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JANUARY 19, 2024

In 1980, eight of the top 10 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. As of 2024, none of these 10 companies remained in the top 10 by market cap. In fact, only one of the top 10 public companies by market cap ( Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) ) as recently as 2000 is still a top-10 company just 24 years later.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

This is also a good time to mention that Apple sports the largest capital-return program among public companies. Since initiating a share repurchase program in 2013, Apple has bought back $700.6 billion worth of its common stock and reduced its outstanding share count by more than 42%.

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JUNE 5, 2024

public company to cross the $3 trillion market cap threshold. AI is viral now, but that wasn't the case in 2013 when the enigmatic chief executive pivoted Nvidia and bet the company's future to embrace this as yet unproven technology. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock made headlines Wednesday by becoming just the third U.S.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

He's overseeing a multiyear transformation designed to promote Apple's higher-margin Services segment, and has spearheaded the largest share buyback program of any public company. Since initiating share repurchases in 2013, Apple has bought back $700.6

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

While artificial intelligence (AI) and stock-split euphoria have played a role in sending the market to new highs, it's Wall Street's trillion-dollar companies that have been the foundation of this rally. Image source: Getty Images. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) Saudi Aramco (not traded on U.S.

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MAY 7, 2024

Apple's history of research and development (R&D) spending demonstrates Cook's desire to see his company grow. billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. However, its commitment to R&D is dwarfed by another "investment" that no other public company has come close to matching. 2013 : $22.95

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APRIL 22, 2024

and the company's subscription-powered Services segment has been its most-consistent performer for years. Further, the $651 billion in share repurchases Apple has undertaken since the start of 2013 is tops among all public companies. On the bright side, Apple's iPhone still dominates in the U.S.,

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JULY 15, 2024

The company is famous for having the highest credit rating available -- higher than the U.S. government's credit rating -- and it's one of just two public companies to have it. Since being spun off from Abbott Labs as its own business in 2013, the company has paid and raised its dividend every year.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Public companies that pay a regular dividend are almost always time-tested, have clear long-term growth outlooks, and most importantly are profitable on a recurring basis. Since commencing its buyback program in 2013, Apple has repurchased around $600 billion worth of its common stock. Image source: Getty Images.

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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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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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JUNE 20, 2024

Apple has also repurchased $674 billion worth of its common stock since 2013 began, which is more than any other public company. These buybacks have undoubtedly helped to increase its earnings per share and made the company more attractive to fundamentally focused investors.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

public companies ($15 billion/year), and it's repurchased around $600 billion worth of its common stock since the start of 2013. Warren Buffett absolutely loves when businesses buy back their stock and increase Berkshire's ownership stake in a company without he or his investment team having to lift a finger.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Companies that pay a regular dividend to their shareholders are usually profitable and time-tested. What's more, income stocks have a history of running circles around public companies that don't offer a payout in the return department. I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention Apple's unsurpassed capital-return program.

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MARCH 29, 2024

This compares to a modest 3.95% average annual return for public companies that don't offer a payout. Companies that regularly share a percentage of their earnings with their investors are almost always time-tested and able to offer transparent long-term growth outlooks. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Microsoft will surpass Apple to become the most-valuable public company With few exceptions over the past decade, tech stock Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been the world's largest publicly traded company by market cap. All of the company's physical products endured sales declines in fiscal 2023 (ended Sept.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

A services-driven operating model should further boost the company's operating margin, improve customer loyalty, and reduce the revenue swings observed during major iPhone replacement cycles. I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention that Apple's capital-return program is unmatched among public companies.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Apple's capital-return program is also unmatched among publicly traded companies. The world's largest public company by market cap is doling out $15 billion annually in dividend payments, and has repurchased over $600 billion of its common stock since the start of 2013. The one knock against Apple is its valuation.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

Many analysts expect that momentum to carry into 2025, potentially setting the stage for Chime, Databricks, and Stripe to go public. Chime Chime is a fintech company founded in 2013 on the premise that banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Databricks Databricks is a data analytics software company founded in 2013.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

