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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Kraft Heinz (dividend yield: 4.6%) Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) has struggled since it was formed by a merger nearly a decade ago with the help of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. The packaged food giant has seen little growth since the merger and was forced to take a write-down of $15.4 It currently offers a dividend yield of 4.6%.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The sale is expected to bring nearly a 100% return to Blackstone as the holding company’s value has almost doubled since the New York-based private equity firm’s acquisition in 2019. Source: KED Can’t stop reading?

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MAY 17, 2024

As for the 4%-6% expected end market growth, the figure looks familiar enough because it's what 3M's management told investors to expect from its healthcare end market on 3M's investor day in 2016 and 2019. Third, it's worth noting that 3M Healthcare/Solventum was the focus of 3M's merger and acquisition activity over the past five years.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Grocery Outlet's stock was already trading off a bit from mid-2022 highs, but then it made a sizable acquisition in April 2024 that boosted investor worries. Shares are down 37% since January and trade at an all-time low for Grocery Outlet, which went public in 2019. Getting bigger has not led to a stronger bottom line.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

MiddleGround originally purchased Banner in December of 2019 from High Street Capital, of Chicago. Since MiddleGround’s investment in Banner in 2019, MiddleGround brought industry veteran Dan Stoettner back to lead the business. Under Stoettner’s leadership, the company completed two acquisitions.

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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. Its top-line growth has stabilized Kraft Heinz's net sales growth -- which includes its divestments, acquisitions, and currency fluctuations -- was lumpy over the past five years.

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JULY 20, 2024

In 2019, Buffett finally conceded he "overpaid for Kraft." 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. It's also a position the fund's been sitting on since 2019, collecting decent dividends the whole time. billion, by the way.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

In 2019, another article read "Rollins: A Great Company, but It's Very Expensive." Rollins' potent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) capabilities Making 32 tuck-in acquisitions so far in 2024 -- including six in the third quarter alone -- Rollins is a serial acquirer. Rollins has doubled since.

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MARCH 14, 2024

However, the company would be considered rather boring in today's technology climate if not for its merger with chip giant Avago Technologies in 2016. That merger marked the beginning of an acquisition frenzy. billion, and cybersecurity powerhouse Symantec in 2019 for $10.7

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

The deal is the latest in a wave of mergers in the oil patch as Occidental looks to keep pace with larger rivals ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX). The acquisitions should also enhance their free cash flows over the long term. The Occidental acquisition is most similar to ExxonMobil's deal.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Reports of the acquisition costs sent shares in Infroneer sliding 6% on Tuesday. Mergers and acquisitions involving Japanese companies in the renewable energy sector have climbed more than eight times to $1.8bn for the year to date from the same period a year earlier, marking the highest level since 2019, LSEG data showed.

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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. The combined group would be valued between $2.8bn and $3.3bn, two of the people said. Source: U.S.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Following the 2017 merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont , the newly formed company (DowDuPont) had stated its intent to, eventually, split into three separate business. This split occurred in 2019, resulting in DuPont, Corteva , and Dow Inc. The writing had been on the wall for some time that Dow Inc. would be shown the door.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Excluding mergers of existing Dow components and simple name changes, there have been 52 separate instances where companies were added or subtracted , the latest of which involved the removal of pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance in favor of e-commerce colossus Amazon near the end of February. buying Valspar for $11.3

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That deal structure is a major deviation from the acquisition blueprints of Chevron and Exxon , which are using stock to fund their megadeals. Occidental's use of debt to fund a major acquisition has burned it in the past. It primarily plans to use debt to fund the transaction (it will issue $9.1 billion of debt).

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Data shows that the number of private equity (PE) firms holding stakes in Indian IT services companies has doubled between 2019 and 2022, indicating a growing interest in the sector. This trend is being fueled by a succession of acquisitions spearheaded by private equity firms such as ChrysCapital and Carlyle.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

TransMedics held its initial public offering (IPO) in 2019 and saw its stock rise over 300% by 2023. However, in the last three months, its stock price has plummeted over 55% as the market wrestled with TransMedics' recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. This has left investors at a crossroads.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Category 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Six Months Ended June 30, 2024 Net Investment Income Per Share $1.19 $1.41 $1.39 $1.29 $1.48 $2.09 $1.01 Moreover, because Hercules often attaches warrants to its investments, I see the potential for rising acquisitions as particularly lucrative. Data source: Hercules Investor Relations.

