Companies & Capital
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216 articles
Shopify's Growth Comes To A Halt
Shopify's platform is now being avoided by companies hurt by rising prices and decreasing consumer spending, which is impeding its efforts to correct previous errors in overestimating e-commerce demand.
16 Aug 2022
CBRE, The Real Estate Giant
CBRE Group, Inc. is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm with $27.7 billion in revenue and $141.9 billion in AuM as of Dec. 31, 2021.
09 Aug 2022
Berkshire Puts Its Cash To Work While Softbank Bleeds
Despite worries about slowing growth, Berkshire Hathaway's operating profits increased in the second quarter, but Warren Buffett's conglomerate was not immune to the general market turbulence.
08 Aug 2022
Dollar Stores Benefit From Inflation
As a result of rising prices, many families claim that forgoing vacations and eating out is no longer enough to keep their budget balanced. They are now looking for measures to reduce the price of necessities as long as inflation is high.
03 Aug 2022
Meta Isn't Going Well
Since coming public in 2007, Meta hasn't had a quarterly sales decrease year over year. Yet, revenue for the second quarter was $28.82 billion, down 1% from $29.07 billion in the second quarter of 2021.
29 Jul 2022
Apollo Global, An Investments Leader
Founded in 1990, Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid and equity. The company has a flexible mandate in many of the funds it manages which enables it to invest opportunistically across a company’s capital structure.
25 Jul 2022
Airbus And Boeing Recovering From The Pandemic
At this week's Farnborough Airshow, Boeing released big order announcements from Delta Airlines and other carriers for its troubled 737 MAX jet. Rival Airbus added to its A320neo order book with orders from EasyJet and a mega-order for almost 300 jets from Chinese airlines.
22 Jul 2022
Micron Technology, Short Term Headwinds, Long Term Tailwinds
Micron Technology designs, produces, and distributes memory and storage products such as USB flash drives, flash memory, and dynamic random-access memory. It is the fourth largest semiconductor company in the world and has its main office located in Boise, Idaho.
11 Jul 2022
Venture Backed Startups Are Struggling
SoftBank Group and Tiger Global Management's subpar portfolio outcomes weights on technology companies and shows the excesses created by venture capital money as startups were forced to grow at any cost.
05 Jul 2022
Technology Buyouts
Private equity firms have heaps of capital at their disposal but rising financing costs now makes it increasingly difficult to close acquisitions. Software had been a particularly hot sector before the slump due to its consistent cash flows.
29 Jun 2022
The Strong And Steady Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation, based in Milford, Massachusetts, is a publicly traded analytical laboratory instrument and software firm. It employs more than 7,800 people and it is present in more than 35 countries including Singapore, India, Germany, and Japan.
27 Jun 2022
The Cloud Is Helping Some Tech Companies
Rising interest rates, high inflation, and economic uncertainty have all had an impact on tech valuations, but not so much in enterprise software. According to CIOs, demand is stable as firms continue to realign themselves around cloud computing and data.
16 Jun 2022
Hedge Funds In Trouble
During the pandemic, hedge funds managers have been allowed more flexibility to purchase difficult to value and illiquid assest. In some cases, money managers used leverage to increase exposure and profits.
14 Jun 2022
Union Pacific, One Of The Most Highly Respected Institutions In The U.S.
Union Pacific Railroad Company (UPRC) is a freight-hauling railroad that runs 6,400 locomotives across 32,500 miles (52,300 km) of track in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
12 Jun 2022
SPACs, A Bubble-Driven Invention
The technique has been around for decades and come in different formats such as reverse mergers and blank check companies. Yet, investors' appetite for more risky ventures is waning as the risk-free rate is rising by the day.
07 Jun 2022
Instant Delivery May Come To A Halt
Fears of a looming recession are prompting fast grocery delivery services to slow their expansion.
03 Jun 2022
Mortgage Lenders Are Struggling To Stay Afloat
The Federal Reserve's efforts to cool heated inflation have resulted in a slowdown in the mortgage market. To calm the economy, the Fed raised interest rates twice this year and stopped its largest mortgage-bond buying program this spring.
01 Jun 2022
Lockheed, A Defence Major
Lockheed Martin Corporation is a multinational aerospace, defence, information security, and technology company based in the United States. It was founded in 1995 through the combination of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta.
30 May 2022
Inflation Is Eating Into Profits And Valuations
The fortunes of investors riding a 13-year bull market are being shattered by a dizzying reversal in technology-startup financing. The new climate has quickly brought high-flying businesses to a halt: layoffs, cautious investors, a fund outflow, and the threat of a valuation cut.
23 May 2022
Teradyne, Automated Testing Equipment
Teradyne, Inc. is a North Reading, Massachusetts-based designer and manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE). Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, and IBM are among Teradyne's high-profile customers.
16 May 2022