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OCTOBER 21, 2024

By 2014, what remained of Chrysler merged with the Italian automaker Fiat to make Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. This conglomerate finally merged with France-based PSA Group and is now known as Stellantis (NYSE: STLA) , headquartered in the Netherlands.

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JUNE 19, 2023

investors ever since introducing its shares in 2014. Additionally, its most prominent non-China peers in e-commerce have all outperformed Alibaba and the S&P 500 this year, a factor that bodes poorly for the Chinese conglomerate. Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) has intrigued U.S. And like its U.S.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

While Berkshire initiated a position in Amazon in 2019, Buffett acknowledged at the time that the decision was made by one of the conglomerate's two investment managers. Amazon introduced its Alexa virtual assistant way back in 2014. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes up 0.4% of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway portfolio.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

PepsiCo sells its namesake soda but, in reality, is a conglomerate of food and beverage brands, including Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Quaker, Frito Lay, Doritos, Cheetos, and many more. Philip Morris began its journey to next-generation products in 2014 with IQOS and has built these innovations into a significant portion of the business.

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JULY 27, 2024

Revenue grew from $105 million in 2014 to $7.06 Another significant difference is that Amazon is a highly diversified tech conglomerate with other businesses including cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS), logistics, advertising, and more. This remarkable stock performance resulted from its strong execution.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The company has increased revenue from $183 billion in 2014 to $383 billion in 2023. of Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio, BofA stands as the investment conglomerate's second-largest stock holding. Roughly 48.6% of Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio is invested in Apple stock as of this writing. But not for the reason you might suspect.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

From fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2024 (which ended this January), the chipmaker's revenue grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31% as its earnings per share (EPS) rose at a CAGR of 50%. Nvidia 's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has rallied more than 26,000% over the past decade.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Shares of major Chinese tech and consumer stocks such as tech conglomerates Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) and Tencent (OTC: TCEHY) , as well as digital online broker Futu Holdings (NASDAQ: FUTU) were all falling today. They were down 4.3%, 5.6%, and 5.2%, respectively, as of 1:49 PM ET.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

That brand loyalty helped Apple grow revenue from $183 billion in 2014 to $383 billion in 2023. Berkshire announced that it would be exercising its warrants -- a move that immediately scored a $12 billion paper profit for the investment conglomerate.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

of the conglomerate's huge equity portfolio is in Visa shares. billion in fiscal 2014 to $35.9 That tremendous performance absolutely trounced the 552% total return that the S&P 500 index generated during the same period. The company's success has benefited Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway , as 0.9% Visa's revenue grew from $12.7

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

It began trading under Alphabet in 2015 because the company had essentially become a conglomerate, following several acquisitions like YouTube and Waymo, and the important internal expansion into cloud computing. Today, Alphabet is worth nearly $1.8

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MAY 22, 2024

The document revealed that his Appaloosa fund increased his stake in China's leading e-commerce conglomerate, Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) , by 159% in the first quarter of 2024. At that time, in fiscal 2014, Alibaba earned 23 billion renminbi ($3.25 This comes as investors have avoided Alibaba and other Chinese stocks amid rising U.S.-China

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The engineering giant has been into the quantum computing game since 2014, long enough to spin off its quantum team in a Cambridge University partnership called Quantinuum three years ago. Honeywell It's kind of silly to call Honeywell International (NASDAQ: HON) the least familiar name under the microscope today, but there you go.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Honeywell is getting a major makeover Daniel Foelber (Honeywell): The industrial conglomerate's stock is trading down 7.8% However, some investors may prefer to buy their favorite aspect of Honeywell's business post-spin-off instead of buying the conglomerate, and thus, all three separate entities today. compound annual growth rate.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Regional sports networks (RSNs) that air local games are in freefall, just as the media conglomerates that own national rights -- Disney (via ESPN and ABC) and Warner Bros Discovery (via TNT) -- prepare for a new era of penny-pinching. The problem?

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JULY 21, 2024

After a sustained period of excitement following its 2014 IPO, investors have largely shunned the company. The stock has been showing a few signs of life since management announced news of a distribution arrangement with one of the top conglomerates in the Asian tech sector. Might that change with a recent deal?

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AUGUST 30, 2024

As such, they are lumped in with telecom providers, entertainment and media conglomerates, and other associated businesses -- rather than information technology companies. Indeed, as you can see above, a $10,000 investment in the fund made in 2014 would have grown to nearly $63,000 today. FTEC Total Return Level data by YCharts.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

HON Revenue (TTM) data by YCharts Given its weak results, it's unsurprising that the industrial conglomerate has underperformed the market as of late. The industrial conglomerate business model has its pros and cons. Needless to say, Honeywell is a complicated and diverse business.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Since 2014, Heico has acquired 34 businesses. At Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting in May 2024, Buffett said that "unless something really extraordinary happens" Apple would remain a key part of the conglomerate's portfolio. An initial investment of $10,000 in the stock in October 2004 would be worth more than $101,000 today.