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JULY 21, 2023

During Berkshire Hathaway's 2022 annual shareholder meeting, Buffett told his audience of more than 30,000 shareholders and investors that his company's stake in Activision Blizzard is a merger/arbitrage play. billion in net long-term debt, much of which came from its 2019 acquisition of Anadarko. With a U.S.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Acquiring more income Realty Income recently unveiled its latest acquisition. Meanwhile, the acquisition enhances the company's diversification by adding a new tenant with a strong operating history and financial position. billion into building out its European real estate portfolio since entering the continent in 2019.

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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. That's why in the wake of more than a 70% rout of the stock over the course of 2017 and 2018, Buffett finally conceded in 2019 that Berkshire "overpaid for Kraft."

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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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AUGUST 27, 2023

It was only in 2019 that it changed its name to C3.ai It went public shortly thereafter through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a market cap of over $10 billion. That is $183 million in customer acquisition spending in order to add $14 million in new sales.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Since 2019, revenues at the BDS unit have barely budged (actually, they sank 4.5% If Boeing had, for example, fired Colbert and then immediately replaced him with an exec with a mergers and acquisitions background -- someone who might be relied upon to shepherd a division like BDS through a spinoff or sale -- that would make sense.

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JULY 18, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The Quasar deal is adding to the momentum of health-care dealmaking despite a global slump in mergers and acquisitions. Under its ownership, the company has expanded both organically and via acquisitions.

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MAY 2, 2024

ATG, which was intended as an omnichannel retail solution for the automotive industry, was formed out of Inflexion’s initial investment in Autofutura in 2019, a merger with GForces in 2020, as well as the acquisitions of Chrysalis and Salesmaster in 2021.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Whelan then moved to Hogan Lovells as partner in 2006, where he was promoted to global head of private equity in 2012, prior to joining MWE in 2019. Whelan’s career began at Ashurst in 1991, where he trained and worked as an Associate, before joining DLA Piper as a Partner in 2002.

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JUNE 16, 2024

Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) disappointed a lot of investors after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) four years ago. That was well below the 3,500 BEVs and 2,000 FCEVs it originally claimed it could deliver in 2023 in its pre-merger presentation. Started deliveries in December 2019.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Koch first joined Kainos in 2014 as an Associate and rejoined in 2019 as a Vice President. He started his career as an Investment Banking Analyst with UBS Investment Bank’s mergers & acquisitions group and financial institutions group in New York City.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Chevron first announced the deal in October, which followed ExxonMobil 's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources. ExxonMobil and its partner CNOOC are claiming that Chevron's acquisition of Hess triggers a change in ownership, but Chevron argues it doesn't because it is acquiring an entire company, not just the Guyana stake.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

It has invested heavily in developing high-return, low-cost-of-supply assets like the Permian and Guyana, where it achieved record production (with the Permian getting a boost from its acquisition of Pioneer). That helped push its total oil output to its highest quarterly average since the merger of Exxon and Mobil.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

While the two companies still work together, it is not unreasonable to imagine this partnership ending at some point -- just like FedEx did with Amazon in 2019. These acquisitions not only strengthen UPS's healthcare ambitions, but support its international growth story, providing footholds in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

The company expected the transformational merger to create significant shareholder value by turning it into a free cash flow machine. Shareholders elected the Rice-supported board in 2019, which installed Toby as the CEO. The company has made several scale-enhancing acquisitions to enhance margins and free cash flow. It paid $5.2

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JUNE 27, 2024

The firm said that the promotions bring its total number of partners to 84. Falcucci joined Carey Olsen in 2019 from the London office of international law firm Reed Smith. She advises on Bermuda corporate and commercial law, focusing on insurance regulatory and transactional matters.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Generating 63% of its sales from premium and super premium spirits, a figure that has grown from 56% in 2019, the company will undoubtedly welcome this premiumization trend.

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JULY 29, 2023

Supercomputers like Selene also rely on extremely high-performance network connections provided by another Nvidia product -- the InfiniBand networking solutions that came with the Mellanox acquisition in 2019. This team includes many engineers from the Xilinx side of that big merger.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

These warrants, which trace back to a deal Berkshire made with Occidental in 2019, can be exercised at $59.624 per share to purchase up to 83,858,848 shares of Occidental common stock. Last week, Microsoft amended its previously announced acquisition terms to hopefully appease the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority.

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