The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

When Berkshire holds a greater than 10% stake in a public company, it's required to file a Form 4 with the SEC disclosing share acquisitions and dispositions within two business days of a transaction. Since July 17, Buffett's company has disclosed 16 separate Form 4 filings concerning Bank of America.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2024

Between the two, they own a 6% stake in the megacap tech giant. Beyond those two, Eric Schmidt, who served as CEO from 2001 to 2011, owns a 0.5% stake, worth about $11 billion. This is quite common among public companies. But there are some other well-known large shareholders, and some that are less apparent.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2024

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been the world's most valuable public company since 2011 when it had a market capitalization of just under $340 billion. If you have reservations but are interested in investing in Apple, I recommend dollar-cost averaging your way into a stake.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 19, 2023

Berkshire Hathaway held stakes in approximately four dozen securities, as of June 14, 2023, with the total value of these investments topping $352 billion. Apple and Bank of America are perfect examples of Buffett's willingness to wait for wonderful companies to fall into his preferred valuation range. The other path is investments.

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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. However, its commitment to R&D is dwarfed by another "investment" that no other public company has come close to matching.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Tesla, I recommended in 2011 just weeks after Elon Musk had visited Motley Fool headquarters and given a stump speech about Tesla. The year was, of course, 2011. There are people that care about your business, they have a stake in it. John said, Whole Foods was a public company for 25 years. That was 13 years ago.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

Now if that friend had been really early, really observant, that might've been as early as say 2011, when my guest this week was saying just that, or it might have been 2017 when Bitcoin started the year around a $1,000 a coin and close the year closer to $15,000. You began writing about Bitcoin Jim Surowiecki in 2011. It's a bubble.

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