The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He purchased his first stock at age 11, and by 1965, he was operating his own investment company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). He still runs the company today. Berkshire's largest holding today is Apple , which became the world's first $1 trillion company in 2018. and Berkshire Hathaway wasn't one of them.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By 1965, he was running his own investment company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). It has amassed an expansive portfolio that includes several wholly owned private companies, and 47 publicly traded stocks and securities. Buffett remains at the helm of Berkshire today. billion worth of Berkshire's shares in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

billion loan to Holtec International to help the private company restart the Palisades nuclear power plant. It will be the first nuclear power plant to restart in the United States, but follows the start-up of two brand-new nuclear power plants by Southern Company earlier in 2024. The federal government is giving a $1.5

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 8, 2024

Last week, Macy’s unveiled a restructuring plan that Arkhouse says ‘failed to inspire investors”, although the company’s Q45 earnings and year-end results have given it “further confidence in the long-term prospects of the Company if redirected as a private company”.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

There's one called Alani Nu, which is owned by a private company, and it seems to be taking some market share from Celsius, which has a similar target demographic women, young people interested in fitness. Celsius in the much more mature Coca Cola at about the same earnings prospects. The cash flow is a little wonky.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Morgan will continue leading Prospect Private Markets, the advisor’s LP mapping service, which he co-founded. Prior to this, he was a Senior Research Manager at The Sunday Times Fast Track, which identifies the UK’s fastest-growing private companies, and a Research Analyst at Unquote, a news provider focused on private equity.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 15, 2024

The holding company owns various private companies, ranging from candy stores to insurance, railroads, and utilities, and has a whopping stock portfolio worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The company's diversified collection of high-quality assets has continued to grow and outperform the S&P 500 index for decades.

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Selling an individual or family-owned private company used to be like hitting a golf ball. Changed Buyer Behavior Results in a Changed Seller Mindset The approach of many business owners before a sale has changed in response to sweeping changes in how buyers choose to address the prospective seller universe. Let’s talk.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 19, 2024

Management has promised to "rededicate" that business "to providing the most elevated experience for the world's most exclusive brands, while pursuing steady and thoughtful growth as a private company." Analysts are also clearly skeptical about both its prospects in the hot Taiwanese market, and of the synergy with Farfetch.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

A category of organizations called business development companies (or BDCs) can do the job too. Take Prospect Capital (NASDAQ: PSEC) as an example. All told, Prospect is working with over 100 different companies including Shutterfly, Staples, Credit.com, and playground equipment maker PlayPower. And not just right now.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In early September, Archer Aviation, a developer of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, announced an auspicious development regarding its test flights -- news that investors should certainly find encouraging with regard to the company's growth prospects. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 402!

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The Motley Fool

MAY 25, 2024

As a testament to these tools, 90% of generative AI unicorns (private companies with valuations greater than $1 billion) are Google Cloud customers. For Alphabet's growth prospects and execution, I'd say it deserves that premium over the broader market.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

There are several private companies that offer student loan refinancing, and some might offer better interest rates than you're paying on your federal student loans -- even in the relatively high-interest environment we're in. The three-and-a-half-year repayment and interest pause on federal student loans is officially over.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

Now that the initial rush into these companies is over, you have to take a close look at them to see if they're worth buying, as some are grossly overvalued. These three represent some of the top AI companies available to investors. Alphabet also has its Google Cloud cloud computing offering.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2024

Why go public after operating as a private company for so long? It's likely that many of the investors who bought Reddit shares when it first started trading actively use the company's platform. Other investors, though, could simply be looking at the company's growth prospects.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2023

OpenAI is much smaller than these industry giants and doesn't appear on a list of the 250 largest private companies in America. Floridian supermarket chain Publix tallied sales of $48 billion in 2022 and oil refining giant Koch Industries collected $125 billion last year, for example.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

The company's products cover everything connected to livestock and companion animals, including diagnostics, vaccines, and medicines. The company has more than 300 product lines, including 15 with revenue of $100 million or more last year. This comes on the heels of the company's planned $1.9 It just extended its $2.4

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

For years, the company was privately held and bankrolled by prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists -- most notably, Peter Thiel. Unlike other start-ups, Palantir remained somewhat elusive during its time as a private company. Very little was known about its operation beyond its ties to the U.S. government.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

