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In 2018, he famously described Bitcoin as "probably rat poison squared" and expressed his belief that cryptocurrencies would "come to a bad ending." Still, the conglomerate's lack of significant exposure to companies at the heart of the AI revolution is arguably another underappreciated risk factor. What's the big picture?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The US harvests more than 4 billion bushels of soybeans every year, making it a hotbed of competition for never-sated food conglomerates. In 2018, Bayer, known mostly for its pharmaceutical business, purchased Monsanto, the makers of the weed-killer Roundup and Roundup-resistant soybean seeds.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

This conglomerate finally merged with France-based PSA Group and is now known as Stellantis (NYSE: STLA) , headquartered in the Netherlands. Online seller CarEdge estimates that Stellantis has jacked up prices on the Jeep a whopping 61% since 2018. The Jeep brand may have been affected the most.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The conglomerate first started buying shares in the iPhone maker during the first quarter of 2016. From the end of fiscal 2018 through the end of 2023, the business saw its share count shrink by 21%, a capital-allocation policy that increases Berkshire's ownership stake. Perhaps his most successful is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).

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JULY 27, 2023

Investors are excited about the opportunity, sending shares of the industrial conglomerate up more than 10%. Textron has tried investors' patience in recent years, with the stock underperforming the S&P 500 by nearly 50 percentage points since 2018. The company earned $1.46 per share in the second quarter on revenue of $3.42

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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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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. That's just one of the conglomerate's many success stories.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Additionally, Berkshire sold another several billion dollars worth of Bank of America, which had been the conglomerate's second-largest holding. Not only that, but Berkshire also didn't repurchase any of its own shares for the first time since mid-2018.

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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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JUNE 16, 2024

Meet the latest AI company to split its stock Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a tech conglomerate with operations in the semiconductor space, cybersecurity, and even cloud software, which it has built both organically and through a wave of acquisitions. The new-look Broadcom spent $98.6 Broadcom's AI revenue is soaring Broadcom generated $12.5

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

First purchased by Berkshire in 2016, Apple is now the conglomerate's largest publicly held stock, making up 50% of its $313 billion investment portfolio. A growing portion of Berkshire's portfolio Berkshire's position in Apple hasn't changed much since 2018. In 2018, Apple stock was 22% of Berkshire's portfolio.

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JULY 13, 2024

Over that 59-year stretch, he steered the conglomerate to average annual returns of 19.8%, which is nearly twice the average annual return delivered by the S&P 500 index over the same period. But Bank of America was an early adopter of AI, launching its AI assistant called Erica way back in 2018. investment company since 1965.

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AUGUST 10, 2024

from a struggling textile business in the 1960s to a massive conglomerate worth $900 billion today by buying highly valuable businesses at a fair price. Berkshire revamped its share repurchase program in mid-2018, allowing Buffett to buy back shares whenever he considered them to be trading below their intrinsic value.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Lawsuits surrounding the defective earplugs have hampered 3M for years but picked up steam in 2018 when a whistleblower complaint alleged that the company knew that the earplugs didn't work properly but concealed that fact from the military. The stock closed up 5.3% on Monday on the news. Image source: 3M. Is the saga finally over?

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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. The investment conglomerate, which is led by CEO Warren Buffett, has an excellent chance of crossing the $1 trillion mark within the next five years. The tech giant now has a market cap of approximately $2.76

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JULY 17, 2024

General Electric built a conglomerate selling a wide range of products from plane engines to household appliances, and it became the world's first $100 billion enterprise in 1995. Apple achieved a $1 trillion valuation in 2018 following the incredible success of devices like the iPhone.

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

billion worth of its shares since 2018, which is twice the amount he spent buying Apple ! Since the conglomerate is sitting on a whopping $277 billion in liquidity right now, the buybacks probably won't stop anytime soon. Why do I call it his favorite stock? Buybacks are Buffett's preferred way to return money to shareholders.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The massive conglomerate has its fingers in a lot of pies, from tech to insurance to healthcare. DaVita DaVita (NYSE: DVA) represents just a 1% slice of Berkshire's overall portfolio as one of a relatively small list of healthcare stocks owned by the multinational conglomerate. The dialysis market in the U.S.

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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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JULY 14, 2024

After handling roughly 140 million bookings in 2018, Airbnb is pacing more than 500 million nights and experiences booked in 2024, based on the 132.6 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) traversed its site in 2018, Sea's e-commerce site is pacing $94.4 million recorded in the first quarter.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

iPhone maker Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been Berkshire's largest holding since 2018. Berkshire has built a cross-sector conglomerate for the ages, managed by some of the world's best business minds. Today, it's a giant of the insurance, manufacturing, transportation, and consumer goods industries with deep interests in other areas.

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JULY 28, 2023

But was Q4 a blip, or does it foreshadow further strengthening of this cannabis conglomerate that might support a case for buying the stock? have all legalized recreational marijuana over the last few years, and full legalization came to Canada in October 2018. Let's figure it out.

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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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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." SNOW Revenue (Quarterly YoY Growth) data by YCharts.

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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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An old stock with a new face You probably know healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson for some of its former brands, like Tylenol and Band-Aids. It acquired Aetna to add health insurance to its model in 2018 and bought Oak Street Health earlier this year to provide primary care.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Buffett sold some shares between 2018 and 2020 -- decisions he would later regret -- and subsequently resumed the share purchases. AAPL PE Ratio data by YCharts.

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There are always outliers, though, and in mid-September two high-profile companies in their respective industries pushed their payouts higher -- tech titan Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and beverage conglomerate Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP). per share in 2018. per share, an amount 7% higher than the last distribution.

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But the company was transformed in 2016 when it merged with semiconductor giant Avago Technologies, and it's now a conglomerate with a presence in several segments of the tech industry. billion in 2018, cybersecurity giant Symantec for $10.7 It adds another pillar to Broadcom's growing portfolio of AI-adjacent products and services.

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It completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October 2023, bought GitHub in 2018, and LinkedIn in 2016, among others. Unlike some conglomerates, Microsoft doesn't rely solely on buying out the competition to grow. Accelerating growth Microsoft has made a number of multibillion-dollar acquisitions.

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JUNE 10, 2024

However, Buffett's favorite stock to buy for Berkshire shareholders has already doubled since (after a pause) he began buying shares of it again in 2018. Buffett's biggest stock purchase over the past six years Since 2018, Buffett has spent approximately $78.5 billion last year, up 50% from 2018. Image source: The Motley Fool.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But in early August 2018, Apple hit that coveted mark. The market sold off heavily in late 2018 over tensions with the U.S.-China Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate that blends value and growth from various sectors. It wasn't long ago that investors were wondering if a publicly traded U.S.-based

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The power of conglomerates was on full display when General Electric became the first-ever $100 billion company in 1995. By 2018, the technology sector reigned supreme, and Apple hit the most impressive milestone of all: a $1 trillion valuation. Apple is a $2.9 Apple is a $2.9

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MAY 25, 2024

Broadcom bought semiconductor device supplier CA Technologies in 2018, cybersecurity company Symantec in 2019. All told, Broadcom spent nearly $100 billion across the three deals, creating a conglomerate with a multifaceted approach to AI. and cloud software developer VMware in 2023. Broadcom generated a record $35.8

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since 1965, he has steered his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , to average annual returns of 19.8% Today, Berkshire Hathaway owns a portfolio of 56 publicly listed stocks and securities worth $352 billion, as well as dozens of wholly owned companies under the conglomerate's umbrella.

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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. There's a striking similarity between all three companies: Their first EVs rolled off the assembly line at around the same time, in late 2021.

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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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