Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Northern Oil and Gas has made an acquisition offer for Granite Ridge Resources, a smaller US producer with operations in several major basins, including the Permian and Eagle Ford, according to a report by Reuters citing sources familiar with the matter. In contrast, Northern’s shares, valued at roughly $3.6bn, dropped 1.1%

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 8, 2025

BlackRock made headlines in late 2024 through the firms acquisition of HPS Investment Partners , backed by their expectation that the private debt market will more than double to $4.5 2] While BlackRocks acquisition dominated the news cycle, other firms have already made it their prerogative to jump into the private credit pool.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

After all, he's owned it since he helped arrange a merger to create the entity in 2015. The merger was worth roughly $45 billion, creating a food giant that owns such famous brands as Kraft, Heinz, Oscar Meyer, Kool-Aid, Jell-O, Capri-Sun, and more. However, the merger also loaded up the new entity with debt.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

In this podcast, Motley Fool analyst Tim Beyers and host Dylan Lewis discuss: Rocket Companies ' plans to own even more of the homebuying process with an all-stock purchase of Redfin. On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a Double Down stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. We had no idea.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

With 40bn in assets under management across private equity, private debt, and real estate, BC Partners is focusing on mid-market transactions, particularly defensive growth companies valued between 1bn and 2bn. The firm sees these businesses as offering strong upside while maintaining flexibility for exits. Can`t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

Why Activision and Adobe shareholders might not want their company's proposed acquisitions to go through. Motley Fool host Deidre Woollard chats with Atif Qadir, the founder of property tech company Commonplace, about how issues at regional banks affect real estate, and whether empty office space can really be turned into apartments.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 8, 2024

The REIT recently added $1 billion to its acquisition target, giving it the confidence to boost the low end of its growth rate. billion merger with Spirit Realty earlier this year. this year without needing outside capital to fund additional acquisitions. this year without needing outside capital to fund additional acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 20, 2024

compound annual rate since going public, driven by a combination of rent growth and accretive acquisitions. Acquisitions are the company's other growth driver. Thanks to its abundant post-dividend free cash flow, the REIT can internally fund a meaningful amount of acquisitions each year. trillion in Europe).

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2023

QuantumScape, a developer of solid-state batteries, merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in November 2020. and rose to its post-merger high of $35.69 According to its pre-merger presentation, it could potentially increase its revenue at a compound annual rate of 363% from $14 million in 2024 to $6.44

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 4, 2024

The planned acquisition of Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) by JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) is officially off, and investors are worried about what comes next for Spirit. Spirit shareholders also received about $425 million in prepayments from JetBlue as agreed upon in the merger agreement as a way to sweeten the deal. airlines."

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 31, 2025

NGP Energy Capital Management is considering selling Camino Natural Resources, one of the largest privately held natural gas producers in Oklahomas Anadarko Basin, in a deal that could value the company at around $2bn, including debt, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2023

CEO Warren Buffett garners so much attention, just pull up a long-term chart of the company and you'll have a better understanding. In his 58-plus years as CEO, he's overseen an aggregate increase in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) More importantly, the company was valued at between 10x and 15x forward-year earnings.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 20, 2024

Company TTM Dividend Yield FCF 2024 FCF Yield 2024 FCF 2025 FCF Yield 2025 Devon Energy 4.1% $3.3 Company TTM Dividend Yield FCF 2024 FCF Yield 2024 FCF 2025 FCF Yield 2025 Devon Energy 4.1% $3.3 Free cash flow and business developments I've used FCF because most companies base their capital allocation strategies on it.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

And that means the pipeline company could have lots of fuel to grow its dividend, which already yields an attractive 5.9%. The pipeline company kept its payout flat from the start of 2020 until earlier this year, when it provided investors with a modest 2% raise. However, that pace has moderated considerably in recent years.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 26, 2024

in Bianor Holding, a software development company catering to the technology, media and telecommunications industries. According to a press release, Bianor’s capitalisation now exceeds €25m at the current stock price, which places it among the largest IT companies listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. Read more U.S.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2024

BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company on Dec. The data mining company's shares started trading at $9.84 Let's see why the company initially impressed the bulls, how it let them down, and where the stock might be headed. and climbed to an all-time high of $16.12

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2024

SoundHound has carved out a niche in the AI market with two main platforms: its namesake app, which identifies songs from short audio clips, and Houndify, a platform that allows companies to develop their own speech recognition tools. Houndify drove most of the company's growth as revenue rose 47% in both 2022 and 2023.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 17, 2024

