suitor

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The suitor gradually sweetened its offer—backed by Ellison’s billionaire father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison; private-equity firm RedBird Capital; and a group of sovereign-wealth funds—until Warner agreed to reopen negotiations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Bernstein’s Harshita Rawat wrote Monday that she thought private equity would be the most likely suitor for PayPal in its entirety, in part due to the company’s “pristine balance sheet.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

Discovery, the winning suitor will likely overpay and take on billions in debt, Barron’s Andrew Bary reports.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Bernstein’s Harshita Rawat wrote Monday that she thought private equity would be the most likely suitor for PayPal in its entirety, in part due to the company’s “pristine balance sheet.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

The list of all such sequential orderings is below, with the number 1 representing, as before, the suitor Myrtle would most prefer, 2 her second choice, etc.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos