Benzinga

AUGUST 22, 2024

The consensus estimate for 2025 earnings is pegged at $7.97 Solid Return on Equity The return on equity for MKTX is 20.4%, which is higher than the industry average of 13.2%. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Robust Growth Prospects The Zacks Consensus Estimate for MarketAxess' 2024 earnings is pegged at $7.06

Equity 52

Equity Dividends Marketability 52

Benzinga

MARCH 28, 2024

("IFH") (OTCQX: IFHI ) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which CBNK will acquire IFH in a cash and stock transaction valued at $66 million, exclusive of the value of a dividend to be received by IFH shareholders at or immediately prior to closing. and Capital Bank. and Capital Bank.

Banking 40

Banking Dividends Book Value Equity 40

Benzinga

JULY 12, 2022

Capital Power will finance the transaction using cash on hand and its credit facilities and will not need to access the equity markets to finance the transaction. On the strength of the contracted cash flows from this acquisition, we are increasing our annual dividend growth guidance to 6% through 2025 from the previous 5%.

Dividends 40

Dividends Finance EBITDA Equity 40

Benzinga

JULY 22, 2024

The transaction is expected to be more than 10% accretive to earnings per share and more than 20% accretive to cash available for dividend per share in 2025, and will enable us to continue investing in our business while increasing shareholder returns and maintaining a strong balance sheet." Full story available on Benzinga.com

Dividends 45

Dividends EBITDA Enterprise Value Equity 45

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In fact, the Nvidia earnings report on August 28 covered the second quarter of this fiscal year (which is Nvidia's 2025 fiscal year). In fact, a significant portion of sell side equity research is dedicated to this activity, with revisions made to the expected earnings, as you get closer and closer to the next earnings report.

Marketability 134

Marketability Start-ups Discounted Cash Flow Market Capitalization 134

Benzinga

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Adds scale and extends Ready Capital's core platform with UDF IV's proven land development lending platform Diversifies Ready Capital's portfolio and offers land development solution to borrowers and investors Expected to be accretive to Ready Capital's earnings and book value in 2025 UDF IV shareholders may receive up to $5.89

Book Value 40

Book Value Finance Dividends Equity 40

Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 28, 2024

Last year, the SEC issued guidance with respect to PvP disclosure requirements in the form of Compensation and Disclosure Interpretations and staff comment letters, including the following key items: Average compensation paid does not include unvested equity awards that vest upon retirement, even if the award holder is retirement-eligible.

Dividends 53

Dividends Marketability Compliance Equity 53

Benzinga

APRIL 23, 2024

per share cash dividend declared _ (1) A reconciliation of GAAP net income to FFO is provided at the end of this press release. million, maturing in October 2025. DIVIDEND SUMMARY On April 5, 2024, ROIC distributed a $0.15 per share cash dividend. On April 23, 2024, the Board declared a cash dividend of $0.15

Dividends 40

Dividends Intangible Assets Start-ups EBITDA 40

Benzinga

JANUARY 17, 2025

17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mount Logan Capital Inc. 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mount Logan Capital Inc. million transaction equity value at signing, subject to certain pre-closing adjustments, relative to 180 Degree Capital's Net Asset Value ("NAV") at closing. million pro forma transaction equity value at closing.

Equity 40

Equity Dividends Marketability 40

Benzinga

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Subsequent to the end of the third quarter 2022, the company repaid a mortgage secured by The Shops on Lane Avenue, eliminating all debt maturities until 2025. million of undrawn forward equity, the net debt to annualized adjusted EBITDA ratio would be 6.0x. NEW YORK, Nov. Our record level signed not commenced balance, 94.0%

Dividends 40

Dividends Equity Net Debt Finance 40

Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

23 Question: Some stock awards entitle the holder to receive dividends or dividend equivalents paid on the underlying shares prior to the vesting date. Item 402(v)(2)(iv) does not contemplate the use of a broad-based equity index as a peer group for purposes of the pay versus performance disclosure. Answer: Yes. Answer: No.

