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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Warren Buffett wrote to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2014 that most investors shouldn't try to pick individual stocks to buy because they couldn't "predict their future earnings power." Could Buffett have sold these funds because he expects a stock market crash? I seriously doubt it. I don't think so.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is the most widely followed benchmark of the stock market in the U.S., Thanks to its broad base of component companies, it is considered to be the most reliable gauge of overall stock market performance. encompassing the 500 largest companies in the country. Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The stock market appears to be headed for solid returns in 2023. Historically, the market tends to perform well during presidential election years. With ETFs, you don't have to try and pick individual stocks that could be winners. There's even an automatic mechanism in place to prune the poorly performing stocks.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

During Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in early May, he opined that the corporate tax rate would likely climb in the future. Since initiating share repurchases in 2013, Apple has bought back $700.6 billion worth of its common stock and reduced its outstanding share count by 42.2%. 1 position. with one exception.

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

Since its spinoff as an independent entity in January 2013, the drugmaker has raised its dividend by an impressive 288%. That's also the reason for the company's poor stock market performance in 2023. It will return to growth and continue to reward shareholders with dividend increases for a long time.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2023

More to the point, Buffett wrote the following in his 2013 shareholder letter: The goal of the non-professional should not be to pick winners -- neither he nor his "helpers" can do that -- but should rather be to own a cross-section of businesses that in aggregate are bound to do well. million in three decades' time.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2023

The buzz around Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) may have worn off since the pandemic passed, but the disruptive app-based brokerage still wields a lot of influence on the stock market. That should set it up well to be a long-term winner on the stock market.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Because of the diversity of businesses represented in the broader stock market, it's a sure bet that over any time period, some stocks will do remarkably well, some will perform very poorly, and most will be somewhere in between. Here are two healthcare stocks that have made shareholders far richer in recent years.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

Up over 200% in 2024, restaurant company Cava Group (NYSE: CAVA) is one of the hottest stocks on the entire stock market, and for good reason. Unfortunately for Cava's shareholders, Brassica is suddenly in the spotlight. In 2013, the company invested in a pizza chain called Pizzeria Locale (now closed down).

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 14, 2024

Buffett's words of advice Though Buffett has generated most of his wealth through selecting individual stocks , he's acknowledged this is often challenging. And in the 2013 Berkshire Hathaway letter to shareholders, Buffett suggested a way around this problem. The magic of compounding Now let's put this to work.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

American business has done wonderfully over time and will continue to do so (though, most assuredly, in unpredictable fits and starts)," Buffett wrote in his 2013 letter to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is an iconic stock market index comprised of the stocks of 30 of the country's largest companies. That makes it a good barometer for the broader stock market. However, some stocks have absolutely drubbed the Dow's performance by producing even stronger total returns.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2024

However, the best aspect of owning a lot of Apple stock for Warren Buffett might be its unbeatable capital-return program. billion annually in dividends to its shareholders, and has repurchased in excess of $600 billion worth of its common stock since the start of 2013. Apple is returning $14.8

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APRIL 22, 2024

Further, the $651 billion in share repurchases Apple has undertaken since the start of 2013 is tops among all public companies. Three catalysts continue to make Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders richer over time. First off, Buffett and his team have a lengthy track record of generating big-time returns in the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 22, 2024

CEO Warren Buffett has delivered a greater than 5,000,000% aggregate return to his Class A shareholders (BRK.A) Note, I've excluded the two index funds Berkshire Hathaway holds small stakes in -- the SPDR S&P 500 ETF and Vanguard S&P 500 ETF -- because index funds represent baskets of securities and aren't themselves stocks.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Ten years ago, in 2013, it paid $2.3 Even if UPS endures a period of low growth in the short term, the stock is now in a completely different category than in years past, given how high the dividend is. And the stock is dirt cheap at a mere 16.4 billion in dividends this year. For comparison, UPS paid $5.1 billion in dividends.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

During Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in May, Buffett suggested that corporate tax rates were liable to increase in the future, and hinted at this thesis as his reasoning for selling a significant stake in Apple. I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention Apple's market-leading share repurchase program.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Although Berkshire owns six tech stocks totaling $166.6 billion in market value, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) comprises a little over $160 billion of invested assets. During Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in May 2023, Buffett referred to Apple as "a better business than any we own."

