The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

The conglomerate has since sold D.R. Buffett's bet was late, but still profitable Jennifer Saibil (Amazon): Buffett isn't known for buying technology stocks, and he acknowledged that he was late to the game when Berkshire finally invested in Amazon in 2019, 20 years after it became a public company.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

Microsoft is a direct beneficiary of ChatGPT's success and that of its parent company OpenAI because the two companies have partnered since 2019. But Microsoft is lagging the market; gaming revenue was up just 1% year over year in the company's quarter ending June 30.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

Excluding intra-Europe, total cross-border volume remained strong, up 22%, with cross-border travel volume at 136% of 2019. And finally, we signed a co-brand agreement with Indian conglomerate, Adani, serving 400 million customers through retail, airports, and online travel services, among others. Relative to 2019, U.S.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The company's subscriber count has grown from 192,000 subscribers to over 1 million since the second quarter of 2019. AbbVie: Buy this stock for its generous dividend AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) was part of the legendary healthcare conglomerate Abbott Laboratories , but the company spun it off over a decade ago.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KKR took a stock exchange company called who Houdaille, private, and it was the first time there’ve been — RITHOLTZ: ’79 or something like that? RITHOLTZ: So talk about building New Mountains in 2019.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

Do you think this company is an attractive buyout candidate? If I was a media entertainment conglomerate, I would certainly be interested in Marvel. For public companies, you can say of Nvidia or Marvel or Amazon. So the date was April 17, 2019 for this podcast. It was posted at 1:05 A.M What do you think?",

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