Sonoco Products ( NYSE: SON) shares reached a 52-week high of $57.83 this week after strong 2025 results and 2026 guidance. That marks a 30% year-to-date surge that has far outpaced the S&P 500's fractional gain. The packaging company's rally accelerated following the February 17 earnings. With the stock at 52-week highs and technical indicators flashing warning signs, investors face the critical question of whether this momentum is sustainable or the valuation catch-up has run its course.
Donnovan Andrews has spent his career in industries where the rules keep shifting - from the early days of digital to today's algorithm-shaped media landscape. His latest move sits right in the middle of that change. He's building Aivanta, an AI-powered holding company designed to acquire businesses with strong foundations and help them scale by embedding AI into how they operate.
In the last 12 months, the business delivered site EBITDA of £23m and EBITDA after central costs of £17m, cementing its position as the capital's leading independent pub operator. This is an increase of £5m versus reported EBITDA of £12.3m for the financial year ended 27 April 2025 - an uplift of almost 50%. The Group, which operates 66 high-quality sites across London, delivered its strongest-ever Christmas 2025 trading performance, capping an exceptional 2025.
If you look at the mortgage forecasts, it depends on which one you choose, but they're up anywhere from 8% to 25% based on the Fannie Mae and MBA numbers, Brown said during a webinar with Fitch Ratings. That would be very good for this industry. Brown said 2025 ultimately resembled 2024, although conditions improved in the latter half of the year as inventory increased and mortgage rates eased, but not as much as some of us would like.
In December, Rithm completed its acquisition of Crestline Management, adding $17 billion in assets under management while growing its capacities in direct lending, fund liquidity solutions, insurance and reinsurance. In November, the company terminated a subservicing agreement with Onity Group subsidiary PHH Mortgage Corp., effective at the end of January 2026. The contract, which lasted for nearly a decade, was tied to a $33 billion portfolio that's comprised mostly of pre-2008 loans.
The Braves bench in recent years has been rather lean. A pre-trade William Contreras and a somewhat resurgent Ramon Laureano are the best of recent memory. But most of the other bench options. are remember by the way that swung their plastic swords rather than the lumber. Your bench doesn't really matter as much if you're winning 90+ games. This season's team might be a little different though, both in depth and their place in the playoff chase.
Axis Communications is acquiring FF Group, a provider of license plate recognition technology. The acquisition is intended further to strengthen Axis's position in the traffic market. FF Group has been a partner of the Swedish company since 2017. Axis Communications CEO Ray Mauritsson explains the acquisition. "The market for traffic applications is growing. Acquiring FF Group will strengthen our competitiveness, knowledge, and capabilities in license plate verification," he says.
In a memorandum opinion released Tuesday, Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said the FTC failed to prove its argument. The case, initially filed by the FTC five years ago, centered on Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. "Whether or not Meta enjoyed monopoly power in the past, though, the agency must show that it continues to hold such power now," Boasberg said in the filing. "The Court's verdict today determines that the FTC has not done so."
As part of Nintendo's latest earnings briefing, the company said it is open to spending some of its cash reserves on a variety of business functions, including buying game developers. Nintendo said it wants to spend money to invest in strengthening its game development pipeline, and this includes acquiring companies to make them subsidiaries. Nintendo historically does not buy many companies, but it's something the company would consider under the right conditions.
Rocket delivered a standout quarter, balancing short- and long-term execution in a category of one. I am very proud of the Rocket team for surpassing the high end of our adjusted revenue guidance range, accelerating Redfin momentum and closing the Mr. Cooper transaction the largest independent mortgage company deal in history, said Varun Krishna, CEO and director of Rocket Companies. We are building a vertically integrated homeownership platform for the AI era.
After leaving StubHub to join Fandom in 2019, Miller oversaw the company's $50 million acquisition of a number of entertainment content platforms from Red Ventures including TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot, and Giant Bomb. At the time, Miller said that the deal was meant to "expand our business capabilities and provide immersive content for our partners, advertisers and fans." The deal also led to multiple rounds of layoffs for the editorial staff at some of Fandom's newly-acquired properties.
FreshBrew - which runs six 500-pound Probat machines at its plant in Houston - said it "will secure ownership of multiple licenses, enabling the company to develop, produce and market coffee for major brands with established market presence." The company said the deal will complement its existing private-label business, expanding operations to produce approximately 150,000 pounds of coffee per day. The company also offers a broad range of packaging, tea, extracts and cold brewing solutions, in part through its recent $10 million manufacturing expansion.
Almost one year after the fintech giant Stripe struck a $1.1 billion deal to acquire the stablecoin startup Bridge, two other big corporate players want to scoop up a stablecoin firm of their own. The U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase and the payments giant Mastercard have each held advanced acquisition talks to buy London-based BVNK, according to six sources familiar with the dealings, who asked for anonymity to talk about confidential business discussions.
At one point, Andrew Gazdecki belonged to the second of these two cohorts. "I held on because I was attached," he says of his first company, Bizness Apps, which he sold in 2017. The company, a publishing platform that helps businesses develop mobile apps, began life in 2010, riding the smartphone revolution kickstarted by Apple. When, years later, Bizness Apps began losing customers, and continued losing customers, part of Gazdecki knew it was time to sell. And yet he waited.
Langan is the chief executive of RCI Hospitality Holdings, which includes the chain Rick's Cabaret as well as Tootsie's Cabaret in Miami, which advertises itself as the largest strip club in the world and once held the Christmas party for the LeBron-era Miami Heat. Some chains are larger than RCI, but it appears to be the only publicly traded strip-club company in the world, with a significant ownership stake from BlackRock and Vanguard.
During his 24-year career at Molson Coors, Goyal has been a driving force behind many of the company's most successful recent ventures, serving in executive roles across information technology, finance and strategy. He started in Golden, Colo., at Coors Brewing Co. and has held several global leadership roles such as chief information officer for Molson Coors in the UK and chief financial officer for Molson Coors in India.
Trump TikTok Deal: President Trump claims there's a deal for TikTok to either be sold to a U.S. company or disconnected from China, though details remain unclear. Valuation and Business Considerations: TikTok is valuable mainly for its user data and addictive algorithms, but it's uncertain how profitable the platform itself is; any deal would likely need to maintain the existing user data for maximum value.
To sell or not to sell. That's the major dilemma founders around the world face: Once they've started to get big enough to attract the attention of buyers, they face the decision of whether to cash out now, or use the compliment as fuel to go even bigger. While it may seem like a no-brainer to say yes to an acquisition to the tune of millions-or even billions-it can be hard to later rest easy thinking about how much more you could have made independently.
You might say that the biggest AI startups are led by professionally unreliable narrators, who theorize about the future of their companies - and their industry, and humanity in general - with a variety of clear but sometimes conflicting biases. This can make it somewhat hard, from the outside, to figure out which vision investors are banking on, beyond a general fear of missing out: Mass labor automation? AI-assisted research? Mainstream search-like products that could unseat Google?
DoorDash has effectively dominated the restaurant delivery market in the U.S. with a two-thirds share, significantly boosted by its strategic suburban expansion during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cursor is capitalizing on the disparity in the AI startup landscape by acquiring talent from startups like Koala to enhance its enterprise offerings and compete with major players.
Concentra Biosciences is rapidly acquiring struggling biotech companies, taking advantage of Bay Area firms' difficulties, including its recent purchase of Cargo Therapeutics, which faced severe setbacks this year.
The lender's robust performance is particularly notable given the turbulent backdrop of rising business taxes, persistent global tariffs, and slower-than-expected base rate cuts.
