The Motley Fool

MAY 22, 2024

P&G's revenue fell because it cut its brand count from 170 to 65 and its product categories from 16 to 10 between fiscal 2015 and fiscal 2017. P&G focused on its best and highest-margin brands, and used excess capital to repurchase its stock and grow the dividend. But its margins are far higher now than they were back then.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 10, 2023

equity markets have delivered large returns so far this year, gains from other stock markets around the world this year are much more muted. Agreed to acquire a 24.99% stake in FCC Servicios Medio Ambiente Holding, SAU, the environmental services division of Spanish conglomerate Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, S.A.,

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

You start your journey in this world, learning about individual companies in the stock market. It is heartbreaking because we're not in a recession, the stock market is up 12% on the year, unemployment is at a 50 year low, but all these people feel this way. It's almost heartbreaking, reading the statistics.

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 22, 2020

It’s also the reason that the stock market as a whole has recovered so quickly from this COVID-era recession: small businesses like restaurants and hair salons have been destroyed by the shutdowns, but big companies that benefit from people staying at home and using computers and phones are making more money than ever.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

My pal Rick Engdahl, I have brought you a fresh new podcast every week since July 2015. Nvidia is an absolutely classic example of a Rule Breaker as a company and of a Rule Breaker stock for Rule Breaker investors. The stock market after all goes down one year in every three. That's 450 weeks in a row. What do you think?",

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 22, 2024

has crushed the returns of stock market benchmarks like the S&P 500 index. For retail investors, the conglomerate's massive stock portfolio can be a great place to start looking for investing ideas. Indeed, the stock has been one of the portfolio's worst performers, losing more than half its value from its 2017 peak.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Risk for me can mean many things, but when we talk about the stock market, individual stocks, risk is the chances of you losing a substantial portion of your original investment over a meaningful amount of time. A lot of people tend to think about risk as volatility, the Beta, so called, of a stock and its movements.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

billion shipments that were processed under the de minimis rule last year, and how that's up exponentially from 139 million annually as of 2015. There were these big conglomerates. You had noted to me that the US had more than 1.3 So what is going on here? We've all seen some of these business models. They ended up having to divest.

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