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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Since going public in 2015, financial technology (fintech) company PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) has generated tens of billions of dollars in profits. The remaining 90 shares each represent a larger stake in the business and can thus be more valuable. Year Shares repurchased Money spent 2015 0 $0 2016 27.3 Where'd it all go?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 15, 2025

Hg is considering retaining an equity stake in Trackunit, which was founded in Denmark in 2003, the sources added. Goldmans asset management division initially acquired Trackunit alongside GRO Capital in 2015 for an undisclosed sum. Negotiations are still ongoing, and the deal could still fall through.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

Since its launch in July 2015, Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) has skyrocketed in price from just $0.31 Competitive landscape When Ethereum launched back in 2015, it stood alone as the only smart contract blockchain platform. That type of competition simply did not exist back in 2015. to $3,000 today.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

Intel has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its Altera business to Silver Lake in a deal that values the field programmable gate array specialist at $8.75bn, establishing it as the largest standalone companies focused exclusively on FPGA semiconductor solutions.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 2, 2024

With the sale of its 70% stake in satellite television provider DIRECTV, telecom giant AT&T (NYSE: T) is finally fully out of the media business. billion in 2015 to acquire DIRECTV only to see subscribers jump ship. It paid a staggering $48.5 The end result of this dealmaking was the epic destruction of shareholder value.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 26, 2024

TDR Capital is closing in on a deal to buy gas-station billionaire Zuber Issa’s stake in Asda as the private-equity firm tightens its grip on one of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains, according to people familiar with the discussions. Since 2015, TDR has backed most of their significant acquisitions. The agreement for Issa’s 22.5%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 2, 2023

That longer-than-expected slowdown seemingly drove Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway -- which became HP's largest single shareholder over the past year -- to sell more than 12% of its stake over the past month. HP (NYSE: HPQ) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise split into two separate companies on Nov.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by luxury French fashion house LVMH, is looking to sell its stake in Saudi Arabian gourmet food producer and restaurant chain Bateel, according to people familiar with the matter. Representatives for UBS and Bateel declined to comment, while L Catterton didn’t respond to requests for comment.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2023

Buffett first bought a stake in the iPhone maker in the first quarter of 2016. Not too long before Buffett invested in the company, Apple released the first model of the Watch in April 2015. In fiscal 2015 (ended Sept. Some didn't work out, but some of them turned out to be huge wins. Apple's financial situation was outstanding.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Among Son's best-known investments are Alibaba , Yahoo, Uber , DoorDash , WeWork, and Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) , in which Softbank owns roughly a 90% stake. Softbank took the company private in 2016 for $32 billion, and today that stake is worth roughly $130 billion. But Son has made much more than that in his successes.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Co-founder Teodoro D’Ambrosio is the group’s largest shareholder, with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Carlyle also holding stakes, a Prima spokesperson said, declining to comment on the fundraise. Founded in 2015, Prima Assicurazioni offers online insurance products to consumers in partnership with Munich Re and Swiss Re.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 15, 2025

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced on Monday that it had agreed to sell a 51% stake in Altera, the FPGA specialist it acquired in 2015, to investment firm Silver Lake. While Intel will retain a 49% stake in the company, it will relinquish operational control as Altera becomes an independent, pure-play FPGA provider.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2023

Kim Kardashian is reportedly in talks with to buy back a minority stake in her beauty products firm SKKN By Kim, 3 years after selling the stake for $200m. New York-based Coty bought the 20% stake in the reality TV star’s beauty brand in June 2020, valuing the company at $1bn. Source: Daily Mail Can’t stop reading?

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PE Hub

AUGUST 30, 2023

In July, Apollo announced a minority stake in the pet retailer, which BC took private back in 2015. PE Hub spoke with both firms to learn more. The post BC Partners got creative with PetSmart when faced with anemic exit environment appeared first on PE Hub.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Alibaba's founder, Jack Ma, reduced his stake Investors were already shocked by the decision to cancel the Alibaba Cloud spin-off. It didn't help that co-founder Jack Ma decided to reduce his stake in Alibaba at this sensitive time. by 2020 (his stake was 7.6% His ownership in Alibaba had already fallen to 4.8%

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway's stake is worth 26.8% Buffett bought H.J. Heinz in 2013 and merged it with Kraft Foods two years later. The new company initially traded at $71 , but is changing hands at just $35 today. of Kraft Heinz. So is Buffett just bag-holding , or is there a long-term opportunity waiting to shine?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2024

But there's a reason Warren Buffett's kept a sizable Kraft Heinz stake in Berkshire Hathway 's portfolio since melding the two food companies into one back in 2015. Back in 2015, Berkshire already held a big piece of condiment titan Heinz. They've simply moved on. That is, he still sees hope.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

After all, he's owned it since he helped arrange a merger to create the entity in 2015. Cleaning up messy financials Kraft Heinz was created in 2015 when Kraft Foods Group merged with Heinz Holding Corporation. Is it stubbornness? That's a hefty amount of money to buy back stock when you're fixing your balance sheet and trying to grow.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 16, 2024

The investor said in the fall that Nvidia stock was in "nosebleed territory," but shares have continued to rally, and his call buying in Q4 indicates he changed his mind on that synopsis, though he did cut his stake in Nvidia stock by 30% in Q4. Druckenmiller isn't a newcomer to Microsoft. million, or $408.4 Druckenmiller owned 22.9

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 3, 2024

Africa-focused private equity firm Adenia Partners has exited its entire stake in Cresta Paints to Uhuru Investment Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on investing in West Africa.

