The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In this article, I'll take a big picture view of PayPal's profits and capital allocation before explaining why I believe shareholders can hope for better returns moving forward. The multibillion-dollar question Since going public, PayPal has spent over $19 billion repurchasing its own shares. The company also acquires other businesses.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

Apple has put $674 billion to work in a unique way for its shareholders Collectively, Apple has spent about $183.1 However, its commitment to R&D is dwarfed by another "investment" that no other public company has come close to matching. Image source: Getty Images. billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. 2013 : $22.95

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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. Apple's $700 billion investment has been a godsend for its shareholders Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett made Apple his company's top holding for a good reason. Image source: Apple.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Through decades of strategic investments, Buffett and his team have built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable public companies, with a market capitalization of over $780 billion. Apple should continue to provide great shareholder value going forward. and Visa wasn't one of them!

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 21, 2024

Consider that Stanley Tumblers launched in 2016 and flopped. Previously, he was one of the architects who turned clog-style shoe company Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX) into a popular brand. The good news for Crocs' shareholders is that he's now back with the company and tasked with leading what's perhaps the company's largest opportunity.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Some of Warren Buffett's core holdings are getting the heave-ho When Berkshire's chief issued his annual letter to shareholders earlier this year, he alluded to eight companies being "indefinite" holdings. Apple is a stock that Buffett had invested well over $30 billion at cost into since the first quarter of 2016.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Very few public companies offer monthly dividends, and the ones that do are typically real estate investment trusts (REITs) because they are legally required to pay out 90% of their taxable earnings to shareholders. However, investors shouldn't expect frequent dividend raises, with the last coming in 2016.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. In a traditional IPO, the existing shareholders are typically locked up for 180 days and then the lockups come off entirely. You don’t have to be wealthy to invest in crypto startups.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 28, 2024

The growth scares of 2016, 2018, Covid, and the 2022 downturn all caused significant angst in the market, but didn't result in recession -- or at least in case of the pandemic, not a "traditional" one. The IWM merely tracks the 2000 smallest public companies above a certain threshold (leaving out microcaps) in a diversified manner.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Now, I want to note four times over the past 20 years, the company split its stock, two for one in 2006, three for two in 2007, four for one in 2021, and 10 for one in 2024. Thus, shareholders today now have 120 shares for every one share they own back in 2005 when I first recommended it. The stocks at 60. It was up 198%.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2016, the stock crossed 10, where it had been at that early peak in October of 2007. It was the top-performing stock on the S&P 500 in 2016. Now Disney fans or Marvel shareholders may remember the significance of October 2009. In the meantime, congratulations to all Marvel shareholders. We're back. How about this?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

Now for those keen on exploring further, I've covered this in March 2016's Risk Month series, which I did for this podcast nearly eight years ago, now available through a quick Google search if you just Google Rule Breaker Investing, risk ratings. Does the company maintain a high standard of disclosure consistent with SEC guidelines?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

A leading Australian technology company expanded their relationship with Cloudflare, signing a two-year $17.5 They started with Cloudflare back in 2016 as a free customer and today use nearly all our products, spanning use cases as diverse as remote application access, workers, serverless development, and bot management.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

We see to be real estate partners to the world's leading companies and the diligent efforts of our dedicated team resulted in AFFO per share of $1.06 Combined with our annualized dividend yield in excess of 5% our shareholders owned a total operational return of over 11%. representing a robust 6% growth compared to last year.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As many of you know, we've gone through both a management and company restructure in the last 75 days. Yesterday, we announced management changes which provide clear direction on the two brands and position us with a leadership team that is now aligned with shareholders on incentives and driving value. Think about us as surplus goods.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

They are a publicly traded investment manager, stocks symbol DHIL, that have been public since day one since 2016. I think it’s kind of systemic at this point where you have companies reporting earnings on a quarterly basis. What’s it like running a public company? It’s been public from day one.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Stock Number 2 is a public company today whose CEO was in the one year between us in elementary school. Andy Cross: It did, David and it was a massive merger of these two companies, which I think Bill own a lot of stock, if I'm remembering correctly. David Gardner: It is tough when you merge two large companies.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

In closing, our team remains committed to driving operational excellence, ensuring long-term growth, and delivering significant shareholder value. There's a public company in the financial services space that's doing real-time fraud detection. There's another start-up that's creating an AI search engine.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The company performed well in 2023 and has continued to execute year-to-date, demonstrated by one, annual AFFO per share growth of 7%. Two, increasing our annual dividends declared each year since inception in 2016; three, committing capital totaling $119.5 million during 2023. And we look forward to a bright 2024.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It's cut in half in the five months before my colleague, Carl Thiel picked it for Motley Fool Rule Breakers on February 24th, Check a 2016. In fact, it's a more tax efficient way for shareholders if the company buys back its own shares as opposed to handing out a special dividend. That's a 35 bagger, but even better.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

This is also my last call as a public company CFO. On October 1, I will be switching over to your side as a shareholder of Visa, cheering from the stands as Ryan, Chris, and the team lead Visa to another double and triple. Hopefully, we've delivered for you. I started this journey in September 2000, almost exactly 23 years ago.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

At any rate, I think shareholders should be pretty patient here. I also agree this is something for Tesla shareholders to watch. I think that's enough for shareholders to get a sense of where the company will head next in terms of that wave that you're referring to. He sees this as a legitimate threat around the world.

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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. I wouldn't know that Alibaba went from $60 a share, so to start at 2016 to touch over 300 in late 2020. Any fast casual food experiences that you've had, maybe newer ones over the last year or two that you've really appreciated.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this city when you think of public companies based in Washington, DC, any standout performers come to mind for you? Yasser El-Shimy: Well, the longtime shareholder of both Amazon.com and Shopify. Yasser, you've been a shareholder. Carl Teal first picked it on February 24th of 2016. I'll just be honest here.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We had a total shareholder return of 46% for 2023. In fact, 2023 was a historic and record leasing year for Macerich, dating back 30 years as a public company. We had a strong fourth quarter, which included same-center NOI of 3% for the quarter and 4.5% for the year. Occupancy is now up to 93.5%. for the year.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

Up about 328% since it launched in 2016. But I think as we think about and we look at companies that have had sustained out-performance, there tends to be great leadership and great culture behind that and there's a lot of numbers and some studies that have been done with public companies to back that up. Elf is E-L-F.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Highlights: Engaging beyond equities: BCI directly engaged 134 public and private portfolio companies , achieving our objectives or observing positive momentum in 58 per cent of cases, and supported collaborative engagements targeting over 2,000 additional public companies.

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

According to an article by Larry Swedroe from 2016, controversial investments yield post abnormal returns, generally, and screening them out causes performance to suffer. Swedroe cites a study by Greg Richey from the Summer 2016 issue of The Journal of Investing. First of all, Secondary market trading doesn’t really impact the company.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from Lazard to Merrill to JPMorgan, tell us about those other experiences, how do they compare to Lazard which seems much more unique, being in a public company versus a partnership.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By the spring of 2022, Cabanes, Agarwal and Malhotra made plans on how Azure Power would pay for the portion of bribe payments promised by a company the indictment refers to as “Indian Energy Company” on behalf of Azure Power. In 2020, the Caisse became the majority shareholder in Azure Power Global Ltd., CDPQ became a 49.4

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With our leased operating portfolio comprised of 91% multi-state operators, and 62% leased to public company tenants. Since our IPO in 2016, we have maintained one of the most conservative balance sheets in the REIT industry, and that continued this quarter. With only 300 million of debt on gross assets of 2.6 And now, Paul?

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