Compliance 40

Compliance Total Shareholder Return Dividends Market Capitalization 40

Benzinga

OCTOBER 22, 2024

per share cash dividend declared _ (1) A reconciliation of GAAP net income to FFO is provided at the end of this press release. DIVIDEND SUMMARY On October 4, 2024, ROIC distributed a $0.15 per share cash dividend. On October 22, 2024, the Board declared a cash dividend of $0.15 HIGHLIGHTS $32.1 per diluted share) $33.2

Dividends 40

Dividends Intangible Assets EBITDA Equity 40

Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A public hearing on the Proposed Regulations is scheduled for January 16, 2025. Similarly, if a 10% US shareholder sells stock in a CFC, gain that would be treated as a dividend under Section 1248 of the Code may benefit from the 100% dividends received deduction. trade or business.

Treasury 45

Treasury Dividends Start-ups Fair Market Value 45

Benzinga

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The gross purchase price will be partially funded by a pre-closing dividend of cash on Svenska's balance sheet to the Seller with the balance funded by a portion of VAALCO's cash-on-hand with no issuance of debt or equity. The gross consideration for the Acquisition is $66.5

Dividends 40

Dividends Equity Banking 40

Global Finance

JULY 24, 2024

DBS is the first Asian bank to offer custody for five asset classes: equities, bonds, funds, securities tokens, and cryptocurrencies. This integration includes a technology partnership with Nasdaq and an expected launch in the second quarter of 2025. DBS has a competitive advantage in the growing digital asset sector.

Banking 52

Banking Marketability Technology Finance 52

Global Finance

JULY 24, 2024

DBS is the first Asian bank to offer custody for five asset classes: equities, bonds, funds, securities tokens, and cryptocurrencies. This integration includes a technology partnership with Nasdaq and an expected launch in the second quarter of 2025. DBS has a competitive advantage in the growing digital asset sector.

Banking 52

Banking Marketability Technology Finance 52

Reynolds Holding

JUNE 20, 2024

smoothly shortened the settlement cycle for equities, corporate bonds, and municipal securities to one day after the transaction date (T+1). A nice benefit of going to T+1 is in the area of corporate actions, in that ex-dividend dates and record dates now are aligned on the same day. Last month, the U.S. This includes parts of U.S.

Treasury 45

Treasury Start-ups Banking Equity 45

Global Finance

MAY 8, 2024

Last year, UOB fully integrated its acquired Indonesian and Malaysian businesses onto the bank’s platforms while the migration of the Thai and Vietnamese businesses will be completed in the first half of 2024 and 2025, respectively. Maybank’s 60 sen (about $0.13) dividend was the highest payout since the pandemic. billion; a 2.3%

Banking 52

Banking Dividends Start-ups Finance 52

Benzinga

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

of the combined company and Endeavor's equity holders are expected to own approximately 39.5% Diamondback today also announced that the Company's Board of Directors will approve a 7% increase to its base dividend to $3.60 of the combined company. per share annually ($0.90

Net Debt 40

Net Debt Dividends Equity Marketability 40

Benzinga

AUGUST 12, 2024

Preparing for the Future: Financing package includes equity raise to preserve flexibility for future growth. 5 Expected cost synergies of a minimum of approximately US$25 million are expected to be achieved by the end of 2026, with 50% expected to be realized in 2025. pro forma net debt to adjusted EBITDA ratio 3 upon closing 7.

Equity Financing 45

Equity Financing EBITDA Finance Equity 45

Benzinga

AUGUST 1, 2024

Highlights: Outbrain will acquire Teads in an approximately $1 billion transaction, consisting of $725 million upfront cash and $25 million deferred cash, 35 million shares of common stock of Outbrain, and $105 million of convertible preferred equity. The initial conversion price is $10.00 per share (subject to customary adjustments).

Debt Financing 40

Debt Financing EBITDA Finance Banking 40

Benzinga

AUGUST 30, 2022

Investors in the combined company will participate in the rapidly growing and multifaceted vision sensing market, which is forecast to grow to over US$2 trillion by 2025, according to collected data from Allied Market Research, MarketsandMarkets and Fortune Business Insights; reports by Transparency Market Research and eeNews Europe.

Finance 40

Finance Technology Marketability Enterprise Value 40

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.

