The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Mary Long: Constellation Software is a conglomerate of over 500 software businesses. The general theme to this family is that they're all, at least right now, well run vertical market software, aka VMS companies. What is VMS and why are these companies such appealing acquisition targets? Tom, welcome. Good to have you here.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And no doubt, he will be a big add to the executive team, having public company CEO experience and getting on the team, we're all super excited to have him. The same thing with assets in Jira Service Management is another area that we have some consumption-based pricing. I'm sure he will continue to help power that.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

We delivered 57% growth and 21% EBITDA margin, top percentile of public companies out there. We took the company public with an amazing shareholder base, and we finished the year with a very strong balance sheet, including $168 million of cash and short-term investments with zero debt. for the full year and $0.17

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

In addition to signing new customers, we renewed and expanded with our existing restaurant customers this quarter, including a leading restaurant conglomerate in the U.S., For example, we signed a contract with Apple Bank, the largest state chartered savings bank in New York with over 80 branches and 17 billion of assets under management.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. It is an institutionalized asset class.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

company, IGT PLC has the benefit of the participation exemption regime upon sale of assets. I think it's been hampered by the conglomerate discount that our company received. As with the initial average transaction, tax leakage from the sale is expected to be modest, up to $100 million or less than $0.50 per IGT share.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

The pivot into digital asset management and Betterment was a little bit of a surprise, but a lot of the skills are very transferrable and she’s really done a, a, a substantial job at Betterment. This is a company that’s barely a decade old and is ramped up to over $40 billion pretty quickly.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

The company's financials are among the best on Wall Street, and it is one of two public companies with an AAA credit rating, something not even the U.S. As a mature healthcare conglomerate, Johnson & Johnson won't blow you away with growth. However, the company still has a lot to offer investors.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? Do you do distressed asset, real estate? KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

In between, Stance is a trial lawyer and federal terrorist asset investigator, but he's mostly known and fooled them for inflicting sporadic episodes of apropos of nothing on unsuspecting podcast listeners during the days of market foolery. David Gardner: Maybe, but probably not. Well, it's great to have both of you. Whose market Cap 23.02

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

But he replied with something, if I remember correctly, like, look, I like the company, and I'm not even that bullish. I've moved down from the unregulated side, the publishing side of our business, and I've moved down to Motley Fool Asset Management. Facebook is still one of the most important companies in the universe.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2025

Though there are hundreds upon hundreds of public companies that pay a regular dividend, only a select few provide a rock-solid payout and offer a yield that's at least two times the current yield of the S&P 500 (1.24%) -- i.e., "high yield." What makes Realty Income so special is the company's focus on stand-alone retailers.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 8, 2025

His holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) (NYSE: BRK.A) , is his life's work. Buffett made Berkshire a conglomerate in 1965, and today, it's a $1.1 trillion market cap behemoth. All these subsidiaries function independently, with their earnings flowing to Berkshire Hathaway's balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This step, coupled with the previously announced plan to spin Advanced Materials will result in three industry-leading public companies with tailored strategies and growth drivers. Now let's turn to Page 6 to talk about what it means for each of these three stand-alone companies.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

prosecutors have also charged Gautam Adani , widely considered to be Asia’s second-richest man, and two other executives at a Indian green energy company that is part of a conglomerate he controls with several fraud-related charges in connection with the alleged scheme. In 2019, his company, Adani Green Energy Ltd.,

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from Lazard to Merrill to JPMorgan, tell us about those other experiences, how do they compare to Lazard which seems much more unique, being in a public company versus a partnership. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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