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JANUARY 13, 2025

Generative AI's amazing capabilities were first demonstrated to consumers in late 2022 with OpenAI's release of its ChatGPT chatbot. The development of AI agents is now possible due to generative AI , a relatively new technology that greatly increases the possible use cases of AI.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In his 2022 letter to shareholders, the Berkshire CEO pointed out his company received $75 million in dividends from Coca-Cola in 1994. In 2022, that number was $704 million from the same shares Berkshire owned in 1994. Lastly, Buffett loves Coke's dividend.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

2022 -24.2% -19.4% Here's a breakdown of how it has performed versus the broad index going back to 2018, which was the last time it was a market-beating stock. Year Verizon Stock S&P 500 2024 6.1% 2018 6.2% -6.2% Source: yCharts. During the past seven years, the best return the stock achieved was a 9.2% gain in 2019.

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DECEMBER 29, 2024

And SoFi's deposit base grew from zero when it first got its banking charter in early 2022 to $24.4 million financial services products like bank accounts, investment accounts, and credit cards have been opened in that period. billion in customer deposits.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken Wall Street by storm since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022. However, more than two years on, this hype cycle is getting long in the tooth.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 15, 2025

Fast-fashion giant Shein is backed by General Atlantic, Tiger Global Management, and Sequoia Capital and valued at $66bn in 2022. This signals renewed investor interest and government efforts to reinvigorate the UKs capital markets. It has filed confidentially with the Financial Conduct Authority for a London IPO.

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A Wealth of Common Sense

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

After the bloodbath in 2022, the long-term annual return was 9.6%. That’s pretty good. The last couple of years have seen strong returns (+26% and +25%, respectively) so I noticed the long-run number was ticking up. So the past two year.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Nonantum closed its second fund in January 2022 at its hard cap of $575 million. HCI closed its most recent fund, HCI Equity Partners V LP , at $400 million in May 2022. Sectors of interest include consumer products, business services, and industrials. The Washington, D.C.-headquartered

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Year Oscar Nominations Oscar Wins 2014 1 0 2015 1 0 2016 2 0 2017 3 1 2018 8 1 2019 15 4 2020 24 2 2021 36 7 2022 27 1 2023 16 6 2024 19 1 Total 152 23 Data source: Netflix. While it's clear that Netflix has demonstrated its ability to secure Oscar nominations, how has the company actually fared at the star-studded event?

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APRIL 4, 2025

KKR initially made a significant investment in PlayOn in 2022, joining Panoramic Ventures as a backer. Pilling, described MaxPreps as an iconic brand and said the acquisition took almost a year to complete. He added that PlayOn had to surpass several rival bidders to secure the deal.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

These strong results have sent the stock sharply higher since 2022, but the recent dip is a great buying opportunity, given management's outlook for more growth in 2025. An 84% year-over-year increase in revenue last quarter turned a year-ago loss of $1.12 into net income of $1.67

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moreover, when AI began to emerge as the next megatrend back in late 2022, it was natural to think that Snowflake would be an obvious beneficiary. Snowflake Data infrastructure company Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) went public around the same time as Palantir back in 2020.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The Federal Reserve's steepest rate-hiking cycle in four decades -- 525 basis points between March 2022 and July 2023 -- sent its weighted-average yield on debt investments from 7.4% The reason PennantPark Floating Rate Capital's weighted average yield on debt investments is so high is because 100% of its loans are variable rate.

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MARCH 13, 2025

After years of double-digit growth, its annual revenue only rose 8% in both 2022 and 2023. Its number of active accounts grew 2% in 2022 but dipped 2% in 2023. In 2022, its revenue declined 25% as rising interest rates curbed the market's appetite for meme stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other speculative investments.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

Indeed, The Wall Street Journal reports that Alphabet paid Apple $20 billion in 2022, but that revenue (which falls under the services segment) could disappear when the case is finally resolved. Valuation is also a concern.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

The year saw five deals exceeding $5bn, up from two in 2023 and one in 2022. Global healthcare private equity reached an estimated $115bn in 2024, marking the second-highest annual deal value on record, driven by a rise in large-scale transactions.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Trips Growth 28% (27%) 27% 19% 24% Gross Bookings Growth 28% (11%) 56% 19% 19% Revenue Growth 37% (14%) 57% 49% 17% Data source: Uber Technologies. But over the following three years, its total trips, and gross bookings, surged again.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

In 2022, it put down a $10 million deposit for those first 100 aircraft. Joby Aviation (NYSE: JOBY) and EHang are developing similar eVTOL aircraft, but Archer has signed a wider range of deals than most of its industry peers. In 2021, United Airlines placed a $1 billion order for 200 of its Midnight aircraft.

