Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

KKR, which made the investment through its private credit funds and accounts, said the deal aligns with its asset-based finance strategy. Private equity giant KKR said on Tuesday it had acquired a $373m portfolio of prime auto loans from Synovus Bank. Shares of Synovus Financial, the parent company of the bank, rose 2.8% in extended trading.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It was first added to gasoline in the 1920s to increase octane and reduce engine knock, but it got a big boost in the late 1970s in a bid to limit foreign-energy dependence and lower smog rates. Pie in the Sky: Right now, SAF accounts for less than a tenth-of-a-percent of fuel used by major US airlines.

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MAY 19, 2024

This AI hype has led investors to bid up Nvidia's share price to about $925 to account for the company's surging revenue and growth prospects. Ultimately, what determines whether a share price goes up or down long term is the growth, or lack thereof, of a company's revenue and profits.

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JULY 22, 2024

But if you hustle hard and bid on lots of new projects to introduce yourself to potential clients, you might find a good fit for your professional skills. Get a dedicated business checking account for your side hustle income. Get a high-yield savings account to keep your extra tax money in.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

And as luck would have it, my brother was able to out-bid his competitors and move on for a chance at a new car -- a car he won through savvy guessing, but also, a nice amount of luck. And now, my brother has a pile of cash he can add to his savings account instead of a car he doesn't actually need. That's a great thing.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

But the aggressive bid for safety has hurt funding for riskier ventures, including the European market for financing start-ups. But market researcher PitchBook found that the European VC deal count and value has dropped significantly in the first half of 2023, with roughly 4,000 VC deals accounting for a combined value of about $24 billion.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 11, 2024

Amid what looks like its years-long lead in AI chip technology, investors have bid the GPU maker's stock into the stratosphere. The data center segment accounted for 43% of AMD's revenue in that quarter, up from 24% in the year-ago quarter. Hence, accounting for both technology and valuations could change the investment thesis.

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JULY 26, 2024

But it can be a legitimate way to pump your savings account with some extra cash and build long-term financial security. Freelance job sites like Fiverr, FlexJobs, Freelancer.com, and Upwork can help you find freelance clients, bid on projects, and get hired for freelance work. Making money online is not a "get-rich-quick scheme."

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APRIL 21, 2024

For perspective, one of PayPal's key performance indicators (KPI), the active accounts, peaked in the fourth quarter of 2022 at 435 million and has since declined to 426 million a year later. For example, transactions per active account grew every quarter over the last three years, up from 42.2 per annum in Q1 2021 to 58.7 in Q4 2023.

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JUNE 29, 2023

What happened By all accounts, Thursday should have been a huge day for Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) -- but it's not working out that way at all, and as of 1:20 p.m. ET, shares of the space tourism pioneer are in freefall, down 11.8%. Why is that?

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Two weeks into the start of trading of this new breed of Bitcoin ETFs, the two leaders account for about 70% of all inflows. That provides investors with tighter bid-ask spreads and helps the ETF price track the net asset value of the fund's holdings. Should you follow the wisdom of the crowd, or are there better options?

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust partnered with Miami, Florida-based Rialto Capital and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to make the successful $1.2bn bid for the 20% interest in a joint venture set up by the FDIC to hold the failed bank’s $16.8bn in commercial real estate debt.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

year over year in the fourth quarter, and earnings per share under generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) were up only 9.2% -- not exactly rampant growth. Is that enough to justify bidding up Fabrinet's share price by nearly 30% today, though? It was expected to report only $1.80 per share in profits on sales of $641.4

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2024

Tech stocks account for the majority of the index's value, with the "Magnificent Seven" making up over 40% of the fund's portfolio. That means that you might experience wider bid-ask spreads when you look to buy or sell shares. The top 10 companies in the ETF account for over 50% of the fund's value.

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JUNE 27, 2023

million net cumulative accounts and 11.8 PayPal ended the same period with 433 million active accounts (those making at least one transaction over the past 12 months). Its average account size (dividing its assets under custody by its net cumulative accounts) was only $3,377 in the first quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 11, 2024

At this point, public REITs only account for around $210 billion of that. Public net-lease REITs account for less than 1% of that total. So Realty Income can bid aggressively on properties and still turn a profit. For starters, Realty Income believes that its addressable market in the United States is around $5.4

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

There is the publisher that owns the ad space, the supply side platform (SSP) that sends out the bid request for the publisher, the advertiser looking to buy ad space, and then the demand side platform (DSP), which is what The Trade Desk is.

