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Jan 6, 2025

Smithfield Foods files for IPO

Virginia’s Smithfield Foods announced Monday it has filed a registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for its initial public offering. This is the first step toward the pork and packaged meats giant’s plan of selling common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SFD. In November 2024, Smithfield’s […]

Dec 5, 2024

As bitcoin breaches $100K, MicroStrategy holdings, Saylor’s wealth surge

MicroStrategy, the Tysons-based tech company chaired by bitcoin whale Michael Saylor, has pursued bitcoin as an investment strategy since 2020. Now, it appears to have paid off as bitcoin breached the $100,000 threshold. Bitcoin rose above $100,000 per coin Wednesday night, after previously breaching $99,000 on Nov. 21. At 11:45 a.m. Thursday, bitcoins were trading […]

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Oct 12, 2023

LL Flooring receives $194M acquisition proposal

Las Vegas-based holding company Live Ventures has submitted a proposal to acquire Henrico County-based hard-surface flooring retailer LL Flooring Holdings for approximately $194.4 million in cash. Live Ventures, which specializes in the retail and flooring industries, published Thursday the letter sent by its president and CEO, Jon Isaac, to the LL Flooring board the previous […]

Oct 2, 2023

Dominion Energy shareholders receive mini-tender offer

Dominion Energy is urging its shareholders to reject a “mini-tender” offer from TRC Capital Investment, the Richmond-based Fortune 500 utility announced Monday. Toronto-based investment firm TRC Capital offered to purchase up to 2 million shares of Dominion Energy’s common stock for $44 per share in cash, approximately 4.47% below the closing price of Dominion common […]

Jul 3, 2023

MicroStrategy buys $347M more bitcoin in Q2

MicroStrategy Inc. and its subsidiaries purchased about $347 million worth of bitcoin — approximately 12,333 units — from April 29 to June 27, according to the Tysons-based tech company’s June 28 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Believed to be the world’s largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin, MicroStrategy and its subsidiaries […]

Jan 6, 2023

Atlantic Union transferring stock listing to NYSE

Atlantic Union Bankshares Corp., the Richmond-based holding company for Atlantic Union Bank, announced Friday it is transferring the listing of its common stock and depositary shares from the Nasdaq to the New York Stock Exchange. The bank’s first day of trading on the NYSE is Jan. 18. “We are excited to join the NYSE alongside […]

May 13, 2022

Ferguson parent company moves primary listing to NYSE

The U.K.-based parent company of Newport News plumbing, HVAC and industrial product distributor Ferguson Enterprises LLC has transferred its primary stock listing from the London Stock Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange, Ferguson PLC announced Thursday. “We are excited to achieve this key milestone as our listing structure is now fully aligned with our […]

Sep 13, 2021

Genworth launches IPO for mortgage insurance subsidiary

Nearly five months after it was first announced, Henrico County-based Fortune 500 insurer Genworth Financial Inc. on Monday launched an initial public offering for its private mortgage insurance subsidiary, Raleigh, North Carolina-based Enact Holdings Inc. Genworth Holdings Inc. (GHI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Genworth Financial, is offering 13.31 million shares of common stock in […]

Sep 2, 2021

FTC fines Capital One CEO for failing to file stock transaction

The Federal Trade Commission fined McLean-based Capital One Financial Corp. CEO Richard Fairbank a $637,950 civil penalty for violating antitrust laws in finalizing stock acquisitions, the FTC announced Thursday. The settlement must be approved by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The FTC alleged that Fairbank violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements [&hellip[...]

Mar 1, 2021

Leonardo DRS files IPO registration

The Italian federal defense contractor Leonardo announced Friday it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an planned initial public offering (IPO) of its U.S. subsidiary, Arlington-based Leonardo DRS. The $2.54 billion IPO could take place in March, according to reports from Reuters. Leonardo did not release the official amount […]

Jan 20, 2021

New Hampton Roads bank raises $20M

Integrity Bank for Business, a new bank forming in Virginia Beach, has received signed subscription agreements for stock purchases totaling $20.285 million, it announced Tuesday. By Jan. 15, Integrity had received subscription agreements of $19.935 million by the closing date of the first phase of its stock offering; additional agreements of $350,000 were pending on […]

Dec 9, 2020

MicroStrategy to increase bitcoin holdings by $550M

Tysons-based business software company MicroStrategy Inc. announced Wednesday that it will increase its bitcoin holdings by as much as $550 million following a convertible debt offering.  In August, the company had announced that it had converted $250 million from its cash holdings into more than 21,000 bitcoins, making it one of the first public companies […]

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