Mergers & Acquisitions

3esi-Enersight acquires Palantir Solutions, combined company renamed Aucerna

3esi-Enersight acquires Palantir Solutions, combined company renamed Aucerna PR Newswire CALGARY, July 31, 2018 Market leaders join forces to accelerate the digital transformation of the energy industry CALGARY , July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the energy industry’s premier planning software provider, 3esi-Enersight, announced it has acquired Palantir Solutions, creators of Palantir PlanningSpace™. The acquisition combines the industry’s two leading software vendors, creating a single global company that will now focus its broadened expertise and development capabilities toward accelerating the digital transformation taking place in the front office of oil and gas companies. […]

Stock Analysts

Service Corporation (SCI) Beats on Q2 Earnings & Revenues

Service Corporation International SCI posted second-quarter 2018 results, wherein both top and bottom lines improved year over year and came ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate. In fact, this quarter marked Service Corporation’s seventh consecutive bottom-line beat and first sales beat in the last four quarters. Service Corporation’s robust earnings surprise history is reflected in its share price movement. […]

Stock Analysts

Amkor Technology (AMKR) Q2 Earnings Beat, Revenues Miss

Amkor Technology, Inc. AMKR reported second-quarter 2018 adjusted earnings of 14 cents per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 9 cents. However, revenues of $1.025 billion missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.030 billion but were within the company’s guided range of $990 million to $1.07 billion. […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

AMETEK Acquires Motec GmbH

AMETEK Acquires Motec GmbH — Leading Provider of Vision Systems for Mobile Machine Vison Market — PR Newswire BERWYN, Pa., July 31, 2018 BERWYN, Pa. , July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — AMETEK, Inc. (NYSE: AME) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Motec GmbH, a leading provider of integrated vision systems serving the high growth mobile machine vision market […]

Momentum Stocks

Bear of the Day: Camping World Holdings

Marcus Lemonis is the host of a popular business reality show on CNBC and his style and demeanor make him enormously likable to viewers and fans. On “The Profit”, he makes a financial investment in small companies that are struggling to grow but exhibit promise in the eyes of the successful entrepreneur. He generally assumes some temporary management responsibilities […]

Momentum Stocks

Bull of the Day: AT&T

Sometimes even the Bull of the Day can sound a little bit boring, but in the world of investing, sometimes “boring” is actually perfect. Though its iconic name invokes memories of the company founded by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880, AT&T Inc (T) is currently a thoroughly modern commercial giant and literally the world’s single largest telecommunications company. Born as the Bell Telephone Company, AT&T has been reinvented over and over again in a span of more than a century, emerging from the U.S […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

Next-generation 3D Solution Builder Mantis Vision Expands US Footprint With Alces Acquisition

Next-generation 3D Solution Builder Mantis Vision Expands US Footprint With Alces Acquisition – Acquisition of Utah, USA based sensor experts enhances Mantis’ portfolio – Mantis Vision to further expand business activities in the USA – Mantis Vision set up R&D Center in the USA PR Newswire PETACH TIKVA, Israel and PARK CITY, Utah, July 31, 2018 PETACH TIKVA, Israel and PARK CITY, Utah , July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Mantis Vision , a leading provider of advanced 3D mobile sensing and 3D volumetric content acquisition and sharing technology, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Alces Technology, Inc., a Park City, Utah , USA based depth sensing startup with patented high-resolution structured light depth capture technology. Founded and headquartered in Israel , Mantis Vision offers advanced 3D content capture and sharing technologies for a wide array of applications, including 3D cameras for smartphones, AR/VR devices, professional scanning cameras and live 3D volumetric studios. […]

Mergers & Acquisitions

Bridge Bank Provides Senior Debt Financing to Support the Leveraged Buyout of Trade Supplies, LLC by Sole Source Capital

Bridge Bank Provides Senior Debt Financing to Support the Leveraged Buyout of Trade Supplies, LLC by Sole Source Capital PR Newswire SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2018 SAN JOSE, Calif. , July 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Bridge Bank today announced its Corporate Banking group, which provides cash-flow senior financing for private equity sponsored lower-middle market companies, has provided senior debt financing to support the leveraged buyout of Trade Supplies, LLC by Sole Source Capital. […]

Technicals

Atento (ATTO) Tops Q2 Earnings Estimates

Atento (ATTO) just came out with quarterly earnings of $0.20 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.19 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.13 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items […]

Technicals

Unum (UNM) Tops Q2 Earnings Estimates

Unum (UNM) just came out with quarterly earnings of $1.30 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.27 per share. This compares to earnings of $1.05 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. […]