The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

In 2013, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase , released a study that compared the performance of publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 to public companies that didn't offer a payout over the same timeline. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

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. With Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) doling out $0.96

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

Companies that regularly dole out a dividend to their shareholders tend to be profitable on a recurring basis, are time-tested, and can provide investors with transparent long-term growth outlooks. 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

MAY 7, 2024

Apple's history of research and development (R&D) spending demonstrates Cook's desire to see his company grow. Apple has put $674 billion to work in a unique way for its shareholders Collectively, Apple has spent about $183.1 billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. 2013 : $22.95 Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

During Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in May 2023, Buffett remarked that Apple is "a better business than any we own." public companies ($15 billion/year), and it's repurchased around $600 billion worth of its common stock since the start of 2013. As of the closing bell on Jan.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

During his company's annual shareholder meeting on May 4, the "Oracle of Omaha" confessed that all shares of media behemoth Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA) -- 63,322,491 shares, as of Dec. But if you asked Warren Buffett what his favorite thing is about Apple, it might very well be the company's unsurpassed capital-return program.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

There never were in place any real shareholder protections, particularly for international investors into Chinese companies, and I think that people have, you know, they've finally been burned enough times that they're not that excited to go back. Bill Mann: IBM is like the nickelback of AI companies. Dylan Lewis: It sure does.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

We completed the previously announced acquisition of the Management Contract of Great Ajax, which was a residential mortgage REIT, which is now we're going to transition that into an opportunistic commercial mortgage REIT, which will help generate fee-related earnings for shareholders as we reposition the company and grow it.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

Even a small midcap company that might be in still the third or fourth ending of its evolution, a dividend can instill a lot of discipline on management. If you promised that to shareholders, it's going to have an effect on how you allocate capital. Maybe the best use is the return to shareholders through a dividend.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

To be clear, this is not just in size but more importantly, excellent risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders and LPs. As you flip to Page 5 and you look at where we -- when this company was first started, just a quick snapshot in going back in history. It's just real earnings that we're going to generate for shareholders and LPs.

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The Motley Fool

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. billion of capital to our shareholders in the second quarter, including common stock purchases of $1.1 I'm sure you will all enjoy getting to know him. We returned $1.6

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

We see to be real estate partners to the world's leading companies and the diligent efforts of our dedicated team resulted in AFFO per share of $1.06 Combined with our annualized dividend yield in excess of 5% our shareholders owned a total operational return of over 11%. representing a robust 6% growth compared to last year.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

Both teams are excited to share how we'll create greater value for our customers and shareholders alike. With over $100 billion in debt reduction behind us and $7 billion return to shareholders in 2023, we remain fully focused day-in and day-out on using lean to improve how we serve our customers and deliver value for shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

But because of the history of Jacobs executing and rewarding shareholders that part in particular, not just doing a roll-up where management enriches itself by growing accompany 60 times and paying itself 60 times when it started out being with. But the stock needs to be reflecting that the equity shareholders are benefiting.

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Investment Writing

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Note: This post was originally published on October 18, 2013, on the MarketingProfs blog , but it remains relevant today. His annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders relies heavily on plain language. You edit their text, but the execs put the jargon and long-winded, indirect language back in.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We've continued to expand our asset portfolio, increasing our extensive pipeline network to more than 50,000 miles from approximately 30,000 miles in 2013 and adding nearly two Bcf per day of natural gas processing capacity and three fractionators. Another example, you know, public company costs have been eliminated for the Magellan company.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In fact, it's a more tax efficient way for shareholders if the company buys back its own shares as opposed to handing out a special dividend. But that's one reason, I guess why companies tend to buy back shares. It was talking about the five biggest public companies in the world on January 1st, of 1999.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We had a total shareholder return of 46% for 2023. In fact, 2023 was a historic and record leasing year for Macerich, dating back 30 years as a public company. The bankruptcies overall in both 2022 and 2023 were at their lowest levels since 2013, which is consistent with our significantly reduced tenant watch list.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With growth and performance improvement being top of mind for our portfolio companies, we focus on driving activities that create, enhance and sustain lasting value. OM19 has a proven record of collaborating with seasoned management teams and aligning incentives to help build shareholder value. We do so with several key techniques.”

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

After acquiring Moritex, we have sufficient capital to continue to support our organic growth objectives and M&A plans and for continuing to return capital to shareholders through stock buybacks and dividends. I want to provide some additional information about Moritex to help you better understand its impact on our business.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Stock Number 2 is a public company today whose CEO was in the one year between us in elementary school. The date was June 30th of 2013. Speaking of dividends, this company also pays a dividend 2.9% David Gardner: It is tough when you merge two large companies. David Gardner: Fantastic. as the yield.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

Adobe in 2013 with its Creative Cloud offering, began to shift the model. Is this a company you've studied? Yasser El-Shimy: It is not a company I have studied. In this city when you think of public companies based in Washington, DC, any standout performers come to mind for you? Yasser, you've been a shareholder.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This could be a very important year in investing, given what this tech company has gone on to do. Fast forward to 2013. I would retort, look, when sales are growing north of 40% annually, cash flow margins are 50-60%, and there's still a 7-10 year tailwind behind this company? David Gardner: The Facebook. I say, yes.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

This company is interesting. It's been around since 2013. But I think as we think about and we look at companies that have had sustained out-performance, there tends to be great leadership and great culture behind that and there's a lot of numbers and some studies that have been done with public companies to back that up.

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

I was a public company, CEO, I enjoyed working with investors. And one thing about being a CEO versus, you know, being a chief solutions officer or chief commercialization officer, you spend a lot of your time outside the company as well as inside the company. I love being able to lead the team. At AssetMark.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A picks-and-shovels play on the opportunity Founded in 2013 and going public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in 2022, Rigetti has a unique picks-and-shovels approach to quantum computing. If this plays out as expected, stocks like Rigetti Computing could surge. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There was a little bit of warrant dilution from some warrants that were issued back in 2020, and we distributed it a little under $500 million to shareholders. This should enable us to grow our credit and real estate businesses while prioritizing results for our LPs and shareholders. Our mortgage company continues to be best in class.

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