Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg. Lending limits have also increased.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 21, 2025

Burger King UK, the fast-food chain backed by private equity firm Bridgepoint, has launched talks with lenders for a major refinancing, seeking additional capital to support its expansion plans, according to a report by Sky News.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We've made some big announcements this past few months relating to securing capital that can propel our accretive growth. Most notably, we put a valuation marker on our largest portfolio with the Chicago Recap JV and sourced capital for up to $500 million in acquisitions. We've also made solid progress on capital deployment.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In particular, Gross pointed to Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) and AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) as mortgage REITs that could deliver significant total returns in 2024. The companies buy mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by government agencies using a lot of leverage. and Annaly Capital Management wasn't one of them! .*

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

It also seems to be soliciting bids for ABC and other "noncore" media assets and said it would consider a partner for ESPN. A wild ride Disney said it plans to "accelerate and expand investment" in the parks division, nearly doubling capital expenditures to $60 billion over the next decade. Is that sell-off warranted?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

Let's discuss what the next 10 years could have in store for the big-data specialist as it seeks to leverage its position in the defense and law enforcement sectors to help introduce this transformational technology. As a start-up, the company was partially funded with the help of the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-tel.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Second, you avoid paying capital gains taxes on any gains on your investment if you had sold the shares. Blue Origin is currently bidding on acquiring a second space company, United Launch Alliance. Donating shares to nonprofit organizations will provide two tax benefits. Bezos has committed to giving away most of his fortune.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Right now, oil is on the rise, leading investors to bid up the stock prices of companies like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM). At which point, it reduces leverage. XOM return on capital employed, data by YCharts. Return on capital employed basically measures how well a company invests capital on behalf of its shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And finally, ensuring that we are disciplined stewards of capital as we continue to strengthen our balance sheet, manage our portfolio of businesses and deploy capital to create value for our shareholders. Our leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was approximately 4.7 We ended the quarter with approximately $3.8

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. A great customer experience leads to strong retention, which maximizes returns and makes us the best bid for acquiring MSRs. On a year-over-year basis, the portfolio is up 33%.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Cathay Capital Private Equity, a leading international investment firm, announces the final closing of $270 million for its latest growth private equity fund, Small Cap IV, to invest in healthcare, consumer, and technology companies across Europe, North America and Asia.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We expect continued year-over-year improvement in the fourth quarter as governed by sales performance given the leverage deleverage nature of service. SG&A leveraged by 640 basis points driven by the growth and gross profit and our continued expense efficiency actions. million shares for a total spend of $115 million.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Investors have bid up computer chip stocks such as TSMC this year on the back of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, which requires an immense amount of computing power to train and run. Since TSMC is a manufacturing business, it has a lot of operating leverage. The iShares Semiconductor ETF is up 47.5% It just announced a new $2.9

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

Amidst a dynamic macroeconomic landscape, we capitalized on our robust network effects and unparalleled transaction efficiency to further supplant traditional off-line logistics transaction models, accelerating our growth flywheel. Our average monthly active shippers surpassed 2.93 percentage points year over year. year over year to RMB 1.16

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

Still, that beat was apparently not good enough for investors, who had bid the stock up over 30% this year, even after today's decline. Tesla, for its part, while increasing research and development (R&D) and capital expenditures on a year-over-year basis, actually decreased spending in both categories relative to the first quarter.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.,

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

Billionaire Bill Ackman manages hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, and he's comfortable with the idea of contrarian investing. By advocating for the value of the assets, Ackman was able to contribute to a bidding war for General Growth Properties. Among the problems that Ackman saw was an enormous amount of leverage.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

Bain Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Namirial, a provider of Digital Transaction Management (DTM) software solutions, from Italian private equity firm Ambienta. Bain Capital is being advised by J.P.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Supply constraints and capital expenditures weighed on the company in fiscal Q1. Still, that temporary setback has not deterred investors, who have bid the share price more than 200% higher over the last year. Upstart Upstart Holdings (NASDAQ: UPST) has leveraged AI to develop a loan evaluation tool. Although its $2.2

