The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

AppLovin's MAX marketplace is a bidding platform where advertisers compete in real-time auctions to place ads in apps. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $309,972 !* The company helps developers monetize their apps with a seamless user experience.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

Engagement is key in the company's bid to attract advertisers, because businesses want to showcase their products on the platforms where consumers are spending the most time. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $295,009 !*

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 28, 2023

Playing with the Big Kids Cryptocurrencies hit the scene in 2009 with the launch of Bitcoin, and from there, tens of thousands emerged, acting as digital wallets on decentralized networks and unregulated by governments -- real bank-disruptor stuff. Maybe BlackRock was the parent crypto always needed.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

The sample size is small, but since 2009, Bitcoin's price has tended to rise ahead of or soon after halving events. The market certainly knows this by now, though, and may have bid up the Bitcoin price in advance; the SEC's approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs certainly contributed to the general fervor surrounding cryptocurrency now.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

ai and other players, and investors are responding by bidding up the company's stock today. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $378,269 !* While the company's sales growth is decelerating, the overall demand outlook for the AI space is very strong.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Amazon is also making progress in its healthcare bid, which it bolstered with the acquisition of One Medical this past February. Uber: Turning a corner on profitability Uber has been around since 2009 and a public company since 2019. billion in operating income. At their current price, the shares trade at 2.6

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

By advocating for the value of the assets, Ackman was able to contribute to a bidding war for General Growth Properties. He reportedly covered his short position in January 2009, profiting over $1 billion. To summarize the situation, General Growth Properties ran into liquidity problems after Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy in 2008.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2024

To that end, the foundation has paid out nearly $54 billion since 2000, in its bid to take on "the toughest, most important problems," including disease and poverty around the globe. Its stated goal is "to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life."

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The software leader delivered revenue and earnings that topped Wall Street's expectations, but it wasn't enough for investors to justify bidding the share price to new highs. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $302,501 !* The main issue seems to be valuation.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Rowe Price and Fidelity funds who bid the company up to ridiculous valuations in their pre-IPO rounds. I'm proud to say that I was dollars number 476 and 477 to be swiped on the platform after Jack demoed the very first prototype to me on a bench in Washington Square Park in late summer 2009. Congrats on your huge disappointment.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

However, he sounded much more optimistic than Nvidia's founder and CEO in a recent interview on Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid podcast. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $344,352 !* Gates said, "There is the possibility that [Huang] could be wrong."

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It won't be surprising to see more companies adopting Broadcom's custom AI chip designs in a bid to reduce costs following DeepSeek's popularity. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $323,686 !*

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $300,764 !* For active truckers, we upgraded our premium cargo bidding function and introduced a dedicated service section with expanded coverage of other types. percentage points year over year. year over year to RMB 1.16

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2025

All this explains why TSMC is ramping up its capex in 2025 in a bid to meet the robust demand from its customers. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $381,355 !* Why ASML stock could get a boost after Jan. The company expects 9 billion euros ($9.3

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I had owned a few shares of the graphics processing units (GPU) pioneer in the early days of my investing journey but ultimately sold them in an unprovoked bid of tax-loss harvesting in early 2010. My rather modest initial investment in MercadoLibre in 2009 has grown by more than 7,300%, and the company now represents 10% of my portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Palantir's stock price doesn't support its fundamentals The market isn't blind to Palantir's success, and the stock has been bid up. The market has bid up Palantir's stock to unreasonable levels, and investors need to take note of that. Instead, let's value the stock based on its potential.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

They bid the stock up by nearly 4% following the company's news, a performance that easily beat the recovering S&P 500 's (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) 1.1% It's clearly making a bid to have a solid retail presence with its wares, and this feels like a sensible way to do it. I'm not surprised that investors applauded this good strategic move.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $344,352 !* And maybe any detail you could share with us on kind of the cost you've taken out of the business just via the bids, for instance, and how you're seeing your membership mix kind of play out for 2025?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The company is being acquired and its share price already reflects most of the value of the bid price. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $381,173 !* Consider these good reasons to sell a stock : The investment thesis for the company has changed.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its use of ROAS (return on ad spend) bidding is another tool that can help drive growth. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $344,352 !* That said, it still has a lot of room to catch up to other social media players on the monetization front.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 10, 2024

