CNBC: Investing

AUGUST 11, 2025

Murphy is in the minority of analysts covering the stock, as 16 out of 24 in total have stepped to the sidelines with a hold rating, per LSEG.

Stock

Financial Times - Banking

JUNE 12, 2025

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Recruitment

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 9, 2025

Tariff impact The company's vertical integration — controlling design, manufacturing, and retail — drives high margins, with adjusted operating margins averaging 14% over the past few quarters. Spending at luxury home goods retailers is discretionary. Net debt has roughly doubled over the past five years, and the $30.4

Retail

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 22, 2025

Worries over the size of the federal deficit and increasing debt arose from the president's tax bill working its way through Congress. Equities have been volatile for much of the first half of 2025, as President Donald Trump's tariffs simultaneously sparked investor concern over a potential U.S. recession and higher inflation.

Stock

CNBC: Investing

JULY 8, 2025

national debt. Once a senior advisor to Trump, Musk has had an acrimonious falling out with the president due to his staunch opposition to the tax and spending legislation. Musk has criticized the law for failing to address the large federal budget deficit and growing U.S. per share.

Shares

CNBC: Investing

JULY 10, 2025

He also looks at how much debt the issuer has, as well the affordability of its services — the water rates versus the demographic profile of the population. "If you are, you might have to go in and take on enough debt that you might have some stress on your current credit ratings," he said.

Investors

Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 14, 2025

And the answer is maybe consumer retail , FIG , and most of tech and TMT ? Infrastructure includes select verticals from many other groups, but not entire other groups: For example, in real estate, data center, cell tower, and fiber infrastructure REITs are considered infrastructure, but hotel and retail REITs are not.

Investment Banking

Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 3, 2025

High debt costs are also limiting consumer discretionary spending, particularly at higher-end establishments. Restaurant wages continue to rise as the industry competes with retail, logistics, and healthcare for frontline workers. 4 Many smaller or regional operators are struggling to refinance loans or fund expansion.

Food

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 17, 2025

The benchmark it is compared against includes 50% high yield corporate debt, 30% investment grade corporate debt, 10% emerging market bonds and 10% asset-backed securities, Venter said. To be sure, funds with more high yield debt can see poor price performance even if there is not a big surge in bankruptcies.

Funds

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 9, 2025

The Moses Ventures founder pointed out that energy stocks' weighting in the S & P 500 benchmark is only 3% right now, compared to their historical average of 7%.

S&P

Razorpay

JUNE 24, 2025

About GoldenPi: Bringing Fixed-Income Investing to Indian Retail GoldenPi is India’s first and largest online bond platform (OBP) registered under SEBI’s new regulatory framework for OBPP. Without a payment gateway to lock funds at the moment of order , forecasting and inventory planning became nearly impossible.

Debt

CNBC: Investing

JULY 30, 2025

These measures include general expenses optimization, tech debt reduction and the shrinking of Peloton's showroom footprint. " The analyst also expects upside to Peloton's fiscal 2026 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, expectations from further top-line growth and cost-cutting measures.

Stock

CNBC: Investing

AUGUST 4, 2025

" The analyst also pointed to Kinross' debt reduction efforts and strong cash returns as other potential boons for the stock. "KGC has outperformed large cap peers AEM, NEM & ABX over the last 2-3 yrs resulting in a multiple re-rating off a lower base." Shares have advanced 75% so far in 2025.

Stock

Francine Way

MAY 17, 2017

Thus far, we have discussed many aspects around capital structure and debt financing, including how debt levels are determined by a company’s cash flows, enterprise value, and asset values. This post is the last one of our debt discussion. ABL can exists alongside other types of debt (revolver, term loan, etc.)

Debt

The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Online fashion retailer’s sale of 75% stake to Jack & Jones owner could bring store back to the high street Business live – latest updates Asos has sold a majority stake in Topshop for £135m in a deal that will help it repay debts and could see the brand return to the high street, as fashion retailers struggle after a soggy summer.

Debt

The New York Times: Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Buying mattresses, clothes and other goods on installment plans has propped up spending, but economists worry that such loans could put some people at risk.

Debt

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MAY 15, 2024

per share, to be paid to its pre-merger shareholders in January 2025 • Vastned Retail will declare and pay an interim dividend of EUR 1.70 per share in December 2024 (with no interim dividend to be declared and paid by Vastned Retail in August 2024) • Vastned Belgium will declare and pay an interim dividend of EUR 2.30 EUR 2.0 - 2.5

Retail

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

MAY 15, 2024

per share, to be paid to its pre-merger shareholders in January 2025 • Vastned Retail will declare and pay an interim dividend of EUR 1.70 per share in December 2024 (with no interim dividend to be declared and paid by Vastned Retail in August 2024) • Vastned Belgium will declare and pay an interim dividend of EUR 2.30 EUR 2.0 - 2.5

Retail

Global Banking & Finance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

UK’s Mothercare says it expects to complete refinancing shortly (Reuters) -Mothercare expects to complete a refinancing shortly and will remain in discussions with stakeholders and financing partners to ensure adequate financing, the British baby products retailer said on Friday.

