wind Development in 2015 for $1.5bn, declined to comment. Reports of the acquisition costs sent shares in Infroneer sliding 6% on Tuesday. Read more KKR Emerges as Frontrunner for £3bn Iris Software Acquisition KKR & Co. Source: Reuters Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Sipos previously worked at Clarion from 2011 to 2015. In these roles, he oversaw the legal functions across acquisitions, divestitures, litigation, governance, investor relations, regulatory compliance, human resources and equity compensation.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Deliberations are at an early stage, and a decision on whether to proceed with the merger should be made by the end of the year, said one of the people. The merger would come amid renewed deal activity in the media sector. KKR and Mediawan declined to comment, Leonine Studios did not respond to requests for comment. Source: U.S.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 17, 2024

Arnhold was promoted to his most recent role last year, having joined AnaCap in 2015. He was previously Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions at Willis Group (now Willis Towers Watson) and held various roles at Barclays prior to this.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

in 2015 (the first year SpaceX received U.S. operating profit margin in 2015, but suffered a $3.5 billion ), (2) whether it would make sense for them to buy ULA, or (3) or whether such an acquisition would pass regulatory muster (i.e., Air Force certification to launch national security missions) to just 8.8%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

The beauty of this high FCF margin is that it arms management with excess cash to use on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Since 2015, Motorola has spent roughly $6 billion on more than 20 acquisitions, further building out its technological prowess across all three of its product groups.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Qorvo's business is small, but it's diversified Qorvo is the result of a 2015 "merger of equals" between RF Micro Devices and TriQuint Semiconductor. However, since 2015, the synergies haven't come together and it's been rough going for this global manufacturer. Here's what you need to know.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

A serial acquirer, Rollins has spent over $1 billion (roughly half its free cash flow) on hundreds of acquisitions over the last five years. Had an investor purchased the company in 2015 at a similar valuation, they would have still easily outpaced the S&P 500 index's total returns, 337% to 204%.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

Private equity giant Bain Capital is said to be considering an acquisition of education software provider PowerSchool Holdings (NYSE: PWSC). The company was spun out of Pearson to Vista Equity Partners in 2015, going public in 2021. Is PowerSchool a buy on the merger reports? Is PowerSchool going private again?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

Its merger with Pioneer Natural Resources shouldn't face any hiccups and will significantly boost its position in the short-cycle Permian Basin. On March 15, Exxon announced its first discovery of 2024 in the Stabroek block, which adds to over 30 discoveries Exxon has made offshore Guyana since 2015. Exxon checks all the boxes.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The company's next big move will be to complete its proposed acquisition of Capri Holdings (NYSE: CPRI). But when you look at the financial results from the third quarter for each of these luxury fashion companies, well, there are worrying similarities to the merger of Sears and Kmart. The difficulty lies in making it happen.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In mid-2015, Dollar Tree bought Family Dollar for $8.5 This difference caused a lack of synergies between the businesses, making a successful merger difficult. Another point to consider is Dollar General's (NYSE: DG) outperformance since the July 6, 2015, acquisition. Family Dollar (0.1%) 0% Table by author.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2024

Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) has been a disappointing investment ever since it was created from the merger between Kraft and Heinz nine years ago. on July 6, 2015, but they now trade just below $36. The combined company's shares opened at $48.55 of the company's outstanding shares. billion stake accounts for 3.7%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

since the downturn of 2015. And since Devon hasn't made a big acquisition, buying back stock could be a good use of capital. Unlike ConocoPhillips and Devon, Diamondback has been active in the merger and acquisition (M&A) department. ConocoPhillips' 10-year plan focuses on breaking even at a U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2024

Kraft Heinz There's no denying Warren Buffett misread the upside and ease of merging then-separate Kraft and Heinz into The Kraft Heinz Company (NASDAQ: KHC) in 2015. Although it's taken far longer than anyone expected at the time, the merger of Kraft and Heinz is finally starting to help more than hurt. billion, by the way.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

MTY Food Group: A serial acquirer MTY Food Group has made 50 acquisitions since 1999, including 27 over the last decade. While companies that rely upon megamergers or one-off jumbo acquisitions to fuel their growth often disappoint, serial acquirers like MTY often prove to be outperforming propositions. percentage points.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Emphasizing this point, during the 2008 financial crisis, the industrial slowdown in 2015, and the pandemic in 2020, Rollins delivered sales growth of 6%, 6%, and 12%. Ascending to become North America's largest pest control business, Rollins has proven to be one of the most resilient companies of the 21st century.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

