Private Equity Insights

JUNE 29, 2023

The confirmation comes exactly a week after news of the acquisition bid first came to light, and some two years after SAP spun the business out as an independent publicly traded company, having bought it back in 2018 for $8 billion just as Qualtrics was originally planning its IPO. Shareholders have been offered $18.15

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Based on Berkshire's 13Fs, as well as the Oracle of Omaha's commentary during his company's latest annual shareholder meeting, it would appear that no stock is loved more than tech giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). The name of that company is. Lastly, Warren Buffett loves a hearty capital-return program.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Besides being the chairman and CEO of the eighth largest public company in the world, Buffett has an impressive track record as an investor. His first purchase of the company's stock dates to 1962. Yes, Buffett's biggest stock purchase for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders last year was Berkshire Hathaway stock itself!

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 13, 2024

It's been a public company since 2009 and has been profitable and free cash flow generative every year since its initial public offering ( IPO ). For most of its time as a public company, DocuSign has been unprofitable but has demonstrated impressive revenue growth. To businesses, data is vital.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

Still, it requires a perspective of seeing where a company like Chipotle could go based on its past and that of comparable enterprises. When Ackman's fund first bought its stock in 2016, Chipotle had a 10-year track record as a public company and had expanded to about 2,000 restaurants. million shares of Chipotle.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 22, 2024

and the company's subscription-powered Services segment has been its most-consistent performer for years. Further, the $651 billion in share repurchases Apple has undertaken since the start of 2013 is tops among all public companies. Three catalysts continue to make Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders richer over time.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2023

There are times when these companies make their shareholders feel like geniuses, and other times when owning them can feel like a mistake. CrowdStrike's dollar-based net retention rate has been above 120% in all but three quarters dating back to the beginning of its fiscal 2018.

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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. Quarter Q1 2018 Q2 2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2018 Q1 2024 Restaurant-level operation margin 19.5%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 30, 2023

But dig deeper, and you'll find that Berkshire Hathaway owns and operates a lot of very boring businesses, including railroads, energy companies, and utilities. Many of the public companies that Berkshire has shares in also lack the glitz and glamor that comes with popular growth stocks.

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The Motley Fool

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). Berkshire is run by billionaire CEO Warren Buffett, who's delivered a greater than 5,325,000% return to his Class A shareholders (BRK.A)

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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 $1,006 million 2018 43.7

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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 2, 2024

Second, the Oracle of Omaha and his team have a penchant for buying shares of companies that pay a regular dividend. Public companies that pay a dividend are usually profitable on a recurring basis and capable of providing transparent long-term growth outlooks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Part of the reason why Vici Properties has been able to keep raising its dividend every year since it became a public company in 2018 is that it has built-in rent hikes in its leases. Simply put, every year it generates a little more cash and that lets it pass a little more income on to shareholders via a growing dividend.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

I first picked it Stock Advisor on January 19th of 2018 at $29 and 18 cents. After picking it at 29 in January of 2018, I repicked it at 42, three months later. David Gardner: 150 billion-183 billion, bill, Amgen shareholder? This company, I was checking. I first picked up for stock advisor in June of 2018.

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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.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There's a stock the Oracle of Omaha has invested almost $78 billion into (at cost) since the midpoint of 2018 , but it's not something you'll find listed in Berkshire's 13Fs. This type of filing is required when Berkshire buys or sells shares of a public company that it holds at least a 10% stake in.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, the company's services segment continues to grow like wildfire, with a shift to subscription services expected to lift the company's operating margin over time and lessen the sales fluctuations observed during iPhone replacement cycles. Apple's capital-return program is also unmatched among publicly traded companies.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Shareholders have enjoyed a great 2023 in these stocks, and there could be some more upside in the year ahead. Supreme Court's decision to officially legalize wagering on sporting events in 2018. 2018: 18% 2019: 43% 2020: 90% 2021: 111% 2022: 73% 2023: 76% (through the first nine months) Image source: Getty Images.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 19, 2024

Clearlake acquired Janus in February 2018 and remained its largest shareholder when the company listed on the NYSE in June 2021. Under Clearlake’s ownership, Janus executed several initiatives, including the development of new access control technologies and the purchase and integration of seven acquisitions.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In the years since it went public, cloud-based cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been a market-beating investment for shareholders. In its first reported quarter as a public company, its fiscal Q1 2020 (ended April 30, 2019), CrowdStrike posted year-over-year revenue growth of 103%.

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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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Clearlake Capital Group

JANUARY 18, 2024

Clearlake acquired Janus in February 2018 in partnership with the founding management team and remained its largest shareholder when Janus listed on the New York Stock Exchange in June 2021. Together with management, we achieved over 140% EBITDA growth and made investments to transition the business to a public company.

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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

APRIL 10, 2024

Ricky Mulvey: It's not easy being a public company. Ricky Mulvey: In between me inviting you and you coming on the show, a Canadian tech company went private. You think Nuvei is just real tired of being a public company these days? They are Joe and Jane average who have bought as individual shareholders.

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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. Please consider the following: Revenues in the first six months of 2018 were $3.6 Underwriting profits in the first six months of 2018 were $209 million. billion, compared to $4.2

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

So that just accrues the benefit to our shareholders and, and really supercharges the delivery of the synergies that we were talking about. Then I want to ask just quickly, on shareholder return plans, maybe just on sort of broad strokes, specifically, how would your plan vary? Neal Dingmann -- Analyst Great to hear.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Second, we are on track to separate NCR into two public companies in the fourth quarter of 2023. First, we are on track to separate NCR into two public companies in the fourth quarter. Second, we believe that spinning off NCR Atleos in a tax-free distribution is the best path to unlock shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

Now we're in 2018, the stock is at 70. But in 2018 it dropped from its high of 70-$30 a share way more. Now Disney fans or Marvel shareholders may remember the significance of October 2009. In the meantime, congratulations to all Marvel shareholders. For public companies, you can say of Nvidia or Marvel or Amazon.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I'm excited to be here at BJ's and what lies ahead for our brand and for our shareholders. During this period, these excess funds will be returned to shareholders in the form of a well-structured and disciplined share repurchase program, similar to what was adopted post the leadership changes. Our comp sales growth was driven by 1.3%

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

I believe my summer internship started in 2016, but I don't think I was hired on full time until 2018, if memory serves, I say that very tepidly, but I'm not positive. Andy, what is the company you'll be bringing to our risk rating assessment this week? I'll say yes, the company does maintain a high standard of disclosure.

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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

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. Think about it. It is a classic Rule Breaker.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

Our focus on cash flow generation enabled $691 million in returns to shareholders, including $491 million through dividend and $200 million in share repurchases. And that share price has been pretty flat since its inception as a public company. In June, we published our 2023 Intersections progress report. Please go ahead.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

We delivered 57% growth and 21% EBITDA margin, top percentile of public companies out there. We took the company public with an amazing shareholder base, and we finished the year with a very strong balance sheet, including $168 million of cash and short-term investments with zero debt.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since 2018, we've built, acquired, and integrated what we believe are the best technologies to help enterprises monitor, operate, and improve their hybrid technology environments. public company customers comply with the SEC's recently announced rules on cybersecurity incident disclosure that will be effective later this year.

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