The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Whether through his annual letter to shareholders or during Berkshire's annual meetings, Buffett often shares the characteristics he looks for in "wonderful companies," as well as offers his take on the American economy. Berkshire Hathaway's share buyback program has evolved quite a bit since the midpoint of 2018.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all its profit to shareholders as a dividend. It's been able to maintain or raise its payout since beginning a dividend program in 2011, with a brief exception in 2018.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Vestar led a recapitalisation of Information Resources, Circana’s predecessor, with IR’s original control shareholder, New Mountain Capital (NMC) in 2018. Evercore and Jefferies served as financial advisors and Kirkland & Ellis served as legal advisor to Vestar.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 13, 2024

After the market closed yesterday, Musk indicated that shareholders were poised to give the green light for a hotly contested pay package valued at roughly $56 billion. He also indicated that shareholders were voting in favor of moving the company's place of incorporation from Delaware to Texas.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 18, 2024

You may even be a shareholder. In states where it's legal to do so, its app and website allow consumers to place various wagers on a wide range of sporting events. Supreme Court lifted the federal sports-betting ban in just 2018. The legalization movement is gaining traction, though.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2024

That wave is legalized sports betting. Prior to 2018, gamblers could only legally wager on sports in a handful of states, such as Nevada. Supreme Court legalized sports betting in 2018, dozens of states have passed laws permitting the practice. What I like about DraftKings is that it is riding an unstoppable wave.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

That's because companies rarely commit to distributing a portion of their profits to shareholders unless they're already profitable and likely to stay that way. They're also popular among income-seeking investors because they can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of their earnings as dividend payments.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

Share prices of industrial giant 3M (NYSE: MMM) are down more than 50% from their 2018 highs. Numerous issues have led to this decline, but the really big ones involve legal issues. The other headwind for the stock has been legal. First, it will protect the division from the legal issues facing the rest of the company.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 22, 2024

It's been a great 12 months for DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) shareholders. Supreme Court lifted the federal ban on sports wagering back in 2018, DraftKings was already well-positioned to capitalize on the new opportunity. Since then, 38 states have legalized sports betting of one sort or another. And it's still going.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The merger between legal satellite-radio monopoly Sirius XM and Liberty Sirius XM Group has all the hallmarks of a rare arbitrage play from the Oracle of Omaha. Before mid-July 2018, share buyback activity at Berkshire was nonexistent. Image source: Getty Images. Shares Outstanding data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

billion in 2018, but online betting, made possible after a 2018 Supreme Court ruling, changed the game. Importantly, DraftKings has brand recognition among sports fans from fantasy sports and can leverage that as more states legalize aspects of betting. That figure was just $4.6 Is betting not your thing? No problem.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

First, the company is working through massive legal and regulatory problems that have cost it a huge amount of money. military, environmental issues left behind at facilities that produced forever chemicals, and legal matters that have arisen from the forever chemical situation. But shareholders are, as a result, left in the dark.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Following completion of the latest stake sale, Partners Group, who you can meet at the DACH Private Equity Conference, will have fully exited from the original 45% stake it acquired in June 2018. Partners Group was advised by Rothschild & Co as its financial advisor and Clifford Chance LLP as its legal advisor.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SK Capital has acquired a majority interest in the company with Mauro Carbone, Ecopol’s CEO and controlling shareholder, retaining a significant stake and remaining as both the CEO and largest individual shareholder. Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel to SK Capital. and Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Shares in Scandinavian Airlines dropped more than 90% after the ailing carrier announced new shareholders in a restructuring scheme that will see the company delisted and existing ownership stakes erased. Castlelake will become the biggest shareholder with a 32% stake, while Air France-KLM will hold 20%. Lind Invest will control 8.6%

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2024

In his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett wrote that the conglomerate's earnings figures are "worse than useless." Why Buffett dislikes Berkshire's earnings numbers It didn't take long for Buffett to bring up Berkshire's financial results for 2023 in his recent shareholder letter.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 25, 2024

Both Blackstone and HSM have stated they will legally defend this right, effectively cautioning against any attempts to terminate the management contract. The Hipgnosis board has once again endorsed Concord’s offer, stating it is in the best interests of all Hipgnosis shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These specialized entities are generally popular among income-seeking investors because they can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all their earnings to shareholders as dividend payments. With a brief exception in 2018, it's raised or maintained its dividend payout since its initial public offering in 2011.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Shareholder returns consistently beat the market, and the company's diversified, recession-resistant business model insulated the stock during times of turmoil. Shares have lost around 65% of their value since 2018, pushing the valuation down to multidecade lows. Even if its legal woes are behind it, what are investors left with?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

