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In the years since it went public, cloud-based cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been a market-beating investment for shareholders. Although the stock now trades 41% lower than its late-2021 high, it's still outpacing the S&P 500 handily since its 2019 IPO. CRWD Revenue (Quarterly) data by YCharts.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Based on his long-standing corporate career, he took the reins at Snowflake in 2019 to help the company make the transition from the private to the public market. He isn't a company founder. Snowflake has beaten analysts' revenue estimates every quarter as a public company. He's what I call an "operator."

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JULY 28, 2024

For example, in 2019, most people had never heard of coronaviruses, mRNA vaccines, or social distancing. So, who will be the three largest companies by market cap in 2029? So, who will be the three largest companies by market cap in 2029? A lot can happen in five years. Similarly, five years can change the stock market, too.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. Category 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Six Months Ended June 30, 2024 Net Investment Income Per Share $1.19 $1.41 $1.39 $1.29 $1.48 $2.09 $1.01 Well, not exactly.

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JUNE 27, 2024

History says Nvidia could continue soaring in the second half of 2024 Nvidia became a public company in 1999. The chart below shows its share-price appreciation (or depreciation) in the first and second halves of each full year since its initial public offering (IPO). Read on to learn more.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

six weeks packed full of operating results from public companies), can make it easy for important data to fly under the radar. times forecast cash flow for 2025, which is its priciest multiple to cash flow since 2019. Important data releases aren't hard to come by on Wall Street. Kinder Morgan is currently valued at 9.7

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been the world's most valuable public company since 2011 when it had a market capitalization of just under $340 billion. Fast forward to today, and Apple's market cap is just under $3 trillion. Needless to say, it has made some happy and wealthy investors along the way.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

2018: 18% 2019: 43% 2020: 90% 2021: 111% 2022: 73% 2023: 76% (through the first nine months) Image source: Getty Images. All 21 major analysts following the company expect it to post its first profitable quarter as a public company here in the seasonally potent fourth quarter. Business is slowing.

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MARCH 28, 2024

A short run as a public company? The company went public via a 2019 merger with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ). Target Hospitality is a provider of modular accommodations and related services used in emergencies and in situations with temporary surging demand for lodging.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

It's a company I'd feel comfortable holding on to for the long haul. Microsoft After surging close to 62% in 2023 and through the first half of January, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently topped Apple as the world's most valuable public company, with a market cap of over $2.9 trillion (as of Jan.

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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. The company holds a strong position in the Permian Basin, giving it access to some of the lowest-cost oil supply in the country.

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APRIL 27, 2024

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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APRIL 22, 2024

First, the company only had 874 locations at the end of fiscal Q2 2024, 750 of which were in North America. Since opening its first warehouse in 2019, Costco has seen impressive growth, with its membership growing from 10,000 to nearly 200,000 by the most recent quarter, despite having only six locations in the region.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Yass's Susquehanna dumped more than 52 million shares of Nvidia Arguably no public company has been more responsible for lifting Wall Street's major stock indexes to new highs, or fueling the AI revolution, than Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). Since the end of 2022, Nvidia's market cap has catapulted from $360 billion to $3.39

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Rangan believes Ramaswamy, who is a more product-oriented manager than the company's previous head, can accelerate Snowflake's innovation engine to thrive in the AI era. Of note, Ramaswamy co-founded AI search start-up Neeva in 2019, which Snowflake acquired last year, bringing Ramaswamy into Snowflake.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Apple It seems cliche to start with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , but you don't become the world's most valuable public company for no reason. Time Period Services Revenue FY 2019 $46.2 Apple has been a titan in the tech world, and that's not likely to change anytime soon. In its Q2 2023, ended April 1, Apple made $94.8

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MAY 7, 2024

However, its commitment to R&D is dwarfed by another "investment" that no other public company has come close to matching. billion 2018 : $72.738 billion 2019 : $66.897 billion 2020 : $72.358 billion 2021 : $85.971 billion 2022 : $89.402 billion 2023 : $77.55 billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. 2013 : $22.95

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

after the ride-hailing company announced better-than-expected fourth-quarter 2023 results. On Uber's first profitable year as a public company Uber's fourth-quarter 2023 revenue grew 15% year over year (13% at constant currency) to $9.936 billion, translating to net income of just over $1.429 billion, or $0.66

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AUGUST 23, 2023

times trailing-12-month sales, which could be cheap for a company with as much potential as Amazon. Uber: Turning a corner on profitability Uber has been around since 2009 and a public company since 2019. At their current price, the shares trade at 2.6 It's easy to see why fund managers are scooping up shares.

