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APRIL 10, 2024

The same skills that made it popular as a government contractor are playing well with private companies. She added to her stake on Tuesday. Palantir is scoring significant deals, but it's no longer merely a play on solutions for the military and other public sector entities. Brian White at Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 9, 2024

Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) is the only company besides SpaceX with re-entry capabilities for spacecraft. And yet, as we sit here today, its shares have a measly valuation of just $2 billion compared to SpaceX's reported $200 billion as a private company. Stock investors could be completely wiped out.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 17, 2024

Sky News has learnt that Focus Group is close to signing a deal to sell a majority stake to Hg Capital, the investor known for its successful bets on software and technology companies. In 2020, the two founders sold a 25% stake to Bowmark Capital, another private equity firm, at a valuation of about £225m.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

per share, a price that Qualtrics hasn’t seen on the Nasdaq since last April, representing a premium of around 73% on its 30-day volume-weighted average price (VWAP) prior to SAP’s first revelation that it was considering selling its remaining stake in Qualtrics. Shareholders have been offered $18.15 billion in equity and $1 billion in debt.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2023

According to TeleGeography as reported by Rest of World , the Big Tech giants only owned a stake in one cable in 2010, but by 2021 they owned a stake in more than 30. Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft followed suit, chipping into cable projects. Per the FT , undersea cables ferry $10 trillion in payments on a daily basis.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Well, it turns out that the Washington project, although owned and operated by Energy Northwest, would use SMRs manufactured by a private company called X-energy. Amazon's ownership stake in X-energy in particular might be 50% or more. billion.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

American Tower American Tower has a portfolio of more than 226,000 communications sites, the largest such collection held by a private company in the world, and a market cap of about $82 billion that ranks it second among U.S. Here's more about putting $1,000 to work in each of them. REITs by that measure. And the yield of about 5.5%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2024

A stake in Berkshire Hathaway is in many ways a means of letting Buffett manage your money for you based on his proven, value-minded approach to picking stocks. The remainder reflects the value of all the wholly owned private companies that also help make up the conglomerate. From this perspective, it's not unlike a mutual fund.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The company did not immediately respond with additional information about the new ownership structure. It is a private company, unlike its larger competitors, Amadeus and Sabre. Travelport became a private company in a $4.4bn in 2019. Travelport said the.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 13, 2023

Shopify's slowing growth and plummeting profits rattled the bulls, but the company has recently made some drastic changes. During its first-quarter earnings report, management told investors that Shopify would sell its entire logistics division to Flexport for a 13% stake in the private company.

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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.

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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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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 9, 2023

“The Special Committee and, ultimately, the full Fiesta Board of Directors, determined that this transaction delivers significant, immediate and certain value to Fiesta stockholders while providing Pollo Tropical the scale, resources and flexibility for continued success as part of a private company.”

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

US private equity major KKR is planning to take Japanese systems developer Fuji Soft private in a deal valued at around JPY600bn ($4.13bn), according to a report by NikkeiAsia citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Following the buyout, Fuji Soft’s founding family and management are expected to reinvest in the company.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

stake in video-game provider Keywords Ventures Ltd. and committing $700 million to a private equity fund managed by EQT Private Capital Asia. two packaging companies. Completed a US$250 million anchor investment in the Antares Private Credit Fund, which holds Antares-originated loans to private companies in the U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

MAY 10, 2024

It also has many businesses linked to government policies, so it seems a little unrealistic for it to become a foreign-owned private company,” said Takuro Hayashi, an analyst at Iwai Cosmo Securities. read more The post Japan’s Toshiba considers $20bn take-private deal appeared first on Private Equity Insights.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As we navigate this environment, we will have increased flexibility as a private company and Searchlight will continue to be an outstanding partner as we advance our transformation to a leading fiber-first provider. Nasdaq: CNSL) (“Consolidated Communications” or the.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Stone Point Capital, which took a majority stake in Focus in 2017 before taking it public along with PE firm KKR in the summer of 2018, will retain a stake in the firm. Focus went public in 2018 but earlier this year agreed to be sold to CD&R for $53 a share. KKR has exited its position in Focus.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Manchester-based private equity firm Palatine has exited specialist fleet solutions provider NRG Riverside via a sale of the business, following significant investment in its people and operations, to Astatine Investment Partners, a specialist PE investor focused on infrastructure investments. DTM remains a part of Palatine’s portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2023

billion impairment loss on the sale of logistics to start-up Flexport , with Shopify boosting its investment stake in the private company to 17% (more on that momentarily) in the process. It's a painful exit, but the band-aid is being ripped off quickly. Shopify announced a $1.34 At least this $1.34

