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Advisors Asset Management Inc. lifted its stake in ePlus inc. ( NASDAQ:PLUS – Free Report ) by 43.9% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,121 shares of the software maker’s stock after purchasing an additional 342 shares during the quarter. Advisors Asset Management Inc.’s holdings in ePlus were worth $110,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of PLUS. Quest Partners LLC increased its stake in ePlus by 29.3% during the 3rd quarter. Quest Partners LLC now owns 14,097 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $1,386,000 after purchasing an additional 3,195 shares in the last quarter. Entropy Technologies LP purchased a new stake in shares of ePlus during the third quarter valued at $335,000. WCM Investment Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of ePlus by 3.3% during the third quarter. WCM Investment Management LLC now owns 479,731 shares of the software maker’s stock valued at $47,407,000 after buying an additional 15,294 shares during the last quarter. Atria Investments Inc purchased a new position in ePlus in the 3rd quarter worth $202,000. Finally, Assetmark Inc. lifted its position in ePlus by 3.8% during the 3rd quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 18,943 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $1,863,000 after acquiring an additional 699 shares during the period. 93.80% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. ePlus Stock Performance Shares of NASDAQ PLUS opened at $80.86 on Friday. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $92.75 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $86.20. The stock has a market cap of $2.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.06, a PEG ratio of 1.84 and a beta of 1.13. The company has a current ratio of 1.85, a quick ratio of 1.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01. ePlus inc. has a 12 month low of $56.33 and a 12 month high of $106.98. Insider Buying and Selling Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Separately, StockNews.com lowered ePlus from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, November 15th. Read Our Latest Report on ePlus About ePlus ( Free Report ) ePlus inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides information technology (IT) solutions that enable organizations to optimize their IT environment and supply chain processes in the United States and internationally. It operates through two segments, Technology and Financing. The Technology segment offers hardware, perpetual and subscription software, maintenance, software assurance, and internally provided and outsourced services; managed services or infrastructure and cloud; and enhanced maintenance support, service desk, storage-as-a-service, cloud hosted and managed, and managed security services; and professional, staff augmentation, cloud consulting, consulting, and security services. Further Reading Five stocks we like better than ePlus Why Invest in 5G? How to Invest in 5G Stocks The Latest 13F Filings Are In: See Where Big Money Is Flowing What is the S&P/TSX Index? 3 Penny Stocks Ready to Break Out in 2025 Dividend King Proctor & Gamble Is A Buy On Post-Earnings Weakness FMC, Mosaic, Nutrien: Top Agricultural Stocks With Big Potential Receive News & Ratings for ePlus Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for ePlus and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. are emphasizing their ability to be flexible in responding to consumer demand in light of potential policy changes under President-elect Donald Trump's administration. The incoming administration could see the elimination of the Inflation Reduction Act's tax credit of up to $7,500 on plug-in vehicles, limits on the most aggressive fuel economy and carbon emission policies in the country's history passed by the Biden administration, greater influence from Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk potentially serving in his Cabinet, the renegotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement and a federal framework for self-driving vehicles. Such changes could slow consumer adoption of electric vehicles and elongate the automakers' recuperation of investments in that technology. "The writing is on the wall," said Daniel Ives, analyst at investment firm Wedbush Securities Inc. "They are going to have to peal back their EV strategy. Until everything is official, everyone will stay middle of the road, but big change is coming." Executives of these two Detroit crosstown rivals both said it's unclear exactly what the future will hold, but they expressed confidence in their companies' abilities to navigate that future long-term. GM Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson emphasized manufacturing flexibility to switch between building internal combustion engine vehicles and EVs. Meanwhile, John Lawler, Ford's chief financial officer and vice chairman, said the Dearborn automaker's strength lies in its existing offerings of gas and diesel-powered vehicles, EVs and hybrids. Ford is forecasting with various models about potential scenarios, Lawler said. The company already understands that if the tax credits were to end, EV demand and production will decrease unless the company can find a way to bring prices down, though it's already losing money on its EVs. The company last week paused production on its F-150 Lightning truck in Dearborn into the new year to preserve profitability