acquisitions

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Companies with excess cash can do things like hoard it, dole much of it out through shareholder returns, make acquisitions or invest in the business through areas like research and development.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Liani also highlighted that ServiceNow’s recent acquisitions of cybersecurity companies Armis and Veza expand the company’s addressable market and strengthen its AI Control Tower offering.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Bio-Rad’s peers, including Thermo Fisher Scientific and Danaher, have spent tens of billions on acquisitions in recent years, while private-equity firms have also been more active.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

He highlighted that the company has just a fraction of the potential market share, is expanding beyond mobile gaming into e-commerce, and using all its free cash flow for acquisitions.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Officials of the Metropolitan Museum of Art report that 100,000 people climbed the great stairway to catch a glimpse of one of its newest acquisitions, a twenty-four-inch statue called “Angel.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg