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JULY 22, 2024

These are table stakes, not something that separates a business from its peers. In my view, a shoe company should always have a new lineup of shoes coming out. A discretionary consumer company should always look to improve its marketing message.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

billion stake in American Express dwarfs its $2.6 billion stake in Visa and $2.1 billion stake in Mastercard. A great buy for Buffett, as well as the smaller retail investor Warren Buffett started to buy American Express back in 1998, and hasn't bought or sold any new shares since 2012. However, its $43.6

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AUGUST 17, 2024

The well-known activist, who describes himself as a fundamental value investor, made a name for himself by taking sizable stakes in companies and pushing leaders to make changes that increase shareholder value. Pershing Square holds more than 23 million shares of Restaurant Brands International (NYSE: QSR) , in a stake worth $1.6

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

million shares of nvidia in the first half of 2024, cutting his stake by 63%. million shares of Nvidia in the first half of 2024, reducing his stake by 38%. million shares of Nvidia in the first half of 2024, slashing his stake by 93%. million shares of Nvidia in the first half of 2024, slashing his stake by 93%.

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JULY 21, 2024

million shares of Nvidia in the first quarter, reducing his stake 68%. million shares of Nvidia in the first quarter, reducing his stake by 38%. Israel Englander of Millennium Management sold 720,004 shares of Nvidia in the first quarter, reducing his stake by 35%. Ken Griffin at Citadel Advisors sold 2.4 David Shaw at D.E.

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JULY 7, 2024

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has gone through four "halvings," which halved the rewards for mining the cryptocurrency, every four years since 2012. PoS tokens can also be "staked" ( locked up ) on the blockchain for a period of time to earn rewards. Bitcoin's price surged 109% in the 12 months leading up to its latest halving on April 19.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Despite not reinvesting Coca-Cola's dividends, which amounted to a noteworthy $704 million in 2022 alone, Berkshire's ownership stake has risen. ownership stake in 1994, have expanded to 9.2% The company's high-water mark occurred in 2012, with $48 billion in net revenue. through share buybacks. Image source: Getty Images.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

The company has said that nearly half its royalty income comes from products released between 1990 and 2012. In June, it was revealed that Elliott had taken an over $2 billion stake in the Japanese investment firm. Elliott has stakes in both Softbank and Arm, so the fund's ultimate play is unknown. billion repurchase plan.

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MARCH 28, 2025

By this measure, it's unsurprising that Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate has held the stock since 2012. According to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Berkshire now owns a 14% stake in VeriSign, valued at $3.3 billion, having increased its position since December 2024.

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MAY 18, 2024

First, it switched from the energy-intensive proof of work (PoW) mining method (used by Bitcoin) to the more energy-efficient proof of stake (PoS) system for transaction validation in Sept. XRP XRP is the native cryptocurrency of the Ripple payment protocol network, which was launched in 2012.

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AUGUST 27, 2023

Nearly half the company's royalty revenue for the most recent fiscal year is the result of products designed and released between 1990 and 2012, according to a report by Bloomberg. This suggests that SoftBank's ownership stake will be north of 70%. A watershed moment The move comes at a watershed moment in the semiconductor industry.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

With such drastic growth, a slew of manufacturers have entered the EV race in an attempt to stake their claim. Offering outdoor enthusiasts electric SUVs and trucks, Rivian's initial public offering (IPO) in 2021 was one of the most anticipated of the year and the largest of any American company since Meta Platforms in 2012.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Middle Eastern private equity firm Foursan Group has acquired a 33% stake in Medjool Village, Jordan’s largest vertically integrated grower, packer and exporter of medjool dates, marking its seventh investment via its third fund, FCP II. As a result of the investment, Foursan now holds two of the company’s five board seats.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Berkshire Hathaway bought a stake in the online tech titan in 2019, and still held 10 million shares in the fourth quarter. Since 2012, U.S. Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Learn More 1. It also owns seven of the top 100 best-selling high-end wine brands in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

between 1972 and 2012. Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio has stakes in a number of big-time dividend stocks, including energy company Chevron (NYSE: CVX) , healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) , and money-center bank Citigroup (NYSE: C). Meanwhile, the non-payers produced an annualized return of just 1.6%

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The silver lining: American Express Perhaps the silver lining in all of this is that Berkshire Hathaway maintained its large stake in payments and credit card giant American Express (NYSE: AXP) , making no material sales in the third quarter based on fair value disclosures in the company's recent earnings report.

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JUNE 18, 2024

The proxy battle with Nelson Peltz is in the past Trian Partners founder and activist investor Nelson Peltz didn't mince words after taking on a sizable stake in The Walt Disney Company. Trian sold its entire stake in Disney last month, allowing the company's top brass to get back to focusing on their own turnaround agenda.

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JULY 23, 2024

When investors buy a stock, they gain an ownership stake in a portion of the company's future profits and cash flows. Meta went public in 2012. Meta's free cash flow per share and how it stacks up In the final analysis, all common stocks offer investors the same value proposition. Could Meta Platforms reach the $2 trillion club ?

