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CARFAX announced the enhancement of its Total Loss Valuation Report to include automated calculation of taxes and fees, effective April 3, 2025. This upgrade, enabled through a partnership with Claim Toolkit, aims to help claims professionals more efficiently and accurately incorporate taxes and fees into final settlement amounts. Since its 2020 launch, the Total Loss Valuation Report has been widely adopted by insurance companies across the U.S., offering more accurate valuations for total loss claims and reducing cycle time.
The report uses CARFAX's VIN-specific History-Based Value, which derives pre-accident values from millions of used car listings, considering each vehicle's unique trim, options, mileage, condition, and location. Currently, the report is available in 48 states and the District of Columbia.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has announced it will release its first quarter 2025 financial results on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at approximately 7:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The company will host a conference call and webcast at 8:30 a.m. EDT on the same day.
The presentation will be led by Martina Cheung (President and CEO), Eric Aboaf (CFO), and Mark Grant (SVP, Investor Relations). The event will be accessible to all interested parties and may include forward-looking information. Presentation materials will be available on the company's Investor Relations website.
The webcast will be available live and as an archived replay through the company's IR website, with the replay accessible for one year. Telephone access is available for both domestic and international callers, with a recorded replay available until May 29, 2025.
S&P Global Market Intelligence's 2025 Private Equity and Venture Capital Outlook reveals a positive industry sentiment despite macroeconomic challenges. The survey shows 71% of private equity GPs and 67% of venture capital GPs are more optimistic about the deal environment compared to last year.
Key findings include: improved fundraising conditions with 44% of PE and 73% of VC GPs showing increased optimism; expanding retail investor access with over two-thirds of GPs offering or planning to offer opportunities to non-institutional investors; and significant GenAI adoption in investment workflows, particularly in due diligence (31%), valuation analysis (23%), and deal sourcing (22%).
Notable concerns include: 56% of LPs believing portfolio company valuations are too high, 73% of LPs worried about higher interest rates impacting PE returns, and 75% of LPs expressing skepticism about GP-led secondaries due to potential conflicts of interest.
S&P Global Mobility forecasts US auto sales to reach 1.45 million units in March 2025, representing a 16.3 million SAAR (seasonally adjusted annual rate). The first quarter SAAR average is expected to hit 16.0 million units, up from 15.5 million units a year ago.
Consumers and automakers are rushing to complete purchases before auto tariffs take effect in April, with dealers offering incentives to boost sales. The outlook for 2025 indicates sustained but moderate growth, though potential tariffs on imported vehicles and parts pose significant risks to demand and production.
Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales are projected to capture 8.5% market share in March, showing an increase from February. This uptick reflects market uncertainty as stakeholders adapt to potential changes in BEV incentives.
S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index reported a 4.1% annual gain in January 2025, up slightly from 4% in December 2024. The analysis reveals a two-part story: strong appreciation of 4.8% in the first half of the year, followed by a 0.7% decline in the second half due to high mortgage rates and affordability constraints.
New York led the 20-City Composite with a 7.7% annual increase, followed by Chicago (7.5%) and Boston (6.6%). Tampa was the only market showing decline (-1.5%). The month-over-month data showed modest gains, with the seasonally adjusted National Index rising 0.6%.
Market challenges include elevated mortgage rates impacting monthly payment burdens, pushing affordability to multi-decade lows in many regions. Inventory constraints persist, particularly in legacy metro areas with new construction. Sunbelt markets that experienced previous sharp increases have shown the most significant slowdowns.
S&P Global Market Intelligence has announced the launch of its Global Entity Linking and ESG Data Management Services, now available through Snowflake's AI Data Cloud. The new solution, part of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Insights Platform, leverages AI technology to aggregate and consolidate data from public and private sources.
The platform enables clients to create a unified view of their entities, hierarchies, and reference data, facilitating insights across front-, middle- and back-office teams. Customers can access validated, enriched, and reconciled data directly in their Snowflake environment using Secure Data Sharing.
According to Vikas Sahni, Head of Software for Enterprise Solutions, the platform is designed for maximum scalability and can effectively manage large volumes of sustainability data while offering flexible onboarding of new data sources.
S&P Global Commodity Insights has launched the first-in-market independent price assessments for mixed plastic waste in the United States and Europe through its Platts division. The announcement, made on March 12, 2025, coincides with the 40th anniversary of the World Petrochemical Conference.
The assessments will track process-ready mixed plastic waste prices, focusing on materials used in chemical recycling. According to S&P Global analysts, pyrolysis represents about 70% of the 230 chemical recycling projects they monitor. The company projects that US pyrolysis-based recycling capacity could exceed 600,000 mt/year by 2027, while Europe is expected to add 4-5 new pyrolysis units to its existing two plants.
The new price assessments will be expressed as delivered duty paid (DDP) in both US dollars and cents for the US market, and in US dollars and Euros for the European market. These assessments aim to bring transparency to the recycling value chain and potentially stimulate investments in recycling technologies.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has announced leadership changes with Ian P. Livingston being elected as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective May 7, 2025. Livingston will succeed Richard E. Thornburgh, who has served as Chairman since October 2020 and will retire in May 2025.
Livingston, a board member since 2020, brings extensive experience as former CEO of BT Group plc and UK Minister for Trade and Investment. He currently serves as Senior Independent Director at National Grid plc and Non-Executive Chair of the Business Growth Fund.
Additionally, Gay Huey Evans, Robert P. Kelly, and Douglas L. Peterson will retire from the Board and not seek reelection at the 2025 Annual Meeting. The transition follows Thornburgh's tenure, which included overseeing the 2022 IHS Markit acquisition and the 2024 CEO selection process.
S&P Global Market Intelligence has announced the integration of Visible Alpha into its S&P Capital IQ Pro platform, following the acquisition in May 2024. The update provides access to over 1 million data points from 7,300 companies across 170 industries.
The integration delivers consensus estimates and financials from more than 200 contributors, with an average of 156 line items per company. Users can access KPI, segment, income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statements with click-through capabilities to source documents and models.
The latest release also includes:
- Private company headcount data for 4.3+ million companies
- Expanded transaction valuations coverage
- Enhanced Document Intelligence features
Visible Alpha, founded in 2015, will be available as an add-on to S&P Capital IQ Pro, which processes over 135 billion raw data points annually into actionable intelligence.
S&P 500 companies set a new annual record for stock buybacks in 2024, reaching $942.5 billion, an 18.5% increase from 2023's $795.2 billion. Q4 2024 buybacks totaled $243.2 billion, up 7.4% from Q3 and 11.0% from Q4 2023.
The top 20 companies accounted for 49.0% of Q4 buybacks, with Apple leading at $26.5 billion. Total shareholder returns, including dividends, hit a record $410.8 billion in Q4 2024. The 1% buyback tax had minimal impact, reducing Q4 operating earnings by 0.37%.
By sector, Information Technology led with 26.2% of all buybacks, while Consumer Staples showed the largest increase, up 97.9%. 342 companies reported buybacks of at least $5 million in Q4, up from 332 in Q3 2024.
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