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Educate Fails Investors Educate is going back to being a private company. Or is it? Investing in the stock right now is really taking a gamble. And, given the current difficulties with the business, you'd be paying a premium for those troubles. |
The Motley Fool
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Extra Credit Investing Your investing face-book for the for-profit educating class of '06: You've met the chicken. Now meet the egg... Brains or bucks?... Educate... etc. |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2007
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Apollo Investment: A New Premier BDC? The quickly growing business development company has delivered some outstanding results in its short public history. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
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Should You Stop Buying New Stocks? Private equity IPOs have done badly. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2011
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Very Private Investment Company Files for IPO The Carlyle Group files documents with the SEC to go public. |
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February 12, 2003 |
Hard Days and Sleepless Nights for Private Equity Firms Today's business environment is similar in ways to the early 1990s when private equity firms rose up to restructure mountains of bad debt and went on to cash out in the ensuing bull market. But while opportunities exist, it is harder to make deals work than it was a decade ago. |
The Motley Fool
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General Motors IPO: How Much Cash for This Clunker? Too little cash, too many shares, and too soon sold means this IPO will fail. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 2, 2004
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JV Picks Up European Retail Portfolio For Nearly $1 Billion The acquisition of this 7 million sq. ft. shopping center portfolio concludes at a critical time for Poland as it joins the European Union. |
BusinessWeek
July 21, 2003
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Europe's IPO Trickle Could Become a Flood After a lull, European investors are ready to take risks again |
The Motley Fool
February 23, 2004
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Sylvan's Financial Maze Sylvan Learning Systems (Nasdaq: SLVN) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2003 earnings on Thursday -- and the company could hardly have made its report more confusing if it had tried. |
The Motley Fool
February 22, 2011
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Goldman, Facebook, and the Opportunity You're Overlooking These three are tied together, but only one will make you money and that one is Energy Solutions. |
The Motley Fool
March 21, 2007
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Claire's New Look: Private Equity Despite rumors to the contrary, Claire's has sold itself for a plum $3.1 billion. Despite the activity, smart investors would have been smart to stay on the sidelines in this deal. |
Entrepreneur
October 2002
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Public Opinion Becoming synonymous with inflated valuations and dotcom disasters hasn't done much for IPOs' reputation. How long before we can start to talk about going public again without snickering? |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2004
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Apollo Deserves Laurels Apollo Group's earnings wow the critics once again. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2011
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2 Hot IPOs You Don't Want to Chase You're better off not owning shares of these IPOs: LinkedIn... Glencore... |
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July 2008
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Bouncing Back When IPO plans flop, companies in need of capital find new ways to make financing work. |
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March 2007
Marla Brill |
Ground Floor Heats Up Private equity and IPOs are staging a huge comeback. But should financial advisors jump in? |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2006 |
When Debt Is Good Mortgage good, credit card debt bad. Investors, it's similar with companies. If a sizable chunk of income won't be eaten up by debt payment obligations, that means more flexibility and more opportunity. Still, you needn't balk at the first sight of debt. Just evaluate it carefully. |
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The Road to Wall Street So what do you do if you're sitting on top of a company that's doing very nicely, but needs capital to keep growing? You don't give up. Market conditions have actually begun to stabilize a little, and 2002 could end up being a better year for IPOs in general than last year... |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2004
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Sun God Gets Burned For-profit educator Apollo Group fails to out-outperform. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2004
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It's "Show Me" Time at Apollo Superstar educator Apollo is underperforming the S&P 500 -- does that make it cheap? |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2004 |
Some Debt Is OK Pay attention to the interest rates you're paying on your debt. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2004 |
Balance Sheet Basics Understanding the balance sheet can help you understand your investments. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2006
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Educate Gets Held Back Weak same-store growth chills the outlook for this tutoring and supplemental education specialist. Risk-averse investors shouldn't be in a big hurry to pile into this one. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2005
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Let's Talk About Debt, Baby Individual investors seem to fear companies with debt. There's a reason they call it "leverage," though. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2004 |
When Debt Is Good vs. Bad Debt on a company's balance sheet can have two sides. Companies that can grow without using debt or issuing extra stock are in a more powerful position than others. Still, you needn't balk at the first sight of debt. Just evaluate it carefully. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2005 |
When Debt Is OK Is debt good or bad? The answer is that not all debt is alike -- and not all debt is bad. Along the same lines, as investors we shouldn't assume that any debt on a company's balance sheet is a bad thing. |