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

And, as many investors appreciate, when a pharma company mints a winning product, it's only logical for it to leverage the expertise required to develop the product into making new medicines that are even better. Yet, this doesn't imply that it's using its capital efficiently or that its attempts will succeed.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

and AREX Capital Management, LP and its affiliated investors, who together own or control approximately 30% of the Company’s outstanding shares, have each entered into a voting agreement pursuant to which they have agreed, among other things, to vote their respective shares of common stock of Fiesta in favor of the transaction.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Oct 24, 2024 , 9:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning, and welcome to the third quarter 2024 earnings call for Annaly Capital Management. Economic leverage ticked down slightly to 5.7

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Capital inflows are the story to watch with these cryptos Bitcoin's run toward its record price (nearly $69,000 per token in late 2021) has been remarkable. This signals there's plenty of speculative capital being put to work, in addition to the billions of dollars of institutional capital flowing into Bitcoin alone.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Private capital is experiencing a surge in acquiring renewable energy developers, increasingly favoring equity-based take-private deals for leveraged buyouts due to high interest rates and rising electricity demand. The statistics underscore this movement. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.,

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Our strong financial performance, debt refinancing, and early achievement of net leverage ratio goals have allowed for a tighter focus on equity dilution management. We are pleased to report that our net leverage ratio was 0.9x My two questions are these, also at the same time, net leverage, 0.9 at the end of Q2. million shares.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Feb 08, 2024 , 9:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good day, and welcome to the fourth-quarter 2023 Annaly Capital Management earnings conference. Image source: The Motley Fool. Please go ahead, sir.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

stake in the supermarket to existing owners private equity firm TDR Capital, the company said today, in signs the billionaire Issa brothers’ are separating a significant chunk of their close business interests. by TDR Capital, 22.5% Zuber Issa has exited Asda after selling his 22.5% The deal brings the ownership of Asda to 67.5%

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 17, 2024

Pricing is expected at 5 percentage points over the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, at a discounted price of 99 cents on the dollar, its leverage at around eight-times based on roughly $90m of EBITDA. read more Blackstone-led consortium bids Haldiram Snacks at $8.5

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 31, 2024

Oaktree Capital Management is also involved in providing part of the financing, while there is also a provision in the agreement allowing smaller lenders to take positions post-signing. The initial borrowings would position Vantive’s leverage at 4.2 times its pro-forma earnings.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The technology leverages the power of quantum physics to exponentially increase the speed of computing power. Knowing that, investors may understandably hesitate to bid the stock price higher under the best of circumstances. Given IonQ's current conditions, investors are probably too late to capitalize on this stock.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Other lenders supporting the transaction include Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Hayfin Capital Management. trillion private credit market is increasingly winning out over bank syndicates that had traditionally financed large buyouts with leveraged loans. Permira confirmed the agreement to acquire GGW in a statement.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

Since our last earnings call on April 30, I am pleased to announce that we are making solid progress on our path forward of one, simplifying the business; two, operational performance improvement and three, reducing leverage. We are very pleased to see this important source of capital return to our sector, albeit selectively at this time.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

Semiconductor capital-equipment player Lam Research makes the critical equipment that enables foundries to make all of these advanced chips, in some cases winning 100% market share of specific process steps. Talk about positive operating leverage. But no matter which AI chip wins out, some things are nearly guaranteed.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, that stock has been bid to nosebleed valuations, dramatically increasing the risk. The company successfully leveraged this core competency and took a lead over Intel in data center CPU market share growth in 2023. It also means that investors may have a more lucrative opportunity in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). trillion.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

You can see that from the increases in our capital expenditures. First, it bears repeating that AI innovation across our Ads ecosystem is core to every aspect of our product portfolio from targeting, bidding, creative, measurement, and across campaign types. Gemini was trained on and is served using TPUs. By measuring 2.3

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2024

Amidst the broader industry trend of cost reduction and efficiency enhancements, we leveraged our [Inaudible] platform skill effect to deliver exceptional cost-effectiveness and transaction efficiency to our users, driving the company's growth flywheel. As a result, our average shipper MAUs reached 2.65 million, an increase of 32.8%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

Moving to growth capital. Adjusted cash flow from operations, or we call it adjusted CFFO, which is cash flow from operating activities before changes in working capital, was 1.9 We continue to expect our growth capital expenditures for 2023 will be in the range of $2.4 Turning to capitalization. This compares to $1.4

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