From 2000 to 2013, Dell's PC sales slowed, it "di-worsified" its business with expensive acquisitions, and missed the shift toward mobile devices. In late 2013, Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners took the company private for $25 billion. That seemed to mark the end of Dell as a public company.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

While the " FAANG stocks " have certainly fit the bill since 2013, it's the " Magnificent Seven " that now find themselves in the spotlight. Meanwhile, Apple's capital-return program is unrivaled by all other public companies. Image source: Getty Images. 2 in global cloud infrastructure services market share.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Apple's physical product innovation has led the way for more than a decade, with the company now also emphasizing high-margin subscription services. billion of its own common stock since the start of 2013, which is tops among public companies. To boot, Apple has repurchased $650.9

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In September, shares of gym chain Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) dropped to multiyear lows after the company suddenly removed Chris Rondeau from his position as CEO. 2013, leading the company through its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. But I would point out that Grondahl left Planet Fitness in 2013.

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JUNE 19, 2024

As shown below, AbbVie has raised its dividend annually since it became a public company in 2013, and the current yield of 3.6% These are all reasons why AbbVie's management expects sales to grow close to 10% compounded annually through 2029. is near its average.

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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. So don't hesitate to buy competing businesses, as it often isn't contradictory in any way.

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APRIL 19, 2024

However, from the year 2000 until 2013, the business languished, and the stock dropped roughly 75% in value. Finally, the company's founder, Michael Dell, worked out a deal to take the company private again. The public history for Dell seemed to be over. At one point, Dell was valued at around $100 billion.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It went through several boom-and-bust cycles in its 40-year history as a public company, but it still turned a $1,000 investment in its initial public offering into nearly $57,000. from fiscal 2013 to fiscal 2023 through two major cyclical downturns. Micron now has a market cap of $88 billion. from fiscal 2022.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Very few public companies offer monthly dividends, and the ones that do are typically real estate investment trusts (REITs) because they are legally required to pay out 90% of their taxable earnings to shareholders. The company first issued a quarterly payment in 1998 and transitioned to a monthly distribution in 2013.

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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. It jumped from 45 where I wrote this essay in December 2012 to 76 when it got bought out in July of 2013 consummated in October of that year, it was a big fun winner to look back on. I wrote this in July of 2013.

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MAY 13, 2024

billion in dividends to its shareholders this year, and has repurchased $674 billion worth of its common stock since initiating a buyback program in 2013. Apple is on track to dole out a little over $15.4 Buffett loves buybacks because they can incrementally increase the ownership stakes of long-term investors.

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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. By comparison, the S&P 500 is higher by "just" 164% over the trailing-10-year period.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Becoming a public company, while a milestone event, was not the destination but the beginning of the next chapter of our journey. Our general and administrative expense for the quarter, excluding stock-based compensation and certain nonrecurring public company costs, was 20.4 Shifting to overall performance.

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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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JULY 1, 2024

The program has led 50 of Blackstone’s portfolio companies to welcome 6,000 talent hires who might have otherwise been untapped. Blackstone portfolio companies have also hired over 100,000 veterans, veteran spouses, and caregivers since 2013 through the Veterans Hiring Initiative.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Bill, IBM shares up eight percent post earnings, sending the stock to its highest level since 2013. Bill Mann: IBM is like the nickelback of AI companies. Like nobody wants to admit that they like it because, I mean, it's a company that's disappointed for so long. What has the market so excited about IBM?

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AUGUST 22, 2024

You could just take everything in the answer and just put the opposite view on it, and that is, companies that don't have good earnings visibility, don't have good fundamentals, have a weak balance sheet, or they just don't have the cash needed to pay the dividend or the dividend just far exceeds the free cash flow of the company is generating.

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JULY 21, 2023

With that, I'll now turn it over to Jeff for his 85th earnings call as a public company CFO and his 41st and final call as the CFO of American Express. To step back for a minute, I joined American Express 10 years ago in 2013 because I was excited about the long-term growth prospects for the company.

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