The 2018 acquisition of Mazor Robotics for $1.6 Agree Realty Agree Realty is a real estate investment trust ( REIT ), which means it can legally avoid income taxes by distributing nearly all it earns to shareholders as dividend payments. billion is a prime example of Medtronic's size advantage. At recent prices, it offers a 4.7%

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

More important to current and prospective shareholders, MercadoLibre is very much in the right place at the right time with the right lineup of services. While its roots are in the fantasy sports business, 2018's lift of the federal ban on sports-based wagering started a wave of state-level legalization.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Plus, they're committed to distributing earnings to their shareholders. PennantPark Floating Rate Capital PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (NYSE: PFLT) is a business development company (BDC), which means it legally avoids paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of profits to investors as a dividend. and higher.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Shareholders have enjoyed a great 2023 in these stocks, and there could be some more upside in the year ahead. Supreme Court's decision to officially legalize wagering on sporting events in 2018. 2018: 18% 2019: 43% 2020: 90% 2021: 111% 2022: 73% 2023: 76% (through the first nine months) Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

New innovations, mounting competition, legal judgments, acquisitions, collaborations, bankruptcies, and even acts of God contribute to this leaderboard carousel. Berkshire is run by billionaire CEO Warren Buffett, who's delivered a greater than 5,325,000% return to his Class A shareholders (BRK.A) Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

Started as a fantasy sports platform, it was already well-positioned to capitalize on the opportunity created by the Supreme Court's 2018 lifting of the federal sports-wagering ban. Since then, 38 states have officially legalized betting on sports, with 30 of those states permitting this wagering via the internet or a mobile app.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

DraftKings It's been a tough few months for shareholders of sports betting technology company DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG). Although the federal ban on sports betting was lifted in 2018, states have staggered their legalization of it. It might be time to put other names ahead of Amazon on your watch list.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Now if we look at the total return for this company over time, over the last 10 years a total return for Campbell shareholders has been close to 50% versus the markets 180% or so. Allen's deal offers shareholders a 50% premium on the current share price. More states started to legalize it. Again I think dividends are great.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

It went back to selling multi-year agreements, which it was actively telling shareholders it was going away from. There's a certain window that every company will have or say, you can nominate a director, as a shareholder, you can nominate a director to the board. Tesla shareholders just voted to give Elon Musk a major pay raise.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 26, 2024

The idea is to settle all cases in one fell swoop, without imposing legal liability on the parent. Chipotle has done extremely well under Niccol, with profits growing more than sevenfold since he became CEO in 2018. It seems that the company's largest shareholder, Schultz, wanted to steer the boat in a different direction.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Did you feel proud and well represented by your noble legal team? Do you have the Pinot Noir in the 2018 vintage listed here? Imagine if all the people, all the shareholders of one aggrieved company that just had a down quarter and got greeted with a flurry of class action lawsuit announcements. Different question for you.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The release of the proposed regulation Financial Data Access (FIDA) by the European Commission in June 2023 has brought clarity to a legal framework for financial data access in the EU. Open finance has quickly emerged as a key market driver in the European financial industry given the regulatory development.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Since fiscal 2018, we've grown our member base by 40% and while achieving the highest renewal rates in the company's history. Since our last fee increase in 2018, we have invested heavily in the value of a BJ's membership. Returning excess cash to shareholders remains an important part of our capital allocation strategy as well.

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Hellman & Friedman LLC

APRIL 28, 2023

In 2018, just 4.5 Additionally, Altas will remain a significant minority shareholder and continue to be members of the board. We look forward to continuing our relationship with the company as the largest shareholder, alongside the fantastic teams at Altas Partners and now, LGP.” “HUB HUB had a valuation of $4.4

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Stanton Dodge, chief legal officer. Stanton Dodge -- Chief Legal Officer Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. We understand there's a lot of ways that we can deploy capital to return value to shareholders. Please go ahead.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

We delivered strong sequential improvement in adjusted EBITDA margin for both Subsea and Surface technologies, including a 420 basis point increase in Subsea to 14.4%, the highest quarterly margin since 2018. Free cash flow was $103 million in the quarter and just yesterday we provided two updates to our plans for shareholder distributions.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I want to emphasize that I remain optimistic about our future, and I'm highly confident in our ability to drive long-term value for shareholders. Sales in the quarter increased 2.3%, inclusive of a legal contingency accrual recorded in Q4 last year. In prepared foods, AOI performance was the best full year since 2018.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

To reward our shareholders, we distributed $6.8 Buybacks were temporarily paused until the shareholders of Pioneer voted on the combination of our companies, which they approved on February 7th. Our focus on shareholder value extends beyond the work we're doing to drive profitable growth. billion in cash, including $3.8

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