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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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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. If the answer to the second question is "yes," these are not executives putting their best foot forward for outside shareholders.

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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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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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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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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." As it turns out, it wasn't a great fit.

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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. Shareholders elected the Rice-supported board in 2019, which installed Toby as the CEO.

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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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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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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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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.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

First, Kroger's pending $25 billion acquisition of Albertsons and its 2,200 grocery stores would nearly double its store count to about 4,500 locations after a planned divestiture and sale of some stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers. dividend is well above its average since 2019. Best yet, the company's 2.3% Data source: YCharts.

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JULY 13, 2024

Meanwhile, it outbid Chevron to buy Anadarko Petroleum for $55 billion in 2019. A sensible swap Occidental Petroleum has been among the many participants in a wave of mergers sweeping across the oil sector over the past year. Most midstream companies have the financial flexibility to make an acquisition if the right deal comes along.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

At one point, Immunovant was a wholly owned subsidiary of Roivant, but Immunovant went public in a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in 2019. When successful results emerge, investors can expect to see gains like the ones that Roivant and Immunovant are giving their shareholders right now.

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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. Ditto for faithful shareholders. But, by 2019, it was becoming quite clear that things just weren't going as hoped.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Viatris is a relatively new company that was formed by the merger of Mylan and Pfizer 's Upjohn unit in November 2020. Financial performance and outlook In terms of financial performance, Takeda has been growing its revenue steadily over the past five years, thanks to its acquisition of Shire in 2019 and its strong organic growth.

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JULY 19, 2023

CEO Jon Moeller expects the majority of the company's growth to be organic, although that does not rule out selective acquisitions in the beauty and personal healthcare sectors. Apart from organic growth, 3M has a history of making choice acquisitions to boost its industrial capabilities and widen its portfolio of products.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The stock is currently sporting a dividend yield of 2.8%, paying shareholders for their patience. It was a somewhat curious pick when Berkshire first established the position back in 2019. Justice Department must first approve the pairing, and it's been particularly wary of mergers within the banking sector lately.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Three reasons to buy Sirius XM stock like there's no tomorrow Sirius XM is the result of 2008's merger of satellite radio outfits Sirius and XM, which combined their collective reach into a single dominant name at a time when internet-based alternatives were starting to get real traction. The acquisition of Pandora is another.

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MARCH 21, 2024

In Q1 2019, Apple's revenue share from services was just 13.8%, but that's up to 19.3% With limited ways to expand the business beyond strategic mergers and acquisitions -- which Coke has done an excellent job of over the last few years -- it's pretty much impossible for the company to keep pace with a growth-fueled market.

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JUNE 25, 2023

And the best part is that KLA has a strong track record of doling out cash to shareholders. Since 2019 -- the time when Onto was formed out of the merger between Rudolph Technologies and Nanometrics -- Onto has grown revenue at a 25% annualized rate, while overall global wafer equipment spending has grown at a 20% rate in that time.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I will also reinforce how we are building a business that will grow profitably without the need for mergers or acquisitions and, therefore, which has the luxury of us looking at external opportunities for the few that may meet our strict value investment criteria. This has reinforced our determination to achieve our goal of zero.

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MAY 9, 2024

While our call today will focus on the results of first-quarter 2024, I do want to provide a few updates on the merger process. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of May 6, 2024 First, we received overwhelming shareholder approval of the merger on March 12th, helping us achieve a key milestone in the process.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Ricky Mulvey: I've been a Schwab shareholder for a little bit in part because I thought that the bearishness on a company that owns or not owns, but has custody of trillions of dollars in assets might have a tough time tipping over. Also active brokerage accounts continuing to climb even after the TD Ameritrade merger. That's up 4%.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

I'm very confident about the next phase of our evolution, which you'll hear more about, and we'll deliver a sustainable improved performance over time and create value for our shareholders, customers, and crewmembers. We are evaluating our options under the merger agreement, which remains in effect. airline, growing revenues by 75%.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Our strategy for driving long-term shareholder value centers on targeted innovation across materials, knowledge, and workflow solutions in high-growth target industries that benefit from emerging megatrends. in the same period last year, and it's the highest since Q4 2019. GAAP gross margin expanded to 44.8% million, compared to $108.4

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

We always like a good mergers and acquisitions Monday. Sometimes they just need to resort to smart acquisitions in order to keep that ball rolling and figure out ways to take that business to the next level. Are we going to see more of these acquisitions as maybe some of these brands face some economic pressure?

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Over the longer term, we continue to believe we have the right building blocks in place, and we remain laser-focused on rebuilding our earnings power and adding incremental value for our shareholders. First and foremost is the transformational nature of our planned acquisition of Spirit. In the second quarter, we grew revenue by 6.7%

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

As a reminder, the announcement of the acquisition of Discover constituted a material business change. Therefore, we continue to be subject to the Federal Reserve's pre-approval of our capital actions until the merger approval process has concluded. And turning to the Discover acquisition. Richard D. You may proceed.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

The Pioneer acquisition increases that even further. billion to shareholders, of which $4.3 With the close of the Pioneer transaction, our shareholders now include the former owners of Pioneer stock, who've begun to benefit from the strength of our combined companies. Including Pioneer, our Permian production surged to 1.2

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

On October 1, we closed on our acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners. Our planned acquisition of Preqin is accelerating this exciting private markets data and analytics journey for BlackRock and our clients. Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. trillion, 11.5

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APRIL 26, 2024

billion in the quarter versus 2019, furthering our progress toward our goal of $15 billion by 2027. 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. Capex in the quarter was $5.8

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JULY 23, 2024

However, as we disclosed in our last 10-Q, the announcement of the acquisition of Discover constituted a material business change. As a result, we are subject to the Federal Reserve's preapproval of our capital actions until the merger approval process has concluded. We are all in and working hard to complete the Discover acquisition.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Our disciplined approach to capital deployment enables us to effectively balance investing in the long-term growth of our businesses with returning capital to shareholders. In the fourth quarter, we returned over $700 million of capital to shareholders. billion in sales, reaching the highest level since the third quarter of 2019.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of significant transactions we may enter into such as mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, or any material agreements that we may enter into, amend, or terminate. That's our commitment to patients, providers, payers, and of course, to shareholders.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Over the past several years, APA has delivered a number of strategic initiatives designed to enhance the portfolio and create shareholder value. In the US, since 2020, we have executed more than $5 billion of acquisitions and over $2.5 We expect all of these will continue to generate positive financial impacts in the fourth quarter.

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