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JULY 15, 2023

Dylan Lewis: Threads might wind up being cheaper than the Meta-verse ambitions at a couple of hundred million dollars [laughs] which I think a lot of Meta shareholders would be happy to see. You're seeing actually net consumption of nicotine remain flat to where we were in 2007 level. Do you have rights to it? Dylan Lewis: Coming up.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

By October 2007, the stock was at $10 a share. I was pretty pleased in October 2007, but market historians will remember 2008 was a cruel year for investors and it was for Nvidia as well. In 2016, the stock crossed 10, where it had been at that early peak in October of 2007. standing, start April 2005. That's right. We're back.

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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. Thus, shareholders today now have 120 shares for every one share they own back in 2005 when I first recommended it. Let's go through the story then.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

I feel like when we look at Match and I say this as a Match shareholder, it's interesting because if they're successful in what they do, they stop becoming a user and that's a tough dynamic. George Arison: I'm a company builder. I built three companies from scratch. I actually like being in a public company.

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JULY 27, 2023

That's encouraging for shareholders like me. If we pivot for a second to their consumer health unit, which recently went public, Kenvue, that also reported and beat analyst estimates for their first quarterly reports since being a public company. I've been on the HubSpot Board of Advisors since 2007. Super great.

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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. Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing. And I love that. I thought that was really fun.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I think it’s kind of systemic at this point where you have companies reporting earnings on a quarterly basis. So many public companies expected to issue guidance and then meet that guidance or else, you know, essentially. What’s it like running a public company? It’s been public from day one.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: By 2019, it was, I think, nine to 10 years, and by 2022, it was 14 to 15 years before they were going public, right? You have half the number of public companies that you had in 2000. And so you look at, well, why go public, right? A public company has quarterly earnings pressure. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Stock Number 2 is a public company today whose CEO was in the one year between us in elementary school. Speaking of dividends, this company also pays a dividend 2.9% Willy Walker in 2007, became Chairman and CEO of this Bethesda, Maryland company that his grandfather founded. as the yield.

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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. Just to review, this was again in September 2007.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It has a huge footprint, not in the United States of America or Europe these days, but in China, which bodes very well for Starbucks shareholders, perhaps like you and me, as we continue like pigs to hold this stock. Starbucks is not only a dominant global brand. Starbucks went against conventional wisdom, so did Facebook. How about Netflix?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

Eventually, StubHub sold itself to eBay in January 2007 for $310 million. While Baker was still a shareholder and did pocket lots of money from the buyout, he also thought StubHub had sold out too soon. That valuation would be massively more expensive than public company peers. billion valuation. That's about 9.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Up until now all US, it goes into Canada, and then it goes into the UK in 2007, and by that time stock had rebounded back to above $1.50. David Gardner: Part of what I love about this story already, Andy, is that there's such a storied past to this company. Andy Cross: David, this is where, like I said, in 2007.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

Operator instructions] At this time, I'd like to turn the conference over to Weston Tucker, head of shareholder relations. Weston Tucker -- Head of Shareholder Relations Great. public company by market cap, exceeding the market value of all other asset managers. Today's conference is being recorded. Please go ahead.

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