But when you consider the performance of the broader industry, how the oil and gas industry crashed in 2015 and then again in 2020, and the outperformance by big tech stocks to carry the S&P 500, Chevron's 107.5% The first is to increase earnings through organic growth, cost reductions, mergers and acquisitions, and the like.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2024

That's why in 2015, Buffett -- then a major stakeholder in Heinz -- helped orchestrate the pairing by steering the company into an acquisition of its peer. You should know that the company hasn't raised its dividend since 2019 after lowering it in the wake of its post-merger regrouping. As it turns out, it wasn't a great fit.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 6, 2023

a share, totaling an acquisition price of $4.6 This is the largest acquisition deal that Solenis has completed to date, and the largest acquisition deal for a Delaware-based company in several years, surpassing CSC’s $2 billion deal for Intertrust last year. The all-cash deal for the publicly traded Diversey was set at $8.40

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

ConocoPhillips' medium-term plan During the past year, there has been a flurry of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the oil patch. Leverage ratios tend to spike when oil prices fall, which you can see in the aftermath of the 2014 to 2015 oil and gas downturn and the 2020 COVID-19-induced collapse. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2023

He founded the company in 2015, but stepped down as CEO and left the company in September 2020. That was about three months after the company went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger , and it made Milton a billionaire on paper.

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The Healthcare Investor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

CREO , founded in 2015 and based in Durham, N.C., Grant Avenue Capital has announced it has participated in a recapitalization of CREO with founding partners of the company.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2023

million shares of this food giant it's been sitting on since 2015 -- and it's not just because Buffett helped orchestrate the merger of Kraft and Heinz back then. Still, there's a reason Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is still holding the 325.6 The latter is arguably the root cause of KHC stock's prolonged weakness.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 11, 2024

However, investors have grown concerned about its take rate, or the total revenue retained from each transaction, which has declined every year since 2015. After a record 2021, led by robust demand for initial public offerings (IPOs) and a flurry of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investment banking activity came to a screeching halt.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The company still has a huge amount of debt on its books, its history of acquisitions is littered with duds, and its sales and earnings growth will likely proceed at slow paces even in optimistic scenarios due to the competitive environments of the categories it operates in.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 1, 2024

As recently as 2015, for example, Statista data shows that only 11% of broadband connections in the United States were fiber optic. My best advice in the meantime is to keep an eye on the technology, and an eye out for any mergers and acquisitions activity surrounding companies that say they're developing zero-G optical fiber.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Private equity’s role in M&A in 2024 In 2023, the financial services (FS) industry experienced a decline in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for the second consecutive year. Despite this downward trend, the 2024 outlook for the FS M&A landscape is generally optimistic.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Rather, Walgreens shares simply extended a sell-off that's been underway since 2015 due to the ongoing deterioration of the company's health. Indeed, the stock reached a multi-decade low last month on a combination of concerns about theft, a dividend cut , management turnover, layoffs, and labor headaches, just to name a few.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 1, 2023

We discuss how his career has traced the rise of private credit: He began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert, then founded the high-yield finance business at Chase Securities (now JP Morgan Chase), served as head of Leveraged Finance for RBC.

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Axial

MAY 4, 2023

Our partners have unparalleled experience, with involvement in over 200 sales and mergers since 1979. We specialize in providing services to the printing, packaging and allied graphic arts industries with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions.”

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When Berkshire closed its acquisition of General Re, it became the owner of NEAM. But after more than $40 billion in concessions following the merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery to create Warner Bros. Fintech's industry leader is also trading at its lowest valuation since being spun off by eBay in 2015. As of Sept.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We always like a good mergers and acquisitions Monday. Hostess, clearly a brand with a bit of a checkered past as far as a company goes, and I think they declared bankruptcy twice in its history, recently IPOed again in 2015. This is my kind of show, Deidre. How are you? It is Jelly and Uncrustables maker J.

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Insight Partners

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As of 2022, Apple had already achieved carbon neutrality and reduced emissions by 45% since 2015. Balancing regulation and innovation While regulation can offer early momentum for user acquisition, it shouldn’t be the lynchpin of a business model. This is where partnerships with specialized climate tech startups become crucial.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

They're still integrating their Chewy 's acquisition. The Fed Express division, which is the merger of their ground, and their FedEX Services division, had lower operating results. You worked on other projects, came back as CEO, I think back in 2015. We'll have to wait and see. It's not actually in results yet. You sold it.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

coli outbreak in 2015, making the move something of a contrarian bet. Restaurant Brands International is the owner of Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, and Ackman helped engineer the merger that combined Tim Hortons and Burger King. and Mexico, following its acquisition of Kansas City Southern.

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