IT

Francine Way

JULY 7, 2017

Thus far in the last 10 blog posts, we have discussed what M&A is, its success metrics, types of acquirers and value creations, capital structure, debt, and equity. Wholesale, retail, or direct? Some industries may have additional evaluation criteria, i.e.: retail with same-store sales trends, number of stores, etc.

M&A

Sica Fletcher

MAY 8, 2020

EBITDAC Margin in Retail! EBTIDAC margin in its retail segment, which seems high even for us. If you're a retailer with less than a 25-30% margin, these figures present a good reach goal to shoot for. That is, for every $1 of EBITDA they have $6 of debt. billion of debt given the 6.0x billion: a ratio of 2.1x.

Insurance

The Deal

OCTOBER 17, 2023

On the latest episode of The Deal’s Behind the Buyouts podcast, Solomon Partners co-head of consumer and retail Cathy Leonhardt talks about the sector’s slow start to M&A this year, categories that continue to shine and potential signs of a resurgence in dealmaking.

M&A

Wall Street Mojo

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Allowance Method in accounting sets aside funds to cover anticipated bad debts from credit sales. It aligns bad debt expenses with sales within the same reporting period, ensuring a more realistic portrayal of a company’s financial health. What Is The Allowance Method? Example #1 Suppose ABC Inc.,

Accountant

Focus Investment Banking

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While overall M&A activity among tire retailers, wholesalers and commercial tire dealerships remains active but noticeably slower, it’s harder for wholesalers and commercial tire dealerships to have a sale event as compared with retailers. The debt in an ESOP is very, very difficult to restructure,” says Beard. “In

Debt

Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 29, 2024

Project Finance Definition: “Project Finance” refers to acquisitions, debt/equity financings, and new developments of capital-intensive infrastructure assets that provide essential utilities and services. However, many people also use the term more broadly to refer to equity, debt, and advisory for infrastructure assets.

Corporate Finance

Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“Investment bankers and leveraged buyout investors in the 1980’s adopted EBITDA as a tool for figuring out whether a company had a profitability needed to service the debt that would need to be taken on to buy the company.” It reflects a company's capacity to reinvest in its business, repay debt and reward shareholders over the long haul.

Debt

Growth Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The healthy appetite among VC investors and venture debt providers was particularly evident when it came to opportunities in technology. Here is a snapshot of some of the specific business activities that are likely to attract the most VC and venture debt this year.

Finance

Peak Frameworks

MAY 22, 2023

Liabilities represent the obligations a company has to outside parties, such as debts, loans, and accounts payable. For example, Walmart's efficient inventory management system has contributed significantly to its success as a global retail giant. Examples include accounts payable, short-term debt, and accrued expenses.

Accountant

Francine Way

JULY 20, 2017

The disadvantage is its narrowness in meaningful usage: it is only meaningful when used on businesses where tangible assets constitute the bulk of the enterprise value (such as an auto parts wholesaler / retailer) or when the assets are primarily cash or liquid assets (such as banks and financial service firms).

Valuation

Razorpay

AUGUST 9, 2023

Regular individuals have retail banks. Some merchant banks may be affiliated with other retail or investment banks, but this specialized branch of banking does not provide services to the general public. Huge corporations have investment banks. What do medium to big-sized businesses have? The answer: Merchant banks.

Banking

The Deal

JULY 21, 2023

GNL), an office and industrial REIT, agreed to combine with Necessity Retail REIT Inc. For example, Global Net Lease and Necessity Retail agreed to internalize management as part of the merger, a partial win for Blackwells, which argued the companies will save $54 million a year with the new structure. Last month, Global Net Lease Inc.

Retail

Focus Investment Banking

AUGUST 1, 2023

And with the specter of a Congress and White House apparently at war over raising the debt ceiling, the odds of this recession happening sooner rather than later was real. The economy was thought to be headed into a recession led by the Fed’s efforts to tame inflation by steadily raising interest rates. Read the full report for more insights.

Investment Banking

Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

Debt financing is much more common, and the GE firm is often the first institutional investor. Many of these firms use debt to fund deals, and they complete bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies. They do not use debt since they only make minority-stake investments. The targeted IRR might be in the 30 – 40% range.

Private Equity

Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 31, 2024

In the early days of institutional private equity, many industrial companies were perceived to be stable, cash-flow-generation machines with significant hard assets that could be used as collateral for debt. billion with Debt of $2.1 No Debt has been repaid, so the Exit Equity Proceeds are $3.6 billion – $2.1 billion = $1.5

Private Equity

Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 5, 2023

It is determined by taking the difference between current assets and current liabilities, which encompasses cash, inventory, accounts receivable (A/R), accounts payable (A/P), and other short-term debt obligations.

M&A

The TRADE

MAY 24, 2024

Longer term, the new Government will face a number of aggressive assumptions regarding UK growth and tax revenue, with implication for absolute debt service levels. European retail is still a growing part of the liquidity pool and there are a number of providers such Turquoise Maxx that are seeking to simplify and cheapen market access.

Bulge Bracket

The New York Times: Banking

MAY 24, 2024

Ampla, which lent money to smaller businesses that sold clothing, home furnishings and other items directly to consumers, is struggling financially and seeking a buyer.

Business