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JANUARY 27, 2024

Gene-editing specialist Bluebird Bio (NASDAQ: BLUE) has been making plenty of noise since 2019, which is when it first earned marketing authorization for one of its breakthrough therapies, beta-thalassemia (TDT) treatment Zynteglo, in Europe. So, how much would an investor who put $1,000 into the company in 2019 have today?

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MARCH 10, 2024

Berkshire's $38 billion bet on Apple was a home run, but the conglomerate has spent nearly twice that amount since 2019 accumulating stock in another company that has nothing to do with the Magnificent Seven, or the technology sector, at all. billion since 2019 is.Berkshire Hathaway. That holding is worth just $1.7 That's right.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Investors can be forgiven if they chose not to invest in the initial public offering (IPO) of CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) in 2019, much less invest $5,000 at that time. The company had 2,500 subscription customers when it went public in 2019. This company is a cloud-based enterprise cybersecurity specialist.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

Let's find out how much those who put $5,000 into this stock about five years ago -- in 2019 -- would have today, and what that means for investors moving forward. It hasn't all been smooth sailing Novo Nordisk has encountered some issues since 2019. NVO Total Return Level data by YCharts.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Where Moderna's business was before the pandemic At the end of 2019, Moderna was a high-risk business to invest in, having accumulated a deficit of $1.5 But at $60 million for 2019, it was nowhere near enough to cover the company's operating expenses, which totaled $606 million that year. billion since its inception in 2009.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Today, semiconductor giant Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a tremendous company worth over $1.7 Those who bought and held shares many years back are very wealthy today. But thinking that you've missed the boat because you were late can be a costly mistake.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

So how much would a $10,000 investment in CRISPR Therapeutics in 2019 be worth today? With this approval in its back pocket, CRISPR Therapeutics can now brag that its platform can lead to important breakthroughs. The company has delivered a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.3% The S&P 500 's 14.8%

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

2, 2019, Green Thumb's stock closed at $8.53. Green Thumb investors, however, have been some of the luckier ones. Here's how you would have fared if you invested $5,000 in the pot stock five years ago. Shares of Green Thumb have soared more than 50% On Jan.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Investors might be displeased with the single-digit potential gain, but it's worth pointing out that Crocs sales in 2023 were substantially higher than they were in pre-pandemic 2019. This is still a business in full-on growth mode. What's particularly special about Crocs is just how profitable it is. The operating margin came in at 26.2%

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

31, 2019 Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can give investors a great way to gain exposure to dozens, or potentially hundreds or even thousands of stocks through just a simple investment. How would you have done if you simply bought the five top stocks in Ark Innovation's fund five years ago, and held on until now? Let's take a look.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

This translates to a loss of 68% since January 2019. If you invested $1,000 five years ago in this cruise line stock , you'd be sitting on a balance of $320 today (as of Jan. For comparison's sake, the S&P 500 rose 81% during this same time.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

While natural gas prices were higher in the quarter, refining margins were at the low end of their range from 2010 to 2019 (a period that the company notes was lacking in outliers), and chemical margins were well below their 2010 to 2019 range. It has also stripped out $5 billion of structural costs from this business since 2019.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

Image source: The Motley Fool/Unsplash There are mighty rumblings among the masses that the Federal Reserve is about to lower the federal funds rate for the first time since July 2019. From July 2019 to November 2019, the federal funds rate went from 2.40% to 1.55%; from February 2020 to April 2020, it went from 1.58% to 0.05%.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It went public in 1993, and it only grew its revenue at an anemic compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6% from 1994 to 2019. By the end of 2019, its stock price had dropped to $1.14 -- a 32% discount to its split-adjusted IPO price of $1.67 -- and it was broadly dismissed as a slow-growth IT services and enterprise software company.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

From the beginning of 2019 to the end of 2020, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) more than tripled its market capitalization. Nvidia's end markets are going crazy Nvidia ended 2019 with a market cap of $144 billion. Based on that year-end 2019 multiple, Nvidia would be worth $1.4 Three years later, the value of the company tripled again.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

31, 2019, from someone who was already taking required minimum distributions, you'll have to continue taking annual RMDs until you empty the account. 31, 2019, don't qualify for that waiver. Overlooking RMDs on inherited IRAs If you inherited an IRA after Dec. People who inherited IRAs on or before Dec.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Revenue growth levels had slowed by 2019, when they fell below 50%. Year Revenue Growth Rate 2019 47% 2020 86% 2021 57% 2022 21% 2023 26% Data source: Shopify annual reports from 2023, 2021, and 2019. Nonetheless, the pandemic created unexpected demand for online shopping, leading to massive revenue increases in 2020 and 2021.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

One of the most compelling scenarios is what happened in 2019. When the Fed started cutting rates in 2019, Bitcoin dominance initially continued to climb, peaking at about 70%. But by the end of 2019, the trend began to shift. The big question is: When will Bitcoin's dominance start to slip?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

31, 2019, you can still execute the stretch IRA. 31, 2019, you don't have to take a distribution this year, even if the original owner was subject to RMDs. If the original account holder was already subject to required minimum distributions, the beneficiary must continue making annual RMDs as well. If you inherited an IRA before Dec.

