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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

Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. Many BDCs focus on specific sectors, making the risk profile of each portfolio vastly different. Moreover, underwriting protocols vary from one company to the next.

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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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3 Sensational Warren Buffett Stocks That Make for Slam-Dunk Buys in September

The Motley Fool

in the mid-1960s, he's overseen a greater than 5,700,000% aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) and guided Berkshire to become only the ninth public company to reach the $1 trillion market cap plateau. At the moment, Buffett and his top aides are overseeing a 45-stock, $318 billion portfolio.

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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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Paul Weiss adds PE partner in London

Private Equity Wire

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) has appointed Christopher Sullivan as a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department based in London. A cross-border M&A specialist, Sullivan joins from Clifford Chance where he led the UK private equity practice.

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1 Ultra-High-Yield Energy Stock to Buy Hand Over Fist and 1 to Avoid

The Motley Fool

That means it may not be a public company much longer. But the government has been taking an increasingly stringent look at mergers and acquisitions of late. And there's an added risk when you consider the company's proposed acquisition by Exxon. Problem two is a bit more complex.