Yahoo said Monday it will buy 40
million of its shares owned by activist hedge fund trader Daniel Loeb's Third Point for $ 29.11 a share, Friday's closing price, and that he and two other Yahoo directors nominated by Third Point have resigned.
Not exact matches
Those include, prominently, himself: Dorsey
owns more than 21
million shares of Twitter, making him one
of the biggest individual shareholders.
As
of early October, he
owned 130
million shares, or 24 %
of the company.
• Best Inc., an Alibaba -
owned Chinese supply chain network, filed for an IPO
of up to $ 750
million worth
of American Depository
Shares.
But Glencore, under London Stock Exchange reporting obligations, said it would only contribute 300
million euros in equity (taking a tiny equity interest
of 0.54 %, and even that only «indirectly»), while the rest
of the money was provided by «QIA and by non-recourse bank financing,» the latter being a loan that effectively insulates Glencore against most
of the risks
of owning Rosneft
shares.
Over the same period
of time it has paid out $ 40
million in dividends, and has spent $ 31
million repurchasing its
own shares, including $ 16.5
million in the currently ongoing Normal Course Issuer Bid announced June 17, 2011; and,
While Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle
of the «Oracle
of Omaha,» revealed that it purchased 2.3
million shares of Charter Communications in its latest quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, several big - time hedge fund managers also offered a quarterly look into their
own portfolios.
Oil and gas company Zeta Petroleum has launched a proposal to acquire full ownership
of Sydney - based Pan Pacific Petroleum by buying all the
shares it doesn't already
own in the company, in a deal worth $ 29.4
million.
Under that pressure Hyundai announced last week a plan to cancel $ 890
million worth
of its
own «treasury»
shares, its first stock cancellation in 14 years.
The unit said in a 13G filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it
owned nearly 2.87
million shares of Overstock.com as
of Nov. 30.
The resulted in a $ 680
million hit to Buffett's Berkshire, which
owns nearly 79.5
million shares of IBM, a stake now worth just over $ 11 billion.
In fact, he
owned just about $ 98
million worth
of Allergan
shares as
of September, compared with nearly $ 800
million at the end
of June.
Berkshire
owned about 26.53
million Kinder Morgan
shares worth roughly $ 395.9
million at year end, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing detailing $ 127.4 billion
of U.S. - listed stock investments by Berkshire.
Danone
shares rose more than 6 percent on a Bloomberg report that Corvex now
owns a stake
of about $ 400
million.
By yearend, Berkshire
owned 359
million shares of Wells worth $ 11.1 billion, against a cost
of $ 8 billion.
According to CNBC, Buffet lost roughly $ 700
million from the stock drop with Berkshire Hathaway
owning about 79.57
million shares of IBM.
Tencent now
owns more than 8
million shares in Tesla as
of March 24, the carmaker said, making the Chinese company one
of its biggest shareholders.
His company Accel Partners
owns 201.4
million shares (a 9.5 % stake)
of Facebook.
The biggest loser from the dividend cut would be Belgium, which
owned 10.3 %
share of the bank as
of Dec. 31 and received about $ 261
million in dividend payments for 2013.
In 2000, AEA Investors bought 80 percent
of the company, paying Quimby $ 141.6
million, making Shavitz's
share, had he still
owned it, worth about $ 59
million, according to the Times.
Stringer, who is leading the effort to vote down Mylan's current board, oversees New York City pensions that together
own more than 1.1
million shares of Mylan stock.
Berkshire (brk - a)
owns 506.3
million shares of Wells Fargo (wfc), worth about $ 24.7 billion, mainly through subsidiaries, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As
of last year, he
owned 35
million shares of Twitter and his company
owned 3.5 percent
of Lyft, according to Recode.
One interesting fact: to avoid a giant tax headache, Zuckerberg will sell about 30
million of his
own shares (about $ 750
million) on the first day
of trading.
Icahn Enterprises, which
owned about 1.4
million Netflix
shares at the end
of 2015's first quarter, made the move after Netflix (NFLX) announced approval
of a 7 - for - 1 stock split, according to CNBC.
