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Is 3M Spinoff Solventum a Buy? (And What It Means for 3M Investors)

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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. First, 3M saddled Solventum with debt to shore up the balance sheet of the former as it faces multibillion-dollar legal settlements.

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This Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock Is About to Lose Its Crown

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The industrial conglomerate has paid dividends to its shareholders for over a century without interruption and has raised its payout annually for more than 60 straight years. The company has been battling legal issues related to water pollution and potentially faulty earplugs sold to the military.

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5 Phenomenal Stocks in Warren Buffett's "Secret" Portfolio That Are Screaming Buys in 2024

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When Berkshire closed its acquisition of General Re, it became the owner of NEAM. But after more than $40 billion in concessions following the merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery to create Warner Bros. Image source: Getty Images. As of Sept. Discovery , AT&T's net debt has shrunk to $128.7 billion, as of Sept.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

So I did my thesis on how leveraged buyouts work from the legal and the business side. And so I joined Goldman in there, it was a 12-person merger department. So I joined Goldman and their merger department, but said, I’d like to be your LBO guy. The head of mergers and everyone watched over me there.

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UFC: The Story of a Corporate Turnaround

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What investors may want to know about the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC. Ricky Moldy caught up with Thompson to discuss the early days of mixed martial arts, the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC, and what it takes to be the Alpha of a cage fighting organization. He's just gone from agency to acquisition.

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Transcript: Peter Mallouk, Creative Planning

The Big Picture

Peter is the guy I look to when I wanna learn things about how to build a firm, how to grow organically, how to think about acquisitions, how to structure your company, really to become an enterprise as opposed to merely being a business. And I would do legal work for their clients, or give tax advice or do planning or investments.

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Transcript: William Cohan

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So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. COHAN: Well, basically, what became General Electric, which was a merger of two companies, you know, sort of what was a pioneer in bringing electric power, the generation of electric power, and then creating the electric power grid.

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