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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Since going public in May 2002, Netflix has conducted two splits: 2-for-1 in February 2004, and 7-for-1 in July 2015. 19, shares of the company were tipping the scales at $871. This is in the neighborhood of the price point Netflix shares traded at prior to its July 2015 split. But as of the closing bell on Nov.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Diving into Starbucks' stock split record On June 26, 1992, Microsoft debuted as a public company on the Nasdaq at an initial public offering of $17 per share. Payable Date Split Type April 8, 2015 2-for-1 Oct. Thanks to multiple stock splits over the years, the number of Starbucks' shares in your account has ballooned.

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MARCH 31, 2024

It's the second-largest public company in the world for a reason, and I don't think its stock price is about to collapse. Yet however impressive its past performance, what matters to investors is how the company will perform going forward. Year iPhone Unit Sales iPhone Revenue 2015 231.2 million $155 billion 2016 211.8

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JUNE 27, 2024

History says Nvidia could continue soaring in the second half of 2024 Nvidia became a public company in 1999. 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). Read on to learn more.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For investors looking for tech stocks that they can hold onto for the next decade, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM) (aka TSMC) are options you don't have to second-guess. Apple Apple held the title of the world's most valuable public company for a while until Microsoft recently passed it.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Key qualitative differences between Nvidia now and Cisco in the late 199Os Cisco's CEO in the below chart refers to John Chambers, who led the company from 1995 to 2015. Cisco was founded in 1984 by two Stanford University computer scientists and went public in 1990. The similarities are only surface deep.

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MAY 30, 2024

Still, it requires a perspective of seeing where a company like Chipotle could go based on its past and that of comparable enterprises. When Ackman's fund first bought its stock in 2016, Chipotle had a 10-year track record as a public company and had expanded to about 2,000 restaurants.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The big opportunity for SoundHound While SoundHound has only been a public company for about 18 months, the company has actually been around since 2005. It was started by two Stanford graduates with the goal of bringing conversational intelligence to many applications, and that central goal and task hasn't changed for 18 years.

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MARCH 14, 2025

On the company's first-quarter conference call in December, Lynch said that the number of passes sold in North America had declined by 2%. That's the first time that pass sales had declined since the pass was introduced in 2015, I believe it was. But importantly, revenue from passes rose due to an 8% increase.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

This marks the cheapest it's traded to forward-year earnings since 2015 and makes NextEra shares a phenomenal buy. The company has paid a continuous dividend to its shareholders since its founding in 1816. That's 207 consecutive years -- six decades longer than any other public company in the United States.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Its forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 18 is the lowest it's been since 2015, and the company's yield is back to 3%. The 207 straight years it's doled out a payout is 60 years longer than any other public company. To boot, NextEra Energy is a phenomenal value after a challenging year that saw Treasury yields soar.

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MAY 20, 2024

Its shares are down roughly 55% over the past year and over 95% from their high-water mark in 2015. You just have to believe that GoPro can broaden its business model and remain a stand-alone public company. Although the company was once a Wall Street star, investor adoration cooled off pretty quickly.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Apple's physical product innovation has led the way for more than a decade, with the company now also emphasizing high-margin subscription services. billion of its own common stock since the start of 2013, which is tops among public companies. To boot, Apple has repurchased $650.9 The likeliest answer is valuation.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Meanwhile, its share repurchase program over the past decade is unmatched by any public company. According to monthly search share data provided by GlobalStats, the last time Google closed out a month with less than a 90% share of worldwide internet search was March 2015. Apple's iPhone accounts for better than 50% of U.S.

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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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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. Moreover, its operating margin now stands at 24% -- the highest in its time as a public company. Image source: Getty Images.

