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...Since then, as well as agreeing to buy Presidio, it has made a series of large investments including buying snack company Shearer’s Foods. CD&R and BC Partners declined to comment....
...To be evaluated, companies must submit their products’ complete R&D documentation and code....
...Smaller rival H&R Block trades on a multiple of only 12 times. But this premium has more to do with bog-standard accounting than cutting-edge tech....
...Over the past 10 years the size of its buyback scheme dwarfs both its R&D spend and the buyback schemes from peers, adding up to a total of $658bn, according to data from S&P Global....
...CD&R bought MFG for £500mn nearly a decade ago....
...In the last fiscal year, R&D costs were equal to 7.8 per cent of revenue, up from 3.3 per cent in 2014. But it has not been willing to fund a new supply chain for mass car production....
...Indeed, Huffman pays tribute to r/wallstreetbets in the prospectus (emphasis added): Time and again, Reddit communities have provided exactly that context and been a tremendous force for good: they have...
...Spending on R&D reached nearly 8 per cent of revenue last year, up from just over 2 per cent a decade ago....
...In Reddit’s r/stocks forum, the social media network’s own users take a dim view of the company’s upcoming initial public offering. “RIP Reddit, it all goes downhill from here”, is the general view....
...In a line that seemed destined to make its way on to the r/wallstreetbets message boards on Reddit, Stein further called the claims “cogent and at least as compelling as the inference that defendants were...
...These rose 8 per cent in the last quarter and account for more than a quarter of the total. Apple is now a mature hardware business....
...CD&R declined to comment....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 26. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Becker cited RSM’s own history as a reason for not wanting to follow suit. For 12 years until 2011, the firm — then known as RSM McGladrey — was part of the publicly listed tax preparer H&R Block....
...They spend a lot of money on R&D. They are among the largest patent holders. There’s very little evidence of collusion. They seem to be competing with each other quite strongly....
...“We have confidence in the Tesla team’s ability to spend capex and R&D efficiently in projects that can derive high-growth/positive economic returns,” said Morgan Stanley’s Jonas. “However . . ....
...After a tightening shock of 100 basis points, research and development (R&D) spending declines by about 1 to 3 percent and venture capital (VC) investment declines by about 25 percent in the following 1...
...That was equal to more than a fifth of advertising revenue and was more than the company paid for R&D....
...After getting into the chip production business, the company is now moving upstream, building a massive semiconductor equipment R&D centre in western Shanghai, Nikkei Asia’s Cheng Ting-Fang writes....
...Back in the 2010s, canny marketing gave a leg-up to brands selling “direct to consumer” via the internet....
.../ From E R Yescombe, YCL Consulting, London N10, UK...
...R&D spend has doubled since 2020, reaching $3bn in 2022. It has dipped as a percentage of revenue since Tesla started keeping a closer eye on spending....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 2. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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