While widespread practical applications remain years away, investors have substantially bid up quantum computing stocks in 2024. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $369,349 !* The quantum computing industry stands at a fascinating inflection point.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Despite Pfizer 's (NYSE: PFE) recent struggles with falling earnings and a bid by an activist investor to unseat its leadership, the pharma juggernaut is still actively advancing its core priorities and giving investors plenty of reasons to consider buying its stock while it's cheap.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

billion bid and Ottawa has said Glencore would face rigorous scrutiny. Whatever happens with this Glencore bid on Teck, I think we need to take a step back and stop making investment decisions for Canada's large pension funds. Politicians and business lobby groups have asked the federal government to block the $22.5

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Investors bidding up SolarEdge stock, I fear, are grasping at straws. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $361,466 !* In this regard, turning to guidance, management did forecast revenue of about $205 million, which is ahead of analyst forecasts, in Q1.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Meanwhile, it has made an expensive venture into streaming in a bid to keep up with the entertainment industry trend. He negotiated crucial acquisitions like Pixar in 2006, Marvel in 2009, and Lucasfilm in 2012. Since 2019, the company has faced a global pandemic that temporarily shuttered major areas of its business.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Because you have to remember that from 2009 until 2022, we were at the most accommodative rate environment that has happened in 900 years and which is a long time. For there to be 6% fewer revenues, suggests to me that maybe they're operating in an environment where they have bid fewer, large shipments. How's that for a great answer.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2025

Investors are also bidding up Navitas stock in anticipation of what the company might have to show at this year's CES. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $374,613 !* The conference, which kicks off with a keynote by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tonight at 9:30 p.m.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

billion bid for life insurance company American Equity. Brookfield Reinsurance , which is an arm or you may describe it as a tentacle of Brookfield Asset Management , made a cash and stock bid to buy American Equity Investment Life Holding for $4.3 The pharmacy chain's turnaround story. What to look for in investor presentations.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2024

This has many investors -- both on Wall Street and Main Street -- bidding up the stock. That institution was renamed Ally in 2009, and has operated as an independent online-only bank ever since. Online bank and financial technology upstart SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) has huge ambitions. The bank has two main focuses.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 26, 2023

The government has hit the debt ceiling 78 times, and since 2009 the U.S. billion in bids. Similar in function to a credit limit for a credit card , the debt limit ensures that the federal government operates within its means and does not spend beyond its allotted resources. debt has tripled to $32.17 trillion dollars. trillion to $31.4

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 2, 2024

Steel stocks look cheap Every December, I like to dig out an old value stock screener that I first built back in 2009. This seems especially notable in light of the fact that just last month, Nippon Steel's bid to buy U.S. Let's dig in and look at some promising stocks in the steel sector. Image source: Getty Images.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JANUARY 26, 2024

Ever since the market crash of 2008-2009, economists and pundits alike have used the phrase “new normal” to describe everything from stock market conditions to inflation to the employment market and everything in between. This, in turn, can lead to bidding wars, multiple offers on properties and offers with no contingencies.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 8, 2024

in 2023, its best performance since 2009. Perhaps the market broadens out to include more large, mid, and small-cap stocks catching a bid. Same for the Nasdaq 100: It gained 14.3% in Q4, and a whopping 53.8% But for context, the Nasdaq 100 is also flat since its November 2021 peak, and up a mere 3.1% over 2022-23.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $282,016 !* If youre worried youve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before its too late. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $41,869 !*

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Fortune Financial

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The yield on the ten year Treasury note briefly passed 5% recently, the highest yield on the ten year note since before the financial crisis of 2007 – 2009. if you use a forward earnings yield, or ~5% if you use a trailing earnings yield.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $333,669 !* I mean, if we -- one of the things that we've seen, just take Nashville as an example, I mean, Nashville is so busy from a development perspective, costs went up so dramatically, you couldn't get anybody to bid your jobs.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $378,269 !* Our customers continue to see a strong backlog of work, albeit alongside stiffer competition, which is driving down bids and overall project margins.

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