The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Meta Platforms The first industry juggernaut that appears poised to split its shares in the new year is leading social media company Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META). Meta is the only member of the "Magnificent Seven" that's never conducted a split (it went public in 2012). With shares of the company topping $930 on Nov.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2024

Not including the spin-off of Price Enterprises in 1994, Costco has conducted three splits since becoming a public company, the last of which occurred in January 2000. Since going public in May 2012, shares of Meta have gained more than 1,200%, with shares ending at more than $500 on June 14.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Walmart joins the select group of less than a dozen high-profile companies to have conducted a forward-stock split since the midpoint of 2021. It won't, however, be the last widely owned or high-flying public company to declare a split. To start with, the company's social media real estate is unrivaled.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of banking giant JPMorgan Chase , published a report that compared the total returns of publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts to public companies not offering a dividend over a 40-year period (1972-2012). over four decades.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

A report issued by JPMorgan Chase 's wealth management division in 2013 found that publicly traded companies initiating and growing their payouts between 1972 and 2012 delivered an annualized return of 9.5%. annualized return for the public companies that didn't offer a dividend over the same 40-year stretch.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Furthermore, dividend stocks have a rich history of outperforming companies that don't offer a payout. annualized return between 1972 and 2012, according to a 2013 report from the wealth management division of JPMorgan Chase , public companies that initiated and grew their payouts produced an annualized return of 9.5%

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The company's electricity generation costs are considerably lower than its peers, which has led to a compound adjusted earnings-per-share growth rate of 9.8% since 2012. The company has paid a continuous dividend to its shareholders since its founding in 1816. But the good news for NextEra Energy is that it's paying dividends.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of JPMorgan Chase , found that companies initiating and growing their dividends delivered a 9.5% annualized return between 1972 and 2012, compared to just 1.6% on an annualized basis for nonpaying public companies over the same stretch. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But what if you'd been lucky enough to invest at Coca-Cola's initial public offering (IPO)? 5, 1919, Coca-Cola debuted as a public company, with shares priced at $40 per share at its IPO. Let's break down how many shares you'd be sipping on today. Coca-Cola's stock-split record On Sept. 15, 1935 4-for-1 8 Jan. Chart by author.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase , issued a report that compared the annualized returns of publicly traded companies that paid and grew their payouts to public companies without a dividend over a 40-year stretch (1972-2012). over four decades.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Since its debut as a public company back in 2012, Meta's shares have generated a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.8%. Meta is a market-beating stock that investors shouldn't overlook Jake Lerch (Meta Platforms): Meta has been a market-beating stock for some time now. over the same period.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2025

As with any public company, Meta faces potential headwinds. Since going public in 2012, Meta's sales and net income have soared by more than 4,300% and 6,100%, respectively. Honorable mention also goes to Coatue Management's billionaire chief, Philippe Laffont. At the moment, the prospect of a U.S.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Investors have gravitated to stock-split stocks A " stock split " is an event that allows a publicly traded company to cosmetically alter its share price and outstanding share count by the same factor. I say "cosmetically," because stock splits have no effect on a company's underlying market cap or its operations.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

It also has not limited itself to public companies, holding huge stakes in private companies like EPIC games. Think of it as the " Warren Buffett of technology companies." So as these investees become successful, Tencent's ownership in these companies naturally grows in value.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

And the company's former CEO suggests that rampant problems are about to come to light. What's happening at Planet Fitness Leadership changes are common for public companies. But investors prefer to see planned changes like when a CEO leaves for a bigger company or retires.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Since the page turned to the 21st century, shares of Apple have gained closed to 18,800% -- and that's not including the company's dividend, which has more-than-doubled in size since being reinstated in the summer of 2012. Image source: Getty Images. billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. In addition to paying out north of $15.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

With the exception of its 2022 swoon, it's the cheapest Meta has been, relative to its future cash flow, since becoming a public company in 2012. Among these five industry-leading companies, streaming platform Netflix can be left on mute. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Panera has confidentially filed to go public, according to sources for the Financial Times. Seasoned investors may be excited, remembering the company's previous track record as a public company. As Panera prepares to possibly go public in 2024, here's what investors can and can't know right now.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

