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After a flurry of IPOs that raised $11.7 billion this year, a new crop of blank-check firms are joining a long queue: all the other vehicles waiting for the chance to take a company public https://t.co/LpBCk25L1r
Domo is now a $184M market cap public company with price targets <1.0x revenue https://t.co/raThmSAagE
$PANW: a new $1B buyback. From the old plan they bought $1B in 5 days in Feb. #Conviction.
Bumble is printing cash. Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $71.6m vs $63m guidance. Guides for $78m adjusted EBITDA in Q1 2026. Just $413m net debt end of 2026. No cash taxes for the foreseeable future. Should do ~$200m FCF in 2026...
SCOOP: Billionaire Tilman Fertitta has been in exclusive talks to buy Caesars Entertainment for around $34/sh. https://t.co/Mz8usEYgRm
Staying on top of tax deadlines sucks. Cool new feature from Fondo making it easier for founders.
Bonds fall on growth fears and rise on recession fears - as a rule of thumb. But that’s under monetary dominance, not fiscal dominance. The new rulebook will look very much like February into the April tariff terror event where dollar and bonds...
Predict profit like a prophet. With the Prophit Engine from CTC. Clarity, accountability and capacity woven into a single human operator. Forecast more accurately Grow contribution margin more consistently All while saving money. Combining the explosion of AI with the...
At my company Full Focus, we were paying $33,000/month for fractional CFO and outsourced accounting. $396K annually. We restructured around AI—hired an AI architect and controller support for $15K/month. Saved $216,000 a year. And the financial analysis we’re getting now is...
Private credit is the subprime of this cycle. Fraud is accumulating across asset classes. Automated underwriting blessing whatever numbers it gets fed. Nobody cares until everyone cares at the same time.
Levering up to buy back stock is the playbook of IBM and old Oracle... not a company pioneering a new AI age CRM is borrowing to buy time, not growth
The magic number is 3. We asked 100 CFOs and VPs of Finance how many vendors they closely evaluate when buying software. 50% said exactly 3. Median: 3. Mean: 4.1. 53% evaluate 3 or fewer. This is a brutally small window. Think about what this...
What The Heck Happened At Easy Financial? This Ain't Looking Good The parent company Goeasy Ltd. revised earnings for the last 2 years downward, declared spectacular Loan Losses, suspended dividends & the stock price dropped over 50% It's fishy for sure...
The number one reason creative business owners give for not hiring a bookkeeper is "I'm not sure I can afford it." But the reason they don't know if they can afford it is usually because they don't know their numbers. The...
The AI poster child is issuing $25B in debt to buy back its own stock. Not to invest in AI. Not to acquire capabilities. To support the share price. That's the strategy. $CRM
FWIW - As the worst loans are made at the very peak of the credit cycle, credit cycles invariably burst on a LIFO basis. The worst always go first, and frequently through a high-storey window leaving no skid marks.
The surprisingly true story of launching Disney+ (as told by their finance team) 👇 Here are 5 lessons that stuck with me. 1. Even a beloved brand doesn't make the forecast easier 2. A good launch number can hide a...
The capital structure of $MSTR costs just under $1BN to fund every year. The assets of the company earn zero yield. The carry is paid by issuance.
Generally, this has been good value for UST 2s. Chart of yield less funding rate (SOFR) https://t.co/jPLWuxmxaW
Biotech Science at Less Than Zero | Ep. 955 https://t.co/4DXKsaKXdO [00:49] Biotech capital winter deep dive [01:17] Scientific leaps vs frozen markets [02:31] The 2020–2021 biotech bubble [03:42] Crossover funds fuel IPO surge [04:56] Interest rates freeze biotech funding [07:58] Negative enterprise value phenomenon [10:37] Why Big Pharma...
Deals deals and ..one long expected….Unifirst(UNF) and Cintas((CTAS) UNF holders getting combo of $155 cash per shr+0.7720 shr of CTAS
Oddly USTs under pressure ahead of what is expected to be a soft Feb CPI (0.2 core) print. Supply seems to be part of it. Yesterday's 11-deal IG issuance ($66B) was the biggest single session on record.
#NICL decent results. Cash (I think that's Net) £55.7m (up). Interesting Brand Licence with #APN (I hold APN). ShareScope has fwd p/e 13.6 falling to 12.9 and fwd Divvy 3.7% rising to 3.9%; strip out cash it's lowly rated. I...
JPMorgan is marking down the value of some software-related loans in private credit portfolios. This highlights how fungible private loan valuations have become at a time of little liquidity, and raises questions about which firms are doing a better job...
private credit. "liquid funds." continuation funds same dog shit, new wrapper. dog shit squared for once, let's tokenize quality, not re-engineer tradfi's worst mistakes on-chain and be the buyer of last resort
At @fiftyyears we gave fast loans and even connected our personal bank accounts to portfolio companies' payroll systems to ensure they could pay their employees.
