The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Want to make money in the stock market? Make sure to track the stocks that are in Berkshire Hathaway 's portfolio. If you want to follow Buffett's best ideas, the two stocks below are for you. If you want to follow Buffett's best ideas, the two stocks below are for you. The company? None other than Visa (NYSE: V).

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

That's why it was alarming when Berkshire started selling a lot of stocks -- including half of its stake in Apple and all of its shares of HP and Snowflake -- during the past year. Let's see which one of these resilient financial stocks will generate bigger gains during the next 12 months. billion stake accounts for 0.7%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you won't need the money for around five or more years, it most likely belongs in a brokerage account , so you can invest in the stock market. That's because the market has consistently produced better returns than pretty much any other reasonable investment.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Oracle of Omaha made his biggest stock sale in the history of Berkshire Hathaway when he cut the company's stake in Apple in half last quarter. More recently, he's been selling billions of dollars' worth of Bank of America stock. He bought a controlling stake in 1965 and promptly took over as CEO. top equity holdings.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

economy, and the stock market. He and his team, which included the affably dubbed "Architect of Berkshire Hathaway," Charlie Munger , until his November passing, strongly believe in buying stakes in wonderful businesses at a fair price and simply allowing time to work its magic. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

at recent prices, an investment of about $1,450 spread evenly among these three stocks is enough to set yourself up with over $100 in annual dividend payments. AT&T In September, AT&T agreed to sell its remaining stake in DirecTV to a private equity firm for cash payments that could total $7.6 With an average yield of 7.1%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2024

Since its initial public offering ( IPO ) on June 12, 2009, CrowdStrike's stock has increased by around 320%. Had you invested $25,000 in the company during that time and held on to the stock, your stake would be worth close to $116,000 today. CRWD data by YCharts. Should you invest $1,000 in CrowdStrike right now?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We also know that in 2011 Berkshire got warrants equivalent to 700 million common shares at a strike price of $7.14. Also, Berkshire and Buffett might be preparing for either a slowdown in the economy or a drop in the stock market. I calculate an average price of all sales over the last two months of just below $41.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2024

Buffett likes to buy stock in companies with steady growth, consistent profitability, solid management teams, and shareholder-friendly initiatives like dividend schemes and stock buyback programs. It's right in the wheelhouse of a patient long-term investor like Buffett , which is why Berkshire has owned the stock since 2011.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Buffett likes to buy stakes in profitable companies that are delivering steady growth, especially if they have strong management teams. He also favors companies returning money to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks. billion in stock buybacks during its fiscal 2023 (which ended Sept. 30) alone.

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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. is quite rich, and any figure above 30 has, historically, boded poorly for the stock market as a whole. The other path is investments.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After an absolute disaster of a year in 2022, the stock market appears to have turned the corner. Each of the major market indexes has gained more than 20% from their respective trough. After much deliberation, I held my nose and bought Nvidia anyway -- even though the stock had risen 600% over the preceding two years.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

To have to truly read you back what I wrote 15 or 10 years ago about investing in the stock market and reflect on those, always fun. That's the stock market. Especially if you're a stock market investor, you've come across this phrase. The first is Nvidia stock Number 6. The year was, of course, 2011.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Now that's a phrase, died in the wool stock market investors will probably recognize right away. It's not one I use and I'll explain why in a sec, but it's one of those popular catch phrases to quickly capture several winning stocks and say how many of the Magnificent 7 do you own? Reflecting back on 2023 for the stock market.

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 22, 2020

Since the Dawn of Mustachianism in 2011, the same question has come up over and over again: “MMM, I see your point that index fund investing is the best option. When you do this, you are buying a stake in 3500 companies at once(!) , which is both impressive and overwhelming. How do you even know what you are holding?

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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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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Now we're a stock market podcast so these are stock stories. Visiting me around the campfire this week, are five talented Motley Fool contributors, each of whom has a story to tell, five stock stories to make you smarter, happier, and richer. Because when stocks go down, the dividend reinvestment buy more shares.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

In other words there is support for stocks, as many potential buyers wait in the wings for current worries to subside, says LPL’s Smith. Extremes in pessimism in the AAII data are, on average, bullish for near-term stock market returns (and extreme investor optimism tends to be bearish for the near-term outlook). dropped $1.15

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Pension Pulse

MAY 26, 2023

Carly Wanna and Isabelle Lee of Bloomberg report AI frenzy extends rally, propelling stocks higher: The frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence led another day of gains in the stock market as traders were also growing more confident a deal on the US debt limit will be reached. And then the market crashed when it passed.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Invested £93 million in a debt facility to Vårgrønn, owner of a 20% stake in Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which is an offshore wind farm currently under construction, located off the coast of the U.K. Sold our 45% stake in a portfolio of medical office buildings in Southern California. Our original investments were made between 2015-2017.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I had, I I always assume good is table stakes at a place like Goldman. Now they were a little bit lower stock market performed poorly last year. 01:41:47 [Speaker Changed] And, and, and you sort of said it, you know, in 2011, Watson won at Jeopardy. Never 00:24:43 [Speaker Changed] Hurts. Lucky never hurts.

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