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MARCH 19, 2025

End of Nvidia GTC Event 1-Month Return April 16, 2021 (10%) March 24, 2022 (31%) September 22, 2022 (1%) March 23, 2023 0% March 21, 2024 (17%) Average (12%) Data source: YCharts. Importantly, growing demand for generative AI has been central to the investment thesis since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Relais Desserts is the seventh investment from Cerea Capital III, which completed its first close in 2022. The fund focuses on high-growth food industry businesses, with portfolio companies including automation specialist AB Process Ingnierie and bakery chain Sophie Lebreuilly.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

According to estimates from TechInsights, Nvidia accounted for 98% of GPUs shipped to data centers in 2022 and 2023, and seems unlikely to relinquish much of its market share this year. Orders for the company's flagship H100 and successor Blackwell GPU are backlogged, which have provided the company with exceptional pricing power.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

This surge was driven by an increase in the number of large deals, with five transactions surpassing $5bn, compared to two deals in 2023 and just one in 2022. These funds raised around $59bn since 2022, a 40% increase from the previous three years.

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MARCH 19, 2025

According to sources, Musk personally participated in the raise, alongside Darsana Capital Partners, which had previously acquired portions of Xs debt. The company is reportedly considering using part of the proceeds to reduce its remaining debt burden.

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MARCH 20, 2025

The coffee chain had been in dire straits for years before Niccol's arrival, bringing in company legend Howard Schultz for a third CEO stint in 2022. Former Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) CEO Brian Niccol is running the show now, brought in for his proven turnaround expertise. Investors were quick to embrace Niccol, and for good reason.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Using up all of a $100 million share buyback plan in 2022 and half of a $200 million repurchase plan last year, the company has lowered its share count by 2% annually since 2023.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Stocks have been in a bull market since October 2022. Coincidentally, about a month later in November 2022, the world was introduced to ChatGPT, sparking a generational movement among investors who were chasing anything and everything related to artificial intelligence (AI). Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Its revenue rose 47% in 2020 and 41% in 2021, but it grew just 24% in 2022 and 17% in 2023. After going public through a direct listing in 2020, Palantir claimed it could grow its revenue by at least 30% annually through 2025. But as its sales growth cooled off, it aggressively cut its spending and stock-based compensation expenses.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

billion in 2022 following the height of the pandemic, it will spend around $3.5 The stock currently yields 6.4% and trades at an attractive EV/EBITDA multiple of 10. The company is currently beginning to ramp up growth given the opportunities it is seeing. After reducing its growth capital expenditures (capex) to $1.6

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JANUARY 11, 2025

However, the economic landscape shifted, and challenges emerged in 2022 and 2023 as interest rates rose in response to inflationary pressures, causing ripple effects throughout the financial sector. It's been a roller coaster ride for the fintech Klarna's journey has not been without its challenges. market and now has over 34 million U.S.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

By the end of September 2023, deals to buy or build single-family rental homes reached 1.5bn more than triple the investment in the entirety of 2021 or 2022, according to estate agency Savills. This follows a record 1.9bn in deals in 2022. These discounts have since diminished, with developers scaling back production.

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MARCH 24, 2025

million workers, up from 12 million in 2022. Workers at private equity-backed businesses also earned an average of $85,000 in wages and benefits in 2024, a roughly 6 percent increase from 2022. million workers in 2024, an increase from 12 million in 2022. economy for the year of 2022. trillion in 2020.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

It also sells programmable chips through Xilinx, which it acquired in 2022. AMD sells x86 CPUs for PCs and servers, discrete GPUs, and APUs, which merge a CPU and GPU together in a single package. In its latest quarter, AMD generated 48% of its revenue from its data center segment, which sells its Instinct GPUs and Epyc CPUs.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Sign Up For Free OpenAI kicked off the AI boom in late 2022 with ChatGPT, which was powered by the company's GPT-3.5 Without more data, improvements in capabilities will have to be driven by new training methods or other innovations. Start Your Mornings Smarter! Wake up with Breakfast news in your inbox every market day.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Both of their stocks slumped in 2022 and 2023 as inflation curbed consumer discretionary spending and rising interest rates chilled the housing market, but they both have rallied by about 20% so far this year as the macro environment has stabilized.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

If we define a stock crash as a drawdown of 50% or more, Nvidia has gone through four stock crashes since going public: 2001, 2008, 2018, and most recently in 2022. However, there have been multiple stock crashes along the way. Yes, it was just a few years ago that Nvidia was disliked by the investment community.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Capstone was acquired by Huntington Bancshares in June 2022 and has more than 175 employees. Capstone Partners provides investment banking services, including M&A advisory, debt and equity placement, corporate restructuring, special situations, valuation and fairness opinions, and financial advisory services.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

At Talon Outdoor, Grljevic oversaw Talon’s extensive development in driving technology-led change, first joining as Chief Transformation Officer in 2018 prior to his promotion to Group Chief Operating Officer in 2022.

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