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Why Shares of VinFast Auto Collapsed This Week

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What happened Shares of recently minted public company VinFast Auto (NASDAQ: VFS) collapsed as much as 44.6% The Vietnamese manufacturer of electric vehicles ( EVs ) just went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and soared over 100% on the back of investor hype and its low float.

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

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Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. Such liquidity events could be beneficial for Hercules, as some of its portfolio companies could end up becoming acquired by larger enterprises. 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

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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

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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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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. Since Warren Buffett became the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)

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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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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.

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