Michael Gray Jr., Byron Ireland rally Nicholls to 76-75 victory over LouisianaFootball season is in full swing, and Arsenal and Chelsea fans were recently treated to an exhilarating watch party, courtesy of Chivas Regal, the official whisky sponsor of Arsenal FC. The event was charged with excitement, from the thrill of the first goal to the final whistle—an unforgettable way to kickstart the week for everyone in attendance. Creating a signature experience for fans across Nigeria, the watch parties were hosted in Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Abuja. The highly anticipated clash between Arsenal and Chelsea sparked even more excitement, especially since Arsenal had claimed a sweeping 5-0 victory in their last encounter. Fans couldn’t help but wonder: who would emerge victorious this time? The match kept viewers on the edge of their seats. Arsenal took the lead with the first goal by Martinelli at the 60-minute mark, but Chelsea’s Pedro Neto soon leveled the playing field with an equalizing shot. Despite strong contributions from both teams, the game ended in a 1-1 tie, leaving Chelsea and Arsenal trailing Liverpool and Manchester City in the league standings. The halftime break kept spirits high with engaging activities, including football trivia and ball toss games that rewarded participants with exclusive Chivas-branded merchandise. The event featured notable personalities such as media host Ehiz Dada Boy, actor Efa Iwara, sports enthusiast Pooja, and influencer Excel Joab, creating an evening of lively camaraderie. Chivas promises even more surprises as the season unfolds, leaving fans eager for the next watch party’s exciting moments.LIVERPOOL, England -- Liverpool maintained their 100% start to the UEFA Champions League with a 2-0 win against Real Madrid on Wednesday that leaves the reigning European champions in danger of missing out qualification for the knockout stages. Second-half goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Cody Gakpo at Anfield sealed Liverpool's fifth successive Champions League victory and moved Arne Slot's team two points clear at the top of the table. It was the Reds' first win against Los Blancos in the Champions League since March 3, 2009, ending an eight-game winless streak against the Spanish capital club (a span that included seven losses). But Real, who won the Champions League for a record 15th time against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley last season, have now lost three of five games so far and sit in 24th position -- the final qualification spot for February's playoff stage. Kylian Mbappé had the chance to equalise for Madrid when he had a penalty saved by Liverpool keeper Caoimhín Kelleher while the scoreline was 1-0 to the home side. The penalty drama also affected Liverpool, with Mohamed Salah sending his spot kick wide on 70 minutes. Editor's Picks The cold, hard numbers behind Kylian Mbappé's malaise at Real Madrid 1d Alex Kirkland Problems are piling up for Real Madrid, from thin squad to $1bn stadium 3d Alex Kirkland and Rodrigo Faez From Salah to Sterling, Ian Darke's most impressive and disappointing players 6d Ian Darke Real now face a tough trip to UEFA Europa League champions Atalanta on Matchday 6 next month as they attempt to kickstart their hopes of qualifying for the next stage of the competition. -- Mark Ogden Mbappé and Salah both miss, Mbappé's is costly Nobody will have been more pleased to see Salah skew his second-half penalty wide at Anfield than Mbappé, having seen his own spot kick saved nine minutes earlier. Salah's miss took at least some of the spotlight off Mbappé, after a truly disastrous evening for the Madrid forward. This was the France international's s biggest opportunity yet to impress in a Madrid shirt, after a shaky start to life at the Bernabeú. Instead, it was his season so far in microcosm. In 90 minutes, Mbappé had only two shots, one on target, and that was the penalty. He attempted just 22 passes -- only Ferland Mendy had fewer -- completing 16 of them. Scoring the penalty could have changed his night, and would have had Madrid right back in the game at 1-1. Instead, Mbappé fluffed his lines. His performance will be scrutinised in the Madrid media on Thursday, and the fans' patience won't last forever. Salah's miss was less costly -- even if it was a worse effort -- and might be forgotten soon enough, given Liverpool's win. But it wasn't what he needed, either, in the week he admitted he's "more out than in" at Anfield having not received a new contract offer. Salah is a Liverpool legend, though, and his team are flying domestically and in Europe. Mbappé is just starting out at Madrid, and with three defeats out of five, their Champions League campaign is already spiraling out of control. -- Alex Kirkland Kelleher lives up to Klopp-given nickname If Kelleher's Liverpool career to date could be summed up by a single moment, then his superb penalty save to deny Mbappé would perhaps be it. A bystander for much of the evening against Madrid, the man Jürgen Klopp once dubbed the "best No. 2 in the world" lived up to his title once again, becoming the first goalkeeper to deny the Frenchman from the spot in the Champions League and laying the foundations for Liverpool to secure a famous win against their European nemesis. In truth, Kelleher can no longer be dubbed a "No. 2." He has featured more for Liverpool than Alisson Becker in 2024, owing to the Brazilian's ongoing struggles with a hamstring problem. Once again on Wednesday night, he didn't let Slot's side down, making a handful of late saves to preserve the hosts' clean sheet. While the impending arrival of Giorgi Mamardashvili from Valencia surely means Kelleher's long-term future lies away from Anfield, his enduring brilliance in Alisson's absence means that if, or when, he does depart he will do so as a cult hero. -- Beth Lindop STREAM ESPN FC DAILY ON ESPN+ Dan Thomas is joined by Craig Burley, Shaka Hislop and others to bring you the latest highlights and debate the biggest storylines. Stream on ESPN+ (U.S. only). Bradley gives Alexander-Arnold a look into the future Trent Alexander-Arnold may have had an uncomfortable glimpse into the future while sitting on the Liverpool substitutes' bench as his teammates defeated Real Madrid. On the one hand, the Liverpool full-back will have seen Conor Bradley produce a stunning performance at right-back and show that he is more than capable of keeping Alexander-Arnold out of the team now that he is fully fit. And with endless speculation linking Alexander-Arnold with a free agent move to Real next summer if he fails to sign a new deal at Anfield, the 26-year-old might just have learned that the La Liga giants are a team in decline just six months after winning the Champions League and that a move to the Santiago Bernabeú may not be the dream it once seemed. This night was really all about Bradley, though, the impressive 21-year-old who was outstanding against Real. The Northern Ireland international set the tone with a crunching tackle on Mbappé in the first half that brought a huge cheer from The Kop. He went on to produce a rock-solid performance at full-back, as well as offering threat going forward. Bradley was only denied a goal when Thibaut Courtois produced a world-class save to keep out his second-half header from close range. If Liverpool are worried about losing Alexander-Arnold, they really shouldn't be. -- Ogden Bellingham feels Anfield's wrath Jude Bellingham delivered an outspoken news conference ahead of this game when he spoke of being singled out as a "scapegoat" after England 's failure to win Euro 2024. He also dismissed speculation that he almost joined Liverpool before signing for Real Madrid in 2023 because Real were on a "different level." Bellingham's comments about Liverpool led to him being booed by the Anfield crowd whenever he touched the ball. It seemed to have an impact on his performance because the 21-year-old was poor against Slot's side. Liverpool midfielders Mac Allister and Ryan Gravenberch dominated Bellingham, both in physical challenges and with the ball, and he spent the majority of the game struggling to make an impact. In Bellingham's defence, he was playing in a deeper role than he typically enjoys. Carlo Ancelotti deployed him on the left of midfield behind a front three of Mbappé, Brahim Díaz and Arda Güler . Just as with England at Euro 2024, though, when the game passes Bellingham by, he offers little and his frustration becomes evident. This game was another example, and it couldn't have been more badly timed considering Bellingham had complained about his treatment after the Euros. When a player talks about being misjudged or harshly treated, the best way to prove a point is usually by doing it on the pitch. At Anfield, he ended up being outshone by two of the players Liverpool recruited after pulling out of the race to sign him 18 months ago. -- Ogden

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The final round of the Australian Open is underway at Kingston Heath as the local at the pointy of the leaderboards attempt to break a five-year drought in men’s, and a ten-year one in the women’s, since an Australian has won the national open. Watch every round of the PGA Tour LIVE & Exclusive on Fox Sports, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. In the men’s, Lucas Herbert is tied for the overnight lead at -14 alongside American Ryggs Johnston. Herbert, Johnston and 22-year-old Australian professional Jasper Stubbs will play together in the final group - which tees off at 12:50pm AEDT. Stubbs, who played in The Masters and The Open this year courtesy of winning the Asia-Pacific Amateur at Royal Melbourne last year, turned professional at the start of the PGA Tour of Australasia