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DECEMBER 30, 2023

QuantumScape (NYSE: QS) , a developer of solid-state batteries, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Nov. During its pre-merger presentation, it claimed it could start commercializing its products in 2024 and grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate of 363% from $14 million in 2024 to $6.44

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Discovery still needs help Ever since the company was formed by the merger of AT&T 's WarnerMedia and Discovery Communications in 2021, the company has underperformed as it's struggled with a bloated debt burden, questionable management decisions, and a lack of any growth strategy. billion, helped by its acquisition of BluTV.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

The maker of solid-state batteries went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Nov. In its pre-merger presentation, QuantumScape predicted it would start commercializing its products in 2024 and grow its revenue at a whopping compound annual growth rate of 363% from $14 million in 2024 to $6.44

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JANUARY 29, 2024

However, profitability tanked for Cardlytics following a trio of acquisitions in 2021 and early 2022. The market is reacting to news regarding one of these acquisitions today: Bridg. Revenue will be near an all-time high, and its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) will be positive.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

The logic behind the spinoff was that it would unlock shareholder value and allow each company to more easily pursue mergers and acquisitions (M&A), allocate capital, and compensate employees as a pure play focused on one industry. billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ).

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JANUARY 10, 2024

After its 2022 merger with Kirkland Lake Gold and its acquisition of Yamana's Canadian assets, Agnico has emerged as a leading producer of gold -- and profits. in net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). Currently, investors can grab shares of Agnico Eagle from the bargain bin.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Bowlero only just went public in December 2021 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Same-store sales were roughly flat, meaning that its higher revenue came from adding three new locations during the quarter. This is designed to raise money from shareholders but Bowlero has steadily given back ever since.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

But since its market debut via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ), Opendoor's stock has lost nearly 90% of its value. Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin dropped from positive 0.7% Amazon's stock only declined 14% during the same period.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

However, as an "owner" of this energy infrastructure business, a unitholder benefits from things like depreciation. Assuming unitholders agree to the merger, Magellan will effectively be selling itself to Oneok. Being paid to pay taxes The merger calls for Magellan unitholders to receive $25.00 Image source: Getty Images.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

It takes time for a big merger to reveal its full potential. Tilray is gradually becoming the bigger and better company that the merger aimed to create. With these acquisitions, management hopes to expand in the U.S. This should help the company reduce its debt and plan any future acquisitions.

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MARCH 21, 2024

SoFi stock: Down 26% this year and 73% from its high Jennifer Saibil : SoFi has been demonstrating fantastic growth since it went public in 2021 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). SoFi came through on its promise to report its first net profit in the fourth quarter, which was $48 million, or $0.02

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

The company, which went public as part of a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) merger in 2021, has seen investment from Anthem, now called Elevance. On Tuesday, Sharecare reported a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing from Oct. per share in cash. The company reiterated its yearly guidance of revenue between $452.5

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The midstream master limited partnership (MLP) set seven operational records during the fourth quarter, fueled by organic growth and acquisitions. The midstream giant benefited from strong market conditions, recently completed expansion projects, and the acquisitions of Lotus Midstream and Crestwood Equity Partners (which closed in November).

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN) seemed like a promising growth stock when it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in Dec. That slowdown also caused its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) -- which briefly turned positive in 2021 -- to turn negative again.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) last April. SoundHound fell short of its pre-merger expectations, and rising interest rates exacerbated that pain by compressing its valuations. The audio and speech recognition company's stock opened at $8.72 less than a month later.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The rebound comes after a positive analyst note and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) speculation overshadowed weaker-than-expected second-quarter 2023 results from the digital customer experience (CX) solutions company. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) fell 7.1%

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MARCH 9, 2024

That gives it the funds to invest in organic expansion projects, make accretive acquisitions, and opportunistically repurchase shares. Enbridge will also get a bump from mergers and acquisitions, with its deal to buy three gas utilities from Dominion Energy , providing a meaningful near-term boost. billion to $6.7

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) went public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on April 28, 2022. During its pre-merger presentation, SoundHound predicted that its revenue would rise from $13 million in 2020 to $20 million in 2021, and then grow to $28 million in 2022. and rallied to an all-time high of $14.98

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The efforts have been paying off, as the company has posted stronger results of late, including positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ( EBITDA ) for four consecutive quarters. The acquisition has helped diversify Aurora's business model, and last quarter it added 7.2

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JUNE 16, 2023

For example, its ratio of debt to EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) is generally among the lowest of its closest peer group. Acquisitions are partly to blame for that trend, but investors need to understand that leverage increases risk. But they don't have similarly strong corporate histories.