I spent some time in California a few weeks ago visiting the Prospect and Pipeline management teams and a few of the respective hospitals. Let me start with Prospect. Prospect California continues to perform in line with our expectations. Some of you may have seen that late last week, Prospect was hit with a ransomware attack.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

.” Last week, Macy’s unveiled a restructuring plan that Arkhouse says ‘failed to inspire investors”, although the company’s Q45 earnings and year-end results have given it “further confidence in the long-term prospects of the Company if redirected as a private company”

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

Some of the information we provide during today's call regarding our future expectations, plans, and prospects may constitute forward-looking statements. Many companies have gone through this transition. We're well-equipped to do the same, and I'm excited about the prospects of what that means for us in the long-term.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Our GAAP results reflect a restructuring charge of $9 million recognized in the quarter related to the organizational changes we announced in July and a $42 million net loss on a private company investment. Now, turning to the business segments starting with the global business solutions group.

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AdvisorPR

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Serving as a media resource is one surefire way to do this – becoming a trusted expert to local and national media gives your prospective clients assurance that you have been vetted and confirmed to be the sourced expert on important financial topics. But being a media resource is just one spoke in your PR wheel.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

To me, that's the future of space, and what's possible is low Earth orbit develops, where companies are sending satellites into low Earth orbits, hopefully putting research projects up there. We all win together, which is the way good economies work so how could I not be excited about the prospects in space?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

Everywhere we traveled, our clients and prospects were eager to talk about new areas of collaboration with MSCI. For example, our strategic partnership with Moody's meaningfully expand the reach of our sustainability content among banks, insurance companies and corporates.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although estimates vary, globally, there are over 300 million private companies, relative to around 50,000 public ones. End investors, current and prospective employees, and other stakeholders are also increasingly tracking this information.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Some of the information we provide during today's call regarding our future expectations, plans and prospects may constitute forward-looking statements. And what does the company do? It prospects and drills. And what is the company worth? I will be your moderator for MicroStrategy's 2024 third-quarter earnings webinar.

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Udu

MAY 24, 2023

The valuations involve complex calculations that include analyzing a company’s current metrics and future potential to make a sound investment decision. There are various methods for valuing a private company , such as: Market Analysis PE firms assess the competitive landscape of the company’s industry.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

That's something that's a little bit more out of the company's control. But again, I think when you look further out, this company is just in such a strong competitive position there. You really have to like the long-term prospects. Mary Long: locationsLet's turn to a far less technical part of the economy and talk drug stores.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At the moment, valuations “are probably also unrealistically high given the run up in interest rates we have experienced,” Keohane said, adding that the rising rate environment has muted the outlook for private equity compared to the lustre of the past 20 years or so when rates were historically low.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

All forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements relating to our sales and operating trends, business and hiring prospects, financial and revenue expectations, clinical trials, reimbursement proposals and future product development and approvals are based upon our current estimates and various assumptions.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Our ability to serve these customers represents a powerful illustration of how Blackstone has become a trusted solutions provider on a massive global scale to many of the largest and most valuable companies in the world. The receptivity from our limited partners feels more positive today than in the past several years.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Sean Klimczak, global head of Blackstone Infrastructure and Nadeem Meghji, global co-head of Blackstone Real Estate, said: “Prior to AirTrunk, Blackstone’s portfolio consisted of US$55bn (€49.8bn) of data centres including facilities under construction, along with over US$70bn in prospective pipeline development.” This is a huge deal.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Jamie is a world-class CFO, who joins us with decades of experience in both senior finance and operations roles at a number of different Fortune 100 and private companies, including GE and Cargill, and was most recently CFO of EY. But let me be clear, notwithstanding those realities, this is a growth company with great prospects.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

And as I mentioned, when our clients or prospects go deep into our financials relative to those smaller competitors, there's a stark difference. We are certainly starting to see -- I would say finally starting to see some rationalization among private companies in terms of their valuations.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I think, after Space X, they're the number two most frequently launched private company. In fact, it's a more tax efficient way for shareholders if the company buys back its own shares as opposed to handing out a special dividend. billion as we speak. In these cases, it would be prudent to buy back your shares.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

During today's call, management will make forward-looking statements regarding our business, operations, sales strategy, market and product positioning, financial performance, and future prospects, including statements regarding our financial guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2024 and fiscal year 2024.

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