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David Einhorn CNBC Interview
David Einhorn David Einhorn was on CNBC this morning talking about a variety of topics. Einhorn is rarely on TV but according to a recent shareholder letter, has been making the rounds to promote his...
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McGraw-Hill – It Provides A Lot of Information, So Let The Pictures Do The...
McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP) looks like a good addition for the dividend growth investor. The market has historically applied a premium valuation to this company. Its historically above-average earnings...
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Apollo, Bain Capital, & Cengage May Buy McGraw-Hill Education Unit
Private Equity firms Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE:APO), Bain Capital Partners LLC, and Cengage Learning Inc. are expected to submit their final proposals to buy the education unit of The...
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Apax & Apollo Emerge As Top Bidders For McGraw Hill Education
Among the private equity firms interested in acquiring the education unit of The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE:MHP), Apax Partners and Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO) came out as the top...
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McGraw-Hill’s Education Unit Sold to Apollo for $2.5 Billion
Today, a statement from The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE:MHP) has announced that Apollo Global Management LLC (NYSE:APO) will purchase its education unit. The purchase price is $2.5 billion, and...
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DOJ Charges Standard & Poor’s: What About Moody’s?
DOJ lawsuits don’t come bigger than today’s. The Department of Justice sued The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE:MHP) subsidiary Standard & Poor’s for inflating the value of mortgage bonds...
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Moody’s Gets Upgrade Following Standard & Poor’s DOJ Suit
Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) has received a ‘strong buy’ rating and a $55 price target from analysts at Raymond James. The move comes after the 18.5% pullback in stock price ($2.3 billion market cap...
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McGraw-Hill: Quantitative Valuation Analysis
Before analyzing a company for investment, it’s important to have a perspective on how well the business has performed. Because at the end of the day, if you are an investor, you are buying the...
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Moody’s and S&P Soar After Settling Mortgage Lawsuit
Two leading U.S. rating agencies settled their lawsuits sending their shares significantly higher in morning trading. Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) shares were up 10.5 percent while Mcgraw-Hill...
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John Burbank’s Passport Global +6% In Q1, Adds Yen Short
John Burbank’s Passport Global Fund netted a +5.9 percent return in the first quarter. As of March 31, the total fund assets were $1.2 billion while the firm wide assets amounted to $3.7 billion. John...
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Passport Capital Buys McGraw-Hill, Yelp; Sells Hollyfrontier, eBay
John H. Burbank, founder of Passport Capital, continues to have confidence in Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE:CYT) by having over 10 percent of its portfolio in the specialty chemicals, while trimming its...
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McGraw Hill Eyes 75% Stake In CRISIL Through Open Offer
McGraw Hill Financial Inc (NYSE:MHFI), that owns Standard & Poor’s rating agency plans to hike its stake in CRISIL Ltd. (NSE:CRISIL) to 75 percent through an open offer. McGraw Hill Financial...
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The Fed Is A Club of Millionaires
Not surprisingly, one of the most important groups of decision makers in the world is made up of people who are made up of money. It shouldn’t be a shock; if the governors that comprise this group...
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S&P Accuses Government Of Retaliation, Asks For Documents
Standard & Poor claims that the government prosecuted the company for fraud in retaliation for downgrading US government debt in a recent legal filing, reports Edvard Pettersson at Bloomberg...
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Burbank’s Passport Capital Buys Gaming & Leisure; Sells Baidu
The latest 13F filing by Passport Capital, LLC reveals an aggregate portfolio worth $2.93 billion as of December 31, 2013. This is down from the end-September value of $3.09 billion. Passport Capital...
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Michael Price Buys Demand Media, Sells T-Mobile, McGraw Hill
Michael Price has just released his latest 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. His firm MFP Investors bought shares of Liberty Interactive (NASDAQ:LINTA) and Demand Media Inc...
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Martin Lipton Dislikes Carl Icahn, Dan Loeb, Bill Ackman
Renowned corporate lawyer Martin Lipton shares the lists of activist investors he likes (Nelson Peltz) and doesn't like (Carl Icahn)Martin Lipton is perhaps best known for inventing the shareholders’...
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Markel Buys CVS Caremark, Cisco Systems, Exits IBM, Amazon
Thomas Gayner and Markel Asset Management submitted their first quarter 13F with few surprises on Thursday. The fund added to 27 positions of the 105 equities they are now holding while taking...
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David Einhorn CNBC Interview
David Einhorn David Einhorn was on CNBC this morning talking about a variety of topics. Einhorn is rarely on TV but according to a recent shareholder letter, has been making the rounds to promote his...
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McGraw-Hill – It Provides A Lot of Information, So Let The Pictures Do The...
McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP) looks like a good addition for the dividend growth investor. The market has historically applied a premium valuation to this company. Its historically above-average earnings...
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