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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In August 2018, Apple became the first company to reach a market capitalization of more than $1 trillion. If you're wondering which companies will be next to reach a market capitalization of $1 trillion, read on to see why Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) The tech giant now has a market cap of approximately $2.76

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MAY 23, 2024

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) crossed the next big threshold in 2018 when it became the first publicly traded company to amass a $1 trillion market capitalization. The conglomerate owns substantial positions in private and public success stories like GEICO, Coca-Cola , and even Apple. billion accounting for 39.7% of its stock portfolio.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Berkshire's largest holding is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , which became the world's first $1 trillion company in 2018. But that's just one of the conglomerate's many success stories. The conglomerate has the financial results to back up those substantial gains. Berkshire could be the first U.S. Today, that position is worth $24.4

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The position accounted for almost half of the conglomerate's entire stock portfolio, and considering it only had a cost-basis of around $38 billion, it was sitting on a very nice profit. billion worth of buybacks since 2018. That isn't bad or even unusual at face value, because Buffett has now authorized a whopping $77.8

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AUGUST 21, 2024

14, Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) At Berkshire's annual meeting in 2018, Buffett said, "We still love a business that takes very little capital and earns high returns, and continues to grow, and requires very little incremental capital."

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The massive conglomerate has its fingers in a lot of pies, from tech to insurance to healthcare. While individual investors won't have the capital at their disposal that the Oracle of Omaha does, that's all right. Over the trailing decade alone, Berkshire has delivered investors a stunning return to the tune of 250%.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The entertainment conglomerate also owns Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars , ESPN, ABC, Hulu, and a slew of cable networks, including those it gained from Fox in its 2018 deal. The entertainment giant now has roughly $47 billion in debt on its books, and it added substantial borrowings when it acquired Fox's entertainment assets in 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023, bought GitHub in 2018, and LinkedIn in 2016, among others. Its capital expenditures have exploded higher in recent years, but research and development expenses have grown at a lower rate than revenue.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 19, 2024

During the second quarter of 2024, Berkshire went on a selling spree, cutting its $160 billion stake in Apple in half and trimming a number of other positions, including Chevron , T-Mobile , and Capital One Financial , to name just a few. billion worth of its shares since 2018, which is twice the amount he spent buying Apple !

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JULY 12, 2023

In 1995, industrial conglomerate General Electric rode its portfolio of businesses -- from aircraft engines to household appliances -- to a world-first $100 billion market capitalization. But by 2018, the technology sector reigned supreme, and Apple became the world's only $1 trillion company.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Shares of his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , have a long-term track record of growth that proves it. After regrouping for several years following its split from Kraft and renewing its focus on sustained growth and a wider profit margin, the company finally started making measurable fiscal progress in 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

conglomerate just hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion for the first time, joining rare air occupied only by Microsoft , Nvidia , Apple , Alphabet , Amazon , and Meta Platforms. The company changed its share buyback policy in 2018 from only repurchasing its stock when it was less than 1.2 We knew it was coming.

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JULY 30, 2023

Industrial conglomerate General Electric beat every other company to a $100 billion valuation in 1995 by selling everything from aircraft engines to household appliances. But in 2018, tech giant Apple crossed perhaps the most important milestone in stock market history when its market capitalization crossed $1 trillion.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

VinFast is part of Vietnam's largest conglomerate, Vingroup. It started with e-scooters in 2018 and then built passenger cars and e-buses in the following years. With a market capitalization of more than $130 billion now, VinFast stock is much bigger than Ford Motor Company and General Motors combined.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Snowflake has attracted some top-tier investors, including Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, which currently owns a stake worth $1.1 In 2018, Snowflake launched the Data Cloud, which allowed businesses to connect all of their data, regardless of which cloud provider they were using. Reason No.

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MAY 29, 2024

Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU) investors enjoyed a mostly uninterrupted upward trajectory in its stock price from 2018 till the end of 2021. The stock is down over 41% year to date, vaporizing around $25 billion in market capitalization. But supply chain challenges and inflation threw a wrench into that narrative in 2022 and 2023.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway The first "boring" company that's quietly but steadily delivered a nearly 20% annualized return spanning almost six decades is conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). Buffett has bought back more than $77 billion worth of his company's stock since July 2018. Image source: The Motley Fool.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Apleona, which provides facility-management services to the commercial, industrial and public sectors, was formerly part of the German industrial conglomerate Bilfinger SE. EQT acquired the Company in 2016 through a carve-out from Bilfinger SE, a listed German industrial services conglomerate. stake in Indian cancer.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Industrial conglomerate and world-renowned dividend stock 3M Company (NYSE: MMM) has suffered a fall from grace that's taken shares over 60% from their highs, last seen in early 2018. Years ago, before the stock peaked in 2018, it averaged a long-term price-to-earnings ratio of about 20. The culprit? Is the business growing?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It prompted one analyst -- Glen Kacher from Light Street Capital -- to rethink the stock market's leadership altogether. Broadcom is now a conglomerate that not only includes Avago but also several acquired companies like semiconductor device supplier CA Technologies, cybersecurity giant Symantec, and cloud software developer VMware.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

