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JULY 21, 2023

On an annualized basis, as of the end of 2022, Buffett's company has doubled the total return of the broad-based S&P 500 since he took over (19.8% District Court judge tossing the Federal Trade Commission's injunction request last week , the merger looks like it's cleared its biggest hurdle. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

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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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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 The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom.

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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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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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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. ai wasn't one of them!

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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. HTGC Total Return Level data by YCharts.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

Requiring a 15% annualized return for five years, an investment needs to slightly outperform the market's historical annualized total return of roughly 11% to 12% to accomplish this feat. So, with this bad news laid out -- what on Earth makes UPS an attractive dividend stock over the next five years? Three things: 1.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Since the Oracle of Omaha (as he's come to be known) took over as CEO in 1965, he's doubled up the annualized total return of the benchmark S&P 500 and generated a nearly 4,300,000% aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A), as of the closing bell on August 22, 2023. Competition and Markets Authority.

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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. And with its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 18, Diageo is near its decade-long low of 16 -- although its net income margin has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels.

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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. and Nvidia wasn't one of them!

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AUGUST 19, 2023

In 2019, the U.S. Naval mergers & acquisitions This was surprising for a couple reasons: First, the Navy finally moved to close the "icebreaker gap" with Russia, which operates a fleet of 40 icebreakers. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of MM/DD/YYYY Rich Smith has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

That's why chip design companies like Broadcom just completed its mega-merger with the big cloud software management business VMware , and why networking hardware giant Cisco Systems has submitted a bid to purchase Splunk to bet on cloud and network monitoring services. The Motley Fool recommends Broadcom and Gartner.

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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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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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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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MARCH 6, 2024

Whereas terrestrial and online radio companies generate the lion's share of their sales from advertising, Sirius XM tallied just 20% of its revenue last year from ads (via Pandora, which it acquired in February 2019). The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Warner Bros.

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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.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The item that has captivated everyone's attention, though, is the pending merger between Synopsys and design simulation software provider Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS). And Keysight Technologies also quietly made a small acquisition to increase its own capabilities in the same department. What's the big deal with simulation software anyway?

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2024

While Berkshire has owned the Liberty Media tracking stock since 2016, which tracked Liberty's large stake in Sirius, Berkshire has increased its bet on the satellite radio operator this year, ahead of the tracking stock's merger with publicly traded Sirius shares in a simplification merger in September. billion repurchase program.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Learn More While it is always challenging to discern the legitimacy of merger and acquisition (M&A) speculation , these two food companies have a history of making deals with each other. However, Ferrero did buy the Keebler and Famous Amos brands from Kellogg in 2019 for $1.3 Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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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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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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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. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. billion of debt).

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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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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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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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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 10, 2023

NYSE: EQT) has quietly delivered market-smashing total returns over the last five years. The natural gas giant has doubled in value since 2018, easily outpacing the roughly 66% return for the S&P 500 (14.6% Add in its dividend, and its total return is even higher. annualized versus 10.6% annualized). It paid $5.2

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MARCH 2, 2024

A company's yield is nowhere near as safe as a return guaranteed by the U.S. Chevron first announced the deal in October, which followed ExxonMobil 's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources. Regardless of the outcome, the dispute will almost certainly delay the acquisition and act as an ongoing uncertainty for Chevron.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

In the decade since, the company has more than quadrupled its investors' total returns. In 2019, another article read "Rollins: A Great Company, but It's Very Expensive." The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Rollins has doubled since. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

for-1 stock splits, respectively, the companies have low share prices despite posting total returns that have outpaced the S&P 500 index since the 1990s. dividend is well above its average since 2019. Consider Kroger (NYSE: KR) and Rollins (NYSE: ROL). Executing five 2-for-1 stock splits and eight 1.5-for-1 Data source: YCharts.

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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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APRIL 18, 2024

Despite lots of anticipation that a deal would close, JetBlue announced last month that it wasn't going to follow through with the acquisition of Spirit. It hasn't posted a positive number in this regard since pre-pandemic 2019. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In hindsight, the merger makes sense, considering the proliferation of content seen in the ensuing years. Growing its advertising business While the majority of Sirius XM's revenue comes from subscriptions, it does generate some sales from advertising, mostly from its acquisition of Pandora in 2018. Is Sirius XM stock a buy now?

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