The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Dan Loeb of Third Point (210,000 shares) Viking Global and Renaissance Technologies completely exited their fund's stakes in the world's largest public company. Terry Smith of Fundsmith (705,498 shares). The reasoning behind these sales may boil down to a combination of history and valuation.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2024

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is one of the world's largest and most influential tech companies. It's also the most valuable public company in the world at the moment at $3.4 Even more impressive, the stock has delivered a return of more than 1,160% since Satya Nadella became the company's CEO in February 2014.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

However, its commitment to R&D is dwarfed by another "investment" that no other public company has come close to matching. billion in buybacks 2014 : $45 billion 2015 : $35.253 billion 2016 : $29.722 billion 2017 : $32.9 billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. Apple's capital-return program is truly on another level.

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Insight Partners

APRIL 1, 2025

The first decision you must make is your endpoint: an initial public offering (IPO), acquisition by a public company, acquisition by a private company, or a private equity takeover? Each requires you to make different decisions as your company grows. By comparison, most public companies today are growing at 20%.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

Over the last four years, this once-promising company has faced non-stop scandals and underperformance. Nikola was founded in 2014 and went public six years later. But is Nikola doomed -- or can it turn its fortunes around in the next five years and beyond? Let's dig deeper. What went wrong for Nikola?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

Sensing that it would need to pivot away from cigarettes if it wanted to survive for decades to come, the company launched the reduced-risk nicotine product Iqos in Japan and Italy in 2014. That is why analysts believe the company's adjusted diluted EPS will rise by 7% annually for the next five years.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It became the first public company to reach a $1 trillion market cap in August 2018, and was the first to top $3 trillion in June 2023. billion in buybacks 2014 : $45 billion 2015 : $35.253 billion 2016 : $29.722 billion 2017 : $32.9 Here's a breakdown of Apple's buyback activity over the last 11 years: 2013 : $22.95

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Still facing its greatest challenge Wayfair was nearing profitability when it began as a public company in 2014, but instead of reaching profitability as it scaled, revenue and income diverged as if on cue. Data source: YCharts This didn't seem to bother investors as the stock price rose regardless.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The company was spun off from what was then known as National Oilwell Varco (now NOV ) in 2014 and has used a series of acquisitions in the years since then to build its product portfolio. The company's most recent quarter should put it on a lot of radar screens. DNOW earned $0.22 per share on $540 million in sales. "In

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

It rebranded as Ally in 2010 and became a seperate public company in 2014. It was created as a financial arm of General Motors to help auto dealers finance auto sales, and over many decades it expanded into other areas of lending and finance. It was forward-thinking at that time.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 9, 2024

Shares of newly public insurance company Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited (NYSE: FIHL) rallied 30.2% Fidelis was incorporated in 2014 but just went public via an initial public offering (IPO) back in June of 2023. As a newly public company, Fidelis may still be flying under the radar.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

Ally: Digital and value go hand in hand Ally was spun off as the financial arm of General Motors in 2009 and only became a public company in 2014. Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY) and Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) are two Buffett stocks that are stirring up excitement on Wall Street and could be excellent picks for an individual portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

for-1 stock splits, respectively, the companies have low share prices despite posting total returns that have outpaced the S&P 500 index since the 1990s. Meanwhile, Kenvue (NYSE: KVUE) was recently spun off from healthcare behemoth Johnson & Johnson , leaving the newly public company with a temporarily puny share price.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

You go back to 2014, a helped up revenue just under $28 billion. It used to base its buyback plan off book value, and it doesn't use that anymore, for example, but it usually underestimates the company's value. For a company like this to be trading below its book value, it's odd. Today that's $23 billion.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

If you are able to create or create a company and then take it public and then issue securities in that capital markets in order to buy and develop commercial real estate, you would have an advantage over private companies doing the same thing because public companies always have an advantage in financing.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And now, we have paid approximately $45 billion to shareholders in dividends over our history as a public company. We are still not at our high that was 97.1%, if I remember right, in 2014. We returned a record of more than $3 billion to shareholders in cash dividends. Tom's shaking his head, yes.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

Lastly, this will be the 36th earnings call I have participated since our IPO in 2014 and the final one as chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group. As Cloud Intelligence Group moved toward becoming a public company, I look forward to reengaging with everyone in my new role in the journey ahead. Thank you, everyone.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

