Ben Holmes
Ben Holmes
Ben Holmeswas an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 56 films and wrote for 35...
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This is a healthy looking market. It's not just energy deals that are working but some tech deals also. There certainly is a better tone in the stock market than a month ago.
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Anybody with a shopping cart, ball of twine and pen and paper could do an IPO in this market, ... Pulling your IPO due to market conditions is a pretty poor excuse - this market is as good as it gets.
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Kraft is recession proof. When the market turned down, food became very popular.
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It pays to take oil and gas out of the ground these days. Any oil and gas deal is going to have some pop.
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Align is more of a speculative play, it's a young business and they are nowhere near profitability. But they have a unique product in a large marketplace.
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Is it pricey? Probably. But it may be a small price to pay if they keep growing at their present rate or even faster.
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It's important to note both of those companies are in consumer products -- burritos and sandals. It's not technology -- not routers, or network hardware, or a cellular company that no one had access to early on.
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It looks like there's some market for these retail. I think the deal works really.
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It's what is giving the deal its stability.
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Willis is a big insurance brokerage and very profitable,
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We're really just looking at the lower end of the quality spectrum. For the most part the (deals are) like the little bits of popcorn left at the bottom of the pan - the half-kernels that didn't pop.
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Two deals don't make a trend. We have to step back and wait a couple of days.
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We were on the fence until we saw the pricing and that's what attracted us. It's a reasonable discount.
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While every other bank on the street was setting record numbers in their investment banking fees, their M&A (merger and acquisition) activity and their brokerage activity, these guys were losing money.