Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A high-stakes clash between private equity titans KKR and Bain Capital over a $4bn buyout of Fuji Soft is reshaping the landscape of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Japan, and could become a blueprint for more aggressive dealmaking in the country, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Following closing of the investment, which values LogicMonitor at $2.4bn, including debt, Vista will remain the controlling shareholder in the business.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The sale comes amid a surge in private equity-led buyouts in Japan, as companies divest non-core assets to enhance corporate and shareholder value. According to data from LSEG, the total value of inbound deals in Japan reached $85.5bn in 2024, a rise of over 600% compared to the previous year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

VinFast just came public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger in which more than 80% of shareholders redeemed their shares before the merger closed. Ubiquiti keeps growing Shares of Ubiquiti were up 16% early Friday afternoon.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2024

A merger that underperformed on multiple levels If you're not familiar with the saga, here's the shortened version of the story. It was a time, however, when mergers of similar companies were almost always seen as bullish, value-adding events. Shareholders were finally forced to face a tough reality by 2017 though.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The real estate investment trust (REIT) has paid its shareholders over $14.1 It has issued additional shares to fund acquisitions. billion all-stock merger with Spirit Realty. Add in a higher share count from continuing to issue more stock to fund accretive acquisitions, and the REIT could pay out more than $2.7

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, investors in another stock got schooled in Friday's premarket session, as Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL) released financial results late Thursday that didn't match up with shareholder expectations. The Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) released a decision early Friday stating that it might approve the Microsoft-Activision merger.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The acquisition has stalled over regulatory concerns, and its initial terms have been amended. Nonetheless, iRobot shares are currently trading 43% below the updated acquisition price, creating a significant merger arbitrage opportunity. A brief timeline of Amazon's proposed acquisition of iRobot In Aug.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

The needle-moving acquisition would enhance the company's portfolio and extend its growth profile. Drilling down into the deal Chevron unveiled its merger agreement with Hess last October, less than two weeks after Exxon revealed its more than $60 billion megamerger with Pioneer Natural Resources. A merger or an asset purchase?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 4, 2024

The planned acquisition of Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) by JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU) is officially off, and investors are worried about what comes next for Spirit. Spirit shareholders also received about $425 million in prepayments from JetBlue as agreed upon in the merger agreement as a way to sweeten the deal. airlines."

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2024

After acquiring just over 2,000 properties from the merger with Spirit Realty, Realty Income's property portfolio has grown to around 15,500 properties. This pays shareholders $3.16 Also, despite the rising stock price, shareholders earn a dividend yield of almost 5.3%, comparable to some CD interest rates in today's market.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

After all, he's owned it since he helped arrange a merger to create the entity in 2015. Here are three reasons why the future looks bright for Kraft Heinz and its shareholders in 2024 and beyond. However, the merger also loaded up the new entity with debt. Is it stubbornness?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

In addition, the midstream company expects the merger will increase its free cash flow per share by an average of more than 20% from 2024 to 2027. It expects to capture at least $200 million in cost savings and other synergies following the merger, which is a big factor driving that increase.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

However, Broadcom is in fact outperforming most of its peers right now, and its pending merger with cloud computing infrastructure company VMware (NYSE: VMW) could set the stage for another run higher. What about the VMware acquisition? Is Broadcom stock a buy right now?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2024

BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company on Dec. went public, it provided some ambitious growth targets in its pre-merger presentation. BigBear.ai's prospects sounded promising, but it broadly missed its rosy pre-merger targets. and climbed to an all-time high of $16.12

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

Their low valuations and shareholder-friendly capital return strategies make them great oil stocks to buy this month. Chevron's other upside catalyst is its pending acquisition of Hess. Chevron estimates the acquisition would enable it to more than double its free cash flow by 2030 at $70 oil. The oil company generated $3.2

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2024

OTC Markets itself, though, could hardly be in better financial shape -- and its recent shareholder returns speak to that fact. While sales and net income only rose by 4% and 3% in the company's most recent quarter due to low volatility in the stock market, OTC Markets quietly made two acquisitions in 2022 to restart its growth.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

The merger wave in the oil patch is continuing in 2024. That acquisition will enhance APA's scale in the resource-rich Permian Basin. Here's a look at the latest oil stock merger and what it means for investors. It drives its view that the acquisition will bolster its free cash flow. All three deals share a common theme.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A challenging past and present Nikola hit public markets through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in June 2020. A company's past results don't necessarily reflect future performance, but it can give clues about whether or not its business strategy creates shareholder value. With just $226.7