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AUGUST 23, 2024

Although Buffett opined during his company's latest annual shareholder meeting that he believes Apple is a great company, he also hinted that corporate tax rates are liable to climb in the coming years. The beautiful thing about consumer staples stocks is they're a necessity no matter what's going on with the U.S./global

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

On top of returning around $15 billion annually to shareholders via dividends, Apple has repurchased more than $600 billion worth of its common stock since initiating a buyback program in 2013. billion in market value. Within financials, bank stocks are the real area of focus. Bank of America: $34.6 billion (9.3%

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JANUARY 8, 2024

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. economy and stock market. The one knock against Apple is its valuation. If the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Consider that in 2013 (the year it was spun off from Abbott Laboratories ), AbbVie's autoimmune disease drug, Humira, generated 57% of the company's total revenue. However, the drugmaker still raked in over 42% more revenue in the first half of this year than it did in all of 2013. It is a fantastic stock to buy and hold forever.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Other Americans may have a number of different reasons for having passed up the wealth-creating engine that is the stock market. Three reasons in particular appear to be common -- and if you're among the people who have been letting one of these things keep you away from stocks, you may want to reconsider. Pelosi is right.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 2, 2024

October often brings both opportunity and volatility to the stock market. For investors seeking stability and income, dividend growth stocks can offer a compelling option in this dynamic market. Here are five top dividend growth stocks to consider this October. The projected 5.3% The projected 8.5% payout ratio.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 15, 2024

This might sound obvious, but the primary goal of putting money to work in the stock market is to turn a sum of money into a much larger pool of capital. While the S&P 500 has done a great job at this historically, some individual stocks have fared better. Look at Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU).

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MAY 12, 2024

While the stock market generally goes up over time -- due mainly to rising sales and earnings of businesses -- there are some companies that are best kept out of one's portfolio. annualized rate between 2013 and 2023. In the past 10 years, the stock has generated a total return of 31% (including dividends).

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Famous investor Warren Buffett has built a fortune worth over $120 billion through his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway , where he has bought businesses and picked winning stocks for decades. But you don't need to pick individual stocks to strike it rich in the stock market.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

The average interest rate on its loans is in the ballpark of 12%, with most of that being passed along to Ares shareholders in the form of dividends. Ares stock's current dividend yield stands at 9.4%. It was launched in 2013 as a mortgage-servicing rights outfit, but it's since grown into so much more. is more private than not.

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APRIL 19, 2024

The business performed well for more than a decade, and the stock performance was sensational going into the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. However, from the year 2000 until 2013, the business languished, and the stock dropped roughly 75% in value. At one point, Dell was valued at around $100 billion. Why Dell 2.0

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It's too early to predict what the market will do next year, but there's one way to guarantee some stock market gains. And that's by investing in dividend stocks. These players offer you passive income -- even when their share prices are falling or the general market is declining. Image source: Getty Images.

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MARCH 30, 2024

There are many ways the stock market can help you get rich, but not every method is right for you. If you're someone who enjoys keeping tabs on fast-moving industries, chasing popular growth stocks makes sense. For decades, J&J has used its size as an advantage to produce steady growth for its shareholders.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The "Magnificent Seven" stocks are hogging the stock market's spotlight these days. They are seven of the largest stocks by market value and among today's most exciting growth stocks. As a longtime Lemonade shareholder, I don't mind slow and steady improvements to the company's core business.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Fiscal 2012 revenue growth: 45% 2013: 9% 2014: 7% 2015: 28% 2016: (8%) 2017: 6% 2018: 16% 2029: (2%) 2020: 6% 2021: 33% 2022: 8% 2023: (3%) Apple refreshes its flagship iPhone every year, but it seems as if a major update happens every three years. The stock market is always on the move.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been an outstanding performer on the stock market over the past decade. Someone who invested just $100 in Nvidia stock 10 years ago would now be sitting on a position worth over $10,600. The success in the data center market has been central to Nvidia's outstanding gains in the past decade.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The addition to the S&P 500 is a significant accomplishment, since the index is one of the most common benchmarks for measuring the stock market's performance. Since 2013, Blackstone has grown its AUM by over 13% annually, going from $266 billion to over $1 trillion. Here's why this news is a big deal.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

In any case, there's a type of stock that could offer great rewards no matter what the market is doing. I'm talking about dividend stocks, which pay you passive income each year just for owning them. Here are my five top dividend stocks to buy hand over fist in 2024. J&J pays a dividend of $4.76

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JUNE 10, 2024

Growth stocks have been the darlings of the stock market for the past decade or so, and it's easy to see why when you look at how many of the top ones have performed during that time. Although the volatility of growth stocks can be hard to stomach for more risk-averse investors, it can often pay off down the road with patience.

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