Equity 127

Equity Risk Premium Treasury Start-ups 127

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and running, and I plan to use this post to describe my data sample, my processes for computing industry statistics and the links to finding them. In the table below, we compare the changes in regional market capitalizations (in $ millions) over time.

Risk Premium 119

Risk Premium Dividends Start-ups Corporate Finance 119

Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 5, 2025

Posted by Margaret Hylas and Leah Sine, Semler Brossy Consulting Group LLC, on Sunday, January 5, 2025 Editor's Note: Margaret Hylas is a Senior Consultant and Leah Sine is a Senior Associate Consultant at Semler Brossy Consulting Group LLC. This post is based on their Semler Brossy memorandum. more…)

Dividends 162

Dividends Equity Marketability 162

Musings on Markets

MARCH 5, 2025

In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world, looking at both the magnitude and the form of that return. I also look at a clear and discernible shift away from dividends to stock buybacks, especially in the US, and examine both good and bad reasons for this shift.

Dividends 52

Dividends Start-ups Equity Corporate Finance 52

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The Hurdle Rate - Intuition and Uses You don't need to complete a corporate finance or valuation class to encounter hurdle rates in practice, usually taking the form of costs of equity and capital, but taking a finance class both deepens the acquaintance and ruins it.

Risk Premium 72

Risk Premium Beta Start-ups Equity 72

Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Advisers enjoy an uptick in M&As and IPOs despite geopolitical uncertainty; whether 2025 maintains the energy remains to be seen. At last check, global M&A is down 7% in 2025 compared to 2024; in the US, its down 32%. The bank also increased its dividend payout this year to S$6.3 IPOs, however, are enjoying a surge.

Banking 52

Banking Finance Dividends Equity 52

Musings on Markets

APRIL 7, 2025

Not surprisingly, the markets opened down on Thursday and spent the next two days in that mode, with US equity indices declining almost 10% by close of trading on Friday. US equities had the biggest decline in dollar value terms, losing $5.3 trillion in value last week, a 9.24% decline in value from the Friday close on March 28, 2025.

Marketability 97

Marketability Risk Premium Start-ups Equity 97

Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Another sector that made a major jump is banking, which includes private equity. This year, UBS expects attractive capital returns to continue, accruing around 10% growth in dividends per share. The bank plans to repurchase $1 billion in shares in the first half of 2025 and an additional $2 billion in the second half.

Banking 52

Banking Finance Equity Marketability 52

Benzinga

JANUARY 7, 2025

per share, which represents a 19% premium over Paycor’s 30-day volume-weighted average trading price as of January 3, 2025. Paychex plans to maintain its dividend policy and strong balance sheet, with committed financing in place for the. Paychex will acquire Paycor for $22.50 billion and took the company public in July 2021.

Enterprise Value 52

Enterprise Value Dividends Finance Equity 52

Benzinga

JANUARY 10, 2025

10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Royalty Pharma plc (NASDAQ: RPRX ) today announced two major steps to enhance shareholder value. In 2025, the company intends to repurchase $2 billion of shares, subject to market conditions. The equity component will represent approximately 4% of shares outstanding, assuming all shares vest.

Equity 40

Equity Dividends Marketability 40

Benzinga

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The companies mutually agreed to terminate their merger agreement, citing uncertainty in the legal process and the likelihood that it would not be resolved by the February 10, 2025 outside date. Following the termination of the merger agreement, Tapestry will redeem $6.1

Dividends 64

Dividends Equity 64

Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The Debt Trade off As a prelude to examining the debt and equity tradeoff, it is best to first nail down what distinguishes the two sources of capital. To me, the key distinction between debt and equity lies in the nature of the claims that its holders have on cash flows from the business.

Equity 75

Equity EBITDA Risk Premium Gross Debt 75

Musings on Markets

MARCH 15, 2025

Thus, my estimates of equity risk premiums, updated every month, are not designed to make big statements about markets but more to get inputs I need to value companies. In the table below, I show my estimates of the implied equity risk premium for the S&P 500 at the start of every month, since January 2024, and on March 14, 2025.

Start-ups 130

Start-ups Risk Premium Marketability Equity 130