Winter first invested heavily in education and employee training, buying shares in companies like Apollo Group.
By contrast, the biggest loser was Apollo Group ( John Sperling) which dropped -56.8%.
Apollo Group, the largest for-profit education provider, is viewed as the leader in an unsustainable market.
Enter the Apollo Group, aka University of Phoenix, (ticker APOL), a leading provider of private, online education.
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It was the Apollo group of asteroids, which circle the sun in oblong orbits, that occasionally cross Earth's.
As I did write in a previous piece, private for profit colleges face several headwinds, especially online colleges like Apollo Group.
Numerous educational companies make up the schools industry group: Apollo Group, Corinthian Colleges, Devry and Strayer Education to name a few.
Profit at Apollo Group, operator of the country's largest private university, rose 51% last year, while its sales rose only 26%.
Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL), according to The Online Investor.
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Two stocks, however, have a long way to go to reach their fair value: Apollo Group ( APOL) and Research In Motion ( RIMM).
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Financially, Apollo Group is in stellar shape with a massive net cash position on its balance sheet, and significant free cash flow generation capabilities.
Third, online for profits colleges like Apollo Group have been facing increasing competition from regular colleges that develop their own outright programs or blended programs.
Apollo Group Inc. (APOL) : For-profit education firms like this parent company of the University of Phoenix have come under great regulatory scrutiny in recent years.
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Owned by publicly traded Apollo Group, University of Phoenix enrolls some 400, 000 students on 200 campuses nationwide, and has a giant, highly profitable distance learning division.
In a November 30 interview, co-founder, Elli Sharef explained that she got the idea for HireArt from her tenure at Apollo Group (APOL) subsidiary, University of Phoenix.
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By and large, for-profit education firms like Apollo Group (APOL) have been taking advantage of new trends in education by providing class structures that suit working adults who want to get a degree.
Note: there is no connection between the for-profit education concern, the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, and Apollo Global Management, the private-equity business that is purchasing the McGraw-Hill education division.
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Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Altera Corp. ( NASD: ALTR) is down about 0.8%, Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is off about 1.4%, and Applied Materials, Inc. ( NASD: AMAT) is lower by about 0.7%.
Steven Eisman of Frontpoint Capital delivered a scathing brief against for-profit education companies Corinthian Colleges, Apollo Group, ESI and Washington Post, saying they were creating the next subprime crisis by inducing students to borrow billions of dollars in federally guaranteed debt.
Among the largest underlying components of QLD, in trading today Activision Blizzard, Inc. ( NASD: ATVI) is up about 3.4%, Akamai Technologies Inc ( NASD: AKAM) is up about 1.7%, and Apollo Group, Inc. ( NASD: APOL) is up by about 2.1%.
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The US Apollo group has also plumped 149 million (sterling ) for a portfolio of distressed commercial property loans across the country, which the nationalized Irish banks are only too happy to unload since they have a lot more where those come.
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Jude Medical (nyse: STJ - news - people ), adult education outfit Apollo Group (nasdaq: APOL - news - people ), network security company Symantec (nasdaq: SYMC - news - people ) and eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ).
With the world economy and stock markets working against them, we saw great results over several years from the merger of two centuries-old tobacco companies in Europe (Altadis), an Indian soap-and-cooking-oils maker that has become of the world's leading software services providers (Wipro) and a for-profit school system that owns an incredibly successful dot.com (Apollo Group).
These five either sell performance-fee funds or supply capital to the business: American Capital, Apollo Investment Group, Blackstone Group, Fortress Investment Group and KKR.
Parkway Health, a Singaporean hospital chain, says the city of Singapore attracted approximately 450, 000 international patients last year, and in India, the Apollo Hospitals Group says it has treated more than 60, 000 foreign patients in the last five years.
Hostess was ready to auction off the brands, but the company notified bankruptcy court today that the Apollo-Metropoulos group was the only qualified bid.
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It was a powerful group at least nine investors, in addition to Jason and Erick, the group included Joshua Harris, the cofounder of the investment group Apollo, as well Hollywood actors Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett.
Many stock investors had already been burned by the IPOs of Blackstone, Fortress Investment Group and Apollo.
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Most of the other big private equity firms, like the Carlyle Group, Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management, KKR and Oaktree Capital Management, now trade publicly.
Lee Partners, Texas Pacific Group and Apollo Management, either dropped out or didn't submit a bid at all by the end of 2006, when Tribune hoped to make a decision on selling.
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