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

By the end of 2015 it had roughly 2,000 restaurants. CMG data by YCharts Cava only held its IPO in mid-2023, so it is still a very young company. At the end of its first quarter as a public company it operated just 279 locations. The growth of Chipotle is clear evidence of its popularity.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In September, shares of gym chain Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) dropped to multiyear lows after the company suddenly removed Chris Rondeau from his position as CEO. 2013, leading the company through its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. Rondeau had been at the helm since Jan.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

That said, the company is still growing its top line and has yet to report a year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue as a public company. Etsy had its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. In the second quarter of 2023, Etsy posted revenue growth of just 7.5%, which was one of its slowest growth rates ever.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The company has acquired more than 2 million customers since it was founded in 2015 and, according to reports, is attracting historically underinsured demographics, including people aged 19 to 34. That's near the cheapest level since it became a public company in 2020: LMND PS Ratio data by YCharts.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It's a rare growth company that was profitable even at IPO, and revenue continues to grow fast while net income increases as well. In the 2023 third quarter, Oddity's second as a public company, it kept up its top performance and beat its own guidance. Net income rose from $2.8 million to $3.8

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AUGUST 15, 2023

The company has also received some negative press this summer. One of its roller coasters -- which opened in 2015 at its Carowinds park near Charlotte, North Carolina, and cost an estimated $30 million to build -- was shut down when a stress fracture was discovered. The ride has since reopened after being under repair for six weeks.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Not only does this outpace the annualized return of the S&P 500 over this stretch, but it more than doubled the 3.95% annualized return of public companies that don't offer a dividend. Dividend Equity ETF had more than $76 billion in assets invested in 104 companies. As of Jan. 5, the Schwab U.S.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

When it comes to investing in tech stocks, many investors wrongly focus on share price as a perceived indicator of a given company's value. You should also consider metrics like market cap (the total value of a public company's shares outstanding) relative to the size of a business' total addressable market (TAM).

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JULY 1, 2024

Employees experienced a “culture of ownership” and received a payout on equity that averaged $175,000 on top of their regular salary, as well as approximately $9,000 in dividends since 2015. Driving Economic Growth Private equity employs 12 million workers , generating over $1 trillion of U.S.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Launched in 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are frequently referenced by investors as part of a call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Globally, women make up 28% of public company boards and 19% of the C-suite.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

I think he was the first guest on your podcast, the Knowledge Project, back in 2015. Shane Parrish: I've made a lot of different investments, from start ups to private companies, to public companies. I sit on the board of a public company. Mary Long: You talked to Michael Malpieson quite a few times.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mr. Nicol commented: “Scaling NUBURU’s commercial efforts is critical for the Company’s growth strategy as a public company. About NUBURU Founded in 2015, NUBURU, Inc. Zediker added: “Having Ron in an active management position will allow us to double down on our efforts to scale the business.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

It's truly has been a privilege of a lifetime to lead the company as CEO on our three strategies of consumption, cloud computing, and globalization since 2015 and be a part of Alibaba's high-growth period. This quarter is a combination of my eight-year leadership of Alibaba and the start of my new journey. Thank you, everyone.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

You were right, if you disagreed with Matt, Synaptics is a smaller company than that $3.12 It's entitled "We Never Get Credit for The Ones We Don't Pick" so 2012-2015. As I wrote my final note to myself about Synaptics in August 2015, I ended with this, and I quote. From that day, August 5th, of 2015. To quote ourselves.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As such, we are pleased to appoint Brian as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer. He is an accomplished and respected leader with profound expertise in scaling and operating public companies. About NUBURU Founded in 2015, NUBURU, Inc.

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MARCH 30, 2024

I believe you had Art Peck Helming the retailer from 2015-2019. But when Mickey left the family that owns Gap or now owns part of it, it's a public company as the Fisher family, they really just never figured it out. Gap's had a lot of people coming in and out the door as CEO. Now they've got Richard Dickson.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Just thinking the Layer 2 solutions have been around now, I think Lightning was started back in 2015. Brian Armstrong -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Yeah, it's a good question because if I go back to 2015, I probably would have thought it would have happened faster. And it was very nascent. Thanks for taking my question.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Most everything that influences the price of oil is outside the control of a company like Schlumberger. In 2014, what we were saying was an inventory surplus, which by the way was further exacerbated when economic sanctions were lifted on Iran in 2015, and their inventory came online too, so even more inventory surplus to come.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Well, that kind of optimism, I hope has been coming at you through this podcast every week since we launched in July of 2015. We're a private company that people can't invest in. I'm speaking to investors in public companies and I will continue to say and advocate that if you make your portfolio reflect your best vision for our future.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

My pal Rick Engdahl, I have brought you a fresh new podcast every week since July 2015. For public companies, you can say of Nvidia or Marvel or Amazon. Another thing I've never yet done, here's another never, is repeat a Rule Breaker Investing podcast. That's 450 weeks in a row. How about this?

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