The Motley Fool

APRIL 22, 2024

and the company's subscription-powered Services segment has been its most-consistent performer for years. Further, the $651 billion in share repurchases Apple has undertaken since the start of 2013 is tops among all public companies. Three catalysts continue to make Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders richer over time.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2024

If the rumors are to be believed, that shakeup could be coming very soon, and it would affect every shareholder. There's not much of a thesis here If Sycamore ends up agreeing to purchase Walgreens with the goal of taking it private, shareholders will almost certainly have to vote on whether to proceed. While it paid off $30.4

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The company has better credit than America Every company eventually stumbles. Microsoft is one of only two public companies with a AAA credit rating, the highest on Standard & Poor's scale. The company has paid and raised its dividend for 22 consecutive years and by an annual average of 11% over the past decade.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 1, 2024

Lucky for us, Buffett outlined why he is hoarding the cash in his annual letter to shareholders. Let's look at how Berkshire built its unprecedented cash hoard, what the company currently does with its cash, and what it might take for Buffett to deploy it meaningfully. What else could Berkshire do with its cash?

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

annualized dividend, a track record of dividend increases that stretches back to its origin as an independent public company in 2008. That said, the telecom giant has raised its dividend for 17 straight years , underscoring management's commitment to rewarding loyal shareholders. What does Philip Morris stock offer?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Some of Warren Buffett's core holdings are getting the heave-ho When Berkshire's chief issued his annual letter to shareholders earlier this year, he alluded to eight companies being "indefinite" holdings. This type of filing is required when Berkshire buys or sells shares of a public company that it holds at least a 10% stake in.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As a result, we've delivered positive total operational returns each year since becoming a public company 30 years ago, successfully navigating a variety of economic environments. Realty Income enables its investors to own commercial real estate critical to the operations of some of the world's best-known companies.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For those of you wondering why the Oracle of Omaha would pare down his company's top position, he opined during Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting in May that he believed the corporate tax rate would eventually climb. This equates to $44,321,080 in proceeds for Buffett's company. Hong Kong dollars, or $31.76

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

But in 2018, it went public once again at about $23 per share (adjusted for subsequent stock splits ). Dell's first foray as a public company ended poorly because of multiple failures. But it was disrupted by the rise of smartphones and tablets, and the company didn't successfully launch its own mobile devices.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2024

Beauty one of the fastest growing public companies in the world. Even though the company raised its full-year sales guidance to a range of $1.28 Beauty stock will continue to disappoint shareholders who buy today. The price you pay for a company matters, and e.l.f. This makes e.l.f. billion to $1.3

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A Form 4 is a necessary filing for any position where Berkshire holds at least a 10% stake in a public company. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,847 !* We know this, because Berkshire Hathaway is required to file a Form 4 with the SEC disclosing any buying or selling activity in BofA.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shares can be gobbled up for only 8 times forward-year earnings , which is a stone's throw from an all-time-low multiple over its 30 years as a public company. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,169 !* Lastly, Sirius XM offers a compelling value proposition and a market-topping 4% yield.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,034 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. EOG continues to create long-term shareholder value. We generated $1.6 billion of adjusted net income and $1.5

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Glenn Kelman: Well, I was the CEO of Redfin in 2008 when the great financial crisis destroyed the global economy, and the difference this time is that people are not selling homes short or not going through foreclosures. So home prices collapsed in 2008, but not this time. We're in one now that is interesting. right now.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

In fact, roughly 30% of the debt of companies in the Russell 2000 small cap index is floating-rate , compared with only 6% in the S&P 500. Following the Financial Crisis of 2008, everyone appeared to be afraid of the next big downturn. That makes them highly intersest-rate sensitive. And it caps any weighting at 2% on rebalancing.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $45,990 !* Right now, were issuing Double Down alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. There is no question that this has been and continues to be in the best interest of our shareholders.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

PIPEs are private investments made in public companies, with no shares offered on the open market. Private equity firms use this method opportunistically to invest in public companies, typically taking non-controlling stakes. They were also frequently used in SPACs to take advantage of retail mania.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

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. The stock, by the end of 2008, had gone from $10 a share to below $1.50 Now Disney fans or Marvel shareholders may remember the significance of October 2009. How about this?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I hope you've all had the opportunity to read our shareholder letter, which was published on our investor relations website earlier today. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the shareholder letter on our investor relations website. Alesia Haas -- Chief Financial Officer Good news.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,529 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. I'm excited to be here at BJ's and what lies ahead for our brand and for our shareholders.

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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. But then came 2008. Think about it.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $41,999 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $407,440 !* It's too early to tell.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

While we, as a public company, always provide you with the split times quarterly results, we are running a marathon, not a series of sprints. We reported net income to common shareholders of $1.2 Comprehensive income to shareholders for the first half of 2023 was $1.2 Total shareholders' equity stood at $14.2

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Investment Writing

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

His annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders relies heavily on plain language. For example, “A number of good things happened last year, but let’s first get the bad news out of the way,” he says on page 3 of his 2012 shareholder letter (PDF). ” That’s not justified.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $41,238 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. I'll start off with my reaffirmation that I not only believe but expect this company to do great things.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

And it stopped in like September of 2008. Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing. If the CEO sexually harasses someone, the company gets hacked. We’ll bring a very straightforward class action on behalf of the shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The rest of inflation in the United States in that period of time has been about 38% so your dollar from 2008 now buys, let's do the math real quick, $0.62 When you think about the selling shareholder, and it is only one in this case. Fifteen years ago, oil was above $100 a share and now it's approaching 90. worth of stuff.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Michael Fisch : 00:05:39 [Speaker Changed] Well, in the time that I was working at Goldman Sachs in mergers, there were a bunch of big public companies who were on, we were on m and a retainer, they call it. And oftentimes lenders, if there’s, if it’s a debt-free business goes to selling shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,763 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Whole Foods was public company for 25 years. Investors don't have to invest. I'm on the board.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,654 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. But we've been a company now for just reaching our 20 years as a public company.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Shares of Chubb rose as much as 11% in premarket trading on Thursday, putting the stock on track for its biggest rise since November 2008. IR professionals, corporate governance professionals, public company C-suites and boardrooms: this is your opportunity to support 13F modernization.’ revealed a stake in insurer Chubb Ltd.

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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. Now your perspective is maybe that's not the case.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,133 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $420,761 !* Moving on to guidance.

Education 130

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

the tight-knit firmament of private and public companies that drive the province’s economy. It has significant stakes in most of Quebec’s flagship companies, many of which leaned heavily on the Caisse as they grew into industry champions, including Alimentation Couche-Tard, CGI, Intact Financial and WSP Global.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

It's often easy for investors to buy or sell shares of companies that trade on major U.S. In addition to Bitcoin being the first decentralized cryptocurrency , MicroStrategy is the first public company to effectively adopt Bitcoin purchasing/investing as an operating model.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $41,999 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. And when you look at what we had as a total company, we've got abundant natural gas.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,047 !* Right now, we’re issuing “Double Down” alerts for three incredible companies, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. At the time, the stock price was about $309, and I'm a happy shareholder, it's up to 458 today.

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