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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman at MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , a company that specializes in business intelligence software. However, MicroStrategy is better known as the first public company to adopt Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as its primary treasury reserve asset, and it recently rebranded itself as a "Bitcoin development company."

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Trump Media's financial performance In terms of its financials, in its brief history as a public company, Trump Media has produced scant revenue in comparison to its social media rivals. In the second quarter, the company generated sales of $837,000. Contrast this to, say, Snapchat owner Snap 's second-quarter revenue of $1.2

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JULY 9, 2023

Wow, it feels like I should have kept a tight grip on my AMD stock through thick and thin, including the lean years from 2010 to 2016: AMD data by YCharts. If you think it doesn't matter who runs the show at a public company, one look at Lisa Su's tenure should change your mind. But wait a second -- AMD doesn't pay dividends.

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JUNE 24, 2024

But since 2010, companies have seen their share prices increase just 18.3% Nvidia has generally performed poorly following stock splits Nvidia has completed six stock splits as a public company. However, the odds are now stacked against Nvidia. History says the stock is headed for a sharp decline.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Nvidia's latest 13F document shows that the company has investments in five public companies, including SoundHound AI. million, investors flocked to SoundHound AI stock as interest and speculation over Nvidia's relationship with the company intensified. While its stake is only worth $3.7

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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 And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $20,146 !* This makes e.l.f. billion to $1.3

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JUNE 27, 2023

It rebranded as Ally in 2010 and became a seperate public company in 2014. It was created as a financial arm of General Motors to help auto dealers finance auto sales, and over many decades it expanded into other areas of lending and finance. It was forward-thinking at that time.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Uber popularized this strategy and got very far with it, but sitting here at the end of the 2010s, Uber has not yet proven that it can build a profitable business, is struggling as a public company, and will need something more than capital to sustain its business. in 2010 to 7.7% now), and all but eradicated in China.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

You could just take everything in the answer and just put the opposite view on it, and that is, companies that don't have good earnings visibility, don't have good fundamentals, have a weak balance sheet, or they just don't have the cash needed to pay the dividend or the dividend just far exceeds the free cash flow of the company is generating.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 10, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $22,451 !* How do I, and how do we get maximal public attention for the work that we're doing? Because fundamentally, we're a public company. We don't have a paywall. We're based on traffic. The whole P.T.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Fee structures may change, with pressure on public companies to reduce management fees and focus on performance-based compensation. Conclusion: The top tech companies and top private equity funds share some similarities, but the growth dynamics are different.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 21, 2023

He quickly rose up the ranks, was responsible for the Montreal and Quebec City offices and in January 2010, he became chairman and CEO of McCarthy Tétrault. The other part that is very important for us and that's where the puck is heading for institutional investors, is the engagement with our portfolio companies.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But what I tend to think about is what happens a month after you go public, what happens six months after you go public. And how could we be a good partner to that firm in their public company journey? And that’s what’s going to give the CEO and the public company, the next group of investors.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Then there's the investments in other public companies, which tallied up to $280 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024. That's down from $350 billion at the end of 2023, because Warren Buffett has been selling stock in companies like Bank of America and Apple.

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JULY 3, 2023

Volvo, which itself had been acquired by the Chinese automaker Geely (OTC: GELYY) in 2010, bought Polestar's brand in 2015. That new division caught the attention of the SPAC Gores Guggenheim, and Polestar was spun out as a public company.

