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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This has helped reduce the company's electricity-generation costs and lifted its adjusted earnings growth to an annualized 9.8% since 2012. Its forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 18 is the lowest it's been since 2015, and the company's yield is back to 3%. It's been paying a continuous dividend since its founding in 1816.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

David Meier: Once upon a time, back in 2012, a company now known as Meta Platforms, came to the public markets in the form of an IPO as Facebook. That's when I was first introduced to the company, lots of fanfare. In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

Bill, you're thinking about your market cap range today for Clean Energy Fuels, which on a side note, I picked on a dark dark day in March of 2012. Bill Barker: Well, there's been a little interest in companies that do things like the name of this company. But sadly, I picked it higher than 20 and I picked it in March of 2012.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

Even when you read that announcement from — that was 2012 — RITHOLTZ: 2012. BARATTA: — we’re probably three times the size as we were in 2012. BARATTA: The media conglomerate? textbook company, Houghton Mifflin, back when there were actually textbooks in schools. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from Lazard to Merrill to JPMorgan, tell us about those other experiences, how do they compare to Lazard which seems much more unique, being in a public company versus a partnership. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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