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Marian Kessler, Co-Portfolio Manager of Becker Value Equity Fund, buys out-of-favor companies with strong balance sheets, good value and improving fundamentals.
By Paul Bond, Georg Szalai A little more than a year ago, Viacom then-CEO Philippe Dauman was under siege from investors who grew tired of years of underperformance at the conglomerate and ...
Viacom shares jumped 1.8 percent on Thursday ... The moves have no strategic value and do little more than cut costs and make the surviving operating units more attractive for a possible takeover ...
Under current discussions, CBS’ shareholders would make up nearly two thirds of the combined company while Viacom shareholders would make up a little more than a third, according to the ...
Her father, Sumner Redstone, once dismissed her publicly as a lightweight who contributed little to the business ... But on Tuesday the boards of CBS and Viacom agreed to reunite the two Redstone ...
Neither of these two perceptions is entirely accurate. But what is true is that there is little Viacom--or any other big media firm trying to enforce its copyright online--can do to avoid being ...
There is little capital cost associated with the site, which consists almost entirely of user-generated content. Atom's game division may be the juicier acquisition in the eyes of Viacom Chairman ...
The 92-year-old Mr. Redstone has overwhelming control of Viacom, with a roughly 80% voting stake. The company has said little on the subject of his health.
Bibb sees Dauman’s idiosyncratic blame-the-scorekeepers strategy as little more than a tactic to distract attention from the stasis that’s enveloped Viacom since Redstone’s involvement has ...
Remember that court case from 2007 in which Viacom sued Google for $1 billion in damages for hosting infringing content on YouTube? As of Thursday morning, several legal documents from that ...