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Earnings highlights: Aetna, Allergan, E*Trade, Goodyear, RadioShack, SAP, Visa ...

Posted Oct 31st 2009 4:10PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Allergan (AGN), Aetna Inc (AET), TD AmeriTrade Holding (AMTD), RadioShack Corp (RSH), Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT), E*TRADE (ETFC), Visa Inc. (V)

Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:

Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) reported better-than-expected Q3 earnings and revenue, sending shares higher.
Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) reported better-than-expected Q3 numbers, sending shares higher.
Bare Escentuals Inc. (NASDAQ: BARE) Q3 profit easily topped analysts' estimates, and shares surged.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. (NYSE: COG) received an upgrade following the release of its Q3 numbers.
Estee Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) reported strong Q1 results, sending shares higher.
E*Trade Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC) reported a smaller-than-expected net loss for Q3.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: GT) Q3 earnings topped estimates and revenue was up sequentially.

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T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners in Twitter deal

Posted Sep 25th 2009 12:30PM by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Private equity

Twitter is on the brink of nabbing another $100 million in financing, according to the New York Times. This would value the company at $1 billion, bringing back memories of outrageous valuations without corresponding revenue.

Insight Venture Partners and T. Rowe Price are said to be involved in the transaction, which would put them with Spark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners as investors in the popular microblogging site.

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An interesting situation brewing in Laureate Education

Posted Mar 3rd 2007 3:10PM by Kevin Kelly (RSS feed)
Filed under: SEC filings, Deals, From the boards

Laureate Education Inc. (NASDAQ:LAUR) is an education company focused on the full-time/working-adult demographic. It operates campus-based and online-based universities offering both undergraduate and degree programs. The company's network includes institutions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Due to the company's focus on the international markets, which offer faster growth potential than the domestic market, the company has grown very substantially over the last several years. From 2001 to 2005, Laureate increased sales from $485 million to $875 million, and increased profits to $160 million from from $56 million.

In the end of January, the company announced that an "investor group" would purchase Laureate for $60.50 per share. This group is led by the company's chairman and CEO, Douglas Becker. With the stock trading at $60.30, the opportunity certainly doesn't look tremendous. That is, until you read the recent 13D filings on the stock!

Within the last two weeks, two interesting 13D filings have hit the SEC filing page for Laureate. The first filing was released by Select Equity and the second filing was released by T. Rowe Price. Both of these large holders of Laureate's stock are against the management-led buyout because they believe the $60.50 per share being offered to shareholders isn't adequate.

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Earnings highlights: Aetna, Allergan, E*Trade, Goodyear, RadioShack, SAP, Visa ...

T. Rowe Price, Insight Venture Partners in Twitter deal