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Warren Buffett Is Selling Activision Stock Before the Microsoft Acquisition Closes. Should You?

The Motley Fool

Buying a stake in Activision proved to be a lucrative move for Berkshire. Now, though, Buffett is selling Berkshire's Activision stock before the Microsoft acquisition closes. By the end of 2022, its stake had been trimmed to 6.7%. The giant conglomerate's stake was reduced to only 1.9%. of Activision.

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1 Warren Buffett Stock Down 62% to Buy in 2024 and Hold

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Food conglomerate Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) is a rare example of his investments gone bust. After all, he's owned it since he helped arrange a merger to create the entity in 2015. However, the merger also loaded up the new entity with debt. Below, the merger more than tripled the company's debt to over $30 billion.

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

The Motley Fool

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. Third, it's worth noting that 3M Healthcare/Solventum was the focus of 3M's merger and acquisition activity over the past five years.

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Here Are My Top 5 Dividend Kings to Buy Right Now

The Motley Fool

First, the company is a specialist in mergers and acquisitions. One of the more interesting ones of the last few years was the acquisition of on!, In March, the company announced its intent to sell a portion of its stake in AB Inbev. Sure, the company is a conglomerate that produces tons of household products.

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Blackstone makes $1.7bn bid for Japan e-comics platform Infocom

Private Equity Insights

The company’s current parent Teijin separately said it will sell all of its 58% stake in Infocom for 134.4 Teijin, a conglomerate with chemical, healthcare and internet businesses, said it will book a 105 billion yen profit on a consolidated basis from the sale of Infocom in the current financial year ending in March 2025.

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Why Warren Buffett Loves Sirius XM Stock

The Motley Fool

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. Then last week, Berkshire disclosed it had increased that stake to 108.7 In September, after the merger was completed, Sirius reauthorized its $1.17

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Blackstone makes $1.7bn bid for Japan e-comics platform Infocom

Private Equity Insights

The company’s current parent Teijin separately said it will sell all of its 58% stake in Infocom for 134.4 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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