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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) and Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) are both tiny aerospace companies that went public by merging with special purpose acquisition companies ( SPACs ) in 2021. Both stocks initially soared, but they crashed after the companies missed their pre-merger estimates and racked up steep losses.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) , a provider of online financial services, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) on June 1, 2021. Like many other SPAC-backed start-ups, SoFi lost its luster after it missed its own ambitious pre-merger forecasts. million at the end of 2020 to 8.77

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

First, prior to this decline, the company's ratio of enterprise value (EV) to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) was at an all-time high of 24. MTYFF Free Cash Flow data by YCharts Making 27 acquisitions worth more than $1.7 However, MTY doesn't spend all of its FCF on mergers and acquisitions.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in December 2020 and reached its record high of $35.88 But in 2023, the company's revenue plunged, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin declined, and it stayed unprofitable. billion $8.0

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The maker of electric semi-trucks was a red-hot stock during the buying frenzy in speculative stocks in 2020, but it ran out of juice after it missed its production forecasts. Nikola 's (NASDAQ: NKLA) stock has plunged nearly 99% over the past three years. After that steep decline, Nikola's stock now trades at just 2 times this year's sales.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

21, 2020, many investors hailed it as the " Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) of real estate" because its online marketplace streamlined the home buying process by making instant cash offers for homes, repairing the properties, and relisting them for sale. Its revenue fell 46% in 2020 as the pandemic disrupted the housing market, but soared 211% to $8.0

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Unlike AT&T and Verizon , which expanded their wireless networks to reduce their dependence on wireline connections, Lumen shunned the wireless market and expanded its wireline business through a series of mergers and acquisitions. Lumen expected to generate slow but steady growth as economies of scale kicked in.

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MAY 22, 2024

The enterprise AI software company went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ), and its stock opened at $9.84 In a pre-merger presentation, BigBear.ai In a pre-merger presentation, BigBear.ai from 2020 to 2023, its gross margin dropped to 26%, and its adjusted EBITDA turned negative.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN) seemed like a promising growth stock when it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in Dec. In 2020, the pandemic caused its home sales to grind to a halt. Metric 2020 2021 2022 9M 2023 Revenue $2.6 billion $8.0 billion $15.6 billion $6.1 YOY = year over year.

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MAY 20, 2024

SoundHound went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) two years ago. In a pre-merger presentation, SoundHound claimed it could grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 104% from $13 million in 2020 to $110 million in 2023 as it expanded its gross margin from 55% to 77%.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

A lot of that has been through acquisitions, with Builders FirstSource doing a massive deal in 2020 and completing 14 smaller purchases in the last two years alone to rapidly expand both its product portfolio and its geographic reach. billion in cash between 2024 and 2026 on share repurchases and continued acquisitions.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Despite this track record of success -- along with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and FCF growth of 81% and 73% over the last five years -- the share price for MTY stock trading over the counter in the U.S. is down 40% from its high. percentage points.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In early 2020, people around the world experienced a life-changing event as the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Shares of Teladoc soared from roughly $80 at the beginning of 2020 to as high as $294 in 2021. One of the biggest byproducts of that crisis was a near-overnight shift from the office to work from home.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) went public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on April 28, 2022. During its pre-merger presentation, SoundHound predicted that its revenue would rise from $13 million in 2020 to $20 million in 2021, and then grow to $28 million in 2022.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Energy Transfer, on the other hand, cut its distribution in half in 2020 as the energy industry faced difficult times during the early days of the pandemic. For example, its ratio of debt to EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) is generally among the lowest of its closest peer group.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) disappointed a lot of investors after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in September 2021. The company's revenue only rose 15% in 2020 as the closures of schools and testing centers during the pandemic lockdowns curbed its growth. on the first day. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It has also declined more than 97% from its all-time high in December 2020. The company went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in February 2021. It actually exceeded its pre-merger estimates by growing revenue by 65% in fiscal 2022 and 94% in fiscal 2023. million to $68.9 million, or $0.16

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The sales figure was up 5% year over year, but adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) was flat compared to a year prior and gross margin fell by 10 basis points to 21.6%. Wesco earned $3.71 per share on revenue of $5.75 per share on sales of $5.4

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

SoFi stock: Down 61% from its high Jennifer Saibil : I was wary of the hype surrounding SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) when it went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in June of 2021. It was untested, with an astronomical valuation and no profits. Revenue grew 18% year over year to reach $3.4