as it projects a $5 billion loss on its Model e EV division. It, however, has eliminated more than $1 billion in costs within the division this year. Consumers aren't willing to pay a premium on EVs, though they are for hybrids, added Sherry House, Ford's vice president of finance and incoming CFO. "What we do is provide choice: ICE, multi-energy hybrid, plug-in, HEV, others," Lawler said. "There'll be other multi-energy choices coming and then EVs, so the strategy is not going to change. We are going to provide consumers choice. They can choose the best propulsion system that fits their duty cycle." Lawler added: "Of course, the IRA plays into it, etc., all that's going to change. So, what we're doing is we're modeling various scenarios, and we will adjust accordingly. We're in pretty good shape, because we do have hybrid vehicles, and we can pivot." GM, on the other hand, doesn't have hybrids in North America after planning to go all in on EVs only to reverse that decision once EV adoption missed expectations. The automaker is planning to reintroduce plug-in hybrids in 2027, because that's the first year of the Biden administration's greenhouse gas tailpipe emission limits. GM also is more vulnerable to a tax credit elimination. Chevrolet has five vehicles that qualify for the full $7,500 and Cadillac has one. Executives expect to produce and wholesale about 200,000 EVs by the end of 2024. Ford has one vehicle that qualifies for the $7,500 tax credit, one for a $3,750 subsidy and luxury brand Lincoln has one eligible for a $3,750 incentive. Jacobson emphasized that the Detroit automaker will continue to reduce its costs and simplify products. The automaker last week announced more layoffs: 1,000 hourly and salaried employees globally in various departments, with a majority working out of the Detroit automaker's Global Technical Center in Warren. "We're going to continue to scale up with demand on the platform that we've established, and we're going to continue to lean into that, because we do believe that EV penetration is a long-term objective," Jacobson said. "We've got to make sure that we have reasonable regulation alongside where consumers are and where demand is. The technology is going to continue to win people over, but we've got to be able to produce vehicles that our customers want, and we have the unique position ... of having a lot of flexibility embedded into our operation, to be able to respond to where consumer demand is." He specifically referenced the Spring Hill Manufacturing plant in Tennessee. It's a flexible plant that produces both gas-powered and electric vehicles on the same line. Workers there build the Cadillac Lyriq EV and Cadillac XT5 and XT6 SUVs as well as Honda Motor Co. Ltd. EVs. Jacobson added that GM will work with the incoming administration on the best path forward while focusing on cutting costs. GM has a cost-reduction program with a $2 billion goal it's expecting to hit by the end of 2024. Ford is focused on further reducing costs, too. It has eliminated $2 billion is expenditures this year, and the company on Wednesday announced 4,000 layoffs in Europe by 2027. The company has a $7 billion cost disadvantage to its competition, Lawler said: about $4 billion from warranty costs, $2 billion from materials and $1 billion from footprint. "That's the big unlock for us," Lawler said, "when we think about these product launches." Footprint will change over time, Lawler said, though he noted a heavy U.S. footprint could become more of an advantage in light of potential increased tariffs on Mexican-built vehicles and components. "When we talk about some of our cost disadvantage versus competition, that's part of it," he said, "but maybe that becomes a positive going forward." Meanwhile, with Tesla prioritizing its large-margin business of self-driving semi-autonomous software, creating national standards for the deployment and regulation of that technology could be a priority. Ford especially has emphasized data and telematics software offerings with its Ford Pro commercial business. It also has been expanding the number of models on which consumers can use its BlueCruise hands-free highway driving technology, whose prices it slashed in October. GM has a similar Super Cruise technology. It's also rebooting Cruise LLC, its self-driving business, after a pedestrian crash in October 2023 led to major safety scrutiny. Cruise has started supervised driving in multiple markets. GM recently named Marc Whitten, a former Amazon executive and founding engineer at Xbox, as its new CEO. Cruise was a bragging point for GM at its Investor Day in 2021. Executives boasted the unit could deliver annual revenue of $50 billion by decade's end, helping to double the automaker's revenues to about $280 billion by 2030. At its October 2024 Investor Day event, GM CEO Mary Barra said the company would be disciplined with its investments in Cruise and that it was having discussions with potential partners. "For people that are worried about the future, I don't think GM goes to zero If Cruise isn't successful," Jacobson said. "It's a case of: Can we do what we've been doing really well, and is there a growth story attached to it that comes with software? So we're really prioritizing software execution and getting the vehicles to the level where they can support a whole host of over the-air upgrades. That takes a little bit of time, but it's progress that we're making." Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!

