Across a 166-day span, the pace is roughly 0.2 stories per week. The busiest single day carried 2. Coverage clusters in markets, which accounts for 3 of those 5, with the remainder spread across 1 other category. Silver Lake is most often covered alongside Affinity Partners, which appears in 2 of these 5 stories.
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What the coverage shows about Silver Lake
Across a 166-day span, the pace is roughly 0.2 stories per week. The busiest single day carried 2. Coverage clusters in markets, which accounts for 3 of those 5, with the remainder spread across 1 other category. Silver Lake is most often covered alongside Affinity Partners, which appears in 2 of these 5 stories. Against the same-window beat baseline of 28% negative, this entity's 40% share is more negative. The 7 average consequence score is above the beat benchmark of 6.3 in the same window. Source depth averages 2.6 original sources per story, versus 2.8 across the same-window beat baseline. This profile follows 5 Finance stories mentioning Silver Lake across the period from March 4, 2026 to August 16, 2026.
Stories tracked
5
Per week
0.2
Negative
40%
Sources per story
2.6
Computed from the 5 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 3343 Finance stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Appears alongside
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Silver Lake. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
Workday shares surged nearly 18% on August 13, 2026 after reports that Silver Lake is in talks to acquire the HR and financial software firm in a deal exceeding $50 billion. The rally lifted Workday's market cap to $51.1 billion, but talks remain ongoing and no transaction is guaranteed.
A potential Silver Lake take-private of Workday would be among the largest software buyouts ever, reviving a dormant private equity software M&A market. The 18% single-day surge lifted Workday's market cap from $43B to $51.1B, offering a rare arbitrage and sentiment signal.
A JPMorgan-led banking syndicate has suspended a $5.3 billion debt offering for Qualtrics International after failing to secure investor interest. The deal's collapse highlights growing market skepticism toward legacy software business models in the face of rapid generative AI advancement.
The Trump administration has brokered a historic $10 billion 'transaction fee' to be paid to the U.S. Treasury by investors in the newly restructured U.S. TikTok entity. This unprecedented move, led by Vice President JD Vance, marks a significant shift toward an interventionist federal role in private sector dealmaking.
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