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MARCH 4, 2024

SoundHound narrowed its loss according to adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) from $18.8 SoundHound AI went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in April 2022. It narrowed its net loss from $30.9 million to $18.0 million, or $0.07 million to $3.7

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AUGUST 13, 2023

Understanding Magnite's growth strategies Magnite was created via the merger of two smaller ad tech companies, The Rubicon Project and Telaria, in 2020. All of those mergers and acquisitions turned Magnite into the world's largest independent sell-side platform (SSP) for digital ads.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Magnite Magnite is an ad tech company created by the merger of The Rubicon Project and Telaria in 2020. In 2023, its revenue rose only 7% as its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) dipped 4%. Image source: Getty Images.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) , a maker of electric semi-trucks, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in June 2020. In its pre-merger presentation, it told investors it could deliver 600 BEVs in 2021, 1,200 BEVs in 2022, and 3,500 BEVs in 2023. Its shares opened at $37.55 a week later.

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MARCH 11, 2024

2020, and its stock skyrocketed to a record high of $177.47 BigBear went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in Dec. That was well below its pre-merger target of $388 million for the year. Both stocks have gone on wild rides since their market debuts. C3 listed its IPO at $42 in Dec. last April.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

billion merger with Spirit Realty Capital in an all-stock transaction in October, which closed subsequent to year-end on January 23rd. And importantly, together with the Spirit merger, set us up to deliver a compelling earnings growth backdrop in 2024. Third, and in addition to the achievements noted above, we also announced the $9.3

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AUGUST 6, 2024

Globus delivered another robust post-merger quarter in Q2 with sales of $630 million, growing 116% or $338 million. Non-GAAP EPS was $0.75, increasing 20% versus prior year even with the 35% increase in outstanding shares driven by the merger. As a reminder, step-up amortization is expected to end during our fiscal fourth quarter.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Additionally, the acquisitions of Rushmore Servicing and Roosevelt Management added another 32 billion and brought us best-in-class special servicing capabilities in the infrastructure to launch our first MSR fund. And as you recall, during the refi boom of 2020, we generated in excess of 1 billion in profits from originations.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

You're seeing the benefit of continued strong operating results, the gain from the trust collapse we mentioned last quarter, and the accretion from closing the home point acquisition which came in consistent with our guidance. Now, turning to operations. As the market's leading servicer with 4.3

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Throughout 2023, we added new heads and co-heads of equity capital markets, global mergers and acquisitions, financial institutions, financial sponsors, healthcare, and technology, media, and telecom. When we first discussed our path to improving returns on the fourth-quarter 2020 earnings call, we had an 8% ROTCE.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Microsoft is starting to separate itself because it's tied to so many things and we saw what it is now trying to do in the gaming business with its Activision Blizzard acquisition of almost $70 billion. So I think the acquisition is exciting. With really no corporate acquisitions, they do it all internal house. They added 13.12

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JULY 27, 2023

Excluding the impact of Engineering Solutions in all periods, but including approximately $10 million from this year's tuck-in acquisitions, revenue growth would have been 7%. It was as low as the second quarter of 2020 when we saw the beginning of the pandemic when everything came to a halt. M&A has been incredibly weak.

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JULY 28, 2023

In 2020, we committed to implement the GISTM, the Global Industry Standard for Tailings Management within the industry timeframe. The acquisition of talents like Jerome and Mark will go under the first hurdle that is execute on existing assets. We have a very strong balance sheet, amortizations. Is it a merger?

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JANUARY 25, 2024

billion in acquisitions that added to our talent capabilities and scale. This was our largest year for acquisitions in nearly two decades, aside from 2019 when we acquired JLT. billion, included $354 million for dividends, $486 million for acquisitions, and $250 million for share repurchases. billion for acquisitions, and $1.15

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JULY 27, 2023

The second quarter of the year continued the steady progress established in the first as we ramped up production and delivery of our next-generation Series 7 modules, reinforced our global leadership in thin-film PV with a strategic acquisition and continued our strong bookings and ASP momentum. billion that's $2.3

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Please note, except where otherwise noted, the company will speak to results from continuing operations excluding acquisition accounting adjustments and net non-recurring and or significant items, often referred to by management as other significant items. Yes, the incident that led to all of this was in March of 2020.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

It had made more than a dozen acquisitions and was sitting on properties with the ability to eventually produce north of 600,000 kilograms (1,322,773 pounds) of cannabis annually. In March 2022, it completed its acquisition of Alcanna and became the largest private-sector liquor retailer in our neighbor to the north.

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