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

Warren Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , has become one of the world's largest companies. Berkshire Hathaway holds a collection of private companies and stakes in public corporations, which Warren Buffett has bought stakes in over the years.

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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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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We look forward to partnering with management to build upon their leading online marketplace and leveraging Blackstone’s extensive expertise and resources to support the Company’s continued expansion as a private company.” The Company will continue to operate under the Rover name and brand.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 8, 2024

US private equity major KKR is planning to take Japanese systems developer Fuji Soft private in a deal valued at around JPY600bn ($4.13bn), according to a report by NikkeiAsia citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. Last September, 3D proposed that Fuji Soft go private.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Put another way, over half of Berkshire Hathaway's value derives from private companies or businesses it owns outright. The big four are its stake in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock, the company's property and casualty insurance business, its complete ownership of BNSF railroad, and its 92% ownership of Berkshire Hathaway Energy (BHE).

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2024

Investment firm BC Partners owned Chewy when it was a private company. For its part, the company had already announced that it would use its cash flow to repurchase shares. Last month, Gill led people to believe that he could be acquiring a stake in Chewy, but on July 1, Gill disclosed a surprisingly large 6.6%

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2024

AWS is spearheading the company's AI initiatives, from developing data center chips to helping businesses develop their own AI applications. Amazon even purchased a $4 billion stake in leading AI start-up Anthropic late last year. But there's even more to this company.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. Dell then spun off its stake in VMware, which was acquired by Broadcom last year, and the rest of the company is now worth about $82.5

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

military and Western allies with its big data analytics, Palantir is gaining ground with private companies. And unlike with Palantir and Meta, which are among Ark Invest's 18 largest collective holdings, Wood has a much smaller stake in Qualcomm. In part because after a long history of serving the the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2024

Even the great Warren Buffett, who is famously strict about valuations and generally avoids technology stocks, bought a stake in Snowflake at the IPO for Berkshire Hathaway. That doesn't look good when the company's biggest competitor, a private company called Data Bricks, recently announced it was on pace for $2.4

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Constellation Energy is a competitive power company (which means it sells electricity outside of the traditional regulatory framework) with ownership stakes in 14 nuclear power stations which contain 25 nuclear power units. A private company has just been awarded government funding to reopen a shuttered nuclear power plant.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

billion as of the end of last year) comes from its privately held businesses. Just as the name suggests, private equity firms supply promising up-and-coming companies with capital, usually in the form of a loan, but sometimes in exchange for an equity stake in a company. Ordinary investors can't make such deals.

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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

MARCH 10, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway was a struggling textiles company when he bought it in 1965, and he transformed it into the successful conglomerate it is today. It's a popular way for companies to return money to their investors, but it's also a clear sign of Buffett's conviction in himself and his team. Berkshire generated $364.4

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2023

After all, $44 billion is a lot of money to stake on a business Musk knew very little about running, even if he was the world's richest person at the time. Here's the good news for investors and observers: While Twitter is now a private company, Meta Platforms is very much public, and you can buy shares today and tag along for the ride.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

That was his 6% stake at the time and he tells the story on the Mailbag on Rule Breaker Investing a couple weeks ago of what happened. He said he always felt comfortable because it was diversified, it was a huge stake in Microsoft. Microsoft was just a 6% stake back in the day. One of those stocks was Microsoft.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Total estimated consideration is $900 million, including $500 million in cash, with the remainder representing a minority equity stake in the combined private company.

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