The supercharging network is a concept that Tesla had early on when it first came to the public markets. Coming from my past with public companies as an example, even though shrink or inventory loss was part of the P and L. David Johnston: I don't believe so.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

For example, this particular episode, I'll be sharing an essay from January 2008, then we'll jump forward to 2012 and 2013. Where we light, finally, upon December of 2012 12/12, and this essay that I wrote at the start of Motley Fool Stock Advisor that month, it's entitled Big Dumb Money. Let's now fast forward through time.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Meta Platforms came public in 2012. 2012 is 12 years ago. John said, Whole Foods was a public company for 25 years. I actually felt a little late to the dance in 2008, but 16 years later, I'm glad we're still holding Apple, so we can add on top of 43 years, we can add 16 more. We're now up to 71.

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Investment Writing

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For example, “A number of good things happened last year, but let’s first get the bad news out of the way,” he says on page 3 of his 2012 shareholder letter (PDF). He admits that the firm’s 2012 gains were “subpar.”

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

You were right, if you disagreed with Matt, Synaptics is a smaller company than that $3.12 It's entitled "We Never Get Credit for The Ones We Don't Pick" so 2012-2015. It was talking about the five biggest public companies in the world on January 1st, of 1999. Heiko is a very substantial company. Great call, Tom.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

Then I also think there's this misconception that once a company decides to pay a dividend, its growth days are behind it. If you look at the three largest companies today, Apple , Microsoft , and NVIDIA , NVIDIA initiated dividend in 2012. You'll see this a lot of small or newly public companies.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Highlights: Engaging beyond equities: BCI directly engaged 134 public and private portfolio companies , achieving our objectives or observing positive momentum in 58 per cent of cases, and supported collaborative engagements targeting over 2,000 additional public companies. in Economics & Politics.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I think stock is up about 3,000% since you took over the CEO role in 2012. I never miss an opportunity with our people to talk about, this is your company. I mean, a lot for a public company. I'm a public company CEO, but my network is tied up in this company. That's really the mentality in our place.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

the tight-knit firmament of private and public companies that drive the province’s economy. It has significant stakes in most of Quebec’s flagship companies, many of which leaned heavily on the Caisse as they grew into industry champions, including Alimentation Couche-Tard, CGI, Intact Financial and WSP Global.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

We have now bought back more than 50 million MSCI shares since 2012 at an average price of $122 per share for a total consideration of roughly $6.1 Through yesterday, we repurchased $290 million worth of MSCI shares at an average price of $484 per share. Our combined repurchases represent almost 40% of the total outstanding shares of MSCI.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We celebrated the 25th anniversary of BlackRock becoming a public company, and we closed our acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners. Even in 2012, when we said ETFs are going to be expanding heavily in fixed income, to the surprise of so many people, and we crossed $1 trillion of that.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In fact, 2023 was a historic and record leasing year for Macerich, dating back 30 years as a public company. Frankly, that's a gem from the two assets that we acquired back in the 2012, 2013 time frame. Doug Healey -- Senior Executive Vice President, Leasing Thanks, Scott. Year-end 2023 sales were down 1.8%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

On the buyback front, our stated goal is to offset dilution from our employee equity programs, and we've been well ahead of that goal for quite some time right now since we pronounced it in the 2012, 2013 time frame. We tend to have two aspects to our buyback, kind of a ratable, buying regularly and an opportunistic.

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MARCH 30, 2024

Stock Number 2 is a public company today whose CEO was in the one year between us in elementary school. Fun fact, my research team generated three reports at my request for the stock from 2012 through '14. Meaning I was in sixth grade, Tom was in fourth grade, and this kid at the time was in fifth grade. Today it's at 97.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. They’ve been around literally nearly a century.

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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 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. David Meier: We're going to be talking about Meta Platforms , which was formerly known as Facebook.

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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. And so, in terms of where our teams are spending time, it’s in and around sort of public markets. BARATTA: Yeah.

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