season and is one of five players who will start the day two shots behind the leaders. AUS OPEN GOLF LEADERBOARD: Stay up to date with the live scores here That group includes defending champion Joaquin Niemann, who burst into contention with a stunning eight-under par third round, as well as Australian PGA champion Elvis Smylie, who is chasing a rare double of winning Australia’s two premier tournaments back-to-back. A shot further back is Australian LIV Golf star Marc Leishman, and with the wind blowing strongly at Kingston Heath, anyone could jump from the pack with 19 players starting the final round at -8 or better. In the women’s, Korean superstar Jiyai Shin also leads at -14 with a two shot advantage. The former world number one is a major champion, Australian Open champion and has won 64 times around the world as professional. It is no wonder she is called ‘The Final Round Queen’, and Australian Hannah Green will have to produce some of the shot making that led to her winning three times on the LPGA Tour this year to reel her in. Green starts the day at -12 after a stellar third round on Saturday which included a steak of making six consecutive birdies. Rounding out the all-star final group is two-time defending champion Ashleigh Buhai, the South African is striving to become the first woman to win three straight Australian Opens. Minjee Lee was well-back from the leaders, starting the day at -1, while her brother Min Woo and the tournament’s biggest name Cameron Smith are also well off the pace. The younger Lee sibling teed off at 8am as he was -3 overnight, and Smith had even earlier alarm, teeing off at 7.22am as he was -2 after his dreams of a maiden Australian Open crown unravelled with a horror back nine on Friday before another underwhelming showing yesterday. HOW TO WATCH Watch all the Australian Open action on Kayo and Foxtel, with every big moment broadcast on Fox Sports channel 503 - which has become a dedicated Australian Open channel for the week. Coverage begins at 12pm AEDT each day. FOLLOW ALL THE FINAL DAY ACTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN OPEN IN THE BLOG BELOW! Can’t see the blog? Click here!Chiefs keep winning despite an O-line problem that has wreaked havoc with their offense

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Caprock Group LLC bought a new position in shares of Stellantis ( NYSE:STLA – Free Report ) during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund bought 22,735 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $318,000. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in STLA. Dnca Finance bought a new stake in Stellantis during the second quarter worth approximately $75,331,000. Janus Henderson Group PLC grew its position in Stellantis by 67.5% in the first quarter. Janus Henderson Group PLC now owns 5,518,060 shares of the company’s stock worth $157,558,000 after buying an additional 2,223,151 shares during the last quarter. AustralianSuper Pty Ltd grew its position in Stellantis by 26.3% in the third quarter. AustralianSuper Pty Ltd now owns 9,089,415 shares of the company’s stock worth $125,597,000 after buying an additional 1,894,146 shares during the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP grew its position in Stellantis by 19.0% in the second quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 8,925,189 shares of the company’s stock worth $177,163,000 after buying an additional 1,425,814 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Electron Capital Partners LLC grew its position in Stellantis by 218.6% in the second quarter. Electron Capital Partners LLC now owns 1,803,506 shares of the company’s stock worth $35,800,000 after buying an additional 1,237,440 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 59.48% of the company’s stock. Stellantis Stock Up 1.6 % Stellantis stock opened at $13.05 on Friday. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $13.77 and its 200-day simple moving average is $17.25. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.26, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a current ratio of 1.14. Stellantis has a 12 month low of $12.68 and a 12 month high of $29.51. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth Check Out Our Latest Report on STLA About Stellantis ( Free Report ) Stellantis N.V. engages in the design, engineering, manufacturing, distribution, and sale of automobiles and light commercial vehicles, engines, transmission systems, metallurgical products, mobility services, and production systems worldwide. It provides luxury and premium vehicles; sport utility vehicles; American and European brand vehicles; and parts and services, as well as retail and dealer financing, leasing, and rental services. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Stellantis Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Stellantis and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .KBC Group NV Grows Stake in Cable One, Inc. (NYSE:CABO)

