The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

Even a small midcap company that might be in still the third or fourth ending of its evolution, a dividend can instill a lot of discipline on management. If you promised that to shareholders, it's going to have an effect on how you allocate capital. Maybe the best use is the return to shareholders through a dividend.

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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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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 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

MAY 5, 2024

I've been a shareholder in companies. I suspect you have been, I suspect your listeners have been shareholders of companies that they've seen management make bad decisions when they're sitting on excess cash. I've never met a shareholder that disagreed with us on that ever. I like that you caveated that.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

But because of the history of Jacobs executing and rewarding shareholders that part in particular, not just doing a roll-up where management enriches itself by growing accompany 60 times and paying itself 60 times when it started out being with. But the stock needs to be reflecting that the equity shareholders are benefiting.

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The Motley Fool

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. David Gardner: As I mentioned at the top, I'm a shareholder. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $42,763 !*

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, our proposed combination with Stratasys, which we have actively pursued on a friendly basis for over two years, accelerates attainment of this goal, benefiting our customers and our shareholders on a faster timetable. Now only briefly comment on the ongoing discussions between our two companies. Now let me elaborate on them.

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The Motley Fool

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 !* I'll start off with my reaffirmation that I not only believe but expect this company to do great things. Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $41,238 !*

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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

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. In closing, our team remains committed to driving operational excellence, ensuring long-term growth, and delivering significant shareholder value.

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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. You’ll remember years ago, he had a proxy fight at Target, and I think it was invoking JFK in his speech to shareholders. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Matt Ridley wrote his book, The Rational Optimist, How Prosperity Evolves in the year 2010. It has a huge footprint, not in the United States of America or Europe these days, but in China, which bodes very well for Starbucks shareholders, perhaps like you and me, as we continue like pigs to hold this stock. How about Netflix?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So it was a rapid pace of learning a lot in terms of being a public company growing so rapidly. And somehow you guys, AOL shareholders, ended up with the majority of the stock, even though Time Warner was arguably a much larger, more established company. You join the Giving Pledge in 2010. Did you approach them?

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