Sirius XM Holdings Inc

Ireland-based Covidien is a global healthcare leader that offers innovative medical technology solutions and patient care products to providers.

Citigroup posted a $3.4 billion net income, up by 8% with revenues of $19.6 billion, and the net interest margin increased to 2.91% for 3Q14.

The Pandora One service has 3.3 million subscribers and includes advertisement-free access, better audio quality, and reduced timeouts, and offers listeners with additional skips.

The third quarter of 2014 was by far the best for SiriusXM in terms of market penetration as well as increasing revenues.

In February, Comcast agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for ~$45.2 billion. This deal will create the largest cable provider in the U.S.

JANA Partners enhanced its position in from 0.17% to 4.23% last quarter General Motors.

In the last quarter, JANA Partners increased its position in QEP Resources to 5.34% from 2.80%.

On March 6, 2014, grocery store operators Safeway and Albertsons announced a merger agreement valued at approximately $9 billion.

First quarter results beat estimates despite a decline in earnings and revenue.

The company missed on 4Q13 earnings and revenue back in February.

Hillshire reported fiscal 4Q14 net sales of $1.1 billion, up 10.7% in comparison to the corresponding period last year.

On October 22, 2015, Sirius XM (SIRI) announced its 3Q15 earnings. The company had total paid subscribers at an all-time high of 29 million in 3Q15.

Pandora’s valuations are considered lofty at a 175.4x forward price to earnings ratio considering the company has struggled to earn profits.

Disney (DIS) plans to introduce a bundled video package that includes Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+. DIS plans to address password sharing on these services.

Sirius XM’s (SIRI) Pandora had a good year. SensorTower reports Pandora was the second-highest-grossing non-game app in the US in May, trailing dating app Tinder.

The streaming music market in the US continues to grow, which is good news for providers such as Apple (AAPL).

Apple (AAPL) recently overtook Spotify (SPOT) as the top streaming music provider in terms of premium subscribers in the United States.

There is a lot of investor attention focused on Apple’s (AAPL) service business.

Spotify (SPOT) wants to focus more of its attention this year on developing its podcast business.

Spotify (SPOT) is preparing to launch in India by the end of January.

Spotify (SPOT) has started testing a new type of ad format that allows brands to sponsor its Discover Weekly playlist.

Pandora Media tracks RPM for revenues from its ad-based and subscription service to gauge the company’s monetization of listening hours.

February saw high yield, or junk bond, activity pick up. Investors turned to high yield debt for higher yields. Most deals were to refinance older debt.

In 2013, Walgreen opened the nation’s first net zero energy store and is targeting energy production equal to or greater than its energy consumption.

JANA Partners disposed of a position in Juniper Networks (JNPR) that accounted for 2.65% of the fund’s 1Q14 portfolio. Juniper Networks sells high-performance network products and service offerings across routing, switching, and security to service provider and enterprise markets.

EOG’s 1Q14 profit was up 34% to $661 million, or $1.21 per share, up from $495 million, or $0.91 per share in the year ago quarter.

Pandora is facing investor concerns that its core business is slowing down on the basis of audience metrics, and that its current valuation is not justified.