The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Apple CEO Tim Cook has given the green light to innovate If there's one thing Tim Cook has shown since succeeding Steve Jobs as Apple's CEO in August 2011, it's a willingness to spend for the future. Apple has put $674 billion to work in a unique way for its shareholders Collectively, Apple has spent about $183.1

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Apple It's virtually impossible to talk about tech stocks to hold on to for the long term and not include the world's most valuable public company, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). It's a company that needs no introduction. The company started paying a dividend in 2011 and has increased the yearly payout every year since.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

Between 1999 and 2011, the small-cap Russell 2000 index outperformed the S&P 500 index by a whopping 6.5 The IWM merely tracks the 2000 smallest public companies above a certain threshold (leaving out microcaps) in a diversified manner. How did small-caps do after the burst of the internet bubble?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

In Fiscal 2011, which starts at the end of January, we think they're probably shooting too low. But even at that level, a forward price to earnings ratio of 22 isn't too much to pay for a company with these stellar long term prospects particularly one that consistently produces better cash flow than earnings. How about this?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

billion in cash to our shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks. I would like to highlight that this represents the 13th consecutive increase in annual dividend since we initiated dividends in fiscal 2011. In fiscal 2023, operating profit grew by 9% year on year, and our free cash flow grew 8% year on year to $17.6

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And while our proposed acquisition of Origin Energy did not receive the required level of shareholder support, we are confident in achieving our target deployment of $7 billion to $8 billion over the next five years and growing our cash flows and distributions in line with our targets. That concludes our formal remarks for today's call.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

I mean, I wouldn’t like go around saying that because like, you don’t wanna, you don’t wanna be like, well that’s why I brought her up in 2011. Explain Matt Levine : 00:14:13 If a bad thing happens at a public company, public company does a bad thing. Everything is securities fraud.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2023

This becomes increasingly important with the new SEC rules detailing that all public companies will be required to report material breaches within four business days. How is that going to translate into numbers that are loved by our shareholders? Not only that, to deliver great security outcomes to our customers.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

We are pleased to welcome our longstanding partner Brookfield Infrastructure as a co-controlling shareholder in Compass. We look forward to working with them, Chris and the rest of Compass’ top-tier management team on the company’s next growth phase.” “Our That transaction was completed in October 2022.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Sirius XM Holdings: $296,801,878 purchased during the fourth quarter In instances where Berkshire Hathaway owns at least 10% of the outstanding shares of a public company, it's required to file Form 4 with the SEC within two business days of a transaction. This includes $1.275 billion worth of stock sales from Oct. 1 through Oct.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2025

roughly 60 years ago, the Oracle of Omaha has delivered a return approaching 5,700,000% for his company's Class A (BRK.A) shareholders. economy during annual shareholder meetings and his yearly letter to Berkshire's shareholders. The Buffett Indicator divides the cumulative value of all public companies into U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In fact, here at our cold campfire, Kirsten, are you wearing anything produced by a favorite public company of yours? Kirsten, congratulations on being an Axon Enterprise shareholder. Well, I'm glad you brought IDEXX up because I eventually would have, because I'm a shareholder in both, David. The company offered 4.6

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Phil has been a strong leader for our modular business since 2011, and he led our TRS business prior to that. Today, we announced an increase in the company's dividend for the 34th consecutive year. Both these items demonstrate McGrath's impressive longevity and shareholder focus as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When I returned to Herbalife in October of 2022 for the third time as CEO, I promised the board and myself to focus deeply and thoroughly on how we best go about succession and appoint the next CEO of this great company. Herbalife operates in over 90 markets as a public company in the multilevel direct selling business.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In this Rule Breaker Investing podcast, Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner welcomes Motley Fool favorites Emily Flippen and Mac Greer to the stage as they test their knowledge on the price tags of 10 public companies. But she's not still the CEO of the company. Shout out to shareholders. You don't remember the name?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2025

S&P 500 companies are set to spend $1 trillion (or more) per year on this trend What's even hotter than the AI revolution, in terms of corporate spending? This represents the lowest peak corporate tax rate since 1939, and it's put more cash in the coffers of time-tested public companies than they've known what to do with.

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