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AUGUST 23, 2024

of invested assets) As has been the case for many years , tech stock Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) remains Berkshire's top holding. However, the Oracle of Omaha and his team have dumped a significant percentage of their company's stake in Apple over the prior three quarters. global economy or the stock market. Apple: $90.42

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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. If small-cap stocks are cheap historically, small-cap value stocks are dirt cheap.

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MAY 22, 2024

Based on Berkshire's 13F for the quarter ended in March, Warren Buffett and his top investment aides, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, are overseeing 44 stocks across the company's roughly $378 billion portfolio. It also doesn't hurt that Apple has repurchased a jaw-dropping $674 billion worth of its common stock since 2013 began.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

If you won't need the money for around five or more years, it most likely belongs in a brokerage account , so you can invest in the stock market. That's because the market has consistently produced better returns than pretty much any other reasonable investment.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Despite the fact I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the stock market, I have no idea what the market is doing at any given time -- nor do I want to know. ETFs are traded like stocks, but your money is pooled. I invest because doing so can help me to earn the kinds of returns I need to grow my wealth.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

People are living longer than they used to, and perhaps worse, the stock market is much more volatile than prior to 1994. As market analytics outfit DataTrek explains, "From 1958-1979, the standard deviation of daily returns was 0.72 Sometimes, the market simply doesn't cooperate. It rose to 0.89

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

It's been a great couple of years for the stock market. During this bull run, stock prices have bounded forward much further than earnings from their underlying businesses. AbbVie is one of the more attractive dividend-paying stocks in the pharmaceutical industry, with a 3.6% At recent prices, the stock offers a 3.6%

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Furthermore, Apple has repurchased around $600 billion worth of its common stock since kicking off its buyback program in 2013. Buffett has always favored companies that increase Berkshire's ownership stake through regular share repurchases. The company is also delivering steady growth from its subscription services segment.

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MAY 23, 2024

Since initiating a buyback program in 2013, it's repurchased $674 billion of its own stock. However, billionaires have very different outlooks for these seven stocks. But unlike Nvidia, I believe billionaires will regret paring down their stakes in Meta.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2024

That's why it was alarming when Berkshire started selling a lot of stocks -- including half of its stake in Apple and all of its shares of HP and Snowflake -- during the past year. Visa faces macro and antitrust challenges Berkshire started to buy Visa's stock in the third quarter of 2011. billion stake accounts for 0.7%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 5, 2024

As it turns out, the wealthier people are, the less likely it is that their investments will mostly consist of conventional stocks. They're more likely to own real estate and stakes in privately owned companies. Ares is publicly traded, just like the stocks you likely already own. like the overall stock market.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Bitcoin 's (CRYPTO: BTC) undoubtedly one of the best financial assets to have owned in the past decade, as its price has shot up about 20,000% since September 2013. That translates to a ridiculous compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 70%, which trounces what investors in the stock market would have been able to achieve.

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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. That's particularly true if one is trying to outperform the broader indexes over the long term.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, CEO Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway , and Chase Coleman of Tiger Global Management all have built considerable wealth through the stock market. Tepper doubled his stake in Alibaba in the first quarter to over 11 million shares. Here are three of their largest holdings in 2024.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

1 I’ve had some pretty good market timing calls in my career, and I attribute my success in that space to three factors: 1) Instinct; 2) Low Stakes; 3) Luck. Low Stakes : The most successful market timers are often those people who do not have actual assets at risk. It’s utterly laughable.

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JULY 27, 2024

When it released its Falcon platform in 2013, it was viewed as one of the pioneers of cloud-native solutions powered solely by artificial intelligence (AI). Since its initial public offering ( IPO ) on June 12, 2009, CrowdStrike's stock has increased by around 320%. Should you invest $1,000 in CrowdStrike right now?

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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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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets. CPP Investments will remain an investor with a 24% stake in a newly formed open-ended logistics core fund, which will house KDV I’s stabilized assets.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Now we're a stock market podcast so these are stock stories. Visiting me around the campfire this week, are five talented Motley Fool contributors, each of whom has a story to tell, five stock stories to make you smarter, happier, and richer. Because when stocks go down, the dividend reinvestment buy more shares.

