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A group of private-equity firms reached a deal to acquire Medline Industries Inc. that would value the medical-supply company at more than $30 billion, in one of the largest leveraged buyouts since the financial crisis. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Saturday that the group was close to a deal after beating out a rival …

Shares of Align Technology Inc. ALGN, -3.11% shed 3.11% to $548.64 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -2.14% falling 2.14% to 4,063.04 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.99% falling 1.99% to 33,587.66. Align Technology Inc. closed $98.56 short of …

Shares of Roper Technologies Inc. ROP, +0.81% inched 0.81% higher to $421.58 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.77% rising 0.77% to 4,128.80 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.89% rising 0.89% to 33,800.60. This was the stock’s second …

Shares of Align Technology Inc. ALGN, +0.22% inched 0.22% higher to $530.60 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.70% rising 0.70% to 3,940.59 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.32% rising 0.32% to 32,731.20. This was the stock’s second …

Industrial conglomerate General Electric hosted an investor “teach-in” in Chicago at a medical conference on Monday. The company reviewed its health-care franchise in a “post-biopharma” world. GE is selling its biopharma business to Danaher for $21 billion. Now investors have to evaluate the growth and margin potential of what is left. “GE Healthcare is a …

General Electric Co. aims to excite investors about its health-care division, a business that was tagged to be cast off but is now central to the company’s turnaround efforts. GE Healthcare, which is based in Chicago and employs more than 50,000 people, makes magnetic resonance imaging machines and other hospital equipment. At the depths of …