The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

However, the company would be considered rather boring in today's technology climate if not for its merger with chip giant Avago Technologies in 2016. That merger marked the beginning of an acquisition frenzy. The new-look Broadcom proceeded to buy semiconductor device supplier CA Technologies in 2018 for $18.9

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The Motley Fool

MAY 18, 2024

The company has grown its funds from operations ( FFO ) at a 12% compound annual rate since 2016. In addition, it sees mergers and acquisitions activities adding to its annual FFO per share growth rate, driving it into the double digits. Meanwhile, it has increased its dividend by a 6% compound annual rate since 2001.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company in July 2021. The company's stock is now down approximately 95% from its post-merger peak and has a market capitalization of roughly $6.9 But Lucid's share price has since fallen dramatically. What are Lucid's strengths?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

It has grown its funds from operations ( FFO ) at a 12% compound annual rate since 2016 while increasing its dividend at a 6% compound annual rate since 2001. On top of that, the company sees merger and acquisition activities driving its FFO growth rate into the double digits. average annual total return over the last 10 years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2023

Then, in 2016 it changed its name to C3 IoT to get in on the buzz around the Internet of Things. It went public shortly thereafter through a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a market cap of over $10 billion. It was only in 2019 that it changed its name to C3.ai

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Industry consolidation Berkshire's purchase in the 2023 fourth quarter is a stamp of approval on Chevron's $53 billion merger with Hess, which was announced on Oct. Oxy also announced a sizable acquisition in the fourth quarter with intentions to buy Permian Basin producer CrownRock. But Berkshire owns 28.3% of Oxy and 6.8%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

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. While Lucid's shares initially performed well, investors have become less optimistic.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

Pershing Square has held the stock since the third quarter of 2016, making it its third-longest-held stock. Restaurant Brands International is the owner of Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, and Ackman helped engineer the merger that combined Tim Hortons and Burger King. Ackman currently owns $1.75

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Metcalfe and Souter were previously Partners at law firm Gateley Legal, having both joined in 2016. Metcalfe advises private equity funds, portfolio companies, management teams and founders.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

The bank made a push into consumer banking in 2016 and aimed to take in deposits and build a more resilient earnings stream across cycles. Solomon sees a more accommodating issuance backdrop and more financing for acquisition as two things that have the bank expecting "solid levels of debt underwriting activity to continue this year."

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 25, 2024

Revela Foods is headquartered in New Berlin, Wisconsin, US and was created through the 2016 merger of Welcome Dairy and Gamay Food Ingredients. The company has approximately 400 employees and operates three production facilities in the US Midwest.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2023

When Buffett and his team opened a position in Apple in the first quarter of 2016, it was consistently growing its sales by a double-digit percentage. District Court judge tossing the Federal Trade Commission's injunction request last week , the merger looks like it's cleared its biggest hurdle. With a U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 16, 2023

Acquisitions are partly to blame for that trend, but investors need to understand that leverage increases risk. In 2016, Energy Transfer inked a deal to buy peer Williams Companies (NYSE: WMB). That isn't the only thing to consider. But they don't have similarly strong corporate histories.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 9, 2023

After a record year in 2021, its investment banking division has taken a hit due to fewer companies going public and fewer mergers and acquisitions deals during the rising interest rate environment. Earlier this year, it also announced it would be scaling back its consumer banking efforts , which it initiated in 2016.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

It has fallen precipitously since its 2016 IPO, including a 70% decline over the last three years. Its latest acquisition target is by far its biggest yet -- longtime 3D printing and AM pioneer Stratasys. Led by Nano Dimension's opposition to the rival deal, Stratasys' shareholders voted against the merger with Desktop Metal.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2023

Sales of its flagship drug, Nuplazid, have steadily grown since its launch in 2016. Even though acquisition rumors have faded, Acadia remains an attractive investment opportunity based on its own merits. Immunology, after all, has been a hot area for mergers and acquisitions in recent years.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

Most notably, the company acquired a majority stake in a start-up called Cruise back in 2016. Namely, these alternatives typically come in the form of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). General Motors (NYSE: GM) has been trying to make inroads in self-driving technology for years.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It develops relationships with tenants in these industries, enabling it to source new acquisition opportunities as they expand. The cell tower company has grown its dividend by 7% annually since 2016, which aligns with its long-term target of increasing its dividend by 7% to 8% per year. yielding dividend.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 13, 2023

Grundy joined Houlihan Lokey from Barclays in 2016 and is a member of the Global Technology Team where his focus lies in the human capital management sector.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The FTC filed a complaint to stop the merger of Edgewell (Schick) and Harry’s yesterday. In 2016, Dollar Shave sold to Unilever, joining Gillette (owned by P&G) in the hands of consumer packaged goods giants. So the FTC thinks that stopping a merger of the number two and four brands in a market is good for competition?