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AltAssets

JULY 11, 2024

The company, which was founded in 2015, has become one of the biggest affordable housing finance players in India, targeting bankable but under-served self-employed customers across semi-urban and rural areas of the country.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

OpenAI was founded in 2015 by a team of researchers and entrepreneurs which included Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Tesla Chief Executive Offficer Elon Musk. Since the deal terms were never fully disclosed -- and given OpenAI's current structure -- it's unclear whether Microsoft received an equity stake for its money.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In fact, his story is documented in the 2015 film The Big Short , as well as the 2010 novel by Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. 2 e-commerce player JD.com (NASDAQ: JD) , which exactly doubled his fund's stake from June 30. Whereas gains are capped at 100% for short-sellers (i.e.,

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Still, the only year the segment exceeded the low end of the guidance since 2015 was 2021, thanks to the bounce-back from the pandemic-ravaged year of 2020. stake in Solventum, which could be monetized over time, possibly to support its dividend payment. stake in Solventum, or will it prudently decide to cut the dividend?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

Kraft Heinz Warren Buffett 's Berkshire Hathaway has held a large stake in Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) for several years. Heinz in 2015. It's also starting to make investments in data-center properties, given the growing investment in expanding technology infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI).

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Private equity buyout giants Silver Lake and Bain Capital are expected to bid for a minority stake in Intel’s Altera unit, the tech major’s programmable chips business acquired for nearly $17bn in 2015, according to a report by Reuters. However, no deal is guaranteed at this point, the sources cautioned.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Lagos-based private equity firm CardinalStone Capital Advisers (CCA) has sold its stake in i-Fitness Nigeria, a health and wellness business, to $360m West Africa-based private equity firm Verod Capital Management, via its CardinalStone Capital Advisers Growth Fund (CCAGF).

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2024

Berkshire's currently sitting on a 123-million-share/$16 billion stake in the oil giant, mostly because -- in Buffett's own words -- CEO Vicki Hollub "know[s] how to separate oil from rock, and that's an uncommon talent, valuable to her shareholders and to her country." Berkshire's stake in Visa isn't enormous.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2024

In fiscal 2015, the business reported a 30% operating margin. In fact, I'd argue that now is a terrible time to buy a stake in Apple. What's noteworthy is that Apple was performing very well around the time Buffett first bought shares. This was (and still is) an extremely profitable enterprise with a stellar financial profile.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2015, for example, its partnership with Hyundai resulted in the first music recognition service that shipped standard. stake in the company. As its name suggests, its target category is sound, whether that's voice-enabled AI assistants or music recognition apps. One of SoundHound's first success stories was with personal vehicles.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2024

In recent weeks, activist investor Elliott Management bought a substantial stake in Starbucks as a struggling economy led to declining same-store sales in the U.S. coli and salmonella outbreaks between 2015 and 2018 before Niccol took over. Additionally, Niccol has proven himself in getting a company past operational struggles.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Funds advised by mid-market private equity firm Equistone Partners Europe will sell their majority stake in Sport Group, a German manufacturer of artificial turf and synthetic outdoor sports and leisure surfaces, to New York-based private equity firm KPS Capital Partners.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It was the second cryptocurrency, launching in 2015. But because critics believe this is a waste of electricity, Ethereum made the long-anticipated transition to a proof-of-stake model in late 2022 with the completion of The Merge. It was truly revolutionary. But Ethereum wanted to be much more than this.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

Trian has amassed a roughly $3 billion stake in Disney. Last year was the first time since 2015 that Disney wasn't the leader in global box office receipts. Where Peltz has a point Activists launching proxy battles typically have large mouths with small stock positions -- but that's not Peltz.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2024

Year Maximum Taxable Earnings Limit 2015 $118,500 2016 $118,500 2017 $127,200 2018 $128,400 2019 $132,900 2020 $137,700 2021 $142,800 2022 $147,000 2023 $160,200 2024 $168,600 Data source: Social Security Administration. But everyone should know how much money is at stake. That does not mean everyone should claim benefits at that age.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 12, 2024

This food giant is the result of the 2015 merger of Kraft and Heinz, a pairing partially orchestrated by Buffett when Berkshire held a major stake in H.J. It's a company Buffett has held a stake in, however, going all the way back to 2011. Kraft Heinz The Kraft Heinz Company (NASDAQ: KHC) is a rare misfire from Warren Buffett.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2024

In 2023, Apple sold 231 million iPhones -- virtually identical to the number it sold in 2015. Year iPhone Unit Sales iPhone Revenue 2015 231.2 If you're sitting on a multibagger today, considering selling some of your stake would be wise. Moreover, iPhone revenue appears to have gone flat. The figure last year was $201 billion.

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