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MAY 24, 2023

There’s probably more volatility on tap for stock markets, Graham said, adding he’s “cautiously optimistic” about what lies ahead for the fund this year as certain sectors in some parts of the world appear ready to soar. LSEG is a global market infrastructure, data and analytics provider. Leduc, who said about 9.8

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

As I referenced at the start, we do spend about a third of our time on the stock market and investing, and a third of our time on business, so we're going to be getting into that some. I think I started working on Wingspan really in like 2013, 2014. Which is a very high-stakes game tournament. David Gardner: Not bad.

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MARCH 30, 2024

The date was June 30th of 2013. The market has tripled since then, the S&P 500, but Walker and Dunlop has quintupled. David Gardner: You know, when we think about stock market plays on this trend that is now here and that you're here for Bill, the most obvious is probably DraftKings ticker symbol DKNG, which is not stock Number 5.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 15, 2023

He also held roles as the head of private equity at the Pivotal Group, as a portfolio manager in CalPERS’ private equity program from 2013 to 2016 and was a former consultant at McKinsey & Co. “We I know, the stock market is climbing the wall of worry but with a nasty recession ahead, it's only a matter of time before it implodes.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

So if you think about some of the trends within wealth management, it’s not just about the personalization bespoke solutions, although that is something that has certainly gained a lot of popularity and grounded and is almost becoming table stakes. And you can see some of the trends just from the digital world, right, and that comparison.

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JULY 8, 2024

As one 2013 poll from the Pew Research Center found, 88 percent of Americans said they admired people who get rich by working hard. Teresa Wrights, I met the specter of the RMD in the 457 account in 2013 when I turned 70. Working hard gives us table stakes to have enough income to support ourselves over the course of our lives.

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MARCH 31, 2025

With the stock market trading at one of its highest valuation multiples when back-tested more than 150 years , Occidental Petroleum's forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 12 speaks to a value-focused Buffett. Since introducing share repurchases in 2013, close to $750 billion worth of its stock has been bought back.

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MARCH 2, 2025

investors feel bearish about the market's future -- the highest that figure has been in the last 12 months. Nobody can say when the next downturn will begin, but there's one stock market metric investors may want to keep an eye on. stocks and gross domestic product (GDP). Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But what's often most telling about the Oracle of Omaha's view of the stock market is the trading activity associated with his favorite stock , which investors won't find listed in Berkshire's quarterly 13F. Buying back stock can also boost Berkshire Hathaway's earnings per share (EPS). This roughly $13.2

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a world where artificial intelligence (AI) and stock splits move markets, it's not a surprise that slower-growing/mature stocks like Coca-Cola have lagged in the current bull market. But with the stock market now historically pricey, consumer staples like Coca-Cola have the right ingredients to shine.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Despite paring down two-thirds of Berkshire's stake in Apple, Warren Buffett continues to appreciate consumers' love for the Apple brand, as well as Tim Cook's top-notch leadership. billion worth of its common stock since the start of 2013. It's bought back $700.6 American Express $45.5 billion (15.1%

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JANUARY 21, 2025

Amid one of the priciest stock markets in history, Sirius XM stock can be scooped up for just over 7 times forward-year earnings. Since the start of 2013, it's repurchased more than $725 billion worth of its common stock and reduced its outstanding share count by almost 43%. Between Oct. 1, 2023, and Sept.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This week we're headed back to the campfire, the campfire around which we talk about the stock market. Four friends and fellow analysts here at The Motley Fool join me to tell the story of some stocks. Not story stocks, necessarily, but the linguistic reverse, stock stories. David Gardner: Welcome back.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then I don’t know what God smiled on me, but I got hired by the Wall Street Journal in 2013. RITHOLTZ: So you start in 2013, and then you proceed to get some major news stories that you either covered intimately or broke. You know, when I got hired in 2013, M&A was dead. The stock market becomes a casino.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Retail shopping experiences all feature prominently displayed price tags as you walk down the aisle of a grocery store or at your local Best Buy but many investors don't know the real price tags of the stocks that are available on the shelves of the stock market. That gives you the real price tag of the company, the market cap.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is really a fascinating conversation, not just because of his acumen as a venture investor, but one of the things that Brad is passionate about is making every child in America feel like they have a stake in the country. And we sold our stake in the business to Barry Diller in 2001. I became co CEO of the business. Is it a bubble?

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