Warrington in the News Articles: page 1

Widely misunderstood, blockchain technology and cryptoassets are often wrongly associated with anarchy and upheaval, explains Associate Professor Fahad Saleh in this column from the Tampa Bay Times.

Jay Ritter comments on Tesla’s fallen stock in recent weeks, with members of the board and an executive at Elon Musk’s company selling off millions of dollars in stock, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Together, four top officers at the company have offloaded over $100 million in shares since early February.

The percentage of startups profitable at IPO time has steadily declined since the 1980s and most valuable ones take longer to become profitable, according to insights from Jay Ritter.

The University of Phoenix, once the premier for-profit institution in the country, is taking advantage of its ability to court other options as an acquisition deal with a University of Idaho affiliate inches toward a two-year stall. Jay Ritter shares insights on the online for-profit’s owners, Apollo Global Management Inc. and the Vistria Group, considering an IPO, for Apollo Education Group, the holding company for the University of Phoenix.

Investors, take note: Abnormal growth in earnings is neither persistent nor predictable. Research from Jay Ritter informs this story.

Whether excited about gaining new followers or desperate to win back lost subscribers, investors who saw changes to their subscriber count performed worse than before their subscribers changed, according to a new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers ISOM Professor Liangfei Qiu.

GPT Portfolio, a community project run alongside Alejandro Lopez-Lira, a professor of finance from the University of Florida, consists of 15 assets — 10 stocks and 5 sector-specific exchange-traded funds (ETFs). It recently selected three safe haven stocks.

Director of Energy Studies Ted Kury shares his insights on underground power lines, which could be installed thanks to a self-propelled robotic sleeve that mimics earthworms’ characteristic peristaltic movement to advance through soil.

The list of companies that have flopped out of the gate when entering public markets has a new king: Venture Global Inc. Shares of the liquefied natural gas exporter have cratered more than 60% since going public, erasing $39 billion in paper value and burning investors who bought the stock in its initial public offering. Professor Jay Ritter offers his insights on the IPO flop.

Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc. reported on Monday that comparable-store sales for the fiscal year ended Dec. 28 increased 2.9%. A deeper dive into the company’s annual K-10 report shows same-store sales primarily increased because of inflation, which covered the higher cost of acquiring products to sell, according to Jennifer Wu Tucker, an accounting professor at the University of Florida.