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1 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock You'll Want to Have on Your Radar as Rate Cuts Loom

The Motley Fool

At their core, they're capital providers to early-stage businesses looking for funding to get their operations off the ground. Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. BDCs are pretty interesting. Well, not exactly.

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Berkshire Hathaway Holds Bank of America, American Express, Visa, and Mastercard Stock, but So Does This Low-Cost Vanguard ETF

The Motley Fool

Although Berkshire is known for its public equity investments in companies like Apple and Coca-Cola , the value of the rest of the business is actually much higher. In fact, Berkshire's holdings in public companies are worth about $320 billion compared to the $1.026 trillion market cap for Berkshire as a whole.

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2 Nasdaq-100 Stocks That Are No-Brainer Buys in 2025, and 1 to Avoid

The Motley Fool

The Nasdaq-100 , which is comprised of 100 of the largest non-financial public companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, gained 25% last year and 92%, in aggregate, over the two-year period between the start of 2023 and end of 2024. Although its bottom-line results have been disappointing following the merger of Warner Bros.

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The metrics that matter for a successful exit

Insight Partners

This can help them stay on track and position their business as an appealing opportunity for potential acquirers or public investors. Choose your exit: IPO or acquisition? Each requires you to make different decisions as your company grows. One Fed decision, inflation print, or job data release can make going public untenable.

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MiddleGround Capital Closes $440m Continuation Vehicle

Private Equity Insights

Under Stoettner’s leadership, the company completed two acquisitions. In 2019, the company did a little over $100m of revenue with ~$9m of EBITDA. Castle Metals was a public company up until 2020 and has been on MiddleGround’s watch list for years. Hamilton Lane was lead investor on the deal.

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3 Great Dividend Stocks You Can Buy for Less Than $50

The Motley Fool

for-1 stock splits, respectively, the companies have low share prices despite posting total returns that have outpaced the S&P 500 index since the 1990s. Meanwhile, Kenvue (NYSE: KVUE) was recently spun off from healthcare behemoth Johnson & Johnson , leaving the newly public company with a temporarily puny share price.

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Blue Owl Capital (OWL) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Please note that nothing on this call constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase an interest in any Blue Owl fund. Blue Owl had a very active second quarter, reporting another record quarter of earnings and announcing highly strategic acquisitions that further diversify our business.

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