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AUGUST 31, 2024

The problem with billing by the hour is that it limits how big your business (and bank account balance) can grow. Bid on larger projects and take on more than one at a time. Lots of small businesses do the same -- plumbing outfits, law firms, dentists, you name it. There are only so many hours in a day and you only have two hands.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 9, 2023

Investors are keeping the bigger bullish picture in mind, however, bidding Advanced Micro Devices stock higher on hopes for its fast-growing data center business. As of this time, AMD's data center business (which includes AI) only accounts for around one-fourth of the company's total revenue.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 29, 2023

And it would be smart to own those names before shares are bid higher as rate cuts become a reality. For much of the past decade, most REITs paid higher dividend yields than one could find in savings accounts or from bonds. The Fed will have to begin dropping rates as inflation gets closer to a more normalized level.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Netflix also launched a campaign to crack down on password sharing, requiring users to sign up for their own accounts. There are also reports swirling that Netflix might bid for the rights to stream NBA games. Besides these two successful moves, the company is venturing into new content opportunities.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

You can usually find seat upgrade offers in the airline's mobile app or by logging into your online account through the airline's website. Bidding on a seat upgrade Some airlines allow fliers to bid on a chance at a seat upgrade. The airline will likely require you to meet a minimum bid amount.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

And it also means you may not have to worry about landing in a bidding war. That's a good thing, because paying for a heating system upgrade is an expense you may not want to bear after emptying your bank account to put a down payment on a home. And the reason largely boils down to a lack of inventory.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Opendoor iBuying model seemed solid when property prices were rising, often ending in bidding wars. The combination of a 33% surge in customers and a 28% increase in average revenue per account is working wonders for top-line gains. The shares are still 91% below their all-time high in early 2021. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Moreover, even with its huge growth, some of the valuation metrics may make investors reluctant to bid the stock higher, regardless of its circumstances. Considering such a valuation, one can see why investors may hesitate to bid Nvidia higher in the near term despite its incredible performance.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

In an unrelated development, the Bank of Japan announced an interest rate hike in a bid to tame inflation, increasing its benchmark rate from 0.10% to 0.25%. However, this doesn't take into account the expected growth trajectory resulting from strong demand for AI. Unfortunately, the move had unintended consequences.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Year to date, the stock has risen by approximately 140%, even when accounting for a recent pullback. Also, unlike the days of the 2021 bull market, Palantir now earns a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) profit and has done so for three consecutive quarters. What makes Cloudflare such an appealing company?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

commercial business, which raised its revenue 33% year over year and accounted for 46% of its total commercial revenue. As its margins rose, it reined in its stock-based compensation to generate consistent profits on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ). That reacceleration was mainly driven by its U.S.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Formula 1 is tracking for record revenue in 2023 and 2024 Formula 1 has three core sources of revenue: Media rights fees, which account for 36.4% Sponsorship fees, which account for 16.9% A couple of months ago, rumors were swirling that Apple is preparing a bid worth $2 billion per year for the global streaming rights to F1.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Blue Origin is currently bidding on acquiring a second space company, United Launch Alliance. Overall, the donation accounted for less than 0.2% While he could use debt or raise equity funding from investors, selling shares to fund the company allows Bezos to maintain full control over Blue Origin. of his holdings.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The company beat top- and bottom-line analyst estimates, clarified that the accounting issues were resolved, and revised full-year guidance to $605 million. Additionally, a spokesperson for privately held Wiz indicated that the cybersecurity company was considering a bid for SentinelOne. Q2 earnings were a significant improvement.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The company decided not to bid on renewing a large government account because of profitability concerns, which hurt subscriber growth numbers. AT&T's subscriber growth rate has slowed this year as the wireless industry cooled down a bit, but there were some one-off factors as well.

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JULY 8, 2023

In the last month, a wave of major financial institutions have applied to offer spot Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETF) in a bid to bridge Wall Street with the original cryptocurrency. As of today, Grayscale holds more than 625,000 Bitcoins to back its Bitcoin Trust, totaling more than $19 billion.

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JUNE 13, 2023

The more willing stock investors are to bid up share prices, the bearish argument would go, the less the Fed has succeeded in reining in speculative behavior. A prudent long-term investing strategy takes both factors into account. That outlook is helping to support higher stock prices. and Walmart wasn't one of them!

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AUGUST 27, 2024

It was a time when investors readily embraced -- and bid up -- stocks of companies with novel business ideas. Tesla accounts for a little more than 13% of the Ark Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF 's (NYSEMKT: ARKQ) value, while its second-biggest makes up more than 10% of the fund's value.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They have been spending big-time on putting artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in place in a bid to make the most of this fast-growing technology. This suggests that Nvidia is hypothetically on track to account for just over half of the entire capex of the big tech companies discussed above. billion in 2022.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

In China, where Tesla has its largest factory, EVs accounted for 19% of all vehicle sales in the first half of 2023. But there are still plenty of naysayers, so more investors may be ready to bid shares higher as the company proves it is still a strong growth investment. Globally, Tesla has nearly 55,000 open charging stalls.

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