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2023

What investors may want to know about the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC. Ricky Moldy caught up with Thompson to discuss the early days of mixed martial arts, the upcoming merger between WWE and the UFC, and what it takes to be the Alpha of a cage fighting organization. He's just gone from agency to acquisition.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

He joined McCarthy Tétrault back in 1997 and was a corporate litigator working on mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies and other files. In January 2016, Justin Trudeau's government appointed him Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, a position he fulfilled from 2016 to 2020.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And I think, now, with the announcement of this Endeavor, you know, merger, we're in control of both the numerator and denominator of that ratio. And that's just one of the other benefits of size and scale that will only be magnified, you know, with the potential from the Endeavor merger. So, I think that's certainly on the table.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We covered some interesting food-related mergers recently. Monster is going to need to evolve by either coming up with some new category or new beverage, they're going to need to make some acquisitions, or someone out there is going to see the merits of that business and decide they want it for themselves. They bought it in 2016.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 28, 2024

The question now is how to tap it: a complex dilemma that’s shaping merger talks and corporate strategy, while attracting insurers and asset managers who see a lucrative opportunity in companies that want out of this volatile game altogether. In late 2016, they had a deficit of more than $500 billion. Kraft Heinz Co.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

Bill Mann for you can you think of any really successful mega mergers? Thinking back on the mega mergers recent or historic that really worked well and that you're having to think that hard suggests these aren't often great outcomes. Bill Mann: Mergers of equal? I'm thinking like Sysco the food services giant.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 29, 2024

You'll also recall, we discussed the acquisition of DocFox on our last earnings call. This acquisition provides us with new onboarding and account opening capabilities for small business and commercial banking. We were pleased to announce M&T, an nCino customer since 2016, as our first U.S. Turning to guidance. Thanks, Greg.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

I think that when you look at this acquisition, it's not the craziest valuation for a business like this, it's somewhere around between six and seven times sales. trillion in dry powder, a lot of cash on the sidelines, basically double what they had in 2016, and I think an all-time high for the category.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This was partially offset by higher asset management fees, including the benefits from our acquisition of Deerpath Capital and of launching Prismic. billion in the fourth quarter were driven by strong international reinsurance sales and our best quarter for structured settlements since 2016. Results of our U.S.

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Blackstone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Our Tenth Surprise focused on Elon Musk’s acquisition of X (formerly Twitter). Old-economy stocks do better than new, but at least two household names in American industry agree to mergers to avoid Chapter 11 filings. For that reason, we always included a Surprise that was a little offbeat.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

First and foremost is the transformational nature of our planned acquisition of Spirit. And we saw double-digit year over year increases in active members, enrollments, and co-brand acquisitions. Having said that, it still compares in terms of severe weather, 2016 was worse. You talked about this in your prepared remarks, Robin.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Invested US$100 million in financing to support EQT’s acquisition of Zeus, a leading contract manufacturer in the medical devices industry based in the U.S. Committed to invest C$197 million in financing to support CapVest Partners in its acquisition of Recochem. stake, to help fund the acquisition of four operating road concessions.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

And with more than 20 years of finance and leadership expertise, Heena brings a breadth of experience across different facets of global finance, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions. I guess, I'm trying to think about the decline in gross margin over the years, you know, 700 basis points, 600 basis points going back to 2015, 2016.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so I joined Goldman in there, it was a 12-person merger department. So I joined Goldman and their merger department, but said, I’d like to be your LBO guy. The head of mergers and everyone watched over me there. I started at Goldman at ’81 doing, you know, mostly raid work and more traditional merger and seller work.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Two, increasing our annual dividends declared each year since inception in 2016; three, committing capital totaling $119.5 operator, capital raising, and mergers and acquisitions activity in 2023, were at their lowest levels since before 2018, the funding environment continues to be challenged right now. million during 2023.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I found one of the things that was a little unsatisfying as a merger banker is you’d work on a transaction, you’d help a company buy something or sell something, or merged with another business. But I would say when it came to kind of what part of investing, I think being a merger banker did inform what I wanted to do next.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

The second quarter of the year continued the steady progress established in the first as we ramped up production and delivery of our next-generation Series 7 modules, reinforced our global leadership in thin-film PV with a strategic acquisition and continued our strong bookings and ASP momentum. and internationally. billion that's $2.3

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