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MARCH 31, 2024

chip designer was previously acquired by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank (OTC: SFTB.Y) From 2014 to 2023, Arm's total share of the global chip market expanded from 39% to 51%. Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) returned as a publicly traded company last September.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Buffett's conglomerate owns both the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: SPY) , owning nearly $17 million of each. Citadel first bought the SPDR fund in 2014, and added nearly $400 million more to the ETF in the third quarter. Is the S&P 500 ETF right for you?

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

It's the world's largest entertainment conglomerate, with hugely popular franchise brands that include Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars , and more. You can see that Disney's revenue has soared to new highs, but gross profit is virtually flat with 2014-2015 levels, and free cash flow is way below where it was. DIS Revenue (TTM) data by YCharts.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

American Express (NYSE: AXP) , the credit card giant, has posted phenomenal returns since Buffett (through Berkshire) bought shares in 1991, and it is now one of the conglomerate's largest stock positions, worth over $20 billion. In 2014, it only had an 80% merchant acceptance rate in the United States.

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MAY 22, 2024

Emerson Electric With over 55 brands spanning numerous industries, Emerson Electric is an industrial conglomerate mainly engaged in business-to-business sales. The stock went practically nowhere in the five-year period between 2014 and 2018. P&G is yet another example of the market's willingness to pay up for quality.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

15% 2014-2016 Average 1% 34.7% This is something that companies like Illinois Tool Works , an industrial conglomerate, have mastered to perfection. Goal Organic Growth Gross Margin Segment Margin FCF Margin Long-Term Target 4% to 7% 40%+ 25%+ Mid Teens+ 2023 Guidance 4% to 6% 37.8% 14% to 15% 2022 Performance 6% 37% 21.7%

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

There's one in particular, which the conglomerate has owned since 2011, that might fly under the radar. billion a decade ago in the third quarter of 2014 to $7.4 Berkshire Hathaway owns dozens of businesses in its public equities portfolio, with well-known names like Apple , Coca-Cola , and Chevron commanding sizable allocations.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Not only is this typically when Domino's announces dividend increases, but the company has hiked its quarterly dividend every year since 2014. So, someone at the conglomerate loves the pizza company. Notably, Domino's will likely announce another dividend increase this month when the company reports its fourth-quarter results on Feb.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The cable TV industry as a whole has been steadily losing customers since 2014. The conglomerate may be hesitant to renew its selling of its remaining 3.8 That is, while the addition of some of Disney's streaming services bolsters the value of Spectrum's cable plans, it still won't be enough to stem the cord-cutting tide.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey and contributor Matt Frankel dive into Boston Omaha , a company that could be poised to be the next great conglomerate. You go back to 2014, a helped up revenue just under $28 billion. Matt Frankel and Ricky Mulvey they explore the potential of this conglomerate in the making.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

But before we do, I think that we can't talk about the elephant in the room when it comes to watches, which are Apple and the Apple watch which they released in 2014. Alex Friedman: I'd love to go into depth with you about some of the changes we've seen in the luxury watch market.

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MAY 22, 2024

CPPIB's portfolio had 12 per cent in Canada as of the end of March, down from around 16 per cent in 2019, and 31 per cent in 2014. Mr. Connor succeeded Dr. Heather Munroe-Blum, CPP Investments’ Chairperson since 2014, whose final term as Chairperson and Director expired in October. Mr. Connor has served on the Board since August 2021.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

I checked the date, June 25th, 2014. This has been a long term winner for Motley Fool Rule Breakers. It was recommended by the OG of the Market Cap Game Show, that's Matt Argersinger. So nine years later, a four-bagger. It's up 370%, the S&P 500 up 170%, but it was once a 13-bagger as recently as two years ago.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

We moved to 2014. In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation. [laughs] I definitely caught him a little off guard with $200 given the price was around 25 at the time. Facebook is still one of the most important companies in the universe. Haven't seen it.

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DECEMBER 25, 2024

sold $133 billion worth of stock from the portfolio he manages for the conglomerate. The conglomerate previously owned nearly $1 billion worth of the company but sold off the position between 2020 and 2021. Warren Buffett hasn't seen a lot to like in the stock market lately. billion, about 13.6% of the company's shares.

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MARCH 7, 2025

The massive conglomerate owns dozens of businesses in its public equities portfolio. As of March 1, Buffett's conglomerate owned 400 million shares of Coca-Cola. billion was just 2% higher than a decade before in 2014. Warren Buffett has an unbelievable track record of allocating capital for Berkshire Hathaway.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Prior to Mexico's rise as a manufacturing behemoth, China eclipsed Canada to clinch the top spot as America's trading partner in 2014. investors bet on major Chinese conglomerates that have artificial-intelligence units, but receive most of their revenue from other sources. But with U.S. For instance, the rule would let U.S.

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JUNE 3, 2024

And that was his boss, Jeffrey Gundlock, founder of Double Line Capital, back in July, 2014. The very first Masters in Business that was broadcast just about 10 years ago, July, 2014, episode number one, Jeffrey Gundlock, DoubleLine Capital. So he just flew in late yesterday. The calendar was a little tight. And effectively I did.

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