Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

Qualtrics, the software company behind an experience management platform used by thousands of companies such as Uber, Coca-Cola and Pfizer, has accepted a $12.5 billion all-cash offer from private equity firm Silver Lake and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments). billion in equity and $1 billion in debt.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

citing a much smaller number -- $3 billion, or even perhaps as little as $2 billion -- as the likely price when the bidding for ULA comes to an end. And second, despite Boeing and Lockheed being public companies, it's not 100% clear how profitable their ULA subsidiary is. We're not totally in the dark.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Powered by an evolved Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB) strategy and an operationally-driven approach to underwriting, we are able to key-in on opportunities that other firms tend to overlook, resulting in less competitive bidding processes and greater opportunity for value creation. Lead Lap was founded by operating executive David F.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: By 2019, it was, I think, nine to 10 years, and by 2022, it was 14 to 15 years before they were going public, right? You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000. And so you look at, well, why go public, right? A public company has quarterly earnings pressure. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing. If the CEO sexually harasses someone, the company gets hacked. Well, 00:33:14 He, so I actually think that in hostile public company m and a, it is not that uncommon to not do due diligence, right?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 27, 2024

First time for the listeners, though, the theme of this, Jim, is that being a public company is difficult. They really haven't gotten any advantage for being public they don't need to raise capital, so they're not using for capital markets here. They'll be able to roll that just fine as a private company.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

I wondered, as you look at wholesale opportunities over the next couple of years, MVNO opportunities, what's the philosophy you bring to the opportunity to bid for and you're thinking about how to price those bids as new opportunities come up. One is what -- when are we going to close each and every one of these two.

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