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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 29, 2024

Palantir's revenue rose at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32% from 2019 to 2023, and analysts forecast its revenue to increase at a CAGR of 20% from 2023 to 2026. The company went public in 1993, and its revenue only grew at a CAGR of 6% from 1994 to 2019. It ended 2019 at just $1.14

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Over the last five years, the Vanguard Growth ETF has generated a total return of nearly 137% -- meaning a $10,000 investment made in late 2019 would be worth almost $24,000 as of this writing. Since 2019, it has generated a return of 94% -- meaning a $10,000 investment made in 2019 would be worth about $19,500 as of this writing.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Chipotle has exhibited solid growth between the third quarters of 2019 and 2024, with revenue doubling over those past five years. Since 2019, Chipotle has opened 1,069 net new locations, many of which were built with drive-throughs, called Chipotlanes. Since Q3 of 2019, net income has climbed at an annualized pace of 31.5%.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Uber (NYSE: UBER) has taken investors on a wild ride since its IPO on May 9, 2019. Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Trips Growth 28% (27%) 27% 19% 24% Gross Bookings Growth 28% (11%) 56% 19% 19% Revenue Growth 37% (14%) 57% 49% 17% Data source: Uber Technologies. on March 18, 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The cycles that began in 1995, 1998, and 2019 started with a quarter-point cut, and the cycles that began in 2001 and 2007 started with a half-point cut. First Rate Cut S&P 500 Return (12 Months) July 1995 19% September 1998 21% January 2001 (14%) September 2007 (21%) July 2019 10% Median 10% Data source: Trading Economics, YCharts.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

2019 54,099.99 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 2018 52,145.80

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Here are a few that likely qualify, according to Car & Driver: 2012–2014 Tesla Model S Performance and P85 2018–2022 Tesla Model 3 2019–2021 Hyundai Ioniq Electric 2019–2022 Nissan Leaf Plus 2019–2022 Hyundai Kona Electric 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV 2022 Mazda MX-30 Related: Did you know the type of EV you buy can affect your insurance premiums?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

First Rate Cut S&P 500 Return (12 Months) July 1995 19% September 1998 21% January 2001 (14%) September 2007 (21%) July 2019 10% Median 10% Source: The Federal Reserve, YCharts. The chart below examines how the S&P 500 performed during the 12-month period following the first rate reduction in each cutting cycle.

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JULY 29, 2023

Despite the big year-over-year drop, Southwest's unit revenue was still up nearly 12% compared to 2019 last quarter. By contrast, the midpoint of management's Q3 guidance implies unit revenue just 5% ahead of 2019 levels. compared to Q2 2019 last quarter. Image source: Southwest Airlines. recorded in Q3 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Finally, Nvidia gained during a rate-cut cycle in 2019 that preceded the pandemic, and then jumped again in 2020 as rates plunged once COVID-19 swept the country. Nvidia stock soared through the second half of 2019 as the federal funds rate came down by 75 basis points. That performance tracked with the broader chip industry.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The cruise line was hoping to top $100 in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) per available passenger cruise day, up from its prior record of $87 in 2019. in adjusted earnings per share, also set back in 2019. By 2025 it was hoping to take out its pre-pandemic high of $9.54

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Alimony payments Alimony payments are taxable if the divorce was finalized before 2019. For divorces finalized in or after 2019, this income is not taxable. It's also not taxable if the divorce was finalized before 2019 but the divorce or separation agreement was modified in 2019 or later.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

TPG Twin Brook has increased its credit facilities to Western Veterinary Partners , a Tyree & D’Angelo Partners (TDP) portfolio company since June 2019. TDP formed Denver-headquartered WVP in June 2019 to invest in and manage veterinary clinics.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

That valuable service explains how it has nearly quadrupled its number of large customers (those that provide it with at least $100,000 in annual revenue) from 858 in 2019 to 3,190 in 2023. The company's revenue rose by 27% in 2023, which was its slowest growth rate since its IPO in 2019.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Fastly (NYSE: FSLY) has taken investors on a roller-coaster ride since its IPO in May 2019. That's a dismal return compared with its larger CDN rival, Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) , which went public at $15 in September 2019 and currently trades at about $100. But today, Fastly's stock trades at about $14. Image source: Getty Images.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It didn't pay one at all in 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022.) Recently, those special dividends have ranged from $0.05 per share (in 2017) to $0.65 per share (in 2023). To be clear, Ford might or might not choose to pay a special dividend in January 2025. (It

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I believed Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) was going to be one of those companies after I researched it in 2019. Why Uber is a cash-flow machine now When Uber went public in 2019, management was out of control with its spending. billion on research and development in 2019, which was 70% of its gross profit. I was wrong.

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