CNBC: Investing

JULY 11, 2025

The goal is to profit from volatility, regardless of whether or not the underlying stock moves up or down. John Marshall, head of derivatives research at Goldman, said in a note to clients Wednesday that his team thinks investors can find success by betting on outsized moves for stocks around the time that they report their latest earnings.

Stock

Sun Acquisitions

JULY 21, 2025

This involves a comprehensive evaluation of the target company, including: Financial Performance: Analyze financial statements, cash flow, and profitability trends. Due Diligence: The Foundation of Success Once potential targets are identified, rigorous due diligence is crucial.

M&A

Sun Acquisitions

JUNE 23, 2025

Thorough Due Diligence: Financial Due Diligence: Conduct a comprehensive financial analysis to assess the target company’s financial health, including its revenue, profitability, and debt levels. Control Costs: Implement cost-cutting measures to improve profitability.

M&A

Sun Acquisitions

JUNE 27, 2025

Assess the company’s financial performance, including revenue, profitability, and cash flow. Assess the company’s financial performance, including revenue, profitability, and cash flow. It helps to uncover potential risks and opportunities, allowing buyers to make informed decisions.

Valuation

Focus Investment Banking

MAY 29, 2025

Focus on Profitability and Growth : These two factors drive the highest valuations. Why Timing Matters: Tailwinds in U.S. Manufacturing ReNew is also betting on broader economic trends. “Longer-term, this will create huge tailwinds for bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.,” ” Ferrell said.

Manufacturing

Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 3, 2024

I think that’s kind of the challenge is, is to really have the shop management on board that safety train every day as, as people come in and to the, to the shop, new employees replacing other employees, you know, they’ve got to be indoctrinated into a culture of safety within the shop. That isn’t a culture of safety.

M&A

MergersCorp M&A International

JUNE 5, 2025

This translates into compressed profit margins, reduced earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA), and ultimately, a diminished free cash flow. Buyers will apply lower valuation multiples to businesses heavily exposed to tariffs, reflecting the heightened operational risk and reduced profitability.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

JUNE 17, 2025

hitting revenue or profit goals). Letters of Intent (LOIs) have evolved from brief outlines of deal terms to detailed blueprints, setting the stage for negotiations long before the purchase agreement is drafted. This shift reflects a drive for transparency and risk management, but it comes with a caveat: nuance is critical.

Negotiation

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 14, 2025

The Wall Street firm says these companies are resilient and that investors should quickly buy them. CNBC Pro combed through Goldman Sachs research to find five buy-rated stocks that it says have more upside. They include: Apple, MasTec, BJ's, Valvoline and Kontoor Brands. Goldman also raised its price target to $195 per share from $156.

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Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Increase profitability: M&A can help companies to increase profitability by giving them access to new economies of scale. Strategic M&A can be a powerful tool for companies to fill strategic gaps, acquire new technologies, gain access to talent, improve efficiency, and increase profitability.

M&A

Focus Investment Banking

MARCH 10, 2025

Shifting focus to profitable, reliable customers strengthens cash flowwhat buyers ultimately value. Set Fair Market Rent If you own the property, charge the business a market-rate rent to reflect true profitability. As you read this, consider two realities: 1. Your business is valued on its current performance, not its potential.

Investment

The TRADE

JULY 10, 2025

The move is motivated by strategic, cultural and financial perspectives and “delivering progress against multiple objectives,” according to Jupiter. Following close of the deal, the investment teams and client engagement model will be preserved, as will the CCLA brand, it has been confirmed.

Investment Manager

Lake Country Advisors

JUNE 24, 2025

Financial metrics give them a clear picture of your company’s stability, scalability, and profitability when you are selling your business. It’s not just about profit; they’re looking for patterns, trends, and financial discipline. The deal may stall or disappear altogether if the numbers don’t tell a compelling story.

Business

Sun Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Economies of Scale: Merging with another company can create economies of scale, allowing the combined entity to reduce costs and improve profitability. Acquisitions happen when a larger company takes over a smaller one, absorbing it into its operations. These can include new technologies, intellectual property, and a skilled workforce.

M&A

Sun Acquisitions

APRIL 29, 2025

Profitability: Has the deal improved the combined entity’s profitability? It is calculated by dividing the net profit from the investment by the initial investment. Pre-Deal Analysis Before embarking on an M&A transaction, it is essential to establish clear expectations and benchmarks for success.

M&A

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 28, 2025

"We expect this to translate to scaling profitability growth and free cash flow generation," Navon said. We expect this to translate to scaling profitability growth and free cash flow generation. We expect this to translate to scaling profitability growth and free cash flow generation."

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Lake Country Advisors

JULY 17, 2025

A growing trend in the acquisition space is what’s known as an add-on acquisition. This is when a larger company, often backed by private equity or already operating in a particular space, acquires a smaller, related business to support or expand its existing operations. It’s less about building anew, more about reinforcing what already works.

Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

JULY 8, 2025

This process allows us to present financial statements in the method nearly all buyers prefer, but more importantly, it allows us to capture the practice’s maximum EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), the key profitability metric used to value dental practices, physician practices, and behavioral health groups.