Salesforce $CRM is reportedly planning to sell as much as $25 billion worth of debt in order to fund its share buyback plan - Bloomberg
Morningstar warning to BDCs: "We view selling assets at substantial discounts to fair value as a significant sign of stress, which would likely have negative credit rating implications."
Warren Buffett at the 2017 Berkshire Hathaway meeting, on repurchases and excess cash: "There’s no way I can come back here three years from now and tell you we hold $150 billion or more in cash, and we think we’re...
AI can do 80% of junior analyst work right now. And it's coming for mid-level next. Here's how to stay relevant. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Everyone says advisory is safe because it's about relationships and "professional touch." I...
“Many people, even when their company achieves success, will continue to leave their profits and initial capital in the company... Once things are rolling, you need to get your money back out of the company.” – 21 Stupid Things (2016)...
Our latest "Inside Alts" newsletter comprises a half-hour interview with Boaz Weinstein on private credit. https://t.co/EpwRZMKNzH https://t.co/ncDLXCEHm3
You might be surprised how many companies lie about ARR (or stretch the truth). But also how many CFOs and CEOs can’t explain how their ARR number turns into cash. It’s often a very leaky bucket. https://t.co/lV11H5wOXj
Pershing Square has filed for a $5 billion IPO of a closed-end fund, Pershing Square USA $PSUS. Additionally, Pershing Square Inc. will go public under the symbol $PS. Buyers of the closed-end fund IPO will also receive shares in the management company. Interesting...
Having IPO-ed only 6½ years and with a tiny free float, Saudi Aramco announces what effectively is a partial re-nationalisation with a share buyback of up to $3 billion over the next 18 months. That’s going to buy-back ~10% of...
SHOCKWAVE: Malaysian tech giant NexG just reported a RM130.88 Million net loss. The culprit? A disastrous gamble on volatile penny stocks that wiped out core business profits. This isn't just a loss, it's a corporate earthquake. #NexGCrisis #FinancialMismanagement #Stocks
"Durable ROIC is the economic signature of a high-quality business". Most investors chase growth. The best investors chase durable ROIC. 📈 Return on Invested Capital tells you how efficiently a company turns capital into profits—and the durable part is what separates great...
I am not sure if more SaaS companies should buy AI startups so they can catch up on tech Or… If more AI companies should buy cheap SaaS companies for the distribution and plug int their stuff
.@EchoStar's Ergen on $1 trillion+ @SpaceX IPO valuation: 'No amount is crazy here.' @HughesConnects subsidiary has $1.4B in debt due in Aug. EchoStar noncommital on paying it. @NSIL_India wants $117M in Hughes compensation for scrapping sat capacity deal. https://t.co/SLW1OgmkVx https://t.co/73JNfEGG6Z
Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt Frontier labs like OpenAI want the newest chips. But Nvidia is shipping a new generation annually while data centers still take years to get up and running. That's a mismatch for the...
"Golub Capital will act as sole administrative agent and joint lead arranger on the financing. Ares Credit funds and MidCap Financial will also act as joint lead arrangers on the financing." Should we be marking the private credit loans to Jiffy...
When Larry Ellison made the bid for Warner Discovery, his net worth was $350 billion. Today it's $200 billion. That's down $150 billion, more than the entire value of Warner. Keep that in mind as the Saudis retrench investments. https://t.co/DvJ2hRN8H1 https://t.co/Cv09NOzsS4
$DSX isn’t giving up on acquiring $GNK - New bid at $23.50/shr (~14% above the rejected offer) - Spread ~7% - DSX (owns 14.5%) brought in $SBLK as a deal partner - Might be interesting at these levels - But keep in mind management...
IS THE CREDIT BUBBLE HERE? Record Corporate Debt Explained | Trading Zone Ep. 94 https://t.co/saPNeSSafk
IS THE CREDIT BUBBLE HERE? Record Corporate Debt Explained | Trading Zone Ep. 94 https://t.co/22SJSkFetj
You don’t scale capital with hustle. You scale it with systems. Systems reduce friction at every step. Reduced friction lowers hesitation. Lower hesitation accelerates commitments. Over time, that compound effect is enormous. 🔗 Tribevest #structureisstrategy #capitalraising #raisingcapital #fundoffunds
BDC stocks down 24% from their July 2025 peak. Private credit defaults running 3-5%. PIK financing near post-pandemic highs. The $2 trillion private credit market is the next shoe to drop. Nobody's watching. https://t.co/sa91wkf10G
Feb. 4: "The IPO window is wide open, but it can slam shut quickly." https://t.co/ojxYOaYx7R
“Poorly operating businesses like to keep un-useable inventory in stock because they need the asset to justify their bank line of credit. If this describes your case... your business will have a hard time selling because... you’re likely insolvent.” –12...
Today, on the invitation of Minister Roland Lescure of France, which holds the G7 Presidency, I took part in a meeting of G7 Finance Ministers on the global economic situation and Middle East conflict. My statement on the meeting: https://t.co/NnpeYX73nn...
