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JULY 16, 2024

The stock is up more than 1,400% since its 2015 initial public offering, and despite more recent struggles, it has outperformed the S&P 500 over the last five years. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Also, the company continues to show robust financial growth.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

The company last split its shares back in 2015, and with its stock trading near its all-time high, another split could be announced as soon as this month. Spotify Technology Spotify Technology (NYSE: SPOT) had its initial public offering (IPO) in 2018, and has never split its stock. Image source: Getty Images.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The chart below shows its share-price appreciation (or depreciation) in the first and second halves of each full year since its initial public offering (IPO). Specifically, the stock has produced a positive first-half return in 18 years and a positive second-half return in 16 of those 18 years, or 89% of the time.

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MAY 30, 2024

Since the initial public offering of Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) in 2015, its shares have been a stunning success -- gaining 2,100% in value. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

It has raised its payment every quarter since its initial public offering in 2015. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*. However, that streak could end abruptly.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Tesla's first year posting a net income didn't come until 2020, nearly a decade after its initial public offering (IPO). It wasn't until 2015 that Tesla manufactured more than 50,000 vehicles. Rivian hit that milestone just three years after its public debut. RJ Fulton has positions in Tesla.

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MAY 13, 2024

The company was founded in 2015, went public through an initial public offering (IPO) in 2020, and has faced a steep uphill battle to catch up to its competitors. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. It's been a challenge. The Motley Fool recommends Progressive.

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MARCH 24, 2024

After a tumultuous two-year period for initial public offerings ( IPOs ), signs point to a potential turnaround for the market. On March 21, Reddit made its public debut, and it is a big test to see how markets respond to new issuers. Instead, the company aspires to be at the center of payments, shopping, and banking.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Better yet, in the years that followed a halving, Bitcoin's average return was a whopping 400%. When in 2015 it became the first blockchain to introduce smart contracts, Ethereum changed the game, allowing developers to program blockchain-based applications. Coinbase Yes, I know, Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) isn't a cryptocurrency.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The efforts come at a time when private equity activity is down, amid difficult market conditions and pressure to return capital to fund investors. Blackstone, Carlyle and Goldman Sachs declined to comment.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

In 2015, office properties made up around 30% of its annualized base rent (ABR); by last year, it had fallen to around 15%. The recent initial public offering of Lineage also bodes well for W.P. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Image source: Getty Images.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Since its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015, Shopify stock has increased in value by 2,900%. Shopify already has a solid share of this market, but it's easy to see how it could double or triple its user base over time, especially considering it held just a tiny fraction of the market when shares went public in 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

dividend payer (including special dividends) today could produce similarly impressive returns in the future. since 2015. In addition to its low-volatility shares, the company maintains a robust 25% net income margin and a towering 72% return on invested capital (ROIC). Here's the case for why adding another $1,000 to this 4.7%

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

MarketAxess: Bringing bond trading into the digital age While electronic bond trading may not sound like a high-flying investment proposition, MarketAxess has delivered 1,300% total returns since its initial public offering in 2004. Why buy now? MKTX Price to Free Cash Flow data by YCharts.

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AUGUST 31, 2024

Over the past five years, Mastercard (NYSE: MA) stock has generated a total return of 77%. That's a respectable gain, but it lags behind the 113% total return of the S&P 500. It's up a whopping 11,180% since its initial public offering in May 2006 (compared to 534% for the S&P 500). Even in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has taken investors on a bit of a roller coaster ride since it was spun off from eBay and went public in 2015. PayPal has seen its margins fall every year since its initial public offering. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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MAY 20, 2024

Since its initial public offering in 2015, this top fintech stock has doubled the gain of the Nasdaq Composite Index. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Since its initial public offering (IPO) in 1994, it's kept its occupancy rate above 96%. It pays monthly dividends, has hiked its payout 127 times since its public debut, and still pays a high forward yield of 5%. Investors who reinvested those dividends netted a total return of 5,500% over the past 30 years.

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JULY 13, 2023

See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of July 10, 2023 Eric Volkman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. They just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now. and IMAX wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A little history and context When I talk about PayPal going public, I mean for the second time. PayPal first went public in 2002, but was acquired soon after by online marketplace eBay. It was spun off as a separate company and had another initial public offering (IPO) in 2015, so PayPal as a stock is really fairly young.

