The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Shares of Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) , a former space special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that has traded below its initial public offering (IPO) price for most of its public lifetime, shot to the moon this morning -- literally. Shares of the tiny space stock are up an astounding 60.6%

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 2, 2024

One would think that a two-year bull market with high valuations would lead to a wave of initial public offerings. Some companies have stayed on the sidelines, waiting for volatility to subside and more stable conditions to emerge. Many companies have been waiting for interest rates to fall.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

2020, Snowflake brought the heat following its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO). One of Snowflake's primary competitors is AI and machine learning start-up Databricks , a private company that boasts "Magnificent Seven" member Nvidia as one of its investors. A fall from grace In Sept.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

That seemed to mark the end of Dell as a public company. However, as a private company, it divested its weaker businesses and streamlined its core PC, server, and data-storage businesses. Dell then spun off its stake in VMware, which was acquired by Broadcom last year, and the rest of the company is now worth about $82.5

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2023

has agreed to a deal to be taken private by its largest shareholder, just two years after the pharmacy network debuted on the stock exchange during the pandemic boom of initial public offerings. of common shares, has offered $20.50 per share for the proposed sale, which values the company at $916m.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2024

The data software company looks to have a bright future, but it's hard to deny that the opportunity for new investors to profit has diminished after such a run. However, another data software company lurks in Wall Street's shadows, waiting to shine. SNOW Revenue (Quarterly YoY Growth) data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Lineage Logistics reportedly plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) next year. That has a growing number of private companies contemplating completing an IPO. Lineage Logistics has reportedly hired advisors to explore the potential of going public in the first half of next year. As a result, W.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2024

In 2012, Meta Platforms (then known as Facebook) made a big splash with its initial public offering. Twitter followed in 2013 but was later taken private by Elon Musk and rebranded as X. Snapchat and Pinterest went public in 2017 and 2019, respectively. It has 267 million average weekly users.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2024

And last I checked, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is still a private company. And might ULA end up getting sold via an initial public offering (IPO) ? 2023 has come and gone. 2024 is here. It also means we now have to ask a new question: Will Boeing and Lockheed sell ULA in 2024 instead?

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. She brings years of experience counseling clients on a wide array of deal strategies.

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Insight Partners

APRIL 1, 2025

The first decision you must make is your endpoint: an initial public offering (IPO), acquisition by a public company, acquisition by a private company, or a private equity takeover? Each requires you to make different decisions as your company grows. Have you acquired a company?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Many companies went public via mergers with special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2020 and 2021. Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

What we know about Panera right now In 2017, Panera Bread was acquired by JAB Holding Company -- an investment group that apparently really likes bread, coffee, and tea. Before acquiring Panera, it had already built a portfolio of restaurant brands , including Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (NASDAQ: DNUT) , Peet's Coffee and Tea, Einstein Bros.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Investors have begun allocating more to private equity strategies than private debt, according to iCapital, which has more than $200 billion in alternative assets on its marketplace for money managers. Caitlin Gubbels, the Global Head of Private Equity who took the helm in August and her team hit the ground running in fiscal Q3.

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SuperAngel.Fund

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

. - Employees, investors, and other shareholders generally have the option, but not the obligation, to sell some or all of their vested equity in the tender offer. A buyer offers to purchase secondary. - “Secondary” refers to the process of buying shares in a private company directly from one of its shareholders. -

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. At the time of our initial public offering in 2013, we were operating just eight markets across four states.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Sean Klimczak, global head of Blackstone Infrastructure and Nadeem Meghji, global co-head of Blackstone Real Estate, said: “Prior to AirTrunk, Blackstone’s portfolio consisted of US$55bn (€49.8bn) of data centres including facilities under construction, along with over US$70bn in prospective pipeline development.”

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2023

What if I told you there was a company out there putting up similar levels of compounded growth and it's getting little coverage from Wall Street at the moment? The company does exist, and its name is Nelnet (NYSE: NNI). What is Nelnet? This put Nelnet in a pickle as the government basically said they had to stop their entire business.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2025

Unless you're an accredited investor , accessing opportunities in private companies is rare. That said, every now and again, a private company becomes large enough that investors consider the potential of an initial public offering (IPO). Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR) is part of a new wave of companies breaking new boundaries in high-technology defense. Since its initial public offering (IPO) back in 2020, Palantir shares are up eightfold. The company also produces solid rocket motors for both offensive and defensive missiles. Well and good.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

After a long pause, it looks as though the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) may be heating up again. Even amid tariff uncertainty clouding the near-term picture, several private companies are now on track to go public. Wake up with Breakfast news in your inbox every market day.

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Zajac Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

Generally speaking, a tender offer refers to a bid or offer to purchase shares of a corporation. In terms of equity compensation, a tender offer can refer to an organized transaction that allows shareholders of private company stock to sell before an initial public offering (IPO).

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