KKR - KKR & Co. Inc.
| Previous Close | 25.44 |
| Open | 25.49 |
| Bid | 25.44 x 1100 |
| Ask | 25.45 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 25.35 - 25.59 |
| 52 Week Range | 18.30 - 28.73 |
| Volume | 679,891 |
| Avg. Volume | 3,019,645 |
| Market Cap | 21.452B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.76 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 8.41 |
| EPS (TTM) | 3.03 |
| Earnings Date | Jul 25, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 0.50 (1.97%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2019-05-10 |
| 1y Target Est | 30.71 |
- PR Newswire•20 hours ago
FSK Announces Earnings Release and Conference Call Schedule for Second Quarter 2019
PHILADELPHIA , July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- FS KKR Capital Corp. (NYSE: FSK) announced today plans to release its second quarter 2019 results after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange ...
- MarketWatch•yesterday
Budweiser-parent Anheuser-Busch InBev's stock gains after WSJ report of potential asset sales
Shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. rose 1.2% in midday trading Thursday, after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona beer brewer was exploring a sale of assets as it looks to reduce debt after calling off the initial public offering of its Asia-based business. Citing people familiar with the matter, the WSJ report said A-B InBev is considering selling assets in South Korea, Australia and Central America. In May, private-equity firm KKR & Co. had approached A-B InBev about buying back some of the Asia-based assets, the WSJ report said, as KKR had previously bought the Korean business and sold it back to A-B InBev for $5.8 billion in 2014. A-B InBev's stock has rallied 36% year to date, while the S&P 500 has gained 19%.
- Business Wire•yesterday
Optiv Security Brings Cybersecurity Innovation to Dallas-Fort Worth
Optiv Security, a security solutions integrator delivering end-to-end cybersecurity solutions across the globe, today announced the opening of its new Dallas Innovation and Fusion Center, a state-of-the-art, more than 14,000-square-foot facility located in the HALL Park complex in Frisco, Texas. The Center brings together a diverse team of cybersecurity experts – cyber digital and risk professionals, threat and innovation experts and others – working together with clients and industry partners to develop integrated, tailored and proactive cybersecurity solutions that address the speed of business change. Optiv’s investment in its new Innovation and Fusion Center doubles the company’s footprint in North Texas, and underscores Optiv’s commitment to helping global clients achieve success by optimizing, integrating, and operationalizing cybersecurity.
- Reuters•yesterday
Rabobank, KKR join race for Dutch utility Eneco
Dutch lender Rabobank and investment firm KKR have formed a consortium seeking to buy utility Eneco, the bank said on Thursday. A consortium set up by Royal Dutch Shell and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM had been seen as the lead bidder after France's Total SA and Italy’s Enel dropped out last month. The 53 Dutch cities that own Eneco, estimated by analysts to be worth about 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion), launched the sale in May.
- GuruFocus.com•2 days ago
Menlo Advisors Llc Buys KKR Inc, Sells Cisco Systems Inc
Menlo Park, CA, based Investment company Menlo Advisors Llc (Current Portfolio) buys KKR Inc, sells Cisco Systems Inc during the 3-months ended 2019Q2, according to the most recent filings of the investment company, Menlo Advisors Llc. Continue reading...
- GuruFocus.com•2 days ago
John Rogers Comments on KKR & Co. Inc.
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- GuruFocus.com•2 days ago
John Rogers' Ariel Fund 2nd Quarter Commentary
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- Business Wire•3 days ago
KKR Appoints Emilia Sherifova as Member and Chief Information & Innovation Officer
Leading global investment firm KKR today announced the appointment of Emilia Sherifova as Member and Chief Information & Innovation Officer, effective immediately. In this role, Ms. Sherifova will be based in New York and will drive KKR’s technology and data innovation vision and strategy. Ms. Sherifova joins KKR from Northwestern Mutual where she led the company’s digital transformation in the role of Chief Technology Officer and previously as Head of Enterprise Architecture and Engineering.
