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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Warren Buffett is commonly regarded as one of the most successful investors in American history. Shares of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) have increased more than 5,400,000% since he took control of the company in the mid-1960s, due in large part to savvy acquisitions and stock purchases he engineered.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

How Vertex's stock has performed over the past five years On the last trading day of 2018, Vertex's stock closed at a price of $165.71. billion in revenue -- that's more than double the $3 billion in sales all of Vertex's CF products brought in for a full year in 2018. Let's have a closer look at both the business and the stock.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2023

While Chart's stock has given investors an impressive mid-teens annualized return since 2018, there's a great case to be made the stock could double from here, or potentially more. Up 117% since 2018, but 50% below all-time highs The short answer as to why Chart can double is that it's 48% below its all-time high reached back in 2022.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Back in 2018, Marathon Patent Group -- a tiny patent holding company which had been accused of being a "patent troll" -- started to buy thousands of ASIC miners to expand its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining business. But if you had invested $2,000 in Marathon on Feb.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2018

In almost all of the commentary from both educators and industry, the mention of AR and VR for 2018’s big trends were ubiquitous. 2018 promises to be a year that epitomizes the term “transformational.” Are you ready? It’s going to be a wild, wonderful ride.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

If its forecast for $2.125 AFFO per share for 2023 at the midpoint plays out, Vici will have grown AFFO per share by nearly 50% since 2018. Due to these factors, Vici has delivered robust adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) per share growth. Image source: Getty Images. yield of the S&P 500 index.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2023

For someone who put down $1,000 into Ford 's (NYSE: F) stock in 2018, it hasn't exactly had a happy journey. Shares are up only 36% over the past five years, so this thousand-dollar investment would be worth $1,365 today. Someone who simply put some capital into an index fund tracking the broad S&P 500 would've done meaningfully better.

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JUNE 18, 2023

Turning a $10,000 investment made in 2018 into $18,000 with dividends reinvested, Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC) has outperformed the market. Since their inception in the 1980s by an act of Congress, business development companies (BDCs) have often delivered market-beating total returns for shareholders.

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JUNE 30, 2023

You probably wouldn't be too disappointed If you invested $5,000 in Johnson & Johnson in mid-2018 and reinvested all your dividends , you'd currently be enjoying a total return of 53%, which means you'd have around $7,640. So how much would you have if you made a moderately sized investment of $5,000 a mere five years ago? Let's find out.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Where Novo Nordisk was trading five years ago On the first trading day of December 2018, you could have bought Novo Nordisk stock for about $46. How large would your gains be if you had invested in the stock five years ago, before Ozempic became a game changer for the business?

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Successful investing requires many things. From patience to discipline to resolve, those who win at investing often hone a variety of qualities. Absent from this list, however, is an interest in riding the bandwagon. Investors need not pack their portfolios with popular stocks to generate outsized returns.

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Private Equity Professional

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These included Northern Vending Company of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in July 2019; Sterling Services of Canton, Michigan, in March 2019; United Vending & Market Services of Ferndale, Michigan, in November 2018; Metro Vending Service of Roseville, Michigan, in April 2018; 24 Hr.

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JULY 22, 2023

With a market cap of $913 billion as of July 19, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has clearly become one of the largest and most followed businesses in the world. And this has all happened in a relatively short time, after the company was founded just 20 years ago. Thanks to this meteoric rise, Tesla has made some investors lots of money.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Before July 2018, Berkshire's chief was only allowed to undertake stock buybacks if shares of his company fell to or below 120% of book value. On July 17, 2018, Berkshire Hathaway's board amended the rules governing buybacks to give Warren Buffett an opportunity to reward his company's shareholders.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

It's also a stock Buffett has purchased shares of for 24 consecutive quarters, from July 2018 through June 2024. Prior to July 2018, repurchases were only allowed if Berkshire Hathaway's shares dipped to or below 120% of book value -- i.e., no more than 20% above listed book value per share, as of the most recent quarter.

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Financial Times M&A

MAY 12, 2024

Value of bids for London-listed groups climbs amid a global rebound in mergers and acquisitions

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Prior to the midpoint of July 2018, Berkshire's chief was only allowed to buy back his company's stock if shares fell to or below 120% of book value (based on the most recent quarter). Things changed in a big way on July 17, 2018. Rather, the only evidence of this big-time buying is found in Berkshire's quarterly operating results.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

However, Equifax stock rebounded throughout much of 2018 and reached levels comparable to those prior to the split. Unfortunately, by the end of 2018, shares of Equifax were back to prior lows following less-than-stellar earnings and a lingering hangover in reputational damages.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

The investor first accumulated shares of the largest hotelier in the world in 2016, but it wasn't until 2018 that he had an opportunity to establish a significant position in the stock during the market downturn. Its loyalty program has grown from 80 million, when Ackman invested in 2018, to over 195 million today.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

