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This AI IPO Stock Just Crushed Its First Report As a Public Company. Here's Why Its Stock Dropped

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Oddity Tech (NASDAQ: ODD) went public in July, and it just released its first quarterly report as a public company. Such high-flying IPO stocks frequently plunge after the initial hype wears off, but others are worth watching for their long-term potential. Yet the stock fell following the earnings release.

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Qualtrics private again with close of $12.5bn private equity deal

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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. billion in equity and $1 billion in debt.

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The Agony & Ecstasy of Stock-Picking

A Wealth of Common Sense

Facebook went public in the spring of 2012. In the year before filing to become a public company, the social network brought in $3.7 billion in revenue. The stock price actually fell 50% from May 2012 through September of that year. From that point on it was one of the best-performing tech stocks in the entire market.

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This Warren Buffett Indicator Is a Red Flag. Should Investors Worry?

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The Buffett Indicator is the ratio of a country's total market capitalization of public companies to its gross domestic product (GDP). Simply put, it compares the value of a country's public companies to the total value of the goods and services the country produces in a year. stock market is overvalued or undervalued.

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4 Stocks to Avoid at All Costs

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Not all public companies will be great investments, and there are some big names that have terrible operating trends. In this video, Travis Hoium covers four companies that face an uphill battle being good investments for long-term shareholders. Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Aug. The video was published on Aug.

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After failed $100bn EY offer, TPG buys Crowe’s healthcare consulting unit

Private Equity Insights

EY’s split plans, which would have spun off the consulting business as a public company, were scrapped in April amid objections from US audit partners. The Crowe Healthcare deal follows a failed proposal from TPG to EY for a debt-and-equity deal that would have revived the Big Four firm’s ambitious split project.

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Only 5% of FTSE 100 companies have ‘credible’ climate transition plans, says EY

Financial Times: Moral Money

Tiny minority of biggest UK public companies would meet draft government guidelines