- Business Wire•8 days ago
KKR & Co. Inc. to Announce Second Quarter 2019 Results
KKR & Co. Inc. announced today that it plans to release its financial results for the second quarter 2019 on Thursday, July 25, 2019, before the opening of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
- Bloomberg•8 days ago
Axel Springer Recommends Shareholders Accept KKR Buyout Offer
(Bloomberg) -- Axel Springer SE’s supervisory and executive boards recommended that minority shareholders accept a buyout offer from KKR & Co., saying it would ensure the German publisher’s future growth.The private equity firm’s cash offer of 63 euros a share is fair because it represents a 40% premium over the company’s share price in May, before the talks with KKR became public, Axel Springer said in a statement Thursday.“Over the coming years we will significantly invest in people, products, brands and technology,” Chief Financial Officer Julian Deutz said. “With KKR as a financial and strategic partner we will be able to pursue these initiatives with a long-term focus on growth and profitability.”The proposed buyout of minority investors would see Axel Springer join Bertelsmann SE, the German publisher that owns Penguin Random House, in being shielded from the scrutiny of public markets. Having KKR on board could also make it easier for the company to fund acquisitions and capitalize on turmoil and retrenchment in the digital media industry.To contact the reporter on this story: Stefan Nicola in Berlin at snicola2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rebecca Penty at rpenty@bloomberg.net, Eric PfannerFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters•8 days ago
UPDATE 1-Hitachi starts sale of $5.6 bln chemical unit, first bids due by Aug. 9 -sources
Japan's Hitachi Ltd has started the formal process for the sale of its $5.6 billion chemical unit with initial bids due in August, people familiar with the matter said, a deal that is expected to draw interest from global private-equity firms. Hitachi has asked potential bidders to submit first-round bids for Hitachi Chemical Co, four people said, declining to be identified as the information is not public. Hitachi has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch while Hitachi Chemical has retained Goldman Sachs Group Inc to advise on the deal, the two people said.
- Business Wire•9 days ago
KKR’s Annual ESG, Impact, and Citizenship Report Reveals Evolution of Leading Investment Firm
KKR, a leading global investment firm, released its ninth annual Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG), Impact, and Citizenship Report today. The report, titled invested., reflects on KKR’s evolution in the decade since the firm began formalizing its responsible investment efforts, sharing the firm’s work to date and its commitment to future progress and outcomes. “We have never been more committed to investing in a tomorrow that creates shareholder value through shared values – a tomorrow that makes our employees proud, our companies successful, and our investors happy,” said Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall, Co-Presidents and Co-Chief Operating Officers of KKR.
- Business Wire•9 days ago
KKR Enters Exclusive Negotiations with GBL for Webhelp Group
KKR, a leading global investment firm, announces today it has entered into exclusive negotiations to sell a majority stake in the Webhelp group to Groupe Bruxelles Lambert ("GBL"). GBL will invest alongside Webhelp’s co-founding shareholders, Olivier Duha and Frédéric Jousset, who would retain their role as founding executive directors, and Webhelp’s management team. Founded in 2000, Webhelp is today one of the world's leading providers of customer experience and business process outsourcing (BPO).
- Bloomberg•10 days ago
Carlyle Plans to Announce Conversion to C-Corp With Earnings
(Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group LP is planning to announce that the private equity firm will convert to a corporation when it reports second-quarter earnings, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The shares rose 4.1%, the biggest one-day jump since April.The Washington-based firm would be the last of the private-equity giants to switch from a partnership to a corporation, known as a C-corp -- a move designed to bring more investors into the stock. KKR & Co., Blackstone Group Inc., Apollo Global Management LLC and Ares Management Corp. all have seen their share prices jump since they made the change, which enables them to be included in indexes, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.Carlyle, which hasn’t announced its earnings release date, has been exploring the move for several months. A representative for the firm declined to comment.“The pain of converting from a tax point-of-view is negligible and the benefits are substantial,” said Robert Willens, an independent tax consultant. “We’ve seen the stocks of these companies increase since their conversions, proving the theory that motivated them was a valid one.”Carlyle has mostly lagged behind its rivals since KKR announced in May 2018 that it would convert. Carlyle’s shares are up about 18% since then, less than KKR and Apollo. Blackstone has been the best performer, jumping about 50%.“The benefits we’ve seen from the conversions have not gone unnoticed,” Carlyle co-Chief Executive Officer Kewsong Lee said in a May conference call with investors. “There are many complex operational moving parts in connection with a conversion, and we intend to conclude our thinking with a decision in the not too distant future.”Private equity executives, who have a lot of their personal wealth in company stock, have long complained that their businesses are being undervalued by public investors. The catalyst for the switch was the new tax law in December 2017, which slashed the corporate rate to 21% from 35%.(Updates share gain in second paragraph.)\--With assistance from Melissa Karsh.To contact the reporter on this story: Heather Perlberg in Washington at hperlberg@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Alan Mirabella at amirabella@bloomberg.net, Vincent Bielski, Josh FriedmanFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Business Wire•10 days ago
Optiv Security Announces Availability of Advanced Fusion Center Solutions to Enable Organizations to Accelerate Cybersecurity Maturity and Improve Operational Outcomes
Enterprise digital transformation efforts combined with advanced and innovative cybersecurity attacks have left many organizations’ security operations teams overwhelmed by an inordinately high volume, velocity, and variety of cybersecurity data and threats.
