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Amazon Is Buying iRobot. How Does It Rank Against The E-commerce Giant's Other Big Acquisitions?

Benzinga

Amazon announced that it will pay iRobot stockholders $61 per share in an all-cash transaction that includes iRobot's net debt, representing a 22% premium over the company's Thursday closing price. billion as the largest e-commerce corporation in the world expands its selection of personal and home electronics items.

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

Valutico

Recent M&A deals KHC has been making headlines with strategic moves like acquiring Cerebos Pacific in 2018 and selling off assets such as its Indian nutritional beverage and Canadian natural cheese businesses in 2019. Despite a flat operating performance in 2021, the company successfully reduced its net debt to $22 billion.

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Breaking Ties: Kraft Heinz Closes Business Operations in Russia

Valutico

Recent M&A deals KHC has been making headlines with strategic moves like acquiring Cerebos Pacific in 2018 and selling off assets such as its Indian nutritional beverage and Canadian natural cheese businesses in 2019. Despite a flat operating performance in 2021, the company successfully reduced its net debt to $22 billion.

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

Valutico

Compared with last year’s net income of GBP 10.3 (USD billion in net debt, reducing total debt to GBP 17.5 (USD In early 2018 the company traded at GBP 4.7 (USD billion, profit increased by an unbelievable 120%. Due to these high earnings, the company was able to pay back GBP 7.5 (USD billion worth of shares.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

On the alternative energy front, as money has flowed into these companies, there has been a surge in enterprise value (equity and net debt) and market capitalization (equity value); I report both because impact investing can also take the form of green bonds, or debt, at these companies.

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AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost!

Musings on Markets

The second is that much as I would like to claim credit for foresight and forward thinking, AI was not even a speck in my imagination when I bought these stocks (Microsoft in 2014 and NVIDIA in 2018). I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, a reminder again that being lucky often beats being smart, at least in markets.