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APRIL 24, 2024

This has resulted in revenue rising 375% between 2019 and 2023. In the last three months of 2023, SoFi reported its first-ever quarterly profit as a public company, producing earnings per share (EPS) of $0.02 The business has been growing rapidly over the years. million customers, up from fewer than 1 million four years ago.

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JULY 21, 2024

ai (NYSE: AI) is an enterprise AI software company that went public in 2020. While it might be a young public company, it has been operating in the market for nearly 15 years. Established in 2009 by Thomas Siebel -- the same person who founded and sold CRM company Seibel Systems to Oracle -- C3.ai

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JULY 8, 2024

It's cosmetic in the sense that a stock split doesn't change a company's market cap, and it has no impact on its operating performance. With a forward-stock split, a public company is making its shares more nominally affordable for everyday investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases through their broker.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Sir Richard heads to the sidelines Virgin Galactic launched as a public company in 2019 to great fanfare, in part because of the prominent role its charismatic founder played in promoting it. Shares of Virgin Galactic were trading down by more than 15% as of 10:30 a.m.

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APRIL 21, 2024

But in 2020, the company brought in Terence Reilly as president, and it hasn't been the same since. Stanley reportedly went from about $70 million in sales in 2019 to $750 million in 2023, riding the coattails of its tumbler cups' success. But the difference for Stanley was clearly Reilly, not the tumblers themselves.

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MARCH 31, 2024

It's the second-largest public company in the world for a reason, and I don't think its stock price is about to collapse. Yet however impressive its past performance, what matters to investors is how the company will perform going forward. billion 2019 187.2 Will the rise of AI mean the beginning of the end for Apple?

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AUGUST 25, 2023

With that kind of return, many investors naturally want to look at which public companies might benefit. There are three main players in releasing a big-budget movie: the production company, the distributor, and the exhibitor. billion in 2019. public companies operating movie theaters are AMC Entertainment and Cinemark.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

And for much of PayPal's life as a public company, free cash flow increased. Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023* Net revenue $17.8 Waving a yellow flag for PayPal Stocks tend to go up over the long term when profits increase. There are different ways to measure profitability, but free cash flow is often a good metric to look at.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The cycle of expectations When 2020 began, Peloton stock was trading for around $30 per share and the company was doing great. Peloton ended calendar year 2019 (the second quarter of fiscal 2020) with its revenue growing 77% and its connected fitness subscribers increasing by 96% year over year. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The company just released its predictions for what consumers will be looking for in 2024 (apparently, jellyfish decor is about to be in style). And from 2019 through 2022, 80% of its predictions came true. Turn on the growth If Pinterest has struggled at all as a public company, it's been with monetization.

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MAY 20, 2024

That's near the cheapest level since Sea became a public company in 2017, and it's substantially below its peak P/S ratio of 22.9. However, Sea doesn't have to grow that quickly for its stock to deliver a great return for investors.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Public companies that pay a regular dividend are almost always time-tested, have clear long-term growth outlooks, and most importantly are profitable on a recurring basis. It's no secret that Occidental buried itself in debt when it acquired Anadarko in 2019. A steadily improving balance sheet could lead to multiple expansion.

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JULY 14, 2023

From Q2 2019 through Q2 2021, its year-over-year revenue growth never dropped below 46%, and in most quarters, it was above 60%. Investors should keep an eye on these metrics over the next several quarters to see if the company makes progress on that front. However, those days are over. That multiple bottomed out recently at 2.1,

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of JPMorgan Chase , found that companies initiating and growing their dividends delivered a 9.5% on an annualized basis for nonpaying public companies over the same stretch. billion in Canadian licensed producer Cronos Group in 2019. Image source: Getty Images.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

A services-driven operating model should further boost the company's operating margin, improve customer loyalty, and reduce the revenue swings observed during major iPhone replacement cycles. I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention that Apple's capital-return program is unmatched among public companies.

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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. Additionally, Microsoft is one of two public companies with a AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

for-1 stock splits, respectively, the companies have low share prices despite posting total returns that have outpaced the S&P 500 index since the 1990s. Meanwhile, Kenvue (NYSE: KVUE) was recently spun off from healthcare behemoth Johnson & Johnson , leaving the newly public company with a temporarily puny share price.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Arguably, Etsy's biggest misstep was its acquisition strategy between 2019 and 2021, buying three online platforms for about $2.1 The company boasts a debt-free balance sheet, with a substantial $216 million in cash and cash equivalents as of its latest reported quarter. Over the past 12 months, Warby Parker generated $16.9 million.

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