- Bloomberg•11 days ago
Alex Navab, Ex-KKR Dealmaker Who Opened Own Firm, Dies at 53
(Bloomberg) -- Alex Navab, a former KKR & Co. executive who was building his own private-equity firm, has died. He was 53.He died Sunday while on a brief vacation, according to a statement Monday from his firm, Navab Capital Partners.“It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the untimely passing of our founder, Alexander Navab,” according to the statement. “Alex was an accomplished business leader and generous philanthropist who loved his family and played an important role in the professional and personal lives of many.”The veteran dealmaker left KKR after almost a quarter century and in April set up his own company in New York. He recruited fellow buyout specialists with experience at firms including the Carlyle Group LP and Warburg Pincus. He planned to raise billions of dollars and recruit co-investors to compete for private equity deals in health care, technology, media and financial services in North America.Navab joined KKR in 1993 and eventually became sole head of its private-equity business in the Americas, helping the firm raise a $14 billion fund. He was also a member of the management committee. He left KKR about two years ago, shortly after co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts named Scott Nuttall and Joseph Bae co-presidents.“We are heartbroken,” Kravis and Roberts said in a statement. “A longtime member of the KKR family, Alex was an outstanding investor, leader, mentor and a friend to many. His contributions in business and philanthropy over his lifetime will forever remain part of his remarkable legacy.”Alexander Navab was born in Iran and fled the Islamic revolution in 1979.He attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard University. Early in his career he worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.Active in philanthropy, he was a trustee at Columbia and board member at New York Presbyterian Hospital and The Robin Hood Foundation. In 2016 he was awarded with an Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Last year he and his wife Mary Kathryn gave a $6 million gift to start a fellowship program for Columbia internships.“Our entire community mourns the loss of Alex Navab, who was not just an incredible philanthropist, but an incredible person,” said Larry Robbins, chairman of Robin Hood’s board. “During his more than a decade of service on Robin Hood’s leadership council and board, Alex used his extensive experience in the private equity world to drive Robin Hood’s impact forward. Alex Navab’s commitment, generosity and leadership are irreplaceable.”Navab also was on the advisory council of the Hamilton Project, a group of academics and business leaders who put forth proposals for economic policy, and formerly was national co-chair of the American Enterprise Institute. He supported former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination for president and has contributed to others in the party.Navab is survived by his wife and three children.(Adds Robbins’s comments in 10th paragraph.)\--With assistance from Amanda Gordon.To contact the reporters on this story: Erik Schatzker in New York at eschatzker@bloomberg.net;Sabrina Willmer in New York at swillmer2@bloomberg.net;Sonali Basak in New York at sbasak7@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Alan Mirabella at amirabella@bloomberg.net, Josh Friedman, Dan ReichlFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters•11 days ago
Alex Navab, former top KKR dealmaker, dies
Alex Navab, who worked as a top dealmaker at KKR & Co Inc for more than two decades before starting his own private equity firm earlier this year, died on Sunday. Navab died while on vacation with his family, Navab Capital Partners said in a statement on Monday, without providing further details. Navab was born in Isfahan, Iran, and fled to Greece following the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
- American City Business Journals•11 days ago
Private-equity professional and philanthropist Alexander Navab dies
Alexander Navab, the former head of Americas private equity at New York-based KKR & Co., has died unexpectedly. Navab Capital Partners, a firm Navab launched just last year, issued a statement Monday: Navab is survived by his wife and three children.
