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. 3M (NYSE: MMM) has been a dividend stalwart.

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The Motley Fool

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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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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The Motley Fool

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

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 Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

We're trying to create a little bit more of a shareholder base that's focused on that longer haul as opposed to that quarter by quarter game that these teams play. But this is a multi-headed media conglomerate with cable arms, with intellectual property, movies. Finally, the merger of Warner Bros.

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Pension Pulse

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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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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The Motley Fool

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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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. RITHOLTZ: So when I think of GE in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the three things that come up; GE Capital, obviously; the rise of shareholder value, which a lot of people point to General Electric as a key driver of that; and then Six Sigma.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Tell us how you went from retail to mergers and acquisitions. And, and just to, to wrap up the M&A, you win another Loeb award in 2016 covering the Dow DuPont merger. That was a giant merger. His initial shareholder letter was, Hey, don’t expect profits for the next 10 or 20 years. Barry Ritholtz : Huh.

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