The Motley Fool

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. This figure, by the way, includes reinvesting dividends paid by Heico during the period.

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The Motley Fool

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. The deal would be for premium of 32% for shareholders based on when the deal was brought up at the end of November, stock has been battered around for a bit. Today that's $23 billion.

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The Motley Fool

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. Further, management has also been returning capital to shareholders in the form of share repurchases. So, someone at the conglomerate loves the pizza company.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 22, 2024

After all, the whole idea of a dividend is to pass along a portion of profits directly to shareholders instead of reinvesting them in the business. Emerson Electric With over 55 brands spanning numerous industries, Emerson Electric is an industrial conglomerate mainly engaged in business-to-business sales.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There's one in particular, which the conglomerate has owned since 2011, that might fly under the radar. This huge value has come from impressive shareholder gains. billion a decade ago in the third quarter of 2014 to $7.4 But the Oracle of Omaha also likes to own financial services companies. billion in the latest quarter.

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The Motley Fool

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. I would say that the biggest, drawback of a corporate owned group is the existence of disinterested third party shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

I checked the date, June 25th, 2014. Yasser El-Shimy: Well, the longtime shareholder of both Amazon.com and Shopify. Yasser, you've been a shareholder. 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. That's how Marriott started.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

We moved to 2014. In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation. Executives whose pay doesn't align with their performance, who don't face meaningful accountability when they make dire decisions are bad news for employees, customers, and shareholders alike. Haven't seen it.

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The Motley Fool

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. Sirius XM management shared its 2025 outlook with investors earlier in December, disappointing many shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2025

The massive conglomerate owns dozens of businesses in its public equities portfolio. Investors will struggle to find companies with this stellar track record of returning excess cash to shareholders. As of March 1, Buffett's conglomerate owned 400 million shares of Coca-Cola. However, it lacks meaningful growth prospects.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Asit Sharma: So management was asked about this just a few days ago when the company released earnings, and the CEO said what you would want to hear if you're a shareholder. There were these big conglomerates. What was the management outlook? For those of you who don't know, Kansas City Southern US Road merged with Canadian Pacific.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So when I think of GE in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the three things that come up; GE Capital, obviously; the rise of shareholder value, which a lot of people point to General Electric as a key driver of that; and then Six Sigma. COHAN: — and shareholder value. He had shareholders eating out of the palm of his hands.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Berkshire Hathaway CEO has sold more equities from the conglomerate's investment portfolio than he's added to it in each of the last eight quarters. He continued to buy shares in 2013 and 2014, but it has been more than 10 years since he added to the position. Shareholders, including Berkshire Hathaway, have seen the benefits.

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