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Meet the High-Yield Vanguard ETF That's Already Up Nearly 10% in 2025

The Motley Fool

Many energy companies choose to pass along a portion of profits to shareholders through dividends. A plug-and-play investment vehicle for passive investors The Vanguard Energy ETF is a simple, low-cost way to invest in U.S. Chevron Integrated major 13.1% ConocoPhillips Exploration & production 6.9% ONEOK Midstream 2.9%

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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No matter how bad things got, it didn’t seem to occur to anyone, not even to that one pair of outspoken investors, that perhaps the CEO should get tossed—or at least they weren’t willing to say it. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway. Travis should hire her back??

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Private Credit, Meet “Higher for Longer”

Blackstone

From March 2009 when the S&P 500 traded at 13x earnings to August 2020 when it peaked at 23x, a passive investor in the market earned 16% per annum. 8 Breaking down the total returns by source from December 2009 to December 2020 shows that 44% of the index’s average total return was from multiple expansion.

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Barrick Gold (GOLD) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $344,352 !* And that's one of our key focuses is that we're not passive investors. And it's delivered enormous returns to its shareholders. And it had a very good year last year. Tanya Jakusconek -- Analyst OK.

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Have $10,000? Consider Investing in My Top 2 Favorite Stocks

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million at the end of 2024, which put a damper on what could have been even more meaningful earnings for shareholders. Overall, I think the subsequent pullback in the stock makes an opportunity for patient investors. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $300,143 !*

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