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JUNE 25, 2023

Ultimately, there will still be one Intel versus the case AMD and GlobalFoundries , which is now an entirely separate entity, with the chipmaker being fully released into the wild in 2012. GlobalFoundries became a separate entity in 2009, and AMD sold off its last equity stake in it three years later.)

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Year Annual Percentage Change 2023 13.98% 2022 (19.44%) 2021 26.89% 2020 16.26% 2019 28.88% 2018 (6.24%) 2017 19.42% 2016 9.54% 2015 (0.73%) 2014 11.39% 2013 29.60% 2012 13.41% 2011 0.00% 2010 12.78% 2009 23.45% 2008 (38.49%) 2007 3.53% 2006 13.62% 2005 3.00% 2004 8.99% 2003 26.38% 2002 (23.37%) 2001 (13.04%) 2000 (10.14%) Data source: Macrotrends.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

Chevron will not only gain access to assets in the Bakken and Gulf of Mexico after the acquisition, but also own a stake in the Stabroek block in Guyana. The midstream company has increased its already massive payout every year since its formation in 2012, including by 10% this year. That big-time payout is on rock-solid ground.

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APRIL 11, 2025

Under the terms of the agreement, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, which acquired a majority stake in BroadStreet in 2012, will retain a significant co-control position and continue to work in partnership with the Ethos-led investor group.

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APRIL 27, 2024

stake in the tech giant. After a nearly two-decade pause, the iPhone maker has paid a dividend since 2012. Capital allocation As of this writing, Berkshire Hathaway owns 906 million shares of Apple, giving the conglomerate a 5.9% Apple's beneficial capital allocation policies provide a massive benefit to Buffett's firm.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Bitcoin skyrocketed after the previous halvings in 2012, 2016, and 2020. The congressman recently dumped his Bitcoin stake. On the same day he sold Bitcoin, he also slashed his stakes in Ethereum and LiteCoin. In January, Thanedar reduced his stake in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway too. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich.,

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JULY 7, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, a division of banking giant JPMorgan Chase , publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 delivered an annualized return of 9.5%. According to a study published in 2013 from J.P. By comparison, publicly traded companies not offering a dividend generated just a 1.6%

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MAY 29, 2024

But there's a very specific strategic reason you might want to consider stepping into a stake in Berkshire Hathaway sooner rather than later: We may be on the verge of a years-long wave of strong performance from value stocks. is also a company record, extending a long streak of steady improvement since 2012.

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JULY 14, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase , released a report that compared the performance of publicly traded companies that didn't pay a dividend to those that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012. The result of this 40-year look back was a 9.5% annualized return for the non-payers.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Its stock came public in 2012, and it has since gained 826%, which translates to a compound annual return of 22.4%. Palo Alto Networks: 1,920% return since IPO The next market-beating stock is Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) , a world-leading cybersecurity company that came public in 2012. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

This acquisition is the fourth transaction from SHS Capital’s SHS VI fund, following its recent acquisition of a majority stake in Dutch firm CAM Bioceramics. Essert, founded in 2012, specializes in developing flexible robotics for the pharmaceutical and life science industry.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

In fact, Costco has done five special dividends over its history in 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2020 for $7, $5, $7, and $10, respectively. Ford eventually sold off its stake in Rivian at a handsome profit and dished much of the cash back to shareholders.

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MAY 13, 2024

I think it was 2011 or 2012, they brought in a policy as like the cash pile started growing and the capital flows of Berkshire started becoming this really big giant pile of cash and businesses. He had informed Tim Cook, apparently the day before that Berkshire had reduced their stake. I'm buying your shares from you.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

annualized return between 1972 and 2012, compared to just 1.6% Though this equity stake has thus far been a flop, the federal rescheduling of cannabis in the U.S. Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of JPMorgan Chase , found that companies initiating and growing their dividends delivered a 9.5% It invested $1.8

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MARCH 3, 2024

He was also the founder and CEO of a cloud monitoring start-up that was acquired by Microsoft in 2012, and most recently, he was CEO of IT software service company GoTo (formerly called LogMeIn). But I'm happy to keep holding onto my stake in DO, even though it isn't the value it was a few months ago.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up D9 originally acquired Verne — which was founded in 2012 and operates a 24MW data centre campus on a former NATO site near Keflavik, Iceland, offering colocation and high-performance computing services — for £231m in 2021.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

However, the SEC requires anyone with a greater than 10% stake in a company to disclose trades within three days of buying or selling shares. stake in the business. stake in the business. That's how we got an early peek at these purchases Buffett made in December and early January: 8.9

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

between 1972 and 2012. Furthermore, PennantPark has invested in 131 companies, including its equity stakes, which works out to an average investment of $8.1 A 2013 report from the wealth-management division of JPMorgan Chase found that companies initiating and growing their dividends generated an annualized return of 9.5%

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

But it created some separation when news broke that Pershing Square had purchased a stake in the business. Investors would have to go back to 2012 to find a time that Nike stock had been this cheap. Shares of shoe and athletic apparel company Nike (NYSE: NKE) gained 11.3% Nike stock currently trades at about 22 times its earnings.

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