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Is Matterport a Worthy Merger Arbitrage Play?

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As a result, the proposed acquisition creates an opportunity known as merger arbitrage -- a short-term investing strategy where you buy stocks of companies trading below their acquisition prices. or more 0.02906 shares Matterport's Merger Arbitrage Opportunity As of this writing, Matterport trades for roughly $4.40

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iRobot Shows Just How Risky Investing in Mergers and Acquisitions Can Really Be

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There's an investment tactic on Wall Street called merger arbitrage. On the surface, merger arbitrage seems like it would be easy, but iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) and Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) show it can be harder than it seems. There's no such thing as a free lunch The logic behind merger arbitrage is pretty simple.

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SoundHound vs BigBear.ai: Which AI Stock Will Outperform in 2025?

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The company was created through the merger of analytics company BigBear and systems integrator NuWave by private equity firm AI Industrial Partners. Two other analytic companies were later added to the mix, and the company went public via a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) back in 2021. government defense industry.

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This $22.5-Billion Oil Company Acquisition Could Pay Big Dividends for Investors

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ExxonMobil kicked off the current boom in mergers and acquisitions last year with its recently closed $60 billion deal for Pioneer Natural Resources. Rival Chevron followed with its acquisition of Hess , which it hopes to close in the coming months. A consolidation wave continues to wash over the oil patch.

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Could Serve Robotics Become the Next Nvidia?

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Serve Robotics executed a reverse merger with the blank-check company Patricia Acquisition in 2023, which paved the way to its Nasdaq listing at $4 a share on April 18. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. They're also resistant to extreme temperatures and heavy rain.

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Warren Buffett Is Selling Activision Stock Before the Microsoft Acquisition Closes. Should You?

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Now, though, Buffett is selling Berkshire's Activision stock before the Microsoft acquisition closes. That was two weeks before a federal appeals court denied the Federal Trade Commission's attempt to temporarily block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision. regulators to block the acquisition. of Activision.

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Occidental Petroleum Could Soon Follow Exxon and Chevron by Making a Needle-Moving Acquisition

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The potential deal would be the latest in a wave of merger activity in the oil patch. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) closed multibillion-dollar acquisitions this year and have since agreed to even larger transactions. The Wall Street Journal reported that the oil giant was in the lead to buy the Permian Basin producer.