The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

HTGC Net Interest Income (Quarterly) data by YCharts Over the last 10 years, Hercules stock has a total return of 275%. Moreover, while Hercules specializes in basic debt instruments such as term loans or revolvers (think a corporate line of credit), Ares offers more sophisticated products -- including leveraged buyouts (LBOs).

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Taurus Private Markets invests in value-oriented, lower middle market leveraged buyout and private credit partnerships with target fund sizes less than $1.25bn. The firm invests in leveraged buyout, private credit, and venture capital opportunities based in North America.

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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. Peter Zhu, managing director at Macquarie Group Ltd.’s billion.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Stefan Meister, the Chairman of $142m Swiss private investment firm Partners Group, is predicting that private equity dealmaking will return to record levels in the next year or so, according to a report by Bloomberg. That requires new products that look a little bit more like mutual funds,” he said.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Over the last 10 years, Hercules stock has a total return of 230%. The company specializes in more complex transactions such as leveraged buyouts , for example. The chart below tracks the total return of Ares stock versus a number of leading S&P 500 -themed exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Image source: Getty Images.

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American Investment Council

MAY 6, 2024

“Private credit is playing a crucial role in supporting businesses and delivering impressive returns for investors, especially in uncertain times,” said Drew Maloney, President & CEO of the American Investment Council. In 2022 private credit funds had an internal rate of return of 7.59% compared to a return of -3.24

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

DocuSign boasts a market capitalization of just under $11 billion as of Monday's close, which would potentially make its acquisition one of the largest leveraged buyouts in recent years. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. What's next for DocuSign stock?

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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. Peter Zhu, managing director at Macquarie Group Ltd.’s billion.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. In fact, the one area I was pretty set on eliminating from my consideration set--leveraged buyouts--was the area where partners seemed to make the most money.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Pittsburgh-based iconic steel company received a buyout bid from a Japanese counterpart that could reshape the entire steelmaking industry. On Friday, speculation arose that DocuSign might seek to sell itself , either through a third-party buyer or in a leveraged buyout. Image source: Getty Images.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Apollo’s chief executive, Marc Rowan, has emphasised that the firm’s biggest opportunity in private credit is not in the competitive market for funding leveraged buyouts. These deals offer Apollo higher returns than conventional loans or bonds, with an added premium for the illiquidity of private debt.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Business development companies (BDC) can be particularly good sources of dividend income, paying above market returns. Over a longer time frame, investors can see in the chart below, Horizon has a total return of nearly 140%. HRZN total return level; data by YCharts. Hercules Capital: 9.5% Ares Capital: 9.3%

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

During the last decade, Hercules stock had a total return of 235%. By contrast, Ares has the ability to complete much more sophisticated deals, including leveraged buyouts. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. This approach appears to be working. dividend yield.

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Financial Times M&A

MAY 29, 2023

Lenders return to funding leveraged buyouts after painful year in which fees were hit hard

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Any deal would be substantial, given DocuSign's market cap at just over $13 billion as of this writing, potentially making it one of the largest leveraged buyouts in recent years. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Adobe and DocuSign.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

The returns that we are able to generate in this kind of market are about as good as we have seen in 15 years.” Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Having begun life as a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts, Apollo has grown into a major player in debt underwriting, with its growth having been fuelled by its insurance subsidiary, Athene, which provides a steady source of low-cost capital for its deals and is currently holding $33bn in capital reserves.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2024

Even after selling a big chunk of shares to finance his leveraged buyout of Twitter in 2022, Musk owns roughly 13% of Tesla. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of January 8, 2024 Keith Speights has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Why does Musk want more control of Tesla?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

During the past 10 years, Hercules has a total return of 218%. Over the past decade, this company's stock has returned 152% to investors (with dividends reinvested). The generous stock returns could suggest that Horizon has done a stellar job consistently working with strong, reliable growth companies in emerging markets.

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

Leveraged buyout volumes remained down from historical highs in Q2 2024, as did EBITDA purchase price multiples, which decreased from 11.5x At the height of the market in Q4 2021, 33% of buyout transactions were in the TMT and healthcare industries, whereas in the first half of 2024, only 18% were in these industries.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recently, however, the stock has been on an upswing, climbing nearly 62% from its low of $38 in this past October amid rumors of a potential buyout by a private equity firm. These factors seem to have made the company an attractive option for potential leveraged buyout by private equity companies. Is DocuSign a buy?

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Before establishing Drakai Capital, Sam dedicated 15 years (2004-2019) at Société Générale’s proprietary trading desks, initially as a credit derivatives trader, then advancing as a quantitative portfolio manager spearheading capital structure arbitrage and cross-asset absolute return strategies across European and U.S. markets.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Between 2020 and 2021, the industry experienced a period of unprecedented growth, only to see a regression in 2022 due to delayed economic reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic – the global buyout value dropped nearly 35%. This could lead to a decrease in this type of buyout, as buyers may not be able to finance their acquisitions with debt.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Whereas Kleinman went in hard with his warning that “everything is not going to be okay” for buyout firms, Stavros joined in with the concession that his industry may have gotten “too creative” lately. When buyout groups do look to sell, PIKs, NAV loans and other kinds of excess baggage are creating obstacles.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2023

Credit crusaders fill the wall street void Submitted 27/06/2023 - 1:54pm This article first appeared in the March 2023 T ech Buyouts Insights Report Private credit funds could become a more permanent fixture in tech’s leveraged buyout market thanks to their speed of execution and reliability, especially in challenging macroeconomic conditions.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles? Commercial properties, such as office spaces or retail buildings, can offer higher potential returns. If so, it’s time to delve into alternative investments.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Do you find yourself longing for new opportunities that can potentially generate higher returns over market cycles? Commercial properties, such as office spaces or retail buildings, can offer higher potential returns. If so, it’s time to delve into alternative investments.

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Udu

MAY 24, 2023

Private equity (PE) firms continue to attract investors looking to maximize returns and minimize risks. Leveraged Buyout (LBO) An LBO transaction is an acquisition funded using a significant amount of debt where assets from both parties are used as collateral. In fact, private equity fundraising has seen a substantial rise.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Equity returns enter a different era Although the S&P has returned an impressive 19% year-to-date through November 15, seven mega-cap tech stocks (+72%) are largely responsible; the other 493 stocks in the index are up only 7%. During the QE era, market multiples worked in tandem with earnings growth to produce historic returns.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It presents opportunities for outsized returns if you can transform an underperforming business into a high-efficiency machinebut only if you can source the deal before someone else does. Flexibility: Deals here allow for more creative structuring and tailored approaches.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Because the, today where we talk about return on equity, your margins, what’s your stock price back then if, if you were in business in, you know, the real world, they said how many people worked for you? Michael Fisch : 00:07:45 [Speaker Changed] So there was almost no m and a activity. And now we call it the private equity industry.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. Not, not direct lending much more the higher risk, higher return lending. There’s leverage.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

Kiplinger ) • Bosses are obsessed with returning to the office. Here’s why it’s already out of their hands : Your boss is capital-O obsessed with returning to the office. In many countries, that meant returning to the office for the first time in two years. LEI for the U.S.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

We are a fully funded defined benefit pension plan and have earned an annual total-fund net return of 9.5% At Ontario Teachers’, we don't just invest to make a return, we invest to shape a better future for the teachers we serve, the businesses we back, and the world we live in. since the plan's founding in 1990.

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