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Navigating the M&A Landscape: How to Maximize Return On Your Privately Held Business

Sun Acquisitions

In the ever-evolving business world, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become common strategies for growth and expansion. For owners of privately held businesses, successfully navigating the M&A landscape can lead to substantial returns on investment.

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Ensuring M&A Success: A Comprehensive Due Diligence Questionnaire when Sourcing Deals

Devensoft

Pursuing an M&A deal is a major decision for any business, one that comes with a unique set of both risks and rewards. It’s crucial that you conduct a thorough due diligence process before entering an M&A deal. This due diligence questionnaire will explain how you can adequately vet potential M&A deals.

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Bitcoin is primed for a surge to fresh all-time highs above $130,000, according to the charts

CNBC: Investing

bond yields are steady, paving the way for risk-associated assets (I believe bitcoin is still positively correlated to the growth trade) to move higher. Corporate demand for bitcoin is also increasing as a Treasury asset. Macro environment: Despite fears of tariff-driven inflation, U.S. The "capped" U.S.

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M&A Conundrum: Where Do High Valuations Leave Sellers’ Kids?

PCO M&A Specialists

It’s a good problem to have, but it creates an M&A conundrum for some family business owners. Instead, in today’s M&A environment, Mom and Dad have a $10 million offer for Family Pest Biz Inc. Imagine you’re a baby boomer who owns a pest control company. In fact, valuations for pest control companies are at an all-time high.

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A low-risk options trade on this IT services stock that recently sold off

CNBC: Investing

For this trade, I'm relying on two technical tools: MACD The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is a reliable indicator for spotting trend reversals. I'm using the standard settings (12, 26, 9), which are widely followed. I'm using the standard settings (12, 26, 9), which are widely followed.

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Using options to buy the recent dip in this used car retail stock

CNBC: Investing

In this case, I'm using a couple of key technical indicators to spot whether CVNA is setting up for a bounce: RSI (relative strength index): RSI is a flexible indicator that helps identify both trend reversals and continuations. While the standard MACD can lag a bit, I often use a short-term version to catch momentum shifts sooner.

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A bearish options trade on Apple as the tech giant struggles

CNBC: Investing

Options trade To capitalize on AAPL's potential downside, I'm buying a July 18 $195/$180 put vertical @ $3.99 This has been compounded by missed opportunities with Apple Intelligence, slowing iPhone sales, and limited developer support for VisionPro. This entails: Buying the July 18 $195 put @ $5.70 DISCLOSURES: None.

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