Bankrate Re-IPO, Price Looks Mostly Fair (RATE)
Bankrate, Inc. (NYSE: RATE) is public again. The company priced its 20 million share IPO at $15.00 per share. This was right in the middle of the expected price range of $14 to $16…
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Newest first · Page 177Ackman & Pershing Square, More Formidable With More Capital (TGT, JCP, FDO, BBY, FO, C)
Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square could soon become a much more formidable activist when it comes to dealing with companies. Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) might have not been one of Ackman’s greatest success…
Some Caveats in Considering Blackboard as a Buyout Target (BBBB)
Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) finds itself as the latest rumored acquisition candidate for private equity. The company is worth about twice as much as when it came public in 2004 and its education-theme in…
Certain Stanford Investors Get Some SEC Support
It looks like at least some of the investors who were screwed by Stanford may get to recover some assets. This is not meant to be a catch-all recovery nor for all investors, at…
S&P Just Now Downgrades NBG & Greek Banks, From The Land of Duh (NBG)
If you want to know what happens to the credit ratings of large banks in lands of the PIIGS when the underlying country ratings have been cut over and over, you should know that…
Lessons of Claiming a ‘Merger of Equals’ (TRH, AWH, BRK-A)
Transatlantic Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TRH) and Allied World Assurance Company Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: AWH) are getting to see the gains and pains of what exactly a “merger of equals” translates to. These two companies…
CIGNA Talks Guidance, No Word on Merger (CI, AET)
It was just last week that CIGNA Corporation (NYSE: CI) was noted in an analyst research note as being a good fit for the likes of AETNA Inc. (NYSE: AET). After all, consolidation in…
Wendy’s Sale of Arby’s, A Move Back to Basics & Back to Growth (WEN, MCD, YUM)
Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN) is soon to just be Wendy’s again, sort of. The company has been exploring alternatives to try to unlock the value of the two unsuccessfully merged Wendy’s and Arby’s…
A Regional Bank Demutualization, An IPO for North Carolina Banking
If you are reading this, chances are extremely high that you have seen the ticker tape bleeding red week after week here in the U.S. equity markets. So what would you say if we…
Avaya Formally Files For $1 Billion IPO, The re-IPO Trend Continues (ALU)
Avaya Inc. is going to soon be public again. After being taken private during the private equity peak it has now filed for its initial public offering. No terms were disclosed but the offering…
Dividend Alternatives From High Yield Funds (HYG, JNK, PHIGX, USHYX, DVHYX, HIO, DHF, HYT)
We have been screening our universe of the high-yield dividends for investors now that investors are growing more concerned each day and each week. Now we are looking at junk bond fund alternatives for…
Bubble Exit: Insiders Keep Dumping Molycorp Shares (MCP)
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) still appears to be on the backside of a bubble in rare earth elements and rare earth oxides. The company has already seen insider selling after an exponential rise in…
Online Finance Consolidation Continues, Maybe (ING, GE, COF, ETFC, SCHW, AMTD, C, BCS, RF)
ING Groep NV (NYSE: ING) is all over the news this morning after reports that its online U.S. bank assets may fetch as much as $9 billion. Bloomberg has reported that General Electric Co.…
M&A Watch: Does Major Insider Buying at Cost Plus Put It Back In Play? (CPWM, PIR)
Cost Plus Inc. (NASDAQ: CPWM) is one company which we might generally skip due to its size and volume. The insider buying of late has been too large to ignore. This is one of…
Driving More Value After the Credit Crisis… Regions Buys $1B In Credit Card Assets (RF, COF)
Regions Bank (NYSE: RF) had a very rough day as more and more pressure came out about banks in general and in banks that still have some past issues they are fighting through. There…