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JULY 17, 2024

Since its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015, shares of Shopify have returned a jaw-dropping 2,400%. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*.

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JULY 13, 2024

After dealing with a huge food safety crisis in 2015, the fast-casual leader is now stronger than ever as it closes in on 3,500 stores with impressive unit volumes. Over the last 10 years, Chipotle has posted a 382% total return, and in late June, the company executed a historic 50-to-1 stock split.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Now, where can you find stocks promising to provide an average return of 15% per year for the next five years? Switching to the more volatile bet on mostly tech stocks, the Nasdaq 100 Index , the average return in five years lands at 20.6%. It's not a surefire guarantee, of course -- the truly long-term Nasdaq 100 return stops at 8.9%

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JUNE 30, 2024

However, I owned the stock for several years, long enough to reap tremendous returns. How much money would you have now if you had invested $10,000 in Nvidia stock at its initial public offering (IPO)? However, beginning in 2015, the stock went on a tear. Do I wish I had bought Nvidia shares earlier?

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AUGUST 17, 2024

And way back in 2015, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wanted to acquire Unity for billions of dollars. And yet the stock has dropped roughly 75% from its initial public offering (IPO). There are plenty of failures from past management that have contributed to its lackluster returns. Unity is clearly promising.

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MARCH 8, 2024

Despite its ebbs and flows, shares of Apple have scurried higher by 790% over the trailing-10-year period and have skyrocketed by almost 132,000% since its initial public offering in December 1980. Since initiating a share buyback program in 2013, Apple has overseen the repurchase of $650.88

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Investors who bought Netflix stock at its initial public offering (IPO) and held until now would be sitting on a gain of 45,332%. In fact, Netflix has created so much value that management has opted for two stock splits -- one in 2004, and another in 2015 -- to ensure the stock remained accessible to smaller investors.

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MARCH 5, 2024

up from 4,000 at the time of our initial public offering in 2015," said interim CEO Craig Benson on the Q4 earnings call. What initially seemed like a devastating blow to the enterprise, Planet Fitness might end up benefiting greatly from the COVID health crisis. We now believe we can have 5,000 gyms in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 13, 2024

But it's no surprise that many of the most popular stocks investors and Wall Street pros follow are those of successful companies that have a history of delivering superior returns for shareholders, and therefore, occasionally issue stock splits to keep their share prices affordable for individual investors.

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APRIL 18, 2024

EY reports that while the total number of initial public offerings made in Q1 was down 7% year over year, the 7% growth in the total amount of funds hints that this business is on the mend. Shares are down more 40% from their early 2021 peak, falling back to levels seen all the way back in 2015. End result?

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AUGUST 9, 2024

IonQ still has a lot to prove IonQ was founded in 2015 and went public by merging with a SPAC in 2021. At the time, it called itself the only "public pure-play" on the quantum computing market. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Leo Sun has positions in AT&T.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Since its initial public offering in spring 2015 running up to its all-time high in November 2021, shares of Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) skyrocketed 890%. Driven by robust demand for its differentiated product offerings, the company grew rapidly. But it's been a wildly different story since then.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) has taken its investors on a volatile journey ever since its initial public offering in May 2015. But shares have still made for a wildly successful investment, as they have soared 2,860% during the company's entire public history. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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MARCH 3, 2024

After decades on the public markets, discount retail chain Dollar General (NYSE: DG) was taken private in 2007. Dollar General went public again 2009. And those who invested $1,000 in the 2009 initial public offering (IPO) have nearly $7,000 now. Todd Vasos was the company's CEO from 2015 through late 2022.

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JUNE 27, 2023

It also flourished as a subsidiary of eBay from 2002 to 2015 without fretting too much about its profitability on a stand-alone basis. It established a first mover's advantage in commission-free trades, but it could struggle to stay relevant as larger brokerages offer free trades. Robinhood doesn't enjoy either of those advantages.

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JUNE 11, 2024

However, investors have grown concerned about its take rate, or the total revenue retained from each transaction, which has declined every year since 2015. After a record 2021, led by robust demand for initial public offerings (IPOs) and a flurry of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investment banking activity came to a screeching halt.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It's this past and projected growth that's stoked so much investor interest since Shopify's 2015 initial public offering. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than tripled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*. Chart by author.

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