Valutico

MARCH 20, 2023

Recent Financial Performance In late February 2023, HSBC released its 2022 annual results, showing strong financial performance and higher capital distributions. They announced a 50% dividend payout ratio projected for 2023 and 2024 as well as a return to quarterly dividends from Q1 this year.

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

vi In addition, following the closing of the Merger(s), as applicable, MFIC will pay a cash dividend of $0.20 per share special dividend will be determined by the MFIC Board of Directors based upon the timing of the closings of the Merger(s). The exact record date for the $0.20 The exact record date for the $0.20

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the 2024 proxy statement, if the registrant uses the same peer group for 2023 as it used for 2022, the registrant should present its peer group total shareholder return for each of the years in the table using the 2023 peer group. In what circumstances is such market capitalization-based weighting required? Answer: Yes.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 11, 2023

(NYSE: EGLE ) ("Eagle"), one of the world's largest owner-operators within the midsize dry bulk vessel segment, today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger on a Net Asset Value to Net Asset Value ("NAV") basis with a pro forma market capitalization of approximately $2.1

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

Data universe : In my sample, I include all publicly traded firms with market capitalizations that exceed zero, traded anywhere in the world. At the company-level, I provide data on risk, profitability, leverage and dividends, broken down by industry-groups, to be used in both corporate finance and valuation. Return on Equity 1.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2024

The result was a $490 million settlement of the case in March 2024. Options Market Efficiency Since the Third Circuit’s decision in Deutschman v. Sterritt [6] recognized three additional factors: market capitalization, public float, and narrow bid-ask spreads. 4] Unger v. Amedisys [5] and Krogman v.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While management decisions have clearly contributed to the problems, it is also true that the pharmacy business, which forms Walgreen's core, has deteriorated over the last two years, and that can be seen by comparing its market performance to CVS, its highest profile competitor. billion, has been more cash drain than flow , and in 2024, Ms.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In a court filing on October 9, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) let it be known that it was considering a break-up of Alphabet, with the addendum that it would also be pushing for the company to share the data it collects across its multiple platforms with competitors.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

Not surprisingly, the company listings are across the world, and I look at the breakdown of companies, by number and market cap, by geography: As you can see, the market cap of US companies at the start of 2025 accounted for roughly 49% of the market cap of global stocks, up from 44% at the start of 2024 and 42% at the start of 2023.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 17, 2025

In my last post , I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 7, 2025

In percentage terms, energy stocks have lost the most in value, with market capitalizations dropping by 14.2%, dragged down by declining oil prices. trillion) were close in percentage terms to the losses in the rest of the market.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 15, 2024

on Saturday, June 15, 2024 Editor's Note: Arthur B. Introduction The 2024 Proxy Season has so far produced surprises, unpredictability, new tactics and responses, and a new(ish) player. 2024: The Year the UPC Regime Favored Management? Kovacs, Innisfree M&A Inc., Crozier is Executive Chair, and Gabrielle E.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

In this context, the cost of capital become a measure of the cost of funding a business: In dividend decision s, i.e., the decisions of how much cash to return to owners and in what form (dividends or buybacks), the cost of capital is a divining rod.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Founded in 2009, and with Alphabet as its only funder, Google Ventures had over $10 billion in invested, in 2024, in more than 400 technology startups, spread across multiple businesses including healthcare, the life sciences and even financial services.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

In the United States, the number of manufacturing jobs peaked at close to 20 million in 1979 and dropped to about 13 million in 2024, and manufacturing wages have lagged wage growth in other sectors for much of that period. Democracy : In my view, globalization has weakened the power of democracy across the world.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The GENIUS Act is based closely on several earlier proposals: Former Chair Patrick McHenrys Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act of 2023 (McHenry bill), which advanced from the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) in summer 2023; the Lummis-Gillibrand Payment Stablecoin Act (Lummis-Gillibrand bill), introduced in spring 2024; and Sen.

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