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. Shareholders have been offered $18.15

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 1, 2023

That could enable some of its existing investors to cash in on their stakes. It would allow the diversified real estate investment trust (REIT) to monetize its stake, which it could reinvest in income-producing real estate. That has a growing number of private companies contemplating completing an IPO.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In late 2013, Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners took the company private for $25 billion. That seemed to mark the end of Dell as a public company. However, as a private company, it divested its weaker businesses and streamlined its core PC, server, and data-storage businesses. Image source: Getty Images.

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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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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

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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