- Bloomberg•11 days ago
Thyssenkrupp Weighs Elevator Stake Sale as Buyers Circle
(Bloomberg) -- Thyssenkrupp AG has received interest from competitors and buyout firms for a stake in its 15 billion-euro ($16.8 billion) elevator unit, prompting the German industrial firm to explore a sale alongside its planned listing, people familiar with the matter said.Private equity firms including CVC Capital Partners and KKR & Co., as well as rival elevator maker Kone Oyj, have expressed interest in part or all of the Thyssenkrupp division, the people said. As a result, the company is planning to start formal sale talks in the autumn, they said, asking not to be identified because the deliberations are private.Sovereign wealth and pension funds are also interested in investing in the unit, they said. Thyssenkrupp shares were little changed at the close Monday in Frankfurt, after earlier gaining as much as 5.5%.Representatives for Thyssenkrupp, Kone, CVC and KKR declined to comment.“We’re open to all economically viable solutions that fairly take into account the interest of employees,” Markus Grolms, secretary at labor union IG Metall and Thyssenkrupp’s deputy chairman, said in response to Bloomberg queries. The union “will make sure the proceeds will be used to fund the further development of Thyssenkrupp.”Thyssenkrupp will run a “dual-track” process, continuing to pursue its previously announced initial public offering for the business while entertaining bids, the people said. No final decisions have been made about how much of the asset to sell, and the interested companies may still decide against formal offers, they said.Thyssenkrupp so far has been hesitant to sell a majority stake because it would like to keep control to access the unit’s cash flow and help fund pension liabilities, the people said. Still, certain shareholders, including activist investor Cevian Capital, favor a full sale, the people said.The division, Thyssenkrupp’s crown jewel, makes parts used in elevators, escalators, moving walkways and stairlifts and could be worth about 15 billion euros in an IPO or sale, according to Bloomberg Intelligence analysts. The German company has been weighing ways to split off the unit as it came under fire for a complicated business structure that some investors have said contributed to declining earnings.The start of 2020 would be the earliest opportunity for an IPO, the elevator unit’s union chief and board member, Knut Giesler, has said. A listing is unlikely before March of next year, and uncertainty over the timing and valuation of any IPO is another incentive for a sale, the people said.The elevator division is riding a global trend of urbanization, making it the steel-to-submarine conglomerate’s most profitable unit. Proceeds from a sale or IPO could be used to fund the company’s restructuring, paid out in a dividend or invested in carbon-dioxide free steel production, the people said.The Essen-based conglomerate needs cash to cover billions of euros in unfunded pension liabilities and fix its steel, plant construction and auto supply operations. The company sees the elevator unit as the only significant division it could offload a stake in at a valuation above book value, the people said.Kone is keen to buy a majority of the elevator business, but Thyssenkrupp is concerned about a lengthy antitrust review and rejection of a merger, the people said. Its proposal to create a European steel joint venture with Tata Steel Ltd. was blocked earlier, and Thyssenkrupp may prefer to sell a stake to an investment firm, which wouldn’t face competition scrutiny, some of the people said.The European Commission has torpedoed a number of industrial merger plans this year. Regulators blocked plans to merge Siemens AG’s and Alstom SA’s rail operations to create a European champion.Other Thyssenkrupp assets, including the components technology business have also attracted preliminary interest from buyout firms, though it’s unclear whether the firm will seek a sale, the people said.(Updates with labor union statement in fifth paragraph.)\--With assistance from Sarah Syed.To contact the reporters on this story: Eyk Henning in Frankfurt at ehenning1@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Aaron Kirchfeld in London at akirchfeld@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.net, Ben Scent, Amy ThomsonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Motley Fool•11 days ago
This Renewable Energy Stock Adds Some Power to Its Dividend Growth Engine
Brookfield Renewable Partners' investment in a fast-growing solar company will give it a bit more power to increase its high-yielding payout.
- Barrons.com•14 days ago
China Is Wrestling With a Changing World. Don’t Underestimate the World’s Second-Largest Economy
A sense of uncertainty and confusion prevailed at a World Economic Forum meeting in China. But companies also expressed optimism about their abilities to face those challenges.
- Bloomberg•15 days ago
If Masayoshi Son Won't Invest in Japan, Why Should You?
