Best Long Term Companies To Buy For 2015

Best Long Term Companies To Buy For 2015: Apollo Global Management LLC(APO)

Apollo Global Management, LLC is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and endowment funds, institutional investors, individual investors, pooled investment vehicles, and corporations. It manages client focused portfolios, hedge funds, real estate funds, and private equity funds for its clients. The firm invests in the fixed income and alternative investment markets across the globe. Its alternative investments include investment in private equity and real estate markets. The firm's private equity investments include traditional buyouts, distressed buyouts and debt investments, corporate partner buyouts, distressed asset, turnaround, corporate restructuring, special situation, acquisition, and industry consolidation transactions. Its fixed income investments include distressed debt, senior bank loans, and value oriented fixed income securities. The firm seeks to invest in chemicals; commodities; consumer and retail; oil an d gas, metals, mining, agriculture, commodities, distribution and transportation; financial and business services; manufacturing and industrial; media distribution, cable, entertainment, and leisure; energy, packaging and materials; and satellite and wireless. It seeks to invest in companies based in across North America with a focus on United States, and Europe. The firm employs a combination of contrarian, value, and distressed strategies to make its investments. It conducts an in-house research to create its investment portfolio. The firm seeks to acquire minority positions in its portfolio companies. Apollo Global Management, LLC was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, New York with nine additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Matt Jarzemsky var popups = dojo.quer! y(".socialByline .popC"); popups.forEach]

  It's also an active period for sales of stock in already-public companies. Among other deals, Apollo Global Management LLC(APO) and other insiders in Sprouts Farmers Market Inc.(SFM) are offering 15 million shares—a roughly $511 million stake—in the grocer late Thursday.

• [By Will Ashworth]

  If you look at the major publicly traded investment managers who invest in private equity — Blackstone Group (BX), KKR (KKR), Apollo Global Management (APO) and Carlyle Group (CG) — you'll notice that all but Fortress have stock prices in the $20s and $30s. FIG is one of those cheap stocks that's traded below $10 since September 2008. It went public at $18.50 in February of that year, hitting its all-time high of $37 in its first day of trading. It's been downhill ever since.

• [By Will Ashworth]

  However, apparently Caesars Entertainment and its private equity owners, TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management (APO), don't read those kinds of books. They're too busy shuffling paper.

• [By Louis Navellier]

  Apollo Global Management (APO) is one of the largest private equity and alternative investment firms in the world, and the outstanding results are driving solid earnings growth. Profits are up more than 100% over the past year and the stock has been ranked "A" since May. The shares have a P/E ratio of just 7.85 and are a at the current price.

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