The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2024

The conglomerate's position in the Vanguard ETF tops $21.5 Buffett's 2013 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders also supports the premise that he likes the Vanguard ETF better. Buffett wrote to Berkshire shareholders more than a decade ago that this combination is "virtually certain to get satisfactory results."

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 16, 2023

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. -- Warren Buffett's 1988 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter When you invest with the mindset of holding for a lifetime, you think differently about the types of companies you want to invest in. billion on acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2023

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO has led his company on an incredible run of market-beating success and generated fantastic returns for long-term shareholders. billion in 2013 to $29.3 Born in Omaha, Nebraska on Aug. 30, 1930, Warren Buffett has become one of the most successful investors in history. Revenue grew from $11.8 billion in 2022.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2024

And this is precisely why Berkshire Hathaway , the conglomerate headed by Warren Buffett, has owned shares in the company since 1988. Coca-Cola has long focused on returning capital to shareholders through these payouts, which now sit at $0.46 In the last 10 years, from Q3 2013 to Q3 2023, sales were flat.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

The conglomerate has regulatory approval to acquire up to 50% of Occidental. Buffett wrote in his 2013 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that he and longtime business partner Charlie Munger look at two things before buying a stock or an entire business.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

In his 2013 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, he recommended that most investors put their money in such a fund. More of the conglomerate's money is invested in the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF. This Buffett exchange-traded fund (ETF) could make you a millionaire the easy way. Image source: Getty Images.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Australia’s biggest private hospital operator Ramsay Health Care Ltd and Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd have shortlisted candidates for the sale of their hospital unit, which could fetch about US$1.5 billion in a deal, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The conglomerate's stake in the Vanguard ETF, though, is a little higher than its stake in the SPDR ETF. Buffett also mentioned Vanguard by name in his 2013 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter. For one thing, Berkshire Hathaway only holds positions in two ETFs (the other is the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ).

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Warren Buffett wrote in his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, "Your company also holds a cash and U.S. That's by far more cash than the conglomerate has ever had. When the company separated from Abbott in 2013, the blockbuster autoimmune disease drug Humira generated over 50% of total revenue.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2024

Buffett's conglomerate owns over 25% of these four companies. However, the Series "B" stock gives the conglomerate 10 votes per share. In 2013, Berkshire and 3G Capital acquired Heinz. Berkshire walked away from the transaction as one of the largest shareholders of the newly formed Kraft Heinz. Its nearly 36.1

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

That durability helps shareholders sleep well at night. billion in 2023 were actually slightly below the total 10 years earlier in 2013. of Coca-Cola's outstanding shares, giving the conglomerate $776 million in annual passive income based on the yearly dividend of $1.94 Sales of $45.8 billion in free cash flow in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2024

Study the management team and board of directors Public companies are obligated to apprise investors of who is on their management team, as well as provide the identities of prominent board members, directors, and major shareholders. Most report this information willingly and in full on their investor webpages.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2023

That cash goes toward repurchasing the stock, which increased the equity ownership of existing shareholders. The conglomerate he runs, Berkshire Hathaway , owns 9.3% The business hasn't been too kind to shareholders in more recent times, though. 2013, Coca-Cola has produced a total return (including dividends) of 107%.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2024

Despite Coca-Cola having the Buffett-led conglomerate's vote of confidence, returns have been poor. Not a good setup for investors As we've seen with Coca-Cola stock's trailing five-year underperformance, a strong brand and high profitability aren't enough to reward shareholders and their portfolios. Its 2023 revenue of $45.8

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

Thanks to Warren Buffett's remarkably successful track record of increasing shareholder value as the leader of Berkshire Hathaway , his investment moves are closely watched by retail investors. But not all of the equities the conglomerate holds in its portfolio are great buys today. That was lower than its total in 2013.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The conglomerate steered by activist investor Carl Icahn has enjoyed a few moments of bullish brilliance since going public all the way back in 1987. That just means it holds real estate investments and passes along the bulk of its profits to shareholders. Take the aforementioned Icahn Enterprises as an example.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2023

Ricky Mulvey: Today, the UFC is this mixed martial arts conglomerate. The company that Art Davie had partnered with was called Semaphore Entertainment Group that was a subsidiary of BMG, the Big Music Conglomerate, and they had started this smaller pay-per-view company. It's something that's regularly on ESPN. I think it will be TKO.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The CEO, I'm sorry, of Plaza Lama said in an interview, they started hyping Black Friday back in 2013, when that term was not something that was really used across retail in the Dominican at all. I would say that the biggest, drawback of a corporate owned group is the existence of disinterested third party shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

Adobe in 2013 with its Creative Cloud offering, began to shift the model. Yasser El-Shimy: Well, the longtime shareholder of both Amazon.com and Shopify. Yasser, you've been a shareholder. I can think of the Industrial Revolution, for example, the invention of the steam engine and what that has done to shipping.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Fast forward to 2013. From 2013-2020, sales increased from about $8 billion to $86 billion. David Gardner: You did mention, you came online with the story 25 in 2013. In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation. David Gardner: The Facebook. David Meier: Absolutely.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2025

The conglomerate has long been a shareholder in Coca-Cola, today owning 9.3% And that can give shareholders peace of mind, especially in an economy that's constantly changing. That profitability has benefited shareholders directly. of the company's outstanding stock. What's more, Coca-Cola doesn't face much disruption.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

shareholders. These letters from the conglomerate's billionaire CEO are considered must-reads by millions of investors and often contain multiple valuable pieces of investing wisdom. I've made some big mistakes in my portfolio, such as selling Tesla stock in 2013 after it had roughly tripled from its IPO price.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So when I think of GE in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the three things that come up; GE Capital, obviously; the rise of shareholder value, which a lot of people point to General Electric as a key driver of that; and then Six Sigma. COHAN: — and shareholder value. He had shareholders eating out of the palm of his hands.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO has sold more equities from the conglomerate's investment portfolio than he's added to it in each of the last eight quarters. He continued to buy shares in 2013 and 2014, but it has been more than 10 years since he added to the position. Shareholders, including Berkshire Hathaway, have seen the benefits.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 24, 2024

When I started in 2013. I had, I had a, you know, a history of being very scoopy, getting inside companies, getting people And, and you know, Amazon’s such a big company, you know, they’re $2 trillion today and they’re kind of like a giant, they not kind of, they’re giant conglomerate. It is today.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

He said my shareholders would skewer me if I had one quarter of losses. They said our shareholders will kill us over that. The retailers could not get the buy in from their boards because their shareholders would have killed them for dedicating that much money to logistics. 2013, he was not. You have 25 million.

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