According to the company's prospectus, Pincus will
own 112
million shares, or nearly 20 percent
of the company's overall value, which is around $ 10 billion, which will make him worth about $ 2 billion.
Herbalife also announced a self - tender offer to buy as much as $ 600
million of its
own shares that comes with a contingent cash payment if Herbalife is acquired in a private transaction within two years.
Their 16
million shares is a small fraction
of the number
of Snap
shares the co-founders
own.
Spielberg, whose production company Amblin Partners started under DreamWorks, will pocket $ 187.6
million from the 4.6
million shares of the company he
owns.
According to insider trading records, Tabatznik on Jan. 23 sold 412,000
shares he indirectly
owned through Copper Lake Investments Inc. at roughly $ 4.16 each or a total
of $ 1.714
million.
Skoll
owns more than 40
million eBay
shares, which hit an eight - year high
of $ 50 in mid-October on the strength
of the company's gambit to expand from web auctions to broader online retail.
Trian
owns 12
million Pepsi
shares and 40
million shares of Mondelez.
Schmidt is even trying to get rid
of some
of his stock by setting up a plan to sell approximately $ 335
million of shares he already
owns.
3M paid $ 810
million in cash dividends to shareholders and repurchased $ 937
million of its
own shares during the quarter.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway now
owns about 17.7 percent
of DaVita HealthCare after buying another 1.1
million shares.
Yahoo says it is buying back 40
million shares of stock
owned by Daniel Loeb's Third Point for $ 29.11 a
share.
Third Point, which settled a bitter proxy battle with Yahoo last year after months
of criticism
of the company, will still
own about 20
million shares, less than 2 percent
of the Internet media company's common stock.
He can see a scenario where CI buys back its
own shares, but to do that it will have to use up its short - term investment balance
of $ 95
million and its undrawn credit facility
of $ 250.
Among the others who could be out big bucks are the funds
of John Paulson, who made billions betting against the housing market, and activist investor Jeff Ubben, whose ValueAct fund had been selling
shares of Valeant this year but still
owned nearly 15
million shares of the company as
of the middle
of 2015.
Icahn, who
owns more than 42
million shares of the insurance giant's stock, had sent a public letter to the company's CEO, Peter Hancock, in late October saying the company continued «to severely underperform» and was «too big to succeed.»
As
of early Monday, Toscani's initial tweet had garnered nearly 173,000 retweets and more than half a
million likes, with workers
sharing their
own stories and even presumably lunch - theft - immune celebrities weighing in on the drama.
On October 28, 2015, as one
of AIG's largest shareholders (we currently
own over 42
million shares), we wrote a public letter to the CEO
of AIG suggesting that the company is «Too Big To Succeed» and should accelerate cost cutting and separate into three public companies to shrink below the threshold for systemically important financial institutions.
Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7
million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence
of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which
owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control
of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as
of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor -
owned
More than 40 billion photos and videos are
shared each day by more than 700
million users
of Instagram, which is
owned by Facebook.
For example, as
of June 2016, Sonic Corp., which
owns the Sonic Drive - In chain, has 48.55
million shares outstanding and a
share price
of $ 28.16.
To align directors» interests with those
of our stockholders, each director is required to
own shares of Alphabet stock equal in value to at least $ 1
million.
The following may be true
of a potential takeover: • the company has fewer than 50
million shares outstanding; • management is dominated by persons near retirement age; • management's record on innovations and improving returns has been poor; • the company
owns assets whose market values are potentially higher than those shown on the balance sheet; • outside investors have been steadily buying the stock.
His conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway
owned 79.57
million shares of IBM as
of March 31, according to the most recently available filings, making it one
of his largest investments.
He
owns 2.24
million shares of Goldman Sachs valued at $ 472
million based on Thursday's closing price.
Solyndra raised more than $ 700
million by selling preferred
shares to venture capitalists, including Argonaut Ventures LLC
of San Francisco, which
owns about 39 percent
of the company.