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MAY 30, 2024

stock market, and the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF contains companies from each one: Communication services : 9.1% Perhaps more important than simply containing companies from all sectors is that the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF includes industry-leading companies from each sector. There are 11 major sectors in the U.S. Energy : 4.1%

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

We only got to enjoy Pixar as its own public company for several years with Steve Jobs, by the way, as CEO before it got eaten up by Disney. Of course, it eventually got bought up by Disney.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Englander's Millennium dumped more than half its stake in Palantir over three months Palantir has been a continuous holding in Millennium Management's mammoth portfolio since it became a public company in September 2020. The final piece of the puzzle for Millennium's investment team was, likely, Coca-Cola's valuation.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2023

MicroStrategy for about 10 years bounced between $100 a share and $200 a share from 2010-2020. 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. In 2021, ticker symbol MSTR, briefly skyrocketed from below 200 to over $1,200 a share.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $21,266 !* It's down roughly 14% and 51% from where you picked it two different times in 2010. David Gardner: What is that company, Nathan? Nathan Alderman: That company is Warner Brothers Discovery. Sounds like.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $21,285 !* John said, Whole Foods was a public company for 25 years. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. The community you're trading with.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We’ve seen valuations come way down for public companies. RITHOLTZ: So I always assumed it was tied to the public markets. WENGER: I always find it relatively surprising how much private early stage valuations are tied to public markets because our holding — RITHOLTZ: That’s the exit, right?

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $21,121 !* By the way, I don't think it's just for founders, but because the DNA is so tied to the company, it tends to get appropriately allocated to those who founded businesses. Graham expanded on that.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It's astonishing to think that Apple has the highest public company market cap in the world today, far larger than Microsoft. Jason Moser: Once upon a time in February of 2010, a man named Jason Moser, a young buck, a green investor. He had to go through his educational rigor with the company. David Gardner: Excellent.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

You’re also, you’re a public company, you’re living quarter to quarter and the considerations are different 00:17:02 [Speaker Changed] To say, to say the, the very least. 00:24:11 [Speaker Changed] Betterment launched in 2010. Funko Inc is a pop culture company. It’s a public company.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

I can't comprehend why a capable executive managing a public company on behalf of shareholders would pay a premium to their own estimate of fair value. Jim Gillies: I have some bad news, Brett, about certain companies. We run these models. Model says, pay X dollars per share, we pay X or less. billion items.

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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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AUGUST 19, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $19,941 !* Whole Foods was public company for 25 years. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. Investors don't have to invest.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Dylan Lewis: Coming up on the show, few tech companies are going public in 2024, but my colleague Ricky Mulvey caught up with the leader of one that just did. You have a background in corporate finance before starting this company in 2010. OneStream is an operating system for CFOs.

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MAY 2, 2024

The first seven years, 2010 to through 2017 were all about engineering and little else, figuring out if it was even possible to build the revolutionary network we have today. There's a public company in the financial services space that's doing real-time fraud detection.

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JULY 30, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $20,633 !* Just looking back, and I actually went back and looked at even historical Bed Bath & Beyond financials when it was a public company and I looked at Overstock as well.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Because the reality, you know, I will tell you like a quick anecdote, in 2010, when we wanted to launch the first ETF, the Global X Lithium and Battery Tech ETF, we actually went through the process of calling all of the index providers to see if they wanted to work with us on the development of this idea. I know GE used to do stuff.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

It's no secret that I had hoped to move faster and at times it's been very frustrating given that we're both public companies and the benefits of our specific combination are so very clear. The number of patients formally added to the lung transplant waiting list has grown almost 28% compared to the last decade that began in 2010.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $19,498 !* It's not a public company, so I don't spend as much time with it. laughs] I love the Venture world, but unfortunately, our advice for public market investors, VCB stuff not as relevant.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

And so, in terms of where our teams are spending time, it’s in and around sort of public markets. RITHOLTZ: That’s very interesting because we typically think of private equity as looking at these mature non-public companies. BARATTA: Yeah. BARATTA: It’s a great building that had a beautiful collection.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

HOFFMAN: I moved to New York in 2010, working for a legal trade pub, a competitor of “Bloomberg Law”, “Law 360”, where I was hired, you know, your career is just a series of lucky breaks. It’s like, wait, you’re going to, all this Robinhood is a public company. I mean, it was really grim times in ’09.

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