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Softbank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund has invested its $100 billion cash pile in 75 unicorns around the world. Not a single one is from Japan, its own backyard.That may be because the pickings are slim: While the U.S. has 179 unicorns, China 93, and India 18, Japan has just two, according to CB Insights. How can a country that pioneered the Walkman and android robots fail to produce more valuable startups? The explanation may be somewhat arcane, but helps get to the bottom of a damaging cycle that’s left Japan with an uninspiring pool of fledgling innovators.The listing standards for the small-cap Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers Index are exceedingly low. To join Nasdaq, its New York counterpart, companies need a minimum of 1.25 million traded shares upon listing. That compares with just 2,000 for Mothers. This short hurdle, among others, means young, cash-hungry firms can tap public markets pretty easily, and sidestep the grinding process of courting investors through multiple rounds of funding.The trouble is, size begets size. The bigger a company at listing, the greater the likelihood of attracting large chunks of institutional money and growing still larger. (It pays to be patient.) What’s left is an index stuffed with unreliable runts: 96% of Mothers's 283 components have a valuation of less than $1 billion, compared with roughly one-third for Nasdaq. The Japanese index was notorious for its scandal-studded constituents in the past, and remains volatile.Just two Japanese unicorns have gone public in the last two years, with mixed results: Flea market app Mercari Inc. is down 4% since raising $1.2 billion last June, while business-card scanner and networking firm Sansan Inc. is up 33% after listing last month. The two unicorns left include four-year-old Preferred Networks Inc., whose app uses artificial intelligence to automate the coloring of manga cartoons, and Tokyo-based cryptocurrency trading platform Liquid Group Inc.With few appealing options, the likes of Masayoshi Son take their venture-capital dollars elsewhere. But the bigger the funding vacuum, the greater the incentive startups have to list early and small. And so the cycle continues.There are cultural challenges to Japanese innovation, too. Attracting young graduates to unsteady jobs can be a tough sell: Many would rather join Toyota Motor Corp. or other established firms. Japanese founders also have a reputation for crippling timidity when asking for money, unlike their brazen rivals in Silicon Valley. That’s not to say that startup activity has plateaued. Venture funding hit a record $3.5 billion last year, though that’s a shadow of levels in the U.S. and China, which both top out at more than $100 billion. This year, the Mothers index is up around 20% in local currency terms, outperforming the 9% gain for the benchmark Topix index, and IPO volumes reached a high last year.Attitudes are also changing. Startups are losing their stigma and luring more graduates, Yoshito Hori, managing partner of domestic venture-capital firm Globis Capital Partners told the AVCJ Japan Forum last week in Tokyo. Funding into early-stage tech firms reached $1.7 billion this year, according to Asia Private Equity Review, compared with more than $1.6 billion in all of 2018. But even Hori, whose firm backed Mercari and Sansan, said that there’s still not enough money around to back mega venture-capital funding rounds. The truth is that the real opportunities in Japan are in private equity, with plenty of mature firms desperate for a turnaround and aging founders looking for buyouts. Last year, a group led by Bain Capital acquired Toshiba Corp.’s memory chip business for $18 billion. This week, KKR & Co. sold the semiconductor part of Japan’s Hitachi Kokusai Electric to U.S.-based Applied Materials Inc. for around $2.2 billion. It paid around the same amount when it bought the entire wireless equipment maker, including the video business it’s retaining, from Hitachi Ltd. just 18 months ago. Even the Japan Post Bank Co., one of the world’s largest lenders, and the country’s Government Pension Investment Fund, the biggest pool of retirement savings in the world, are allocating money toward private equity. Still, a prime minister can dream: Shinzo Abe's government aims to produce 20 unicorns by 2023. The chances of pulling that off are sobering.To contact the author of this story: Nisha Gopalan at ngopalan3@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Rachel Rosenthal at rrosenthal21@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Nisha Gopalan is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and banking. She previously worked for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones as an editor and a reporter.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters•15 days ago
Bosch in talks to sell packaging unit to buyout firm CVC -source
Car parts maker Bosch is in advanced talks to sell its packaging machinery business to buyout firm CVC in a deal valuing the company at up to 850 million euros ($959 million), a person close to the matter said. Italian engineering group Coesia, German industrial holding Koerber as well as private equity firms KKR and Bain had also handed in final bids by a mid-June deadline, several people close to the matter had said. The Bosch business, which competes with Italy's IMA , makes machines for pharmaceuticals and food packaging, employs 6,100 staff and has revenues of about 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion).
- Reuters•15 days ago
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- Moody's•15 days ago
LGC Science Group Holdings Limited -- Moody's assigns B3 CFR and B3-PD to Elwy 3 Limited
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has today assigned a B3 corporate family rating (CFR) and B3-PD probability of default rating (PDR) to Elwy 3 Limited (LGC or the company), a life science tools company. Moody's has concurrently assigned B2 ratings to LGC's senior secured facilities, including the GBP50 million revolving credit facility (RCF) due 2022, term loan B of USD417.1 million, term loan B of EUR450.6 million and term loan B of EUR120 million, all due 2023, all issued by LGC Science Group Holdings Limited, a directly wholly-owned subsidiary of Elwy 3 Limited.
