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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Ares Capital Ares Capital is the world's largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ). These specialized entities are popular among income-seeking investors because they can avoid paying income taxes by distributing nearly all of their earnings to shareholders in the form of dividend payments.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 10, 2024

annual shareholder meeting. economy, and his investing philosophy for hours on end. Berkshire's stake in integrated oil and gas stock Occidental has been added to with regularity over the past two years. As a company's outstanding share count declines, remaining investors own an incrementally larger stake of what remains.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The estimated value of the Chinese company has more than tripled since SK’s stake purchase. SK is the second-largest shareholder in Londian Wason, after it invested a total of 380bn won into the special purpose company between 2019 and 2020 to secure a 30% stake. China’s D&R Group is the largest shareholder.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

Although his company's $370 billion portfolio holds stakes in 45 stocks and two index funds, a majority of invested assets has been put to work in a small number of companies. Let's take a closer look at all 27 companies Warren Buffett and his investment team have at least $1 billion of Berkshire's capital invested in.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2024

Given Buffett's outsized success, prudent investors consistently monitor Berkshire's nearly $400 billion investment portfolio to see which stocks the Oracle of Omaha believes can beat the market. With that in mind, here are three stocks reflecting his enduring investment strategies that promise long-term growth for shareholders.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

Toshiba Corp is considering a $20 billion offer from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to take it private, a person familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese industrial conglomerate faces pressure from activist shareholders to improve governance. Other deals by the private equity firm include the $1.5

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

million shares of Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) , increasing his stake by 1,140%. Importantly, Citadel still had twice as much capital invested in Nvidia as Palantir as of June 30, so it would be wrong to assume Griffin lacks confidence in the chipmaker. Griffin sold 9.2 Meanwhile, he added 5.2

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Both companies have already seen the benefits of massive AI-related spending for their business and shareholders. Microsoft is up 77% since announcing an increased stake in generative AI leader OpenAI in early 2023. Palantir stock is up 230% this year alone, as of this writing. It's seeing no shortage of demand for its capacity.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

The move would take private Hersha at an approximately 60% premium to the real-estate investment trust’s closing stock price on Friday. The deal is slated to close by year-end after shareholders okay the move. It recently took a stake in Soneva Holdings , which owns three hotels in Asia. Source: SKIFT Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

MAY 24, 2024

Whereas the widely followed S&P 500 has delivered a hearty total return (including dividends paid) of around 34,700% since the Oracle of Omaha became CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , Buffett has generated aggregate returns in excess of 5,000,000% for his company's Class A shareholders.

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JULY 26, 2024

In a rare move, it even secretly bought a huge stake in one company that it only revealed recently. billion investment Whenever an investor or business purchases more than 5% of a company's outstanding shares, it's generally required to publicly disclose the stake with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A secret $6.7

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The company has been producing growing excess free cash flow after capital investments and dividends, which it has used to repay debt, to the tune of $1.9 Leverage should continue to decline in the future , especially after the company recently agreed to sell its remaining 70% stake in DirecTV to partner TPG. leverage ratio.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault is close to a $7bn deal to buy a majority stake in Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood talent giant that’s home to actor Brad Pitt and basketball’s Chris Paul, according to people familiar with the matter. TPG first invested in CAA back in 2010 and acquired a majority stake in 2014.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

Companies that regularly dole out a percentage of their earnings to shareholders are often profitable on a recurring basis, time-tested, and capable of providing transparent growth outlooks. billion in dividend income from its nearly 999 million-share stake in Bank of America over the next 12 months. The reciprocal is also true (i.e.,

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MARCH 29, 2024

This was originally a $10 billion stake, but Occidental has since redeemed $1.51 More than three years of reduced capital investment from major energy companies during the pandemic has constrained global oil supply and provided a lift to the spot price of crude. But Berkshire also owns $8.49 million a year). Apple: $869.3

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

The move followed a presentation by Engaged Capital, one of the company's top shareholders, that laid out a case for why the stock could be undervalued. Here's why investors are excited about VF Corp's prospects Engaged Capital invests in underperforming companies on the cheap.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Novo Holdings, a shareholder with a 77% stake in weight-loss wonderdrug-maker Novo Nordisk, is investing $290 million in renewable energy as stocks in green energy companies take a dip, Bloomberg reported. It's completely free and we guarantee you'll learn something new every day.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

Considering that AI technologies are very much here to stay, astute investors should consider picking up at least small stakes in these soaring AI-powered growth stocks as a part of their long-term investing strategy. Amazon is also gearing up to increase capital investments in AWS and generative AI capabilities.

