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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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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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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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 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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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

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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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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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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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

However, Berkshire is built with staying power, arguably unmatched by any company on Wall Street. For starters, Berkshire owns many private companies across various industries. Some of Berkshire's well-known consumer-facing companies include GEICO Insurance, Duracell, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, and Clayton Homes.

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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

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 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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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

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 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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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

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

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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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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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

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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 5, 2020

That is substantially less than public company directors make (which is more like $200,000 per year), but being a public company director is more time consuming and exposes a director to more liability. So I feel like $100,000 a year is reasonable compensation for a private company director.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

The strength of the recovery, I think, has helped both, you know, the public companies, but the private companies. The private operators we talked to have benefited from the recovery as much as the public. I do think if you go back to pre-pandemic, everybody was healthy.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The interesting thing about being a private investor is you get a lot more information. Like it's funny, people talk about public companies and transparency, but the K's and Q's of public companies don't actually tell you that much about the business. A lot more information.

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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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

We have relationships with some of the largest and most experienced operators in the industry, with our leased operating portfolio comprised of 89% multistate operators and 58% leased to public company tenants. Ben Regin -- Chief Investment Officer That's a private company and -- details of which we have not disclosed.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ESG also aims to promote supposedly the goal of ESG is to promote the growth of companies that are supportive of beneficial practices, which is debatable and we’re going to get to that. Impact investing. Brown versus green stocks. Could we say dirty or fossil instead of brown? There is that cash flow that you get a part of. So I agree.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

Do you feel like this reception maybe opens the door for some of those other big-name private companies out there? Dylan Lewis: Matt, I think a lot of people are paying attention to this one because we have been so desperate for new names in the market. Matt Argersinger: I think that could be right, Dylan.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They invest primarily in private and public companies. Or are you looking at startups or private companies that have been for around for a while that are potential disruptors? You invest in startups, you invest in public companies, you invest in privates. How do you think about that?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If you look at a SPAC versus a SPARC, SPACs, special purpose acquisition company, ultimately, they gather this money through an initial public offering of a shell company with the promise ultimately to acquire a successful public or private company, I'm sorry. Deidre Woollard: Yeah. Jason Moser: Yeah.

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