Month: June 2022
The ‘dividend aristocrats’ are beating the market this year. Here’s how investors can take advantage
Struggling retailer Target announced a dividend hike Thursday, keeping its stock in an exclusive club that has proven to be a smart bet for investors this year. This marks 51 consecutive years when Target has increased its cash dividend payout, at an average of 12.65% per year, according to data from S & P Global. […]
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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon’s advice to summer interns: ‘Be an entrepreneur’
David Solomon, CEO, Goldman Sachs, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galacia | CNBC Internships have started at Goldman Sachs’ offices in the U.S. this week, according to the global investment bank. Roughly 3,700 people won a coveted spot in the company’s internship program out of a record […]
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Alibaba shares drop 8% after Jack Ma’s Ant Group and regulator squash talk of revived IPO
Ant Group, founded by billionaire Jack Ma, scrapped its IPO in November 2020 after regulators flagged concerns with the company. Since then, the company has been ordered to rectify its business. Ant Group said that a revived IPO is not on the cards yet. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba shares dropped 8% […]
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This SPAC is merging with an already-public company as sponsors get creative before time runs out
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, June 8, 2022. Source: NYSE SPACs are known to be a roundabout investment vehicle to take private companies public. Not this one. Bull Horn Holdings is merging with biotech Coeptis Therapeutics, a public company traded over the counter. The SPAC sponsors told CNBC they went for a public company partly […]
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Tom Cruise vs. dinosaurs: The summer box office heats up with the debut of ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’
Tom Cruise attends the UK premiere and Royal Film Performance of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ in Leicester Square on May 19, 2022 in London, England (L) and still of Jurassic World: Dominon (R) Getty Images | Universal Studios Dinosaurs are destined to steal the box office crown from Tom Cruise this weekend, but it’s not clear […]
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Why remaining private is a competitive advantage for PE firm Bain Capital with $160 billion
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Bain Capital, with $160 billion in assets, is one of the largest private, private equity firms. Despite many of its peers going public, like TPG earlier this year, Bain has no immediate plans to join them. John Connaughton is Bain Capital’s global head of Private Equity and co-managing […]
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Disney fires TV content chief Peter Rice in abrupt shakeup
Peter Rice, then-chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Networks Group Inc., speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, May 3, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney has abruptly fired Peter Rice, its most senior television content executive, multiple sources told CNBC Thursday. Rice didn’t know the […]
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The recession will hit in the first half of 2023 and the Dow is headed lower: CNBC CFO survey
Many economic prognosticators and Wall Street stock pickers have made it clear where they stand on inflation and the Federal Reserve policy response: the economy and markets will get worse before they get better. Many chief financial officers at top companies agree with them, according to the results from the latest CNBC CFO Council survey. Over […]
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Signs point to biotech M&A heating up, Wells Fargo says. Here’s where to look
The pace of biotech deals is likely to pick up, but investors should think about smaller targets, said Wells Fargo analyst Mohit Bansal. Bansal called out both enticing valuations for small- and mid-cap biotech companies, which are now trading at an enterprise value of about one times cash, on average, and a tough regulatory environment […]
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Suze Orman: This is ‘the No. 1 investment’ to make right now, ‘no matter what’
Inflation is at historic highs, well above anything the U.S. has seen since the early 1980s. On Friday, June 10, investors and economists will be watching closely when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its latest consumer price index report, which measures the average change over time in prices paid by consumers for common goods […]
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