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Corporate Strategy News 30 September 2025 - 27 October 2025

Huntington’s $7.4B Texas-Tupelo Power Move: Cadence Bank Takeover Shakes Up Banking

Huntington’s $7.4B Texas-Tupelo Power Move: Cadence Bank Takeover Shakes Up Banking

Deal Details and Rationale On Oct. 27, Huntington Bancshares announced it will absorb Cadence Bank in a stock-for-stock merger Finimize Sec. Cadence is a $53 billion-asset regional bank based in Houston/Tupelo, with 390 branches in eight states Sec Bankingdive. Under the deal Huntington will issue 2.475 of its shares per Cadence share. Based on HBAN’s Oct. 24 close of $16.07, the exchange…
Palantir-Lumen AI Deal Sparks Stock Rally – CEO Warns of “Arms Race”

Palantir-Lumen AI Deal Sparks Stock Rally – CEO Warns of “Arms Race”

Palantir and Lumen Forge a New AI Infrastructure Alliance On Oct. 23, Palantir Technologies and Lumen Technologies unveiled a “multi-year, multi-million-dollar” strategic partnership to fuse Palantir’s AI/data platform with Lumen’s high-speed networking. According to the official release, the alliance will help enterprises “deploy AI faster and more securely” by combining Palantir’s Foundry/AIP software with Lumen’s next-generation “Connectivity Fabric” Businesswire. Bloomberg News…
Boeing’s Turbulent Week: Big Deal Greenlights, Strike Drama, and Hopes of a Comeback

Boeing’s Turbulent Week: Big Deal Greenlights, Strike Drama, and Hopes of a Comeback

Financial Performance & Deliveries Boeing’s financial recovery is gathering pace, though the company isn’t profitable yet. In Q2 2025, revenue surged to $22.75 billion (+35% year-on-year) while losses narrowed to $612 million (vs. a $1.44 billion loss a year prior) ts2.tech. Crucially, free cash flow turned positive – a milestone after years of cash burn ts2.tech. Boeing’s backlog has swelled to about $619 billion…
J&J Makes Bold Move: Orthopedics Spin-Off (“DePuy Synthes”) Announced – 2025 Forecast Raised

J&J Makes Bold Move: Orthopedics Spin-Off (“DePuy Synthes”) Announced – 2025 Forecast Raised

Background: J&J’s Three-Way Split Strategy Johnson & Johnson, a healthcare conglomerate, historically consisted of consumer health, pharmaceutical (Innovative Medicine), and medical technology divisions. In 2023 J&J spun off its consumer products (Tylenol, Band-Aid, Neutrogena, etc.) into a new public company, Kenvue (KVUE). Now it is moving a second business out: the orthopedics arm of its MedTech division. The spin-off means…
Lockheed Martin News Roundup (Oct 1–10, 2025): Defense Giant Navigates New Contracts, Space Ambitions, and Market Momentum

Lockheed Martin News Roundup (Oct 1–10, 2025): Defense Giant Navigates New Contracts, Space Ambitions, and Market Momentum

Key Facts (Oct 1–10, 2025) Corporate Announcements & Innovations Lockheed Martin kicked off October with key company news. On October 1, the firm announced a successful series of U.S. Army flight tests of its new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Lockheedmartin. In late September, soldiers at White Sands Missile Range fired PrSMs from both a HIMARS launcher and a modernized M270A2…
MicroStrategy (MSTR) on Oct. 2 2025: Why the Bitcoin Treasury King Keeps Making Headlines

MicroStrategy (MSTR) on Oct. 2 2025: Why the Bitcoin Treasury King Keeps Making Headlines

Key Facts Summary Factor Details Stock price (Oct. 1 close / Oct. 2 pre‑market) MicroStrategy stock (now branded Strategy) closed at $338.41 on Oct. 1 2025 and was trading around $348.33 pre‑market on Oct. 2 Stockanalysis. Market capitalisation & fundamentals Market cap ~$97 B; trailing‑12‑month revenue $462 M and net income $4.73 B Stockanalysis. Analysts’ stance 12 analysts rated MSTR a strong buy in Oct. 2025 with an average…
BP Bets Big on Oil with $5B Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Platform

BP Bets Big on Oil with $5B Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Platform

Project Details and Timeline BP’s announcement marks a milestone in the Gulf of Mexico, a region long known for deepwater oil riches. The Tiber-Guadalupe platform will be located roughly 300 miles southwest of New Orleans, at water depths over 6,000 feet Bignewsnetwork Spglobal. BP originally discovered the Tiber field in 2009 and the Guadalupe field in 2014; combining them with…
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  • Dividend Stocks Outperform GICs in Yield and Growth Potential
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