It's always interesting when a new company comes to market and doubly interesting when it's a spinoff. In reality, two new companies came out of the spinoff of Solventum (NYSE: SOLV) and 3M (NYSE: MMM) -- a newly created healthcare company and an industrial conglomerate without a healthcare business.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Lumen, the telecom company formerly known as CenturyLink, impressed the bulls by signing a new AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft and a fiber supply deal with Corning. billion in long-term debt with $1.6 Over the past 12 months, Lumen's stock surged more than 70% as Broadcom's stock rallied over 60%. Lumen was still shouldering $18.5

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2024

I focus on companies that pay above-average dividends that should steadily rise in the future. The company pays less than 75% of its stable cash flow in dividends each year. The REIT can deliver this incremental growth by making accretive acquisitions funded with outside capital (issuing new shares and debt).

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) , the creator of the Electron orbital rocket, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) three years ago. The combined company's stock started trading at $11.58, soared to an all-time high of $20.72 just two weeks later, but now trades at less than $7 a share.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

One of the best ways to create wealth is by investing in companies that pay a dividend. While many different types of companies pay dividends, business development companies (BDCs) represent a unique opportunity. The company specializes in an instrument called venture debt -- or loans made at high interest rates.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This outperformance occurred in spite of the company's recent 25% share price drop from its 2024 highs. While a discounted valuation like this would typically imply that something with the company is going wrong, I'd argue that Tennant's future looks brighter than ever, making it a promising investment today.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In particular, I've been looking closely at business development companies ( BDCs ). What are business development companies? Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. BDCs are pretty interesting. Well, not exactly.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

Several factors have contributed to the company's ability to deliver such consistent growth. For starters, the midstream company generates very stable cash flow. Meanwhile, the company pays out a conservative percentage of its stable cash flows. For example, the company recently priced $1.1 billion to investors.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2024

After its 2022 merger with Kirkland Lake Gold and its acquisition of Yamana's Canadian assets, Agnico has emerged as a leading producer of gold -- and profits. This helps provide the ability to acquire more assets or to advance growth projects that will expand its mineral resources and strengthen the company's future.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

The merger wave in the oil patch is continuing in 2024. The latest deal will see APA Corporation (NASDAQ: APA) acquire fellow oil company Callon Petroleum (NYSE: CPE). That acquisition will enhance APA's scale in the resource-rich Permian Basin. Here's a look at the latest oil stock merger and what it means for investors.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) nearly three years ago. But like many other SPAC-backed EV makers, it set some ambitious delivery and revenue targets in a pre-merger presentation -- then broadly missed its own expectations. Lucid's debt-to-equity ratio of 0.8

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2024

The company may often be viewed as risky due to its connection to these pink sheet shares , which are generally companies in default or severe financial distress. Meanwhile, the Venture Market focuses on entrepreneurial start-ups and development-stage companies that don't meet the qualifications for the Best Market.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

US private equity dealmakers are preparing for a year of heightened merger and acquisition (M&A) activity despite significant macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties, according to the 2025 Deal and Business Risk Management Survey by professional service firm Aon.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The company reports its results under three segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. The growth across Microsoft's cloud products and services has been a core reason the company has grown its top and bottom lines rapidly in recent years. It has also benefited from acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

As the artificial intelligence (AI) race heats up, investors have become increasingly aware of the powerful position of electronic design automation (EDA) software companies. That's because these companies deal with a type of design suite specifically for semiconductors that are so vital to AI's development.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

Chevron's other upside catalyst is its pending acquisition of Hess. Chevron estimates the acquisition would enable it to more than double its free cash flow by 2030 at $70 oil. Uncertainty about that merger has weighed on Chevron's stock. The oil company generated $3.2 billion ($16.24

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Those rate hikes put a damper on markets, and companies have been hesitant to issue debt amid uncertainty about where rates will go from here. But the company, one of the longest-held positions in Berkshire Hathaway 's portfolio, weathered the challenges well. Debt issuances by companies plummeted, and Moody's felt the impact.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2024

Despite a growing, stable revenue stream from high-profile clients, the company suffered from a high-interest-rate environment that has pressured its bottom line. The company specializes in net leasing of single-tenant commercial properties, meaning the tenant covers maintenance, insurance, and tax costs.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

QuantumScape (NYSE: QS) , a developer of solid-state batteries, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Nov. During its pre-merger presentation, it claimed it could start commercializing its products in 2024 and grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate of 363% from $14 million in 2024 to $6.44

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

A wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity has washed over the oil patch in the last year. Several midstream companies have made acquisitions, while the rumor mill suggests others are on the prowl. These deals will give pipeline companies more fuel to grow their cash flow and high-yielding dividends.

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