The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) last April. SoundHound fell short of its pre-merger expectations, and rising interest rates exacerbated that pain by compressing its valuations. The audio and speech recognition company's stock opened at $8.72 less than a month later.

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The Motley Fool

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. However, several unfolding developments potentially give the grocer some market-beating catalysts.

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The Motley Fool

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. That equals an average net loss of $8.5

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) disappointed a lot of investors after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in April 2022. Yet it had previously told investors it could generate $98 million in revenue in 2023 during its pre-merger presentation.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Symbiotic (NASDAQ: SYM) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on June 8, 2022. But during Symbiotic's pre-merger presentation, it claimed it could achieve a positive adjusted EBITDA margin of 12% by fiscal 2023 -- and that figure would rise to 25% in fiscal 2024. With an enterprise value of $2.1

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But instead of following that trend and expanding into the wireless market, Lumen doubled down on the legacy wireline market through a series of mergers and acquisitions while expanding its portfolio of cloud, security, and collaboration services for enterprise customers.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 13, 2025

The sale forms part of Constellation's acquisition of Calpine. The merger will expand the footprint of the combined company across the continental US. is nearing an acquisition of Calpine Corp., in 2022, chief executive Joe Dominguez said he was interested in growing the company through mergers and acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Many companies went public via mergers with special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2020 and 2021. Meanwhile, the stock now carries an enterprise value of $4 billion. Analysts estimate it will generate just $6 million this year and $74 million in 2025.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One of my econ professors in college made the point early in my time in school, at the end of the day, economics rule and in capitalism, that's just the simple fact of the matter, so when companies costs go up, they find ways to account for that. Now that they've closed the acquisition. There's lots of them.

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Axial

JANUARY 23, 2025

TX JTW Advisors FL – 1 closed deal on Axial | – 2 or more closed deals on Axial (all-time) About the Top 25 The Peakstone Group is an investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions advisory and capital raising for middle market clients. We offer M&A advisory services as sell-side advisors.

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Axial

OCTOBER 24, 2024

is the global leader in merger and acquisition services, specializing in serving software and information technology companies worldwide. ” Visit Hill View Partners’ Profile “Ardent Advisory Group is a privately-held, independent investment bank that provides strategic advice and execution on mergers and acquisitions.

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Axial

JULY 27, 2023

CA 11 Gleason Advisors PA 12 ACT Capital Advisors WA 13 Vercor GA 14 EBB Group TX 15 Sun Mergers & Acquisitions NJ 16 New Direction Partners PA 17 Marshall-Stevens CA 18 Cornerstone Business Services, Inc. ASA has 25 years experience in Mergers, Acquisitions, and corporate exits.”

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JMI Equity

AUGUST 6, 2024

Prior to joining JMI, Duane worked as an investment banker in the mergers & acquisitions group at Evercore. As Director of Financial Reporting, Carter will oversee the accounting, treasury and financial reporting functions of the firm. Carter joined the JMI team 12 years ago as a Senior Accountant. He received a B.A.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

But before turning to our outlook, I wanted to briefly touch on our acquisition of Mint Mobile and Ultra on May 1. From a financial perspective, the acquisition resulted in a onetime prepaid base adjustment of approximately 3.5 And so, they'd be part of our mobile accounts. million customers. Cellular, Metronet, Lumos.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Family Offices have also accounted for 17.1% ” Visit SouthWorth’s Profile “Cottonwood Acquisitions is a family office partnership focused on investing in small to mid-sized businesses. Cottonwood seeks to partner with talented management teams to create value with a long term investment horizon.”

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Scott Murdoch of Reuters aslo reports Blackstone to buy Australia's AirTrunk in US$16 billion deal: Blackstone will buy Australian data centre group AirTrunk for an implied enterprise value of over A$24 billion ($16.10 The acquisition is Blackstone’s biggest-ever investment in the Asia-Pacific region, outweighing its A$8.9

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

We now expect full year postpaid ARPA to grow up to 3% in 2024, a further acceleration of the growth we saw in 2023 from both the continued execution of our strategy to win and expand account relationships and as we anticipate taking further rate plan optimization actions within the base. We continue to expect cash capex to be between $8.6

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Could one of those stocks be BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) , the enterprise AI software company that went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in 2021? set some unrealistic growth targets during its pre-merger presentation and missed those estimates by a mile. What does BigBear.ai

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 26, 2023

per share (although generally accepted accounting principles [GAAP] earnings declined). The problem is when you factor in debt and cash, this results in an enterprise value-to-FCF valuation of 22.4 Just last week, Lockheed Martin expressed opposition to this merger, warning that it could hurt competition in the defense industry.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

Peter is the guy I look to when I wanna learn things about how to build a firm, how to grow organically, how to think about acquisitions, how to structure your company, really to become an enterprise as opposed to merely being a business. You did no acquisitions. You’re working as an attorney for an advisory firm.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so I joined Goldman in there, it was a 12-person merger department. So I joined Goldman and their merger department, but said, I’d like to be your LBO guy. The head of mergers and everyone watched over me there. I started at Goldman at ’81 doing, you know, mostly raid work and more traditional merger and seller work.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The fintech company went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on June 1, 2021, and its stock opened at $21.97. Like many other SPAC-backed companies, SoFi disappointed its investors by missing its ambitious pre-merger forecasts. At $16, it has an enterprise value of $16.2 respectively.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

Ricky Mulvey: One other thing going on with this company that is material is what happened after the failed merger of Albertsons , Albertsons saying, Kroger, you didn't try hard enough to acquire us. billion enterprise value against that 527 million in free cash flow there. I didn't see much from the call on this.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Such a merger would be the largest semiconductor sector deal in history since Intel still has an enterprise value of $124 billion. Qualcomm would also need to issue a lot of new shares to cover the acquisition. Those accounted for 8% and 15% of its revenues, respectively, in the first nine months of fiscal 2024.

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