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AltAssets

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Gulf Capital has sold its strategic stake in Egypt-listed Middle East Glass to the majority shareholder of the business, MENA Glass Holdings. The post Deal Roundup: Gulf Capital exits Middle East Glass, Tikehau completes Preligens sale to Safran appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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MAY 5, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a business development company ( BDC ) that allows individual investors to take part in the previously elusive world of venture capital investing. Even billionaires with the means to dabble in venture capital are buying shares of Hercules Capital.

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JUNE 8, 2024

Hercules Capital Hercules Capital is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it has to return at least 90% of the profits it generates to shareholders as a dividend. Many of Hercules Capital's investments don't work out, but the ones that succeed more than offset the losses.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

” The raise announced today comprises committed capital investments in energyRe LLC from Glentra Capital alongside co-investors Novo Holdings and Denmark -based pension fund PKA. In addition, a firm agreement has been reached with Elia Group for the acquisition of a stake in a subsidiary of energyRe: energyRe Giga.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Private equity firm Freshstream has taken a stake in Project Better Energy, a solar and renewable energy service provider, from the company’s shareholders, who are reinvesting alongside Freshstream. Project Better Energy is the sixth investment in Freshstream’s first independent fund, which closed earlier this year having raised €762m.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

Warren Buffett's thinking Berkshire Hathaway just had its annual shareholder meeting, with investors once again eager to hear Warren Buffett's wisdom. Any business with heavy capital investment tends to be a poor business to be in in inflation and often it's a poor business to be in generally," he said. "Any

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The Motley Fool

JULY 7, 2023

This $10 billion in preferred stock stems from capital Berkshire supplied to Occidental in 2019 to facilitate its acquisition of Anadarko. Even though the worst of the pandemic appears to be over, energy companies worldwide reduced their capital investments for the past three-plus years. There's also the COVID-19 pandemic.

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JUNE 10, 2024

But don't let Buffett's relatively modest stake in Amazon prevent you from capitalizing on an opportunity sitting in plain sight. It's such a large market, which has helped explain how Amazon has grown seemingly endlessly over the years and generated such blistering investment returns. But Amazon's not done growing. Here is why.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

ROL Cash Return on Capital Invested (CROCI) (TTM) data by YCharts. Measuring the companies' free-cash-flow (FCF) generation compared to their debt and equity, cash ROIC highlights Rollins' outsize ability to bring in FCF from the capital it deploys on mergers and acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Though a 15% yield is typically viewed as unsustainable for most companies, Annaly has supported an average yield of around 10% over the past two decades and returned $25 billion to shareholders since its initial public offering in 1997. 30, PennantPark's weighted average yield on debt investments rose by 520 basis points to 12.6%.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

And as we look forward, we're very optimistic about the markets we serve, our portfolio of high-quality copper assets, and the future prospects for strong cash flow generation to support investments and value-enhancing projects and returns to shareholders. Or do you think there could be more opportunities to increase your stake?

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

We'd also like to remind everyone that we'll refer to non-GAAP measures on the call, which are reconciled to GAAP figures in our earnings presentation available on the Shareholders section of our website at blueowl.com. billion of equity capital raised and $12 billion, including debt. Private wealth fundraising constituted $4.2

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AUGUST 4, 2023

I'm pleased with the progress we're making toward delivering a compelling repositioning of our company to create maximum long-term value for shareholders, employees, customers, and other stakeholders. The sale represents an attractive exit from what has been an excellent investment for our shareholders. Turning to Slide 8.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And finally, we continued to track -- we continued our track record of robust capital returns, with nearly $90 million returned to shareholders over the year-to-date period as we track toward a minimum total return yield of 3.6% million as mineral reserve base and meaningfully improve gold recoveries for incremental capital investment.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the quarter, we also announced that we reached an agreement to sell our remaining 70% stake in DIRECTV to TPG in a noncontingent transaction, subject only to customary closing conditions, and separate from the regulatory process associated with the DIRECTV DISH transaction. Capital investment for the quarter was $5.5

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Based on the near surface exploration results this year and considering a high gold price, we're now looking at leveraging the existing mill capacity and open pit mining fleet to further extend the open pit mine life while keeping capital investment to a minimum. How are you thinking about the remaining 20% stake there?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 28, 2024

And so in these 10 years I kind of merged my passion for the sport with the investment world. And as you say, Williams was the first former one team I got in myself into, had a, had a minority stake. You are in venture capital investing, you are in racing. You recently raised your stake in that.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Going forward, you'll continue to hear how we're executing against our mission because an exceptional customer experience positions our company to deliver the best results for our shareholders. I'm confident that this partnership is in the long-term best interest of our customers and our shareholders. Continuing to Slide 12.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

1 priority is to unlock shareholder value. Consistent with what we have said previously, we remain focused on selling a stake in Altera on a path to its IPO in the coming years. We are rigorously managing our costs and improving our profitability to create long-term shareholder value. In our All Other category, our No.

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