#debt

"Outstanding long-term debt in the amount of $35.4 million matures in November 2025."

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_audit/2024-12-GSAFAC-0000353687

See details:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/oracle_18_billion_debt/

More than 70% of the Sycamore deal is financed through debt, meaning that the private equity firm doesn’t have “much skin in the game,” according to Parr. The risks of bankruptcy are especially troubling, according to the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. In the first quarter of this year alone, 70% of large U.S. corporate bankruptcies involved private equity-owned companies, despite private equity making up only 6.5% of the economy.

Im tired of wasting so much time, money, and energy driving into the office for no benefit. It's such a struggle to find parking and then a desk, let alone nearby your team. And then its a noisy, chaotic environment thats difficult to focus in, but told this is somehow a more productive environment when it just isn't. This clearly isnt about collaboration or productivity or there would be better implementation and feedback routes. The current RTO model is implemented so poorly its doomed to fail, yet employees are paying for bad leadership. I'm tired of adding an extra work day to my week in commuting, only to make it harder to do my real job. RTO is a bubble waiting to burst and I wish it would happen soon so we can figure out a better way forward

Reshuffling the deck 😆

Verizon just hiked its dividend again — 69 cents a share. On paper, that looks like strength. Shareholders get a little more cash, and the company gets to brag about “rewarding investors.”

But let’s be real. This isn’t strength. It’s a cover-up.

Verizon is carrying one of the biggest debt loads in corporate America. Billions locked into spectrum, billions owed in interest, billions still needed just to keep the network running. Growth? Flat. Competition? Relentless.

So why raise the dividend? Simple: it’s cheaper to keep investors quiet with cash than to deal with the bigger problem.

That’s not strategy. That’s theater. It’s a short-term distraction dressed up as long-term confidence. Debt doesn’t disappear because you slap a bigger payout on top. Real innovation doesn’t come from squeezing another cent into dividends.

This move doesn’t scream strength. It whispers fear. Fear that if the checks ever stop, the whole illusion collapses.

Dividends don’t hide debt — they just rent time.

Not everyone is excited about the deal. The Private Equity Stakeholder Project, which bills itself as a watchdog organization rooting out the impacts of private investment, said in March it was “very wary” of the deal, noting several of Sycamore’s portfolio companies have filed for bankruptcy.

The watchdog group further noted that Sycamore appears to be paying for the acquisition mostly using debt, which could leave Walgreens financially vulnerable down the line.

Kodak Dumps Pension Plan to Pay Off Massive $500 Million Debt.
https://tonernews.com/forums/topic/kodak-dumps-pension-plan-to-pay-off-500-million-massive-debt/

Here is a simplification for those who may be reading this and are not familiar with how some of these deals work.

TLDR, investors/company’s don’t give a sh-t about you. They only care about one thing. Money.

Someone essentially takes out a loan to buy a company, once they own the company. The person has a lower interest rate. Than the company, because they use the credit rating of the company to determine the interest that they put on the loan that they used to buy the company for themselves. Which gets put on the company’s balance sheet as a loan that the owe the person. Who not only makes a profit off of the interest they charged the company after the loan is payed off. Plus they own the company.

While all of this is happening they essentially strip it for parts (selling off anything that is profitable), cut as much costs as possible to maximize short/medium term profits. Slowly at first. Then faster and faster. Then after they shoved down as much money as they possibly could in their pants they then let the company go bankrupt to the creditors. Which by then is is usually the people who bought the company.

They then use the bankruptcy process to pay as much as the original loan back as they can. With as many fees and surcharges as possible.

When they liquidate this is the normal order that the company owes the money to get paid. (Different in certain states) It goes from

secured creditor (anything backed by assets)

Administrative costs ( the lawyers and all the costs from managing the company in bankruptcy this is a gold mine for them you will also see corporate, spend absurd, money on stupid sh-t that only makes their finances worse which is good because a lot of them at this point are secured creditors)

Priority Unsecured creditors. (supposed to be the workers you get around this though and kick the can to step 4. )

General unsecured creditors Everyone else (even you the worker) except the what is in step 5.

The stock holders aka the retail investors and the money they force you to invest in them through your retirement plan, because all the Whales are gone 99.9% of the time.

So when a company liquidates you could easily lose the wages you have already worked that have not been payed out and you are almost guaranteed to make penny’s on the dollar of what they owe you from your stock, this is very dependable on the debt burdens the company has).