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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Costco has completed three forward splits since becoming a public company, but the last occurred all the way back in January 2000. With shares of the company topping $930 on Nov. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, you’d have $381,173 !*

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2024

Historically, stock splits have been bad news for Nvidia shareholders Excluding the most recent one, Nvidia has completed five stock splits as a public company, and shares have consistently declined afterwards. Here's what investors should know. Four of the last five stock splits occurred in close proximity to severe bear markets.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 30, 2024

Fortinet Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) may not be the first cybersecurity company that comes to mind for most investors, but it has been posting strong results for many years. In fact, since its 2009 initial public offering (IPO) , shares are up more than 3,400%, easily outpacing the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 24, 2024

Nvidia has generally performed poorly following stock splits Nvidia has completed six stock splits as a public company. And the subprime mortgage crisis became a bear market between October 2007 and March 2009, during which the S&P 500 declined 57%. Here's what happened the last five times.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

times trailing-12-month sales, which could be cheap for a company with as much potential as Amazon. Uber: Turning a corner on profitability Uber has been around since 2009 and a public company since 2019. At their current price, the shares trade at 2.6 It's easy to see why fund managers are scooping up shares.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For instance, several large public companies have already incorporated Bitcoin into their treasury strategies, including Tesla , Block , MercadoLibre , and MicroStrategy. How popular will Bitcoin be with investors, companies, governments, and consumers in seven years? But some of Ark's assumptions appear plausible.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2024

ai (NYSE: AI) is an enterprise AI software company that went public in 2020. While it might be a young public company, it has been operating in the market for nearly 15 years. Established in 2009 by Thomas Siebel -- the same person who founded and sold CRM company Seibel Systems to Oracle -- C3.ai

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2024

No public company has gone all-in on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) quite like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , which has purchased 193,000 bitcoins since 2020. As a result, the enterprise software company's stock is up over 900%, despite its core business stagnating. Are you a prospective investor who has a fear of missing out?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Buffett prefers to hoard the company's cash as he looks for new investments. That can take the form of buying parts of public companies or buying entire companies to add to the holding company's already broad collection of businesses. As noted, the company frequently buys entire companies.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Back in 2009, I wrote a post called The Venture Capital Math Problem. This 2009 piece from @fredwilson (literally the best in the biz) predicted significant venture industry contraction when in fact the last 10yrs have seen massive expansion. But regardless, I was dead wrong in that post back in 2009 and I have learned from it.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

One year later, December 2009, I decided I was going to re recommend the stock again, make it my new pick in December 2009 for Stock Advisor members at the time we wrote and I quote, "The timing is right, so is the price. Not at that old price in 2005, not in that second price we got in 2009. Not every merger is consummated.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

Peter Letko, vice president of Letko Brosseau, a Teck investor which was in favor of the separation plan, said the absence of Canadian pensions funds' from "critical public companies does not help the domestic economy."

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Your first book, Clear Thinking, hit shelves earlier this month but you've been writing Farnam Street since 2009, you've hosted the Knowledge Project for eight years and through that, you've interviewed experts from Apollo Ohno to Michael Madison. I sit on the board of a public company. You are a self-proclaimed wisdom seeker.

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Blackstone

MARCH 21, 2023

Multiple expansion, one of the byproducts of liquidity, was responsible for around 40% of the S&P 500’s historic 18% annual return from 2009 to 2020 4 , and declining interest rates drove outsized bond returns. Over the last decade, stocks and bonds rose in tandem as financial assets outperformed the real economy.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I'll note that this is the 15th consecutive quarter as a public company in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance. In the first quarter, the company closed 71 agreements, including 72 new pilots marking a 117% year-over-year increase in our pilot count. C3 AI is the original enterprise AI company, hard stop, OK?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In his book, Enough, Jack Bogle pointed out that from 1950 through 2009, indirect ownership of US stocks by institutional investors rose from 8%-74%. We're a private company that people can't invest in. The markets, they are a change in. I, David, this month, want to introduce a new concept. But first, let me cite a few stats.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Well, it subsequently fell below $1 a share in 2009 when everything's melting down. I'll just throw in there now that if a company invests in another company that shows up in the net income, it makes net income almost entirely useless for companies that do that because. But that $4 stock is $68 stock now.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