AbbVie's shares fell hard in late March 2018 following a clinical failure from Rova-T. The chart below shows how its shares have performed since April 1, 2018, with dividends reinvested. In inflation-adjusted dollars, that's about $7.63 billion today, or roughly $1 billion less than AbbVie's acquisition of Cerevel.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The "new" Broadcom expanded into the infrastructure software market by acquiring CA Technologies in 2018, Symantec's enterprise security unit in 2019, and cloud software giant VMware last November. in 2018 so any future acquisitions would face less regulatory scrutiny. It also redomiciled its business in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

Niccol has been instrumental to Chipotle's outperformance since he joined in 2018, so investors were concerned about the company's future without its star CEO. Operationally, Chipotle had 3,371 restaurants in the United States and another 66 overseas in 2023, up from 2,452 and 37 stores, respectively, in 2018.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

2018 52,145.80 For perspective, here are the past 10 wage base limits: Year Wage Base Limit 2024 $168,600 2023 $160,200 2022 $147,000 2021 $142,800 2020 $137,700 2019 $132,900 2018 $128,400 2017 $127,200 2016 $118,500 2015 $118,500 Data source: Social Security Administration. 2022 63,795.13 2021 60,575.07 2020 55,628.60 2019 54,099.99

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

Here are a few other plug-in hybrids that qualify for used EV tax credits of up to $4,000: Audi A3 e-tron (2016-2018 model years) BMW 330e (2016-2018, 2021-2022) Ford Fusion Energi (2013-2020) Hyundai Ioniq Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (2018-2022) Kia Nero PHEV (2018-2022) Lexus NX Plug-in Hybrid (2022) Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (2018-2022) Volvo (..)

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

From fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2023 (which ended last September), Costco's revenue grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11% as its earnings per share (EPS) rose at a CAGR of 15%. million cardholders and 762 warehouses at the end of fiscal 2018. million cardholders and 762 warehouses at the end of fiscal 2018.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Prior to July 2018, Buffett and his right-hand man Charlie Munger, who passed away last November, had their hands tied when it came to buybacks. On July 17, 2018, Berkshire Hathaway's board of directors reworked these buyback covenants to give Buffett more liberty to undertake share repurchases, as he saw fit.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2024

Prior to mid-July 2018, share buybacks were only allowed if Berkshire Hathaway's share price fell to or below 120% of its book value , as of the most recent quarter. At no point in the many years leading up to mid-July 2018 did Buffett company's fall to or below this threshold, which meant no buybacks were undertaken.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

13 after the company announced the abrupt upcoming departure of its CEO, Brian Niccol, who had led the fast-casual restaurant chain since 2018. How Brian Niccol turned Chipotle around From 2014 to 2018, Chipotle's revenue had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of only 4%. Metric 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Comps growth 4% 11.1%

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

2018 0.4% -14% 2019 1.7% That was in 2018. Year S&P 500 September performance S&P 500 Q4 performance 2009 0.9% 2012 2.4% -1% 2013 3% 9.9% 2024 ??? ??? Average 2.7% Source: YCharts, data compiled by author. As you can see, there was only one year when the S&P 500 severely underperformed after gaining in September.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Online seller CarEdge estimates that Stellantis has jacked up prices on the Jeep a whopping 61% since 2018. As of 2023, Jeep sales have dropped 34% (to 643,000 units) from their all-time high of 973,000 units in 2018. The Jeep brand may have been affected the most. This is part of a longer-term trend affecting all of Stellantis' U.S.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Niccol has been instrumental in delivering a turnaround for Chipotle after its foodborne illness outbreaks, leading the stock to 800% returns since joining in 2018, making it one of the best-performing stocks in the world over that time. Longtime chief executive officer (CEO) Brian Niccol just announced a surprising departure to Starbucks.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

DraftKings Given that more than two-thirds of states now permit sports betting of some sort since the federal ban on such gambling was lifted in 2018, it would be easy to conclude DraftKings ' (NASDAQ: DKNG) highest-growth phase is in the rearview mirror. Ditto for DraftKings stock. That's not likely, however.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Between 2018 and 2020, for instance, it steadily decreased from $4,647 per month to $4,561 per month, and there was also a slight dip from 2022 to 2023. However, in most years, there has been at least a slight increase in the maximum possible benefit.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 17, 2024

Warren Buffett has purchased over $77 billion of his favorite stock since 2018 Collectively, Warren Buffett has put around $63 billion to work in these five core holdings. Before the midpoint of July 2018, Warren Buffett and the late, great Charlie Munger had their hands tied when it came to share buybacks. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Venture capitalist Tim Draper -- who famously invested in Twitter, Coinbase , Tesla , SpaceX, Ring, and Cylance -- predicted in 2018 that Bitcoin would reach "$250,000 by 2022." But between 2018 and 2022, its value did rise by roughly 1,000%. Bitcoin's price didn't test those highs that year.

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MAY 10, 2024

Prior to midpoint of July 2018, buybacks could only be undertaken if the company's stock fell to or below 120% of book value. At no point for well over a half-decade leading up to July 2018 did Berkshire Hathaway's stock dip to below this threshold. Long story short, not a cent in capital was put toward buybacks for a long time.

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PE Hub

JANUARY 18, 2024

Clearlake acquired Janus in February 2018 in partnership with the founding management team. The post Clearlake exits building solutions firm Janus International Group appeared first on PE Hub.

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