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 The offer is a 69% premium on Monday’s closing price of $12.12

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 7, 2023

IK Partners has confirmed its £269m acquisition of Medica Group, de-listing it from the London Stock Exchange in the latest sign of a public-to-private frenzy in the UK. The private equity house tabled a bid for Medica in late April and said this morning that IK IX Fund has now completed the deal.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Initial public offering (IPO) stocks play a vital role in gauging the sentiment of market participants, and many investors love to see share prices of newly issued stocks soar on their first day of trading. million shares it sold in the offering. Yet not everything went well on Wall Street.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric said on Thursday it plans to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 25, setting the stage for what could be Japan’s largest initial public offering (IPO) in five years. Applied Materials has built a 15% shareholding in the company over the last three years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

Investment banks Investment banks, on the other hand, offer very few of these services and focus primarily on acting as advisors in an array of capacities to large corporations and high-net-worth individuals. They're nonprofit organizations and are beholden to their members, rather than shareholders who may not be customers at all.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2023

Investcorp Holdings, the Middle East’s biggest alternative asset manager, is planning to start meeting investors for the $600 million initial public offering of an investment vehicle in Abu Dhabi, according to people familiar with the matter. Investcorp, which has backed luxury firms such as Tiffany & Co. and Gucci Ltd.,

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Meanwhile, a reverse-stock split increases a company's nominal share price to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange. Though there have been instances in the past where companies enacting a reverse-stock split have gone on to make their shareholders richer (e.g.,

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

Palantir is nearly 20 years old, yet it only went public about three years ago. Since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in late 2020, Palantir stock has been no stranger to the highs and lows of public company scrutiny.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Founded in 2004, the company debuted via an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange in 2016. Similarly, free cash flow -- in many ways the ultimate measure of a company's ability to deliver shareholder returns -- has increased more than 10x, from $62 million in 2021 to $697 million today.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 10, 2024

With a forward-stock split, companies are purposely reducing their nominal share price to make it more affordable for everyday investors and/or their employees. Meanwhile, a reverse-stock split is aimed at increasing a company's share price, often with the goal of meeting continued listing standards on a major stock exchange.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 27, 2024

A forward stock split involves reducing a company's share price to make it more nominally affordable for investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases with their broker. Meanwhile, reverse stock splits are designed to increase a public company's share price to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

The other flavor of stock split is a reverse split. As its name suggests, a reverse-stock split is designed to increase a company's share price, often with the purpose of ensuring continued listing on a major stock exchange. Far and away, most investors have gravitated to businesses completing forward-stock splits.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

After back-to-back record-setting performances in 2020 and 2021, the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) hit a slump. Exhibit A is the excitement surrounding the upcoming public debut of Arm Holdings. The company initially planned to issue 95.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR) has been on investors' radar since its initial public offering (IPO) in late 2016. So Innovative is quite the generous company when it comes to renumerating shareholders. A larger part of its appeal today, though, is its high-yield dividend.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

When I think of AI stocks I want to own for 25 years, I want a company with a lot of room to grow. Incorporated in 2003, the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2020. And Palantir certainly fits the bill. Since then, shares have more than doubled.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2024

There are two types of stock splits -- forward and reverse -- with the former being far more popular than the latter among the investing community. Reverse splits are enacted to increase a company's share price, often with the goal of maintaining continued listing standards for a major stock exchange. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

This was a strong quarter for Johnson & Johnson with market-leading performance, important advances across our innovative pharmaceutical and medtech pipelines, and a successful initial public offering of Kenvue. closed its initial public offering. and adjusted operational EPS growth of 9.7%.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

Buffett tends to avoid technology stocks because he prefers to invest in businesses he understands, particularly those producing strong profits and those returning money to shareholders. But it just so happens that one tech stock, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , ticks both those boxes in a big way.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the purpose of a reverse-stock split is to increase a company's share price. This is typically done to ensure that minimum listing standards on major stock exchanges are met. Since 2024 began, more than a half-dozen high-flying businesses with well-defined competitive advantages have conducted forward-stock splits.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

per Common Share, other than those held by certain shareholders rolling their equity interests, by way of an arrangement transaction (the “Arrangement”). Completion of the Arrangement is subject to obtaining shareholder and other customary approvals. Upon completion of the Arrangement, Q4 will become a privately held company.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It's best thought of as a cosmetic tool used to make shares more nominally affordable for everyday investors (as with a forward-stock split), or to boost a company's share price to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange (as with a reverse-stock split).

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

After watching retail kingpin Walmart and AI titan Nvidia complete their respective 3-for-1 and 10-for-1 forward splits , it's time for fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) to join this elite stock-split club. Walmart's 3-for-1 split was also enacted to encourage workers to participate in the company's ESPP.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

Stock splits are solely intended to make shares more nominally affordable for retail investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases (what's known as a "forward-stock split"), or to increase a company's share price to ensure minimum listing standards are met on major stock exchanges (what's known as a "reverse-stock split").

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

David Gardner: The market cap as of Tuesday afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, June 20th is 59.43. IPO I think initial public offering, I think maybe your first sign that you're becoming an investor is when you know what IPO stands for. Bill Mann: I just wanted to be.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Investcorp Capital Plc and the Middle East’s biggest alternative asset manager, its parent, are looking to raise as much as 1.49bn dirhams ($403m) in an Abu Dhabi initial public offering. million shares in Investcorp Capital, which is offering another 321.5 The price range for the investment vehicle was set at 1.90

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