David Gardner: That is a promising title and we're going to hold off on what the company name is because that might be part of the story. Kirsten Guerra: Once upon a time; the year was 2014, The European Space Agency landed our first probe on a comet, the World Cup was in Brazil, Germany won. Kirsten, take it away.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Alicia Alfiere: Well, so she founded Bumble back in 2014 and when you think about it, her journey of just about 10 years, had to have been massive and exhausting. She took a company public. She ran this public company for several years, and she stepped back. She was like a massive part of the Bumble story.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Lisa Su, the CEO came to the company in 2014. Yasser El-Shimy: I too do own Shopify and perhaps one of the reasons I got the market cap, so general, correct, is because it is my most successful investor ever as personal investment, at least, picked it in 2014 at what is now probably a cost basis of $2.71 Yeah, you scooped us.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. They’ve been around literally nearly a century.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

We achieved notable milestones this quarter, surpassing $1 billion in ARR and posting positive adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow for the first time as a public company, which speaks to the consistent execution of our strategy.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Five years later, at the end of 2014, the stock finally hit $60 a share. This year included, it's now the most valuable public company of all time. By December 2009, Nvidia had begun to recover, and for my new monthly Motley Fool Stock Advisor pick, I picked one stock a month from 2002-2021 for Motley Fool Stock Advisor.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They have been able to grow revenue 20% annualized from 2014-2022. But when you look at the actual numbers here it's really impressive. In 2022, they generated $1.24 billion in revenue. They had a gross margin of 60%.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

increase in overhead costs due to the timing of various public company fees, and a $0.01 We expect core FFO per share for the second quarter to be within the range of $1.65 to $1.69, representing a $0.03 per share sequential decline at the midpoint, primarily resulting from an approximate $0.01

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

I don't know whether Herb Kelleher at the time foresaw one day he would be in charge of a public company and as Southwest Airlines founder, I assume Herb picked the ticker symbol LUV, which is one of the more distinctive ticker symbols you will find on any index. I mean, I didn't even know there was a public company that had that name.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

ZF, a global technology company supplying systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and industrial technology, needed a central database solution with broad functionality to support more than 300,000 commercial vehicles connected to ZF infrastructure. Rishi Jaluria -- RBC Capital Markets -- Analyst Wonderful. Really helpful.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

David Gardner: Cava is now a public company. Bill Mann: Public as of this last week. The stock went sideways, basically from 2014-2019 and all of a sudden it's shot from around $20 a share in the summer of 2019. Bill Mann: I do love Cava. David Gardner: Just a few days ago. Ticker or symbol? David Gardner: Cava.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Before we go into details about the quarter, I want to provide some context on what we have accomplished as a public company and how we are looking toward the future. Mike Massaro -- Chief Executive Officer Thank you, Masha, and thank you to everyone that is joining us today.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I think it’s kind of systemic at this point where you have companies reporting earnings on a quarterly basis. So many public companies expected to issue guidance and then meet that guidance or else, you know, essentially. What’s it like running a public company? You are a public company.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

the tight-knit firmament of private and public companies that drive the province’s economy. It has significant stakes in most of Quebec’s flagship companies, many of which leaned heavily on the Caisse as they grew into industry champions, including Alimentation Couche-Tard, CGI, Intact Financial and WSP Global.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 12, 2023

As well, we further refined our Proxy Voting Guidelines to incorporate increased expectations of public companies with respect to ESG matters, including diversity and climate, and appointed our first global head of ESG. The table below shows executive compensation at BCI: Gordon Fyfe's compensation jumped 25% from $4.1

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So you joined Global X in 2014. Up until that point, Barry, I had worked only for really big companies, Morgan Stanley and Jefferies. I joined Global X in 2014, and we have, if I remember correctly, approximately $1.5 BERRUGA: All companies that are basically involved in the production of wind energy.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

I checked the date, June 25th, 2014. In this city when you think of public companies based in Washington, DC, any standout performers come to mind for you? 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.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

For those of you not familiar with Cain, which, as of year-end 2024, had nearly $18 billion in assets under management, it was founded in 2014 by Jonathan and his partner Todd Boehly and is affiliated with Eldridge Industries, an investment company founded and led by Todd Boehly. Aman, obviously, is not a public company.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

But he replied with something, if I remember correctly, like, look, I like the company, and I'm not even that bullish. We moved to 2014. Facebook is still one of the most important companies in the universe. [laughs] I definitely caught him a little off guard with $200 given the price was around 25 at the time.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

About RedBird Capital Partners RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm that builds high-growth companies and provides strategic capital solutions to founders and entrepreneurs. Probably the easiest way to do that is [with] a private business, where you can have that control and ownership.

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