40 years later in 1995, industrial conglomerate General Electric became the world's first $100 billion company by selling products including household appliances and aircraft engines. And in 2018, technology giant Apple amassed the most impressive valuation of all time when its market capitalization crossed $1 trillion.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Shares of Honeywell International (NASDAQ: HON) hit a new all-time high on Tuesday on news that activist investor Elliott Investment Management had amassed a more than $5 billion stake in the industrial conglomerate. For context, GE's market cap at the end of 2018 was a mere $41 billion.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2024

In his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett wrote that the conglomerate's earnings figures are "worse than useless." Because the figures must adhere to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) , they include unrealized capital gains and losses. Buffett believes that capital gains are important.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

in 2018 acquired a 79% stake in SK Shipping through a debt-repayment to help the wet bulk shipping firm survive the slump in the global industry. The buyout firm said at the time it would inject $1.4bn of equity capital and take on $2.3bn of SK Shipping’s debt, valuing the firm at $3.7bn. Shortly after the deal, Hahn & Co.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

in 1965, he took the struggling textile company and turned it into a massive conglomerate. Additionally, the conglomerate must report any stock purchases or sales for companies in which it owns a stake of 10% or more within three days of the trade. Occidental used the capital to fund its purchase of Anadarko. for the last 58.5

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Apple became the first company worth $1 trillion based on its market capitalization. Berkshire Hathaway's current market capitalization is $795 billion Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate that owns businesses across industries, including insurance, freight rail transportation, energy, and manufacturing.

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

The conglomerate is led by Warren Buffett, who famously said his favorite holding period for a stock is "forever." From 2018 to 2023, its operating earnings had a steady compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7%, from $24.8 But five years ago, it was trading at about 21 times its trailing operating earnings for 2018.

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MARCH 13, 2024

In fact, he began building a sizable stake in the financial services giant in 2018 but exited the position in late 2020. In 2018, Buffett and Dimon teamed up in an attempt to convince CEOs to stop providing quarterly earnings guidance. Capital One Financial Sometimes the best answer to a puzzle is to look back to the recent past.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

With Berkshire sporting a market capitalization of more than $783.5 But there are still companies held in the investment conglomerate's stock portfolio that are capable of delivering market-crushing returns. Buffett's investment conglomerate currently owns a roughly 3.4% stake in the company.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Leading the broad indices to new highs, these seven companies -- all of which have had a market capitalization of at least $1 trillion at some point -- have become the backbone of the modern stock market. Since going public in 2018, Spotify's revenue is up 209% in U.S. This is where the majority of its $14.4 TTM = trailing 12 months.

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MAY 22, 2024

P&G focused on its best and highest-margin brands, and used excess capital to repurchase its stock and grow the dividend. Emerson Electric With over 55 brands spanning numerous industries, Emerson Electric is an industrial conglomerate mainly engaged in business-to-business sales.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But now what we're seeing is that they are learning how younger consumers, in particular, are using Venmo, and they're finding ways to capitalize on that opportunity. Robert Brokamp: But the second part is, there's this decentralized operations, but centralized capital allocation. Venmo for the most part, it's just been peer to peer.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

We also signed a global agreement with Luxottica, the Italian eyewear conglomerate, to launch the first of what we hope will be many brands coming to Shopify in the future. Secondly, our Summit event, which, as a reminder, was our first in-person summit event since 2018. Our next question will come from Paul Treiber at RBC Capital.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

It's spending so much right now on building factories on R&D, a highest capital expenditures in company history. Mary Long: Constellation Software is a conglomerate of over 500 software businesses. I think one of my favorites is from a letter he wrote in 2018. They've still got plenty of cash. Tom, welcome. Tom King: Yes.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Our asset light model and strong returns on capital once again supported very strong cash generation. And we strengthened our capital position early this year with $100 million credit facility that we can use for general corporate purposes, buybacks, acquisitions, and other uses. It was launched in 2018, I think. It can take 2.5

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

High profile investment funds including Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office, David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management, Soros Capital and Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital all cut their stakes in Nvidia in the second quarter, the filings show. The conglomerate still owns nearly 4.7 13-f filings show. million shares.

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MAY 29, 2024

During the quarter, we saw continued success, including an expansion with an Italian eyewear conglomerate, who will be leveraging our platform capabilities to support their migration to SAP S/4HANA. Our next question comes from the line of Matthew Hedberg with RBC Capital Markets. Operator Thank you. Please proceed with your question.

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