The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

Over the years, Tencent has operated like a stock investor, buying up small stakes in growth companies like Snap and Tesla. It also has not limited itself to public companies, holding huge stakes in private companies like EPIC games. Think of it as the " Warren Buffett of technology companies."

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

That has a growing number of private companies contemplating completing an IPO. Lineage Logistics has reportedly hired advisors to explore the potential of going public in the first half of next year. The company is seeking a valuation of more than $30 billion in its IPO. However, it has started to thaw in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

ULA revenue and profits This question isn't as easy to answer as it perhaps should be, for two reasons: First, SpaceX is a private company , and so it doesn't (and doesn't have to) give regular and accurate data on its revenue, profits, or free cash flow. We're not totally in the dark.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Panera has confidentially filed to go public, according to sources for the Financial Times. Seasoned investors may be excited, remembering the company's previous track record as a public company. As Panera prepares to possibly go public in 2024, here's what investors can and can't know right now.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 21, 2019

And the questions to ponder are whether this is a temporary phase based on global macroeconomic conditions or the new normal and whether it is only true for companies at certain stages of their development. Will WeWork, once it becomes a public company, have the same unlimited access to capital it has had in the last five years?

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Insight Partners

MAY 14, 2024

Mateti emphasized the critical importance of climate disclosures for public companies. According to Das, the pressure to report on ESG progress isn’t just limited to public companies. Private companies are also experiencing pressure from various stakeholders, including investors, employees, and customers.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Globally, women make up 28% of public company boards and 19% of the C-suite. This puts performance at privately held companies behind that of publicly traded companies. Although estimates vary, globally, there are over 300 million private companies, relative to around 50,000 public ones.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

And as we continue to champion bitcoin as a strategic treasury reserve asset, we are encouraged by the number of both public and private companies that are adopting the bitcoin treasury standard to help impact shareholder value. If you sold $21 billion of equity and you went and bought another company, it's a risky acquisition.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

So we deliver on our commitments, which we have achieved not just every quarter as a public company, but every quarter as a private company as well. But before I hand it to Lindsay, I want to take a moment to reflect on our first year as a public company. This is something we have always done.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 15, 2024

And so today, if you’re not accessing private markets, you’re gonna get left way behind your returns. And unfortunately our DOD is not as competent as it used to be, but our private companies are the best in the world. But, but no, yes, we have to do lots of small ships if we wanna stay ahead of them.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

For example, our strategic partnership with Moody's meaningfully expand the reach of our sustainability content among banks, insurance companies and corporates. It would also help us broaden our private company ESG coverage and expand our capabilities within private credit. So that's what we're going after.

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The number of public companies you can invest in is less than half where it was 25 years ago,” said Freisner. Alternative Investment Opportunity: Private Equity. Private equity is made up of nine investment strategies. Today, private equity firms are more focused on aligning the interests of all stakeholders.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Michael Fisch : 00:05:39 [Speaker Changed] Well, in the time that I was working at Goldman Sachs in mergers, there were a bunch of big public companies who were on, we were on m and a retainer, they call it. Did you see like what was the fixed rate world like on the private side when things were dirt cheap? Sold a ton of it.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Visit Ronin’s Profile “Lead Lap is a Northfield, Illinois-based private investment firm with several current investments in private companies. Zucker (“Zucker”), who serves as Managing Partner, and made his first private company investment in 1994.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Shane Parrish: I've made a lot of different investments, from start ups to private companies, to public companies. I sit on the board of a public company. What do you look at when you're building out an investing thesis?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Similarly, Rand, in your work at Stagen, you have a long term focus on the development of not public company stocks, but human beings. I want to say this again, in the early years in our experience, everybody in the big companies was playing the short term game. David Gardner: Wow. You just spoke to that and costs too.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

If you are able to create or create a company and then take it public and then issue securities in that capital markets in order to buy and develop commercial real estate, you would have an advantage over private companies doing the same thing because public companies always have an advantage in financing.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

