Tuesday Ticker: Will Warren Buffett buy Axalta?
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 17, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker: Stock markets continue to hit new record highs, analysts wonder if Warren Buffett might buy Axalta, Kobe stock values plunges to the surprise of absolutely no one, and much, much more! Stocks continue to hit record highs. The high valuations have […]
Tuesday Ticker: Tesla won’t hit production marks for Model 3
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 9, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker looks at why stock markets continue to surprise on the upside, private equity funds prepare for AkzoNobel’s upcoming divestment, Tesla short sellers finally pay off, and much, much more! The Dow Jones hit another record high this past week, jumping 113 […]
Tuesday Ticker: BlackBerry’s QNX division driving big gains
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 2, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker: Axalta pulls out of Venezuela, Sherwin-Williams cuts earnings forecasts in wake of hurricanes, BlackBerry’s stock is on the way up thanks to automotive software division QNX and much, much more! The big US stock indexes continue to trade at […]
Tuesday Ticker: Uni-Select buys Dash Distributors
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — September 25, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker looks at acquisitions for both Uni-Select and GPC, AkzoNobel shakes up the C-suite, analysts upgrade AutoCanada estimates and much, much more! Uni-Select Quebec-based distributor Uni-Select continues to expand. This past week the publicly-traded company announced that its subsidiary Bumper to Bumper […]
Tuesday Ticker: The end of the ‘Trump Bump?’
Toronto, Ontario — August 28, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker takes a look at the end of the “Trump Bump,” the automotive impacts of Hurricane Harvey, an analysis of Uni-Select and much, much more! – The big news this week is the massive amount of water currently dropping on Houston in the aftermath of […]
Tuesday Ticker: AkzoNobel talks to investors; Axalta acquires Plascoat
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — August 21, 2017 — In this week’s Tuesday Ticker: AkzoNobel plays nice with shareholders, Axalta acquires the UK’s Plascoat Systems, Fenix Parts reports its latest results, dodgy loans for new cars have some analysts worried and much, much more! AkzoNobel -Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel has been making up […]
Tuesday Ticker: Elliot Advisors launches another suit against AkzoNobel
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — July 10, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker looks at a new legal challenge launched against AkzoNobel by one of its own investors, stock in auto parts retailers melts down, Boyd and Assured close their deal and much, much more! AkzoNobel – Just when it seemed the AkzoNobel-PPG takeover […]
Tuesday Ticker: AkzoNobel and PPG takeover saga may end up in court
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 15, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker takes a look at the latest round in the ongoing attempt by PPG to buy AkzoNobel, Boyd Group reports its first quarter results, BASF partners with Essentium Materials on 3-D printing and much, much more! -The AkzoNobel/PPG takeover drama moved into […]
Tuesday Ticker: AkzoNobel turns down PPG’s third bid and Uni-Select’s Q1 sales top $297 million
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 8, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker looks at PPG’s latest offer for AkzoNobel, Uni-Select’s first quarter highlights including sales of $297.2 million and 17 new stores, AutoCanada’s acquisition of one of only three Mercedes-Benz collision centres in Quebec and much, much more! – AkzoNobel has turned down […]
Tuesday Ticker: PPG makes third bid for AkzoNobel
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 24, 2017 — This week’s Tuesday Ticker looks at PPG’s third bid to buy AkzoNobel, earnings reports from Sherwin-Williams and PPG, why AutoCanada may soon be rated a “buy” again and much, much more! – AkzoNobel has received a third unsolicited proposal from PPG for all outstanding share […]