The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2024

Meta Platforms: 826% return since IPO Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) is the parent company of popular social networks Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Its stock came public in 2012, and it has since gained 826%, which translates to a compound annual return of 22.4%. That's twice the long-run average of the S&P 500.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

By investing in its partners -- like Pinduoduo and Meituan -- the tech conglomerate can participate in emerging industries like e-commerce and food delivery. It also has not limited itself to public companies, holding huge stakes in private companies like EPIC games. The idea is simple.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

And in our on-premises server business, we expect revenue to decline in the low to mid-single digits on a prior year comparable that benefited from purchasing ahead of Windows Server 2012 end of support. We're not a conglomerate here. We are sort of one company. Now to More Personal Computing. So this is -- that's the thing.

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