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Data Update 2 for 2022: US Stocks kept winning in 2021, but…

Musings on Markets

Leading into 2021, the big questions facing investors were about how quickly economies would recover from COVID, with the assumption that the virus would fade during the year, and the pressures that the resulting growth would put on inflation.

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5 Factors Impacting Activists’ Declining Success Rate

Harvard Corporate Governance

In the 2021 and 2022 proxy seasons, shareholder activists taking proxy contests all the way to a vote have won at least one board seat far less often than during the previous four years. companies with market capitalizations of at least $100 million and where ISS and Glass Lewis published voting recommendations. Strine, Jr.

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Poshmark Buyout Offer Falls Well Below IPO Price: Analysts Call It Fair — Is It?

Benzinga

After all, Poshmark — an Instagram-like site specializing in apparel resale — went public in 2021 at $42 a share. That's a humongous discount from the company's peak market capitalization of $7.3 billion when it went public in January 2021. (NASDAQ: POSH ) at $17.90 On Thursday, it closed at $17.80.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

I spent the first week of 2021 in the same way that I have spent the first week of every year since 1995, collecting data on publicly traded companies and analyzing how they navigated the cross currents of the prior year, both in operating and market value terms.

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Gibson Dunn Offers Activism Update for 2022

Reynolds Holding

This update discusses shareholder activism activity involving NYSE- and Nasdaq- listed companies with equity market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion and below $100 billion (as of the last date of trading in 2022) during 2022. Announced shareholder activist activity increased relative to 2021.

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M&A Industry Trends: What sectors have the best-selling businesses?

Viking Mergers

Nearly every industry had record activity in 2021, though. Even with 2021’s widespread increase in activity across industries, the technology sector continued to dominate, setting records for volume and value. The second-largest sector by value and by volume in 2021 M&A activity was industrials and chemicals. Technology.

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.