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Aswath Damodaran on the Difference Between Pricing a Company and Valuing One, and More

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It makes consultants and bankers really rich, but shareholders really poor. It took accountants about 18 years and in 2007 or eight, they decided, finally, if you gave options or restricted stock to your employees, that had to be treated as an expense and lowered income. But unfortunately, I think we're revere empire builders.

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Top Funds' Activity in Q1 2023

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Even those who are active investors reflect sentiment at depressed levels. They include funds run by legendary investors like Warren Buffet, Seth Klarman, Ron Baron and Ken Fisher. Activist investors like to make investments in companies where management lacks the proper incentives to maximize shareholder value.

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Meet the Under-the-Radar Stock That Outperformed Nvidia Over the Past Year, Thanks to a Whopping Gain of 142%

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But Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) proves that AI isn't the only way to deliver market-crushing returns for shareholders. The raging bull market is also driving significant demand for margin loans , which investors use to buy stocks and other financial assets. Interactive's clients were holding $64.2 That's better than the 10.5%

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Author Lawrence McDonald Chats With "Motley Fool Money"

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There's been a lot of different sectors, has been a capital retention management style where companies are holding capital and a lot of their building up cash and they want to return that cash to shareholders. We've been too much so and I think over the last 10 years, too much show on the buyback programs. Lawrence McDonald: Yes.

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