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. million $995 million 2017 19.7

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 19, 2023

It was a similar story in the first quarter of 2023, where Buffett's company sold a net of $10.4 The cherry on top is that the Oracle of Omaha commented during Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in early May that his company had raised $4 billion in added cash from net-equity sales in April.

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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

APRIL 28, 2024

Right now Chipotle is hitting its best numbers in the past year, which is encouraging for shareholders. In fact, the company is actually hitting record high numbers that are night-and-day better than just five years ago. Thinking longer-term, Chipotle aims to have 7,000 company-owned locations in the U.S., Table by author.

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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

APRIL 19, 2024

But in 2018, it went public once again at about $23 per share (adjusted for subsequent stock splits ). Dell's first foray as a public company ended poorly because of multiple failures. But it was disrupted by the rise of smartphones and tablets, and the company didn't successfully launch its own mobile devices.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The deal would be for premium of 32% for shareholders based on when the deal was brought up at the end of November, stock has been battered around for a bit. Is this a deal that shareholders should want? Jason Moser: If I were a shareholder, which I'm not. Jason Moser: If I were a shareholder, which I'm not.

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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

MAY 16, 2024

Following the recent update, Hartford Funds found that non-paying public companies averaged a 4.27% annual return over the prior half-century, and were 18% more volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. In short, these are businesses we'd expect to rise in value over time and make their patient shareholders richer.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While we're proud of these milestones, I want to acknowledge upfront that for the first time in 33 quarters as a public company, we fell short of our own expectations. We started our ML and AI efforts in 2017 with the launch of Koa, but today, the opportunities are much bigger. Is the company not executing?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We're demonstrating consistent growth across each of our business units, and we have a definitive meeting date scheduled for our shareholders to consider an amendment to our articles to create a new class of non-voting, nonparticipating exchangeable shares, which we expect to advance the Canopy USA structure. We're 100% cannabis-focused.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 26, 2023

The group has raised more than $8 billion in debt and equity since 2017 in its bid to become Europe's biggest battery manufacturer, including $1.1 IMCO's Fundamental Equities strategy invests in select companies and works with the management teams over the long term to unlock shareholder value.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 10, 2024

Environment CDPQ is well on track to achieve the targets underpinning the climate strategy it adopted in 2021, including its goal of reaching a net-zero portfolio by 2050 with: $53 billion in low-carbon assets, including $15 billion in Québec, representing an overall increase of $35 billion in low-carbon assets since 2017.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

Of course, we've seen what happens when companies can't sustain their own operations and they have to go out and borrow, raise capital through share issuances and how that dilutes current shareholders. Does the company maintain a high standard of disclosure consistent with SEC guidelines? Well, that's the company is underdog.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. We celebrated the 25th anniversary of BlackRock becoming a public company, and we closed our acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners. We ended the quarter with AUM near $11.5 trillion, 11.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

While we, as a public company, always provide you with the split times quarterly results, we are running a marathon, not a series of sprints. We reported net income to common shareholders of $1.2 Comprehensive income to shareholders for the first half of 2023 was $1.2 Total shareholders' equity stood at $14.2

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

We've been leaders in Germany since 2017 and one of only three companies with German production facilities. All of these are compelling long-term value-creation attributes we expect to accrue to Aurora shareholders. It's truly an exciting time for Aurora, our shareholders, and our employees. listed public company, etc.,

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As a result, we've delivered positive total operational returns each year since becoming a public company 30 years ago, successfully navigating a variety of economic environments. Our 30-year offering was our first 30-year issuance since 2017, and our public sterling offering was our fifth non-U.S. It's too early to tell.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I hope you've all had the opportunity to read our shareholder letter, which was published on our investor relations website earlier today. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are provided in the shareholder letter on our investor relations website. With that, let's turn to shareholder questions.

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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

MAY 2, 2024

The first seven years, 2010 to through 2017 were all about engineering and little else, figuring out if it was even possible to build the revolutionary network we have today. A Fortune 100 financial services company signed a similar 4-year $10 million pool of funds deal. There's another start-up that's creating an AI search engine.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In 2017 so we'll get to some other parts of the story in 2017. This is a logistics company. But the stock needs to be reflecting that the equity shareholders are benefiting. It's astonishing to think that Apple has the highest public company market cap in the world today, far larger than Microsoft.

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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 Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, our proposed combination with Stratasys, which we have actively pursued on a friendly basis for over two years, accelerates attainment of this goal, benefiting our customers and our shareholders on a faster timetable. Now only briefly comment on the ongoing discussions between our two companies. Now let me elaborate on them.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With any company and with any product there is a trajectory at some point you do not as a consumer have the same need to update to the next and to the next one. I still have my same iPad from 2017 so they're trying to get past that. When you think about the selling shareholder, and it is only one in this case.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

Now you know the actual full value of the company, its full price tag, its market capitalization, market cap. The date was August 9th, 2017. David Gardner: Cava is now a public company. Bill Mann: Public as of this last week. Well, to teach this lesson inexorably and unforgettable, we embedded a game.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

David Gardner: 150 billion-183 billion, bill, Amgen shareholder? David Gardner: Well, the closest I can really think and get in the mind of a shareholder of this stock of which I'm not is mission space, which I want to talk about and as sect that ride at Epcot. It is still a public company. Emily Flippen: I don't.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

In 2017 research paper, Google pointed out there was a different way to utilize neural networks to be able to start making connections in a much more rapid fashion than the current existing neural networks made. You saw participation bottom-out in 2017, and we've still been on a growth path ever since. Do you have rights to it?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

Especially for our newer listeners, I would be a fool if I assumed you knew that critical lesson I taught on this podcast back in 2017 or one of my favorite stories from 2022 even. One of my favorite things I ever did, as a Motley Fool Stock Advisor, was in January of 2017. They don't buy Nvidia at the start of 2017.

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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. It reminds me of that Nvidia moment in 2017.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Glenn Kelman has been CEO of Redfin since 2005, guiding the real estate technology company through a variety of transitions, taking the company public in 2017, and navigating plenty of market cycles along the way. Partners appreciate that experience because they know that we work with our inquiries as employees.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

First of all, do you have any idea which company I'm thinking of? David Gardner: That is not the one, but I am disappointed as a longtime Disney shareholder to reflect on that and think about that and I'm not sure whether you know that or you were just guessing at that, but it's been up and down 10 years. 15th, 2017.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

But for me, the way I implemented this is, when I started the newsletter The Profile in February of 2017, I was like, OK, this could go one of two ways. Management expects they can maintain that level of investment, and shareholder yield, with prices as low as $60 a barrel, so there's a margin of safety in there.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

We are pleased to welcome our longstanding partner Brookfield Infrastructure as a co-controlling shareholder in Compass. We look forward to working with them, Chris and the rest of Compass’ top-tier management team on the company’s next growth phase.” “Our That transaction was completed in October 2022.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The date was August 9, 2017. Having been there with me in 2017, as we debuted the show. 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. But that's one reason, I guess why companies tend to buy back shares. It's price tag.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

The date was August 9th, 2017. 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. That's what I do. Yeah, I usually buy from Amazon.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2024

Whole Foods was public company for 25 years. On the one hand, it was at a time of real pressure that you were getting from so called shareholder activists, basically, predatory forces looking to take over the company from the outside, destroy its culture, dress up its short term financials in order to make some short term money.

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