Andy, Emily, do any of the key insiders still have at least a 5% stake in the company? I mentioned earlier, CEO Michael Kehoe founded Kinsale in 2009 after having a great career at a competitor for writing this kind of an insurance. However, he owns slightly less than 4% of the company, worth about 360 million.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2023

That didn't feel good at all, but then again, it didn't feel good at all either in 2008 and 2009, or in 2001, or the stock market crash of 1987, all of which I've personally lived through, been invested before, during, and after because I buy, and I keep buying, I rarely sell, and I hold through every market environment.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

But if you look across the world of the entire stock market, I'm not sure there's any public company that is more correlated to Bitcoin itself. The only really good historical investment I made was that I got in at the bottom in 2009 where I had money that was in cash and I basically got in. The market cap, by the way, $5.9

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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 !* 3 on Forbes' America's Best Companies list which came out this month. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

And it restarted in, I wanna say March of 2009, but like onlya little bit. 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. And it stopped in like September of 2008. But, but keep going.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 15, 2024

00:10:16 [Speaker Changed] So, so you found the company in 2009 today, you’re the chairman. So DARPA’s more of an academic thing that’s smart, but I’d much rather work with the people whose lives are on the line and, and that that’s how you really break in with the best things.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

I'll note that this is the 14th consecutive quarter as a public company in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance. We started this effort in 2009 before anybody even talked about enterprise AI, before Azure existed, before GCP existed, OK, before the GPU existed. We finished the quarter with 86.6

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

FiveFive Guys joined us in 2009 as our first enterprise brand, and we're now helping them leverage their data to inform business decisions and drive guest lifetime value. Two of our key differentiators for large enterprises are our modularity and open architecture.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is the 13th consecutive quarter as a public company in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance range. We started in 2009 at the infancy of AWS. We ended the quarter with $723.3 million in cash, cash equivalents, and investments. All these numbers exceeded our guidance and exceeded analyst consensus.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

TSG played a foundational role in preparing Dutch Bros to be a fast-growing, high-performing public company. Our customers and crews came together to honor our co-founder, Dane Boersma, who passed away in 2009 following a battle with ALS. In Q2, we added two independent directors to our board of directors, G.J.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Marcus Lemonis -- Executive Chairman Look, I have -- yeah, I have been a public company CEO now for eight years, and I have learned a lot of hard lessons. I want you to think of Overstock circa 2016, 2017, 2009, get it back into that era where smart value was our opportunity. Think about us as surplus goods.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

Kyle has been a senior finance leader with public companies for over 17 years, including a long career with General Electric, and he's been immersed in our business for the past four years, most recently as our head of revenue management and finance in LTL. In closing, I want to comment on the CFO transition we announced in July.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And how about Wind Energy or WNDY, W-N-D-Y, what sort of companies do you hold in that sort of EFT? BERRUGA: All companies that are basically involved in the production of wind energy. RITHOLTZ: Are there that many public companies in that space? I know GE used to do stuff. Wait, markets go down? RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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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. Stock number 3, the transportation company that also starts with letter U. Uber was founded exactly 15 years ago this month, March 2009. Today, as we just learned, it's worth about $148 billion. The stock was at 40.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

In 2009, Stanford neuroscientist, David Eagleman published a remarkable book, Sum, S-U-M, 40 short chapters, 2-5 pages each, Forty Tales from the Afterlives. It's not a public company, so I don't spend as much time with it. David Gardner: Do you believe in Afterlife? David Gardner: Thank you for that explanation of Neosensory.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We had a strong quarter of travel in terms of new client wins including Le Collectionist, a luxury villa accommodations provider founded in 2009 with the villa rentals across 30 destinations and over 1800 properties around the world. In addition, we also encountered more public company costs associated with global compliance and tax.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And I said, I’ll go get a master’s and things will be better in 2009, because these are one year programs. It’s like, wait, you’re going to, all this Robinhood is a public company. RITHOLTZ: Right. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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