The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

When a company decides to split its shares, it is a reflection of the company's success and also indicates management's confidence in its future. This is a lucrative undertaking that gives the company tons of cash to fund other ventures and invest for interest income. The market loves a good stock split.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2024

A $50,000 investment, made in 2007 -- the same year the iPhone debuted -- would have grown to a cool $3.5 The company that made former CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer some of the richest men in the world is once again the largest company on the face of the Earth with a market cap topping $3 trillion.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2024

For example, including dividends paid, the benchmark S&P 500 has delivered just a hair north of a 10% annualized return since its official inception as a 500-company index in 1957. Its initial public offering (IPO) occurred on Jan. The company also gained momentum from 2016 through 2018 as cryptocurrency prices soared.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Let's look at how Cava is similar to Chipotle in its early days as a public company and why retail investors might want to listen to the Wall Street analysts touting this stock as the next big restaurant stock winner. For fiscal year 2023, the company's comparable-restaurant sales were up a robust 17.9%. in fiscal 2007.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2024

Here are three companies leading in important industries with bright futures ahead. Coupang Coupang (NYSE: CPNG) is a South Korea e-commerce company that has been taking a page out of Amazon 's playbook. Coupang has only been a public company for approximately two years, but the results over that time have been impressive.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

It''s a solid exit to a company that has lots of revs, is growing, and together will form a very formidable player in the data backup space--one that can definitely be a public company in the next couple of years. I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. I''m excited for the company''s next steps.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Dylan Lewis: We've got updates from tons of companies, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead and stocks on our radar, and we're going to dive right in because there are a lot of big names that reported this week. It's not a very high-growth company at this point, but you did have sales growth up 6%, 8% in the US.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

It already has high rates of 48-hour shipments -- 53% -- but instead of making that metric a priority, the company is focusing on cost efficiency while still offering speed for members who choose it. MercadoLibre has been a public company since 2007, and if you had invested $1,000 at its IPO, you'd have $62,000 today.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

From reflections on the volatility of 2007-08, to introducing new terms like "Big Dumb Money," and thoughts on building mental frameworks for investing, David reacts to his past essays with fresh insights for today's markets. I know 2007 wasn't great for investors. The first is, I didn't even remember 2007 almost zeroed out.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

Users were seeing that they had to be logged in in order to see tweets and the company was also limiting the number of posts that users could view in a day. This rate limiting that we're seeing is supposed to be temporary, but it seems to be in direct response to increased data scraping that we're seeing from AI companies.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Because you used to have a 3% mortgage, instead you have a 7% mortgage, which means that if you're a company or you're a commercial borrower, and some individuals just can't support that, then they're going to have to pay down or sell. Unemployment in 2007 was historic lows. Companies are looking for funding anywhere they can get it.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

One is that I never think I'm going to run for a public office. 3Dfx back in the day was the graphic card company. Here we are now in 2005, April, and I'm thinking, I think I'm actually going to recommend Nvidia now, the company that bought out my formerly beloved 3Dfx, the company that was really growing. That's right.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Now, I want to note four times over the past 20 years, the company split its stock, two for one in 2006, three for two in 2007, four for one in 2021, and 10 for one in 2024. By October 2007, the stock was making me look good as it tipped the scales at 120. Crazy, because for a company that today has a $1.4 Keep noticing.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

What companies can lose in a remote-only environment. We are a little bit of a unique product of those companies because we have a very different target audience. George Arison: I'm a company builder. I built three companies from scratch. That's the company called Taxi Magic. George Arison: Finally.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Sunny Vanderbeck is an investor, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and former military leader focused on accelerating the growth of mid-market companies and creating best-in-class built-to-last businesses, as the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Satori Capital. David Gardner: You were public? We're public company.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This book originally came out, I believe, in 2007. My company was started in part by my younger self. John, today, having started a new company called Love Life, which, full disclosure I'm invested in. They're usually the companies that have customers who love them. It's by Robert Emmons. This is a great way to invest.

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Blackstone

MARCH 21, 2023

Wage pressure is cited by certain surveyed Blackstone portfolio companies as one of the most significant problems they face in their operations. Sectors and companies with secular growth potential and the ability to navigate inflation and interest rates are likely to have a leg up. job openings for every person looking for a job.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Bill Mann: The market cap is the size of a company. He is a lead advisor for Global Partners , Motley Fool Firecrackers, and Bill is the Director of Small Cap research at our company. David Gardner: Bill, some companies have been around a long time. Andy Cross: Is this a local company, David? What is it? Bill, welcome.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And I just realized how he always veered towards higher, higher quality companies. And so I kind of leveraged that when I went to Morningstar because they’re very focused on quality, the whole concept of economic moats, but also about buying companies when they’re trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. RITHOLTZ: I can imagine. BARATTA: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Really?

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

Just an incredible, insightful conversation about how to build a company, how to grow through acquisitions, how to make sure everybody on your team understands their role, is appreciated, and is acting and performing at the highest levels. And those are the same problems for big companies as little companies. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. I tell people like there’s this time when we, you know, we had like two sets of bidders for some company, like on in conference rooms on different floors. And I love that.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Wellington’s a fascinating company. Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. And so we’ve grown from a very small company with 29 partners back in 1979 to, as you noted, over a trillion dollars of assets and it become very diversified.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They invest primarily in private and public companies. Pete Legal, had built an RV company called Cobra, sold it or partnered with private equity, had a bad experience, left that, and said, I’m gonna do it over again. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. Would later sell it to Warren Buffett.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

It was our quarterly game show for the 24th consecutive quarter six years of you playing along against my talented guests stars as we all think smarter about the values of public companies that was The Market Cap Game Show and the week before. Bill proved to be his own large language model of company information.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I think it's true of the real genius I've seen in my life, whether we're seeing it in sports, people doing remarkable things you couldn't have imagined before, or founders of companies that did something that nobody believed possible, people who astonish us, not just by what they did, but that we didn't even know it could be done.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

After a long pause, it looks as though the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) may be heating up again. Even amid tariff uncertainty clouding the near-term picture, several private companies are now on track to go public. Eventually, StubHub sold itself to eBay in January 2007 for $310 million.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

From a legendary auto auction company to the footwear brand everyone underestimated, we hope these stories send off fiery sparks to ignite your interest in Rule Breaker Investing. Plus, a look back at Apple 's historic journey from its 1980 IPO to becoming one of the most valuable companies in history. Then youll want to hear this.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2025

On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a Double Down stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. Right now, were issuing Double Down alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. I'm not quizzy what the company is. Andy Cross: I'm ready.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Jammet caught up with my colleague, Mary Long for a conversation about how the company transformed from a shop selling salads and frozen yogurt to a high-tech chain with automated kitchens and newly invented vegetables. Mary Long: When you started Sweetgreen in 2007, originally, the menu looked a little different. How do you do that?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2025

On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a Double Down stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. Right now, were issuing Double Down alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. The ticker symbol, Andy, is DAVA, the company is Endava Limited.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

public company by market cap, exceeding the market value of all other asset managers. Our portfolio consists of over 230 companies. Data from our portfolio companies showed that input cost inflation was rapidly declining. Blackstone is now the 55th largest U.S. And Jon referred to this on television today.

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