KYIV (AP) – At football games in Ukraine, crowd sizes are determined by the capacity of the nearest bomb shelter. For the first time since the war began in 2022, the Ukrainian Premier League is holding a full season with fans present, as martial-law bans on public gatherings have been eased. Despite the constant threat of airstrikes, Dynamo Kyiv supporters eagerly snap up the 1,700 tickets available for each home game at the 16,000-seat Valeriy Lobanovskyi Stadium. Many fans are keen to experience a rare moment of calm, free from the country’s traditionally intense sporting rivalries. While the war forced Dynamo to relocate its home matches in the Europa League to Hamburg, Germany, it uses its home stadium in Kyiv for domestic league matches. Vitalii Kozubra brought his nine-year-old son Makar to watch Dynamo, a title contender, face mid-table Zorya Luhansk. “Even though there’s a war going on, this is something people can enjoy together,” Kozubra said, noting the friendly atmosphere at the stadium, where Zorya fans mingled with locals. Makar marveled at the difference between watching a game in person and on television. As the players took the field, all 22 of them draped in Ukrainian yellow-and-blue flags, the crowd, which included servicemen and families with children, erupted in applause. The stadium was alive with the sound of players’ exertion and the thud of the ball. Children rushed to the touchline for autographs, drawn by the few foreign players from Brazil, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Panama who have chosen to remain despite the war. Zorya wasn’t booed once. Football players of Dynamo Kyiv and Zorya Luhansk great each other before a game. PHOTO: AP Vitalii Buyalskiy of Dynamo Kyiv and Oleksiy Khakhliyov of Zorya Luhansk compete for the ball. PHOTO: AP Ukrainian servicemen play football. PHOTO: AP Young fans ask for autographs after a match. PHOTO: AP SIRENS AND SHELTERS Ukraine’s 16-team top-flight league has managed to continue, despite increasing challenges. Matches are scheduled for early afternoon due to frequent power outages and the logistical challenges of travelling across Europe’s second-largest country during war. When air raid sirens interrupt play – sometimes for hours – players and fans alike head to shelters as alarms blare from loudspeakers and thousands of mobile phones. “This season, we’ve been lucky in Kyiv, with no air alarms during our home games,” said Dynamo club spokesman Andrii Shakhov. “But it’s a different story for away games... The longest one we had lasted four hours because of four air alarms.” Ukrainian football players are subject to the draft at age 25 but clubs can apply for exemptions under business protection rules. Two teams currently play permanently outside their home field due to the war, amid broader disruption, while two others withdrew after fighting started due to stadium damage. The country’s football tradition dates back to its Soviet past, when it was a football powerhouse, producing top-tier players and coaches. In the 1980s, fan movements often became expressions of Ukrainian identity. After 1991, football continued to be a source of national pride through years of political and financial turmoil. Ukraine reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 World Cup and co-hosted the 2012 European Championships. At home, supporters’ groups have set aside violent rivalries for more than a decade, ever since they united to back protesters during the deadly 2013-14 uprisings. “Dexter,” a red-bearded Dynamo supporter and civilian contractor for the military, explained why the truce among rival fan groups still holds. “It became necessary because we needed to unite against a common enemy. These internal conflicts lost their relevance when people from rival fan groups ended up fighting together in the same military units,” he said, while walking his dog along the banks of the Dnipro River. RIVALRIES SET ASIDE He added that fan organisations are involved in nearly every aspect of the war effort, from active combat duty to fundraising, veteran support, and providing technical skills like computer programming to the military. FOOTBALL FANS AT THE FRONT Eight hours east of Kyiv, in the Kharkiv region, servicemen from the 3rd Assault Brigade played a match on a field near bombed-out buildings. Many of these fighters had been recruited through football-related channels and acquaintances. “Organised fans play a huge role in this war because they’re highly motivated,” said a serviceman with the call sign “Shtahet”, a Dynamo supporter currently on deployment. Combat medic “Poltava” noted that football remains a vital morale booster. “We get together whenever we can and rent spaces to play,” he said. “There’s not much entertainment here, so football is our only joy.”