The amount of energy being put into going back to the moon by private companies, non-governmental is so exciting. We've done all the work to make sure that we're public company ready. It was great to see Intuitive Machines landing again, ispace almost. They were within a couple of meters. Now we're in a path through 2024.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

What advice do you have for public market investors who are excited about this space, who want to invest in it, but don't really know where to begin if they want to wrap their heads around something as admittedly complex as green hydrogen, perhaps? The company's called ALCMY. It's a private company.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Really interesting.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We're a private company that people can't invest in. I'm speaking to investors in public companies and I will continue to say and advocate that if you make your portfolio reflect your best vision for our future. Maybe the idea doesn't work out. Maybe the innovation isn't continued, and forget about The Motley Fool.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

The confirmation comes exactly a week after news of the acquisition bid first came to light, and some two years after SAP spun the business out as an independent publicly traded company, having bought it back in 2018 for $8 billion just as Qualtrics was originally planning its IPO. billion in equity and $1 billion in debt.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

If you were to sit back as a private company and say, how would you value this, you'd probably take a whole different set of comps across the board. We're a public company. We're going to perform well as a public company. Raul Fernandez -- President and Chief Executive Officer Yeah. I'm only here 40 days.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite expanding our operational footprint significantly, quadrupling our closings, and increasing our community count by a factor of nearly seven times, we have never taken an inventory impairment, not as a public company and not as a private company before that.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: By 2019, it was, I think, nine to 10 years, and by 2022, it was 14 to 15 years before they were going public, right? You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000. And so you look at, well, why go public, right? A public company has quarterly earnings pressure. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing. If the CEO sexually harasses someone, the company gets hacked. Well, 00:33:14 He, so I actually think that in hostile public company m and a, it is not that uncommon to not do due diligence, right?

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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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Axial

MAY 4, 2023

Our team has advised on over $2 billion of successful transactions with private equity firms, high net-worth individuals, and public companies. Our clients are privately-held businesses in a variety of industries throughout North America.”

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 28, 2024

trillion public company. of the people who are spending $500 on sneakers that look used are not really worried about whether this is a public or a private company. This is a fashion brand, and fashion brands have a great deal of risks that have nothing to do with the public markets. Fascinating.

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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. It was talking about the five biggest public companies in the world on January 1st, of 1999. An interesting one, certainly to follow, and one with a market cap, as it turns out, friends, of just $3.64 billion as we speak.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But what I tend to think about is what happens a month after you go public, what happens six months after you go public. And how could we be a good partner to that firm in their public company journey? And that’s what’s going to give the CEO and the public company, the next group of investors.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

And historically, long ago, Horton was a fairly significant acquirer of public companies and other private companies, and still here and there. So, obviously, the biggest news that we've seen in the business for a while is this large acquisition by an offshore player of a domestic homebuilder.

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Axial

JULY 27, 2023

.” Industries : Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Technology, Industrials, Business Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Health Care, Telecommunications, Consumer Services, Financial Services, Retail Visit FOCUS IB’s Profile “ASA Ventures Group (AVG) provides M & A representation to middle-market private companies.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

During his time here, he was instrumental in our growth from a small pre-revenue private company to a public company with over $700 million in revenue. We raised the convert with the -- recognizing that there was a window where valuations for private companies were down, and they still are.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2023

This becomes increasingly important with the new SEC rules detailing that all public companies will be required to report material breaches within four business days. XSIAM is shaping up to be our fastest-growing offering outside our original next-generation firewall releases.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The other part that is very important for us and that's where the puck is heading for institutional investors, is the engagement with our portfolio companies.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

However, we do engage with the climate-forward companies in our portfolio to stay on track and to continue our learning around the energy transition and related markets, technologies and opportunities. We directly engage with both public and private companies in our portfolio to promote sustainable business practices and long-term thinking.

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