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MARCH 4, 2024

SoundHound narrowed its loss according to adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) from $18.8 SoundHound AI went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in April 2022. It narrowed its net loss from $30.9 million to $18.0 million, or $0.07 million to $3.7

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APRIL 21, 2024

Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) , a maker of electric semi-trucks, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in June 2020. In its pre-merger presentation, it told investors it could deliver 600 BEVs in 2021, 1,200 BEVs in 2022, and 3,500 BEVs in 2023. Its shares opened at $37.55 a week later.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

SoFi stock: Down 61% from its high Jennifer Saibil : I was wary of the hype surrounding SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) when it went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in June of 2021. It was untested, with an astronomical valuation and no profits.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The sales figure was up 5% year over year, but adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) was flat compared to a year prior and gross margin fell by 10 basis points to 21.6%. Wesco earned $3.71 per share on revenue of $5.75 per share on sales of $5.4

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The company also reiterated that it expects to have between $600 million and $700 million in revenue in 2025, along with an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin of between 25% to 30% by 2025. a share.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Magnite Magnite is an ad tech company created by the merger of The Rubicon Project and Telaria in 2020. In 2023, its revenue rose only 7% as its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) dipped 4%. Image source: Getty Images.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

Understanding Magnite's growth strategies Magnite was created via the merger of two smaller ad tech companies, The Rubicon Project and Telaria, in 2020. All of those mergers and acquisitions turned Magnite into the world's largest independent sell-side platform (SSP) for digital ads.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Symbiotic (NASDAQ: SYM) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on June 8, 2022. Over the past year, it's consistently grown revenue at double-digit and triple-digit rates, while narrowing its losses on an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) basis.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) disappointed a lot of investors after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in September 2021. Nerdy's growth rates look decent, but they broadly missed its pre-merger target for generating $267 million in revenue in 2023. The online tutoring marketplace's stock opened at $10.96

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MARCH 11, 2024

BigBear went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in Dec. That was well below its pre-merger target of $388 million for the year. C3 listed its IPO at $42 in Dec. 2020, and its stock skyrocketed to a record high of $177.47 that same month. However, it now trades at about $32. last April.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Tilray's acquisitions of U.S.-based These strategies contributed to the company's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ( EBITDA ) increase of 93% to $22 million in the quarter, which was its 17th consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. million in its fiscal Q4.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

That journey of aggressive spending began even from DraftKings' first days as a public company, when it simultaneously merged with its technology provider SBTech, during its three-way merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp. through the first nine months of 2023 to $2.43

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JUNE 13, 2023

While the company slightly missed expectations on the top line, it beat expectations for earnings per share, due to the impressive profitability brought on by the realization of merger synergies stemming from the Main Event acquisition last year. Apparently, investors liked what they heard.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) disappointed a lot of investors after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in April 2022. Yet it had previously told investors it could generate $98 million in revenue in 2023 during its pre-merger presentation.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Lumen faces an existential crisis Unlike AT&T and Verizon Communications , which downsized their wireline businesses to expand their wireless businesses, Lumen doubled down on its wireline business through a series of mergers and acquisitions instead of entering the wireless market.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Since we announced the merger agreement with WillScot Mobile Mini on January 29 and while the transaction is still pending, we continue to operate with a business-as-usual mindset. As always, and now during the pending merger, our focus will remain on the execution of our strategic plans and delivering positive financial results.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The company's acquisitions of SweetWater Brewing, Breckenridge Distillery, and Montauk Brewing in the U.S. It also reported a 93% increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) to $22 million in the quarter, marking the company's 17th consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA.

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