What Sherrod Brown says went wrong in his Senate race — and for DemocratsOver the weekend, Blake Lively elevated herself into the pantheon of famous Hollywood women who have taken monumental, #MeToo-inspired stands against sexual predation in the entertainment industry. The 37-year-old star not only publicly detailed her own painful experience with sexual harassment on the set of her movie, “It Ends With Us,” in a legal complaint and in a viral New York Times story , she also chronicled the way she was allegedly targeted by a sophisticated social media “smear campaign” during the film’s release in August. The purpose of this campaign, allegedly orchestrated by cunning and craven Hollywood publicists, was to damage her reputation for the sake of advancing the career and the personal brand of her alleged harasser, co-star and director Justin Baldoni. In a statement to the New York Times, Lively valiantly said, “I hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted.” Nearly seven years ago, Lively also voiced her support for women taking a stand against sexual predators in Hollywood during the rise of the #MeToo movement. But unlike now, Lively’s purported advocacy for women speaking up against sexual misconduct was met with skepticism and even backlash. That’s because Lively had chosen to publicly support one of the industry’s most famous alleged predators, Woody Allen. Among other things, Lively praised Allen for his “very empowering” direction after she co-starred in his 2016 film “Cafe Society.” During press interviews for the film, she also refused to address the sexual assault allegations made against him by his own daughter, Dylan Farrow. Indeed, one prominent person speaking out against Lively in late 2017 and early 2018 was Dylan Farrow, who originally accused the filmmaker of molesting her in 1992, when she was 7 years old. While Dylan Farrow praised women in the industry for “taking a stand” to effect change in Hollywood, she also said that Lively and other celebrity #MeToo advocates who had worked with her father were actually complicit “in the culture they are fighting against.” “The people who join this movement without taking any kind of personal accountability for the ways in which their own words and decisions have helped to perpetuate the culture they are fighting against, that’s hard for me to reconcile,” Dylan Farrow said in a statement to the media at the time. When Lively was initially cast in Allen’s “Cafe Society” in 2015, the former TV actor no doubt relished the chance to gain serious acting credibility by working with Allen, then still revered as one of world cinema’s best-loved auteurs. A year later, after “Cafe Society” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Lively gushed about joining an elite class of actresses who could be considered Allen “muses,” telling Hamptons magazine that it was “really cool to work with a director who’s done so much.” But it was during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival that public opinion began to turn against Allen, and Lively began to feel some heat. The change was led by Allen’s own son, journalist Ronan Farrow, whose later reporting on the alleged sex crimes of producer Harvey Weinstein helped spur the #MeToo movement. In a stunning May 2016 op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter, Farrow reminded movie fans — and A-list stars like Lively — that his father had allegedly “groomed” his sister with inappropriate touching as a young girl and sexually assaulted her when she was 7. The allegations against Allen first became public in the 1990s, amid his stormy break-up from longtime girlfriend Mia Farrow, Ronan and Dylan’s mother. As Allen vehemently denied the molestation allegations involving Dylan, his “PR engine revved into action,” Ronan Farrow explained in his op-ed. Similar to what Lively would say about Baldoni, Allen had savvy and aggressive publicists working on his behalf to spin a narrative to the public that was favorable to him and harmful to his alleged victim, according to Ronan Farrow. In Allen’s case, this narrative sought to enlist journalists and news outlets in discrediting his own daughter’s account of being molested, Ronan Farrow said. Also similar to Baldoni, Allen’s aim was to salvage his reputation and to continue his career as a filmmaker. Ronan Farrow described how this narrative held power for more than 20 years, largely because media outlets, fearful of Allen’s power in the industry, didn’t want to consider his sister’s side of the story. The journalist described his sister’s “agony in the wake of powerful voices sweeping aside her allegations” and “the press often willing to be taken along for the ride.” He said that it also hurt his sister to see A-list actors, some of whom were personal heroes, line up to star in his movies. The day after Ronan Farrow published his op-ed piece, Vulture asked Lively for a comment on being one of the actors who presumably hurt Dylan Farrow by lining up to star in her father’s movies. She demurred, saying she hadn’t read the piece. “I think that’s dangerous,” she said. “I don’t want to speak about something I haven’t read.” Lively also told the Los Angeles Times that any news coverage of Allen’s personal life didn’t register with her when she was making the movie. “I could (only) know my experience,” she said. “And my experience with Woody is he’s empowering to women.” Lively came to Allen’s defense in other ways by ripping into a Cannes official who made a joke about Dylan Farrow’s allegations before the “Cafe Society” screening, Variety reported. She said film festivals are meant to be “beautiful” events for the purpose of celebrating movies and artists, and they shouldn’t be tarnished by someone making jokes about “something (like sexual abuse) that wasn’t funny.” More than a year later, Ronan Farrow, writing for the New Yorker, joined New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor in publishing investigative stories that revealed Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long history of alleged sexual harassment and assault against scores of women. The Weinstein revelations quickly spurred many other women to come forward about sexual misconduct perpetrated by powerful men in media. As the #MeToo movement took off, Dylan Farrow gained a new platform to re-litigate her claims against her father in the court of public opinion. She wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, in which she called out Lively, Kate Winslet and Greta Gerwig for choosing to work with her father but then refusing to “answer questions about it.” Now in 2024, Lively has become a #MeToo-style hero by going public with her allegations against Baldoni. That status was helped by the fact that her claims were detailed by the New York Times report, in a report co-authored by Twohey, one of the reporters who originally broke the Weinstein story. As with Lively’s bombshell legal complaint filed in California, the Times story also focuses on the alleged efforts by Baldoni and his publicists to damage Lively’s reputation, in order to pre-empt her claims about his sexually inappropriate behavior on set. But over the years, Lively still has not addressed her support for Allen or her refusal to discuss Dylan Farrow’s allegations. Unlike Greta Gerwig and some other actors, she also has not voiced regret for choosing to work with Allen, even after Ronan Farrow presented evidence of his father’s P.R. efforts to discredit his own daughter. But given Lively’s recent, allegedly harrowing experience with Baldoni, maybe she’ll finally feel willing to speak up about whether she regrets working for Allen.

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Jennison Associates LLC acquired a new stake in shares of ACI Worldwide, Inc. ( NASDAQ:ACIW – Free Report ) during the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund acquired 14,849 shares of the technology company’s stock, valued at approximately $756,000. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Hood River Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in shares of ACI Worldwide by 44.9% in the second quarter. Hood River Capital Management LLC now owns 2,400,340 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $95,029,000 after acquiring an additional 743,595 shares during the last quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. boosted its stake in ACI Worldwide by 144.1% during the 3rd quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 482,740 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $24,571,000 after purchasing an additional 285,001 shares during the last quarter. Swedbank AB grew its holdings in shares of ACI Worldwide by 228.6% during the second quarter. Swedbank AB now owns 328,600 shares of the technology company’s stock worth $13,009,000 after buying an additional 228,600 shares in the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in shares of ACI Worldwide by 1.5% in the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 13,400,916 shares of the technology company’s stock valued at $445,044,000 after buying an additional 196,099 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Great Lakes Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of ACI Worldwide in the second quarter worth about $7,696,000. 94.74% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. ACI Worldwide Price Performance NASDAQ:ACIW opened at $58.64 on Friday. ACI Worldwide, Inc. has a 52 week low of $24.76 and a 52 week high of $59.60. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $51.80 and its two-hundred day moving average is $44.97. The company has a market capitalization of $6.15 billion, a P/E ratio of 27.79 and a beta of 1.19. The company has a quick ratio of 1.56, a current ratio of 1.56 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.72. Insider Buying and Selling Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades A number of analysts have commented on the stock. Needham & Company LLC reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of ACI Worldwide in a report on Friday, August 2nd. Canaccord Genuity Group increased their price target on ACI Worldwide from $40.00 to $60.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, August 2nd. Stephens lowered ACI Worldwide from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Friday, October 18th. DA Davidson downgraded ACI Worldwide from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and raised their target price for the stock from $57.00 to $60.00 in a research note on Friday, November 8th. Finally, StockNews.com cut shares of ACI Worldwide from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Saturday, August 3rd. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $49.50. View Our Latest Research Report on ACI Worldwide About ACI Worldwide ( Free Report ) ACI Worldwide, Inc, a software company, develops, markets, installs, and supports a range of software products and solutions for facilitating digital payments in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Banks, Merchants, and Billers. The company offers ACI Acquiring, a solution to process credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions, deliver digital innovation, and fraud prevention; ACI Issuing, a digital payment issuing solution for new payment offering; and ACI Enterprise Payments Platform that provides payment processing and orchestration capabilities for digital payments. Featured Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding ACIW? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for ACI Worldwide, Inc. ( NASDAQ:ACIW – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for ACI Worldwide Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for ACI Worldwide and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .IPL AUCTION 2025: Rishabh Pant Shatters IPL Record! Can He Live Up To The Hype?