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SoftBank Loss Might Get As High As $9.4B: Report
Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 10:56am | 335SoftBank Group Corp.’s (OTC: SFTBY) net loss for the year ended March 2020, is set to rise to $9.39 billion. What Happened Three weeks after its previous forecast, SoftBank revised its projected non-operating losses to rise to nearly 1 trillion yen or $9.39 billion. 700...
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SoftBank Facing Record Losses As Startup Investments Fail To Deliver
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 12:35am | 408SoftBank Group Corp. (OTC: SFTBY) is forecasting record losses for the financial year that ended March 2020, as its Vision Fund and other investments flounder. What Happened The Japanese conglomerate is projecting its first operating loss in 15 years. SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund is...
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SoftBank And Chinese Automaker Partner To Produce 300M Masks Per Month In Japan
Monday, April 13, 2020 - 7:24am | 325SoftBank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBY) is partnering with Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD to supply Japan with 300 million masks per month. What Happened SoftBank plans to make 200 million surgical masks and 100 million N95 respirator masks per month from May. The company has made a deal...
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SoftBank Goes Back On Its Decision To Buy $3B WeWork Shares From Neumann, Others
Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 7:29am | 532SoftBank Group Corporation (OTC: SFTBY) on Wednesday announced that it wouldn't purchase $3 billion worth of shares from WeWork's other shareholders. WeWork Stakeholders Didn't Meet Terms, SoftBank Says The Japanese investment firm had promised to buy the shares as part of a $9.5...
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SoftBank $41B Buyback Sends Stock Soaring
Monday, March 23, 2020 - 7:14am | 440SoftBank Group Corp’s (OTC: SFTBY) directors have approved a plan to repurchase shares totaling 4.5 trillion yen or $41 billion, leading to the company's stock registering the biggest daily gains in 12 years. What Happened SoftBank Group (SBG) announced Monday its plans to sell...
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SoftBank CEO Talks To Investors, Promises To Be More 'Careful'
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 5:51am | 500SoftBank Group Corporation (OTC: SFTBY) Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son on Monday told investors that he would be more "careful" with his investment decisions going forward, Reuters reported. What Happened "I promise you I'll start to be more careful and listen. My view doesn...
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SoftBank Shares Jump 13% Ahead Of Quarterly Earnings Report, Follow Sprint, T-Mobile Merger News
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 11:43pm | 459The shares of SoftBank Group Corporation (OTC: SFTBY) surged in early Wednesday trade in Tokyo as a United States judge approved the merger of its troubled telecommunications carrier subsidiary Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S) with T-Mobile US Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS). What Happened A federal...
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Is Softbank's Son Apology For Poor Investments Genuine Or Due To Pressure?
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 6:02pm | 367Japan-based multinational conglomerate Softbank (OTC: SFTBY) wrote off billions of dollars in losses from investments in Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE: UBER) and WeWork. Softbank reported its first quarterly loss in 14 years last Wednesday, which may raise questions on CEO Masayoshi Son's...
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SoftBank Reportedly Considering Investment Fund IPO
Friday, May 3, 2019 - 2:30pm | 417Japanese multinational holding conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp - ADR (OTC: SFTBY) is looking to float part of its $100-billion investment fund in an initial public offering, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. What Happened SoftBank, in conjunction with Saudi Arabia's...
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Opinion | Softbank Will Succeed Even If Its WeWork Investment Doesn't
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 5:07pm | 1325You can listen to a professional recording of this article at investor.fm. A client asked recently for my view on Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBY) and its substantial investment in WeWork, whose CEO evidently has sold WeWork stock to buy properties in New York City...
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What's Next For Sprint?
Monday, November 6, 2017 - 9:38am | 516Sprint Corp (NYSE: S)'s potential merger with T-Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ: TMUS) is now off the table as the parent companies of both wireless companies failed to reach a merger agreement after months of talks. Shares of Sprint were trading lower by 10 percent Monday morning, while T-Mobile's...
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SoftBank Is Interested In Investing In Uber Or Lyft
Monday, August 7, 2017 - 12:42pm | 138SoftBank Group Corp's (OTC: SFTBF) CEO, Masayoshi Son confirmed on Monday rumors that his company is interested in discussing a potential investment in Uber or Lyft. Son said the U.S. market is a very big market and the most important market and SoftBank is very interested in entering that...
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Call Disconnected: Charter Spurns Sprint's Advances
Monday, July 31, 2017 - 8:28am | 516In what could have been a mega-merger in the wireless and cable space, Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) proposed to pursue a merger with Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR), according to the Wall Street Journal late last week. However, even before the implications of the proposed offer began to...
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Sprint In Talks With Comcast; T-Mobile Deal Put Aside
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 9:26am | 406Shares of Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) were trading higher by around 4 percent early Tuesday morning after reportedly being in talks with Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) and Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) to form a partnership. The three companies are working on a potential deal in which...
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Nvidia Keeps Running After SoftBank Acquires 4% Stake
Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - 8:06am | 392NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), one of the hottest stocks of 2016, is up nearly 30 percent since the start of 2017. The stock was up another 3 percent Wednesday after Japan-based SoftBank reportedly picked up a $4 billion stake in the technology company. According to Bloomberg, SoftBank...