divestiture

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The decrease was driven by the company’s divestiture of Medicare and related businesses last March, it said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

A potential merger would trigger “major antitrust, divestiture, alliance, execution, and valuation risks,” he added.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

It would have “dominant” market shares in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, “triggering major antitrust, divestiture, alliance, execution and valuation risks,” Fitzgerald said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

The company attributed the decline largely to the divestiture of musical-instrument marketplace Reverb last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Until the cataclysmic divestiture of the 1980s, Ma Bell was perhaps the ultimate maternalist mega-employer.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce