Emerald Holding, Inc. (NYSE:EEX) is looking for acquisitions. During the company?s third quarter 2023 earnings conference call, Mr. Herve Sedky, President and Chief Executive Officer said that ?On the acquisition side, we continue to evaluate a large pool of potential acquisitions with the ability to bring Emerald scale and operational efficiencies to shows within a highly fragmented industry. This includes some smaller near-term opportunities in the active pipeline that we're working hard to get to the finish line?.

David Doft, Chief Financial Officer said that ?As for the balance sheet, we had $200.3 million in cash as of September 30, 2023, versus $204.7 million as of June 30 after funding the $8.6 million dividend on our convertible preferred stock. We believe our balance sheet strength and cash flow generation support our ability to opportunistically invest in and grow our business. We'll continue to balance capital allocation between acquisitions, investments in our own business, managing debt leverage and opportunistic share buybacks?.