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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Pfizer Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has been in the game for a long time, evolving over the years to become one of healthcare's most active merger and acquisition players. Abbott Laboratories Healthcare conglomerate Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) has a history spanning nearly 150 years.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

Honeywell's valuation "problem" The industrial conglomerate is a high-quality company, and the market knows it. While it's fair to say industrial conglomerates are hardly in vogue these days, Honeywell's valuation suggests the market does think it's different. But does it all add up to make the stock worth buying this year?

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Infocom operates digital comic site Mecha Comic, which is among Japan’s largest, according to its website.Global investor interest in Japanese companies has surged in recent years as the weak yen, strong public markets and corporate governance changes make mergers and acquisitions (M&A) attractive.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) million shares of Sirius at the time of the September merger, up from 101 million at the end of June. Additionally, many automakers install free trials of Sirius XM in new vehicles, which is a highly efficient method of customer acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2024

News of fresh inclusion on a well-known stock index was the catalyst sending shares of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids (NGL) conglomerate Crescent Energy (NYSE: CRGY) higher over the past few trading days. The stock began trading in late 2021 after a merger and is down 25% since then.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The industrial conglomerate updated its full-year targets and gave investors insight into its strategic plans to get the company back on track toward more meaningful growth. The conglomerate serves various business-to-business customers in manufacturing, energy, logistics and warehouses, healthcare, and more.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

After all, former industrial conglomerates like United Technologies (now RTX , Otis, and Carrier Global ), General Electric ( GE Aerospace , GE Healthcare , GE Vernova , and others), and Danaher (Danaher, Fortive , Veralto , Envista , and Vontier ) have done the same. The obvious candidate is a breakup to release value.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2023

CEO Jon Moeller expects the majority of the company's growth to be organic, although that does not rule out selective acquisitions in the beauty and personal healthcare sectors. Apart from organic growth, 3M has a history of making choice acquisitions to boost its industrial capabilities and widen its portfolio of products.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Chubb One staple in Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate is its investments in insurance companies. In 1995, Berkshire Hathaway acquired Geico, and the conglomerate continues to add insurance companies to its investment portfolio. Citigroup could benefit from a favorable mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, too.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 6, 2023

a share, totaling an acquisition price of $4.6 This is the largest acquisition deal that Solenis has completed to date, and the largest acquisition deal for a Delaware-based company in several years, surpassing CSC’s $2 billion deal for Intertrust last year. The all-cash deal for the publicly traded Diversey was set at $8.40

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Global investor interest in Japanese companies has surged in recent years as the weak yen, strong public markets and corporate governance changes make mergers and acquisitions (M&A) attractive. Infocom operates digital comic site Mecha Comic, which is among Japan’s largest, according to its website.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

billion in 2023 on dividends, stock buybacks, capital expenditures, and mergers and acquisitions. It needs to sustain at least mid-single-digit organic growth and high-single-digit or low-double-digit growth once factoring in strategic mergers and acquisitions and buybacks. Free cash flow is forecast to be $5.6

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Qorvo's business is small, but it's diversified Qorvo is the result of a 2015 "merger of equals" between RF Micro Devices and TriQuint Semiconductor. Also notable is that Qorvo made numerous small bolt-on acquisitions over the years to diversify its business away from connectivity. Here's what you need to know.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

While Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway certainly takes outsize positions in stocks ( Apple, for example), the massive conglomerate has a diverse equities portfolio worth north of $310 billion. However, advisory revenue from mergers and acquisitions (M&As) beat consensus nicely.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Which of these two stocks owned by the Warren Buffett-led conglomerate is the better fit for you? But the risk-reward dynamics look very attractive right now, especially if the bank can successfully complete the Discover merger. of the bank worth "only" $1.6

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

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. It could potentially reinvigorate sales growth by reinvesting more of its retained earnings into expansion initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

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APRIL 15, 2024

billion write-down on its acquisition of VillageMD, yet another warning sign. It's a household name in consumer staples, and its merger was engineered nearly a decade ago with the help of Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate remains a major shareholder.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Industrial conglomerate 3M (NYSE: MMM) spent 2018 to 2023 on a slow and steady downward slide. Brown also said he's evaluating 3M's research and development spend and the company's portfolio for potential mergers and acquisitions. This top-to-bottom approach could inject new life into a company that has arguably grown stagnant.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

