Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) has been one of the better performers of the IPO Class of 2010. Its line of prepaid credit cards has grown significantly and the company had grown enough that…
Freescale Semiconductor Holdings I, Ltd. has just filed to come public in yet another large private equity re-IPO. The company filing is for up to $1.15 billion in common shares to be sold. While…
We have been calling for a premium IPO and a higher share count deal for Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) and its highly anticipated IPO. Technically this is a re-IPO and is the largest…
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is continuing to make good on its promise to cut debt and get its finances in better order. Despite having the best balance sheet by far of the Big…
Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) is supposed to price tonight. While many already expected the IPO to be hot, the talk is that hot became hotter. The last formal count was 80 million shares…
News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS) managed to do something rather impressive considering the state of the media in the aftermath of the recession. Rupert Murdoch and friends raised close to $2.5 billion today via long-term…
Exchanges are already too powerful. Now comes word that NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) is in advanced talks with Germany’s Deutsche Boerse. Shares were halted per the NYSE request. The good news for investors is…
Shares of Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) jumped more than $5/share just before closing yesterday on a report from Bloomberg that the company may sell itself to a buyout firm. If the report pans…
Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. (NYSE: AIB) has been in trouble from top to bottom from the financial crisis. Things have become dire enough that now the bank has listing issues. The bank noted today…
The jobs that might have been created in 2010 but were not are largely due to small businesses which could not afford to add the workers they needed to. According to a new Gallup…
Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) is soon to be public again. We have covered this on multiple occasions and listed it as one of our Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011. Unless things…
Standard & Poor’s is at it again, with late debt rating cuts. This is actually in the Irish banking sector rather than in the sovereign ratings. As this is too little too late, we…
A famous Bain & Co research report issued in 2004 said the 70% of mergers fail to create shareholder value. A Southern Methodist University study of 193 mergers which happened between 1990 and 1997…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told “60 Minutes” that he enjoys watching banks sweat as they await the release of documents about their internal conversations, plans and operations. Assange has threatened the action for several weeks. He…
BankUnited, Inc. (NYSE: BKU) is coming public again today, for the second time. The bank you used to know as “BKUNA” is now “BKU” and is far more healthy and more focused. The Florida-based…