Healthcare

The TRADE

JULY 25, 2025

Ian Lowitt The acquisition is expected to support the growth of Marex’s UK cash equities business, as well as expanding its services to UK institutional clients through offering a broader range of products, in particular among the asset and wealth management sectors.

Securities

CNBC: Investing

MAY 9, 2025

Jeff Kilburg lays out a risk reversal on the aerospace giant.

Profitability

Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 8, 2025

Contributions: Yes, contribute to your investment accounts regularly out of your paychecks or profits, but build a 1-year cash reserve first (you could shorten this if its unrealistically high). Ive said before that nothing on this site is meant to be investment advice. If youre reading this right now, youre probably much younger than me.

Investment

CNBC: Investing

JULY 28, 2025

"Looking beyond FY28, we note 200-300bps of incremental operating margin expansion to fully bridge NKE's profitability back to historical pre-pandemic levels of 12-13% (vs. Over the long term, the analyst also sees ample room for Nike to recover its operating margins. our FY28 10.0% margin estimate)," he added.

Media

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 7, 2025

" Philip Morris "PM has been a top performer in the US market this year, led by execution, improving profitability in smoke-free, ZYN/IQOS volumes and continued contribution from combustibles to support SF [smoke free] growth. Its lack of exposure to China, tariff swings and its defensive nature is also attractive.

Stock

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 6, 2025

"Our research shows that call buying around analyst days has been a systematically profitable option buying strategy over the past 25 years. They effectively serve as a bet that the stock will rise above the strike price before expiration, allowing the option holder to buy the stock at a discount.

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CNBC: Investing

AUGUST 9, 2025

WWD remains unique in the aerospace supply chain given its large content gains on growth programs in the industry, on top of a core diversified component business, with [profit] margin expansion. Still, Fischer warned that investors will need to see sequential improvements in future quarters in order for the stock to work.

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MergersCorp M&A International

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

As one of the top leagues in the world, Serie A has a storied history and a dedicated fan base, making its clubs valuable assets not only in terms of their sporting prowess but also their potential for growth and profitability.

M&A

CNBC: Investing

JUNE 16, 2025

The firm downgraded CoreWeave to neutral from buy on Monday, but increased its price target to $185 per share from $76, which suggests shares could rise 26% from Friday's $147.19 CoreWeave's $1.5 billion initial public offering raise marked the largest tech offering on Wall Street since 2021.

IPO

CNBC: Investing

JULY 16, 2025

"At the same time, Broadcom continues to generate steady, growing profitability in its core infrastructure software business." EQT is also among the best positioned to capture structural demand growth opportunities in Appalachia," she wrote. Equitrans is EQT's former pipeline unit.

S&P

iMerge Advisors

APRIL 9, 2025

The most common metrics include: EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization): Often used for mature, profitable software businesses. EBITDA multiples for profitable software businesses typically fall between 5x and 10x. What is my software company worth?

Valuation

Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

AUGUST 1, 2025

Accessibility: Skip TopNav LPL Financial Closes Its Acquisition of Commonwealth Financial Network August 01, 2025 09:00 ET | Source: LPL Financial Holdings, Inc. LPL Financial Holdings, Inc. SAN DIEGO, Aug. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LPL Financial Holdings Inc. LPL remains on track to achieve its 90% retention target.

Acquisitions

Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Collision repair shops that specialize are more profitable than generalized shops and in most cases they are 50-100% more profitable.” “At “We can combine some of these three into a really compelling growth strategy,” Strandberg continued. What do I mean when I say specialized? It could be what comes to mind. It could be trucks.

Investment Banking

Focus Investment Banking

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Potential buyers or investors will want to review information about: Financial : Profit and loss statements, balance sheets, tax returns to assess financial health and growth potential. A stable or growing profit margin and strong cash flow are also attractive. What due diligence should I expect from potential buyers or investors?

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Growth Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Marketing gets expensive quickly, and the most common mistake I see is people investing in large teams and paid ads too early, said digital marketing expert, Will Francis. Thankfully, now there are more long-term, effective (and cost-effective) ways to grow even when youre not expending resource, specifically in content marketing.

Business

Sun Acquisitions

JULY 7, 2025

The result: An industry that prioritizes purpose alongside profit, setting benchmarks for others to follow. Accelerating Innovation for Societal Challenges At the heart of every successful M&A is the opportunity to combine strengths and create something more significant than the sum of its parts.

M&A

CNBC: Investing

JULY 16, 2025

Noting a rise in investment banking activity over the course of the quarter, the bank also hiked its forecast for full-year net interest income – a measure of profitability – to approximately $95.5 Analyst Mike Mayo, who has an overweight rating on the "best-in-class" bank, raised his price target to $325 from $320.

S&P

The TRADE

AUGUST 6, 2025

The not-for-profit network has experienced suffering membership levels thanks to an increasingly challenging landscape caused by unfavourable market conditions, namely in the US. It’s left us in a position where we’re in a much more challenged environment and less able to make a collective impact.

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