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has delivered an astounding 3,787,464% return to shareholders through 2022, so it's certainly a wise move to follow the stocks included in Berkshire's $300-plus billion equity portfolio. Here's why three Motley Fool contributors believe they are timely buys this month.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Down roughly 91% percent from its all-time high of $58 (reached in early 2021), Lucid Motors (NASDAQ: LCID) has been a punishing bet for early shareholders. In 2016, the company shifted focus toward building its own vehicles and went public through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in 2021.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The streaming-video specialist was taken public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition ( SPAC ) company in September 2022. Nevertheless, it's possible that the disposal caught some shareholders off guard. Now what When a lockup period expires, insider shareholders become able to sell their shares.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 11, 2024

Companies like Salesforce reward employees with stock-based compensation, which can dilute existing shareholders. But if done right, it can help companies recruit and retain top talent without diluting shareholders. Over the last decade, Salesforce's outstanding share count has increased by 54%. Microsoft paid a record $10.7

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The Motley Fool

MAY 20, 2024

Buying back shares (which reduces the share count and increase the claim of shareholders on future FCF). Supporting asset acquisitions (which will add FCF). However, the acquisitions also caused management to raise the midpoint of its capital expenditure forecast by $40 million, directly eating into 2024 FCF.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 16, 2024

When BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in December 2021, it bore a striking resemblance to Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) , which went public through a direct listing in September 2020. after it closed its merger. Let's see why BigBear.ai Why did BigBear.ai

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 31, 2023

PepsiCo built its portfolio by making several key acquisitions. Its 1964 acquisition of Mountain Dew was especially crucial to its present-day success. Pepsi's Mountain Dew acquisition was huge. But a merger the following year was even more significant for the company and its shareholders. In the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2024

If successful, this will be one of the largest-ever tech mergers and acquisitions in a big bet on the future of AI. A premium price tag to pair with the AI rationale All this sounds exciting, but Synopsys shareholders should give pause here. After news of the acquisition broke, Ansys stock spiked.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 14, 2024

Currently, shareholders receive $3.15 Furthermore, the Spirit Realty acquisition has boosted its financials. Nonetheless, the added expenses and merger-related costs led to total (operational) expenses rising by almost 57% to $1.1 per share in payout to common shareholders. Since that is more than 4.5 Its nearly $1.3

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Only a few dividend stocks have been able to provide cash payments to shareholders consistently while also increasing their share prices over time. AbbVie also has a decent yield of 4.02% and has established itself as a leading dividend growth stock and reliable passive income source for shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The company uses its financial flexibility to invest in expansion projects and make acquisitions. It tends to acquire expandable platforms that it can grow by investing in capital projects and making bolt-on acquisitions. Multiple growth catalysts The company expects to continue growing briskly in the future.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

A wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity has washed over the oil patch in the last year. Several midstream companies have made acquisitions, while the rumor mill suggests others are on the prowl. The master limited partnership (MLP) has made several acquisitions over the years. billion in July.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Only 12% of its shareholders resided in the U.S. It's not a high-growth business, but it is sustainable, which will allow the company to continue rewarding shareholders with stock buybacks and dividends. So it has let down shareholders before. Or Chevron, with its Hess acquisition. as of the end of 2022.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2023

It went public shortly thereafter through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a market cap of over $10 billion. If the answer to the second question is "yes," these are not executives putting their best foot forward for outside shareholders. It was only in 2019 that it changed its name to C3.ai

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The Motley Fool

MAY 26, 2024

It expects to sell assets worth $2 billion this year and is eyeing several acquisitions, including telecom towers in India. The water stock has paid a dividend to its shareholders every year since 1931, and has increased it every year for the past 69 consecutive years. you can avoid filing a K1 tax form and foreign tax withholding.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 19, 2023

Earlier this year, the drugmaker dove headfirst into immunology with the $11 billion acquisition of Prometheus Biosciences , and its novel ulcerative colitis candidate, PRA023. Instead, the company will likely be a big player on the merger and acquisition scene as it braces for Keytruda's patent expiration.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Canoo was not a normal IPO Canoo came public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in late 2020. That's exactly what happened, and an increasing number of the SPAC mergers from that period are now resulting in bankruptcies. Here's five reasons you should tread carefully.

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