Netflix ( NFLX ) entered the NFL live-streaming arena with a spectacular debut on Christmas Day, setting a new streaming record for the league. Preliminary Nielsen data shows an average U.S. audience of more than 24 million for each of the two holiday matchups. The Kansas City Chiefs’s win over the Pittsburgh Steelers pulled in 24.1 million viewers on average, while 24.3 million tuned in to see the Baltimore Ravens defeat the Houston Texans. Adding to the excitement, the Ravens-Texans game featured a show-stopping halftime performance by Beyoncé alongside her daughter, Blue Ivy. While Netflix was the primary platform for viewers, some tuned in through local broadcasts in team markets or via the NFL’s NFL+ streaming service. The event surpassed the previous NFL streaming record of 23 million viewers for a January playoff game on Peacock. Smooth steaming and big wins for Netflix The success of Netflix’s NFL debut wasn’t just about the numbers. The stream was free of major technical glitches, a marked improvement over issues faced during last month’s Jake Paul-Mike Tyson boxing event on the platform. | “Bringing our members this record-breaking day of two NFL games was the best Christmas gift we could have delivered,” said Bela Bajaria , Netflix’s chief content officer. NFL executives were equally enthusiastic. “The quality of the stream was fabulous, the production went off tightly,” said Brian Rolapp, the league’s chief media and business officer. “This further convinces us that Christmas is a great football day.” Expanding horizons in live-event streaming Netflix’s NFL deal is part of the streaming giant’s broader push into live events to bolster its advertising revenue. The league’s agreement with Netflix spans three years and allows for one or two games to be streamed next Christmas, depending on the schedule. The move into live sports streaming is just the beginning for Netflix. In January, the platform will start live-streaming WWE Raw as part of a decade-long partnership with World Wrestling Entertainment. Netflix has had a strong year , with its stock up 91% year-to-date, positioning it for its best performance since 2015. This growth reflects increased revenue and profit, with projections indicating a $39 billion in 2024 revenue and $8.7 billion in net profit, up 15% and 60% respectively from 2023. The company’s expansion into live sports, such as NFL games and the FIFA Women’s World Cup, has contributed to its solid performance, making it one of the top-performing stocks on the S&P 500.AP News Summary at 4:42 p.m. EST

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CLINTON, S.C. (AP) — Quante Jennings rushed for 190 yards and a tiebreaking touchdown as Presbyterian beat Butler 30-20 in a regular-season finale on Saturday. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * CLINTON, S.C. (AP) — Quante Jennings rushed for 190 yards and a tiebreaking touchdown as Presbyterian beat Butler 30-20 in a regular-season finale on Saturday. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? CLINTON, S.C. (AP) — Quante Jennings rushed for 190 yards and a tiebreaking touchdown as Presbyterian beat Butler 30-20 in a regular-season finale on Saturday. Collin Hurst threw for 172 yards and two scores and ran for another for the Blue Hose (6-6, 4-4 Pioneer League). Reagan Andrew threw for three touchdowns and was intercepted once for the Bulldogs (9-3, 5-3). Jennings’ 50-yard rush led to Hurst’s 17-yard touchdown pass to Worth Warner to tie the game at 20 midway through the third quarter. Presbyterian’s next possession began on the Butler 30 after a short punt from deep in Bulldogs territory, and five plays later Jennings scored from 10 yards out. Peter Lipscombe made it a 10-point lead with a field goal with 2:15 to go after a 15-play, 89-yard drive that took over 10 minutes. About a minute later, Andrew threw a 42-yard score to Ethan Loss but the Blue Hose recovered the onside kick. The Blue Hose defeated a ranked FCS team — Butler (9-3, 5-3) is No. 23 in the coaches poll — for the first time in its Division I history that began in 2007. ___ AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football. Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://apnews.com/cfbtop25 Advertisement

Wisconsin football starting quarterback Tyler Van Dyke’s 2024 season was cut short by a torn ACL suffered in the first half of the Badgers' 42-10 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide. Now, with only one game left in the season, questions still linger about Van Dyke’s future with the program. On Monday, head coach Luke Fickell offered an injury update that painted an uncertain picture for the graduate transfer’s potential comeback. “Yeah, I sat down with Tyler,” Fickell said when asked about Van Dyke’s plans. “He's got a long way to go, and his mindset is he thinks he would like to have another year. But he still doesn't know how well he's going to heal, how fast he's going to heal. He's obviously feeling better, and he's moving around, but there's still a long way to go. "I think that those are things that are on his mind.” Photo Credit: Christian Borman The uncertainty surrounding Van Dyke’s recovery timeline raises some concerns for both the player and the program's ability to plan for the future. Brought in as a graduate transfer from Miami, Van Dyke was expected to be a key piece in helping the Badgers offense take the next step under Fickell and former offensive coordinator Phil Longo . Before Van Dyke's injury, he showed flashes, completing 43-of-68 pass attempts for 422 yards, one touchdown through the air, and one score on the ground in three games. However, the injury derailed his season and added another layer of complexity to the Badgers’ plans moving forward. Absolute 🎯 from Tyler Van Dyke to Trech Kekahuna. pic.twitter.com/7hsTYQDxru As things stand, the Badgers QB room is staring down a potential overhaul after the season finale against Minnesota. Cole LaCrue has already announced his intent to enter the transfer portal when it opens on December 9, and uncertainty looms over the futures of both Braedyn Locke and Mabrey Mettauer, both brought in by Longo. Fickell’s comments indicate that Van Dyke is hopeful for a return in 2025, and he’s open to the idea. Still, the uncertainty surrounding his recovery means they'll likely have to explore the transfer portal to add stability to Wisconsin’s quarterback room. With the season finale approaching, the Badgers face an offseason full of questions at the most critical position — all while still needing to hire a new offensive coordinator. For more Wisconsin Badgers football and basketball content, subscribe to the Talkin' Badgers podcast. You can also follow Site Publisher Dillon Graff at @DillonGraff on X.