2015 Private Companies Stock Market 
The Motley Fool
JANUARY 10, 2024
The benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) stock market index has delivered a gain of 67,036% (including dividends) since it was established in 1957. But, historically, investors who purchased specific individual stocks have far outperformed the return of the S&P 500. That's equivalent to a compound annual gain of 24.5%.
The Motley Fool
DECEMBER 28, 2023
The stock market is a proven wealth generator over the long term, even for conservative investors who buy index funds. But some individual stocks like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) have delivered an absolute fortune to investors who were game enough to bet on them early. Netflix was founded in 1997. Image source: Netflix.
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The Motley Fool
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Well, if the stock market goes up, they win, the stock market stays the same, they win the stock market tanks, they win. Well, if the stock market goes up, they win. The stock market stays the same, they win the stock market tanks, they win. They win no matter what.
The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
That's when our stocks really go bananas. For us to tack on 12% points of outperformance in this market has been particularly sweet, even if 2007 so often felt bittersweet. Fellow Fools, the stock market is a roller coaster, full of swoops and dives. Remember, stock market equals roller coaster.
Sara Grillo
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
It’s more an indication of what your CEO tweets about than the actual virtue or vice of the company’s behavior. This lack of fairness, transparency, objectivity and the ideology the enshrines the offering up of stock market competitiveness as a sacrificial cow of wokeness is yet another reason why ESG sucks. Impact investing.
The Motley Fool
AUGUST 7, 2024
It is our great quotes, Volume 19, the 19th, in this long-running series that dates back to 2015 for this podcast. He said, "the stock market was invented to move money from those who are impatient to those who are patient." I don't think and I doubt Graham thought that the stock market was actually invented to do that.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 8, 2022
RITHOLTZ: So, that makes the finance sector very different than the rest of the stock market? And so, therefore, the usual market forces that push against high leverage in other companies that just naturally with no regulation would limit. ADMATI: We’re at the mercy of these private companies.
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