RTX (NYSE: RTX) , the giant aerospace conglomerate formed by the merger of the Raytheon defense company and United Technologies' airplane business, reported miserable earnings last week. Despite sales growing 8% year over year, RTX suffered a steep 91% collapse in second-quarter earnings, reporting just $0.08

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But following four-plus decades of acquisitions, mergers, bankruptcies, innovation, and economic shifts, only two public companies still hold this pristine credit rating. In April, S&P reaffirmed its AAA credit rating on J&J, albeit with a negative outlook.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It's never a bad idea to start your search with stocks already hand-picked by Warren Buffett (and his lieutenants) and currently held by his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway. KR Dividend data by YCharts Management expects this growth streak to continue indefinitely, driven by continued inflation, population growth, and acquisitions.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Symbiotic 's (NASDAQ: SYM) stock has more than tripled since it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) last June. The maker of automated warehouse robots impressed investors for three reasons: It was backed by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank (OTC: SFTB.Y) and the retail giant Walmart (NYSE: WMT).

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2023

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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DECEMBER 11, 2023

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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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We covered some interesting food-related mergers recently. They're just like a whole conglomeration of brands, similar with PepsiCo , with all of the Frito-Lay stuff. It's another food-centered Monday. Welcome, Jason. Jason Moser: Hey, Deidre. How are you? Deidre Woollard: I'd love to talk food with you.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Then, Motley Fool analyst Buck Hartzell joins host Alison Southwick and Motley Fool personal finance expert Robert Brokamp to kick off a series on Berkshire Hathaway , and how the conglomerate's collection of businesses work together. Also active brokerage accounts continuing to climb even after the TD Ameritrade merger. That's up 4%.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

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. You did no acquisitions. 00:16:55 [Speaker Changed] So tell us about the 401k acquisition.

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JULY 1, 2023

The last 12 months, last four quarters, they've been negative, and there's been a lot of puts and takes, a lot of acquisitions, some divestitures. Why does Brookfield this huge conglomerate, why do they want to pay a hefty premium for this company that sells indexed annuities in life insurance? billion, Fiscal 22, they did about 2.2

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JANUARY 24, 2023

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. I started at Goldman at ’81 doing, you know, mostly raid work and more traditional merger and seller work.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But this is a multi-headed media conglomerate with cable arms, with intellectual property, movies. has been stumbling from one crisis to another pretty much since that merger has taken place. Finally, the merger of Warner Bros. Discovery, and I definitely do not invest on the basis of hopeful acquisition.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Credit Investments Committed to provide €85 million in financing to support KKR’s acquisition of a portfolio of European loans. Invested US$40 million in the acquisition and merger of two leading Australian frozen food producers, Patties Foods and Vesco Foods, alongside PAG. Committed US$150 million to TA Associates XV, L.P.,

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Financials could benefit from lower regulation, more lenient policies regarding mergers and acquisitions, and higher interest rates. It provides exposure to a variety of end markets, such as industrial conglomerates, railroads, defense contractors, agriculture, construction, and more. in a single session.

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MAY 22, 2024

Invested US$100 million in financing to support EQT’s acquisition of Zeus, a leading contract manufacturer in the medical devices industry based in the U.S. Committed to invest C$197 million in financing to support CapVest Partners in its acquisition of Recochem. stake, to help fund the acquisition of four operating road concessions.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

The diversified conglomerate sold a broad range of industrial, worker safety, and consumer goods, and it was a Dividend King that consistently raised its dividend annually for more than 50 years. 3M (NYSE: MMM) was once a dependable dividend stock for conservative investors.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Up until now, a potential breakup of the industrial conglomerate was merely speculation. The thesis of the letter was the following: We believe these challenges have a clear cause and a straightforward solution: The conglomerate structure that once suited Honeywell no longer does, and the time has come to embrace simplification.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Discovery that's pleasing its investors, and why the media conglomerate may be a falling knife. Nick Sciple: It's been a tough run for Warner Brothers Discovery down about 50% since the merger between Warner Brothers and Discovery back in 2022. A restructuring at Warner Bros. Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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DECEMBER 23, 2024

Through mergers and acquisitions, the company now owns a whole slate of telecom infrastructure companies including Telenet, Virgin Media, UPC Slovakia, Virgin Media O2, and Vodafone Ziggo. The company plans to appeal the court ruling and is likely to fight any attempts to make the conglomerate sell its Chrome browser.

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