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Noble Corporation To Acquire Diamond Offshore Drilling In $15.52/Share Deal; Enhances Dividend Payouts By 25%

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premium over Diamond’s closing share price on June 7, 2024. Dividend Boost : Additionally, Noble’s Board of Directors has approved a 25% increase in its quarterly dividend to $0.50 The implied cash and stock consideration for Diamond shareholders is $15.52 per share, reflecting an 11.4%

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Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say?

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I have also developed a practice in the last decade of spending much of January exploring what the data tells us, and does not tell us, about the investing, financing and dividend choices that companies made during the most recent year. Return on Equity 1. Dividends and Potential Dividends (FCFE) 1. Return on Equity 2.

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

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In this post, I will begin by chronicling the damage done to equities during 2022, before putting the year in historical context, and then examine how developments during the year have affected expectations for the future. Actual Returns Your returns on equities come in one of two forms. Stocks: The What? at the start of that year.

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Data Update 2 for 2024: A Stock Comeback - Winning the Expectations Game!

Musings on Markets

Heading into 2023, US equities looked like they were heading into a sea of troubles, with inflation out of control and a recession on the horizon. Breaking equities down by sub-region, and looking across the globe, I computed the change in aggregate market capitalization, by region: While US stocks accounted for about $9.5

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Data Update 5 for 2024: Profitability - The End Game for Business?

Musings on Markets

In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity risk premiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the form of costs of equity and capital.

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Provident Financial Services, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2024 Results Inclusive of Merger-Related Costs and Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

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July 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Provident Financial Services, Inc. per basic and diluted share for the three months ended June 30, 2024, compared to net income of $32.1 per basic and diluted share, for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and $32.0 For the six months ended June 30, 2024, net income totaled $20.6

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Progress Software's Big Bet: Acquires ShareFile For $875M While Hitting Pause On Dividends

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The acquisition is expected to close within Progress’ fiscal year, ending November 30, 2024, pending. ShareFile is expected to contribute over $240 million in annual revenue and add more than 86,000 customers to Progress. Full story available on Benzinga.com