The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

The company has a terrific track record, returning nearly 200% to shareholders during the past 10 years. Moreover, the company's balance sheet strength and disciplined approach to due diligence provides Ares with some differentiated product offerings.

Mergers and Acquisitions 246

Mergers and Acquisitions Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Portfolios 246

The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

Although start-ups can be risky, Hercules has demonstrated that it employs robust due diligence processes before making an investment. The company's consistent rise in net interest income undermines Hercules' strong performance and its proven ability to reward shareholders. yield and prepare to hold for the long-run.

Leveraged Buyouts 244

Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Buyout Venture Capital 244

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This can require lots of effort when it comes to performing due diligence, and there's always the risk that you could be wrong. Because BDCs are required to pay out at least 90% of their taxable income to shareholders each year. A more passive strategy to augment your portfolio can be adding dividend stocks.

Leveraged Buyouts 130

Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Initial Public Offering Exchange-Traded Funds 130

Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We are able to complete due diligence with limited information. The firm is currently investing out of Argonaut Private Equity Fund IV, a $400 million fund that deploys Argonaut’s strategy of making control-oriented buyout investments in companies in the industrial, manufacturing and energy services and products sectors.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Buyout Mergers and Acquisitions 59

Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. Private credit provided 65% of loans for the leveraged buyout (LBO) market in 2021 and 86% for the market as of year to date 2023. or not at all, substantially lower than average leverage found in regional banks, currently levered at 9.7x.

Leveraging 52

Leveraging Banks Debt Leveraged Buyouts 52

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And oftentimes lenders, if there’s, if it’s a debt-free business goes to selling shareholders. And now we call it the private equity industry.

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69