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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The online retail leader keeps winning for shareholders John Ballard (Amazon): Berkshire Hathaway has held a position in Amazon stock since 2019. Learn more *Stock Advisor returns as of February 3, 2025 John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

shareholders: "When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever." Coca-Cola (8.4%) Buffett usually has a Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) product on the table in front of him at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meetings. But it's historically expensive for the stock.

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DECEMBER 25, 2024

in 1965, its stock has delivered a compound annual return of 19.8%. He buys into companies with steady growth, robust profitability, strong management teams, and shareholder-friendly initiatives like stock buyback programs and dividend schemes, which help to compound his returns over time. Talk about an incredible return!

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JANUARY 21, 2024

But in the third quarter of 2023, management shared a surprising statistic: In 2019, 30% of its media spend was dedicated to digital media. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than tripled the return of the S&P 500 since 2002*.

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MARCH 10, 2025

From 1965 through 2024, he delivered a 5,502,284% cumulative return for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. While Coca-Cola won't deliver the same returns as it did for Buffett over the next 30-plus years, there are a few reasons investors can expect the business to continue growing sales, earnings , and dividend payments.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

It delivered industry-leading profitability during the third quarter, enabling it to provide its shareholders with industry-leading cash returns. For all of our businesses, we've been focused on reduced cost, high-return investments, and selected divestments to improve profitability, particularly in bottom-of-cycle conditions.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The media giant announced the return of its payouts on Thursday afternoon, declaring a semi-annual dividend of $0.30 10 of next year to shareholders of record as of Dec. The return of the dividend isn't really news. It's been four years since Disney shareholders received some cheese from the House of Mouse.

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JULY 28, 2024

for shareholders since taking over the business in 1965. By comparison, the S&P 500 produced an average total return of 10.2% In his most recent letter to shareholders, Buffett suggested another stock that should perform better than the average American company, and it could turn out to be a great value stock for investors.

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JULY 27, 2024

Shareholders were finally forced to face a tough reality by 2017 though. Buffett finally conceded in 2019 that he "was wrong in a couple of ways on Kraft Heinz," adding that he "overpaid for Kraft." Buffett finally conceded in 2019 that he "was wrong in a couple of ways on Kraft Heinz," adding that he "overpaid for Kraft."

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) shareholders have experienced an eventful five years. Selling that business has allowed Shopify to return to profitability, which could bode well for the company over the next five years. Revenue growth levels had slowed by 2019, when they fell below 50%. Since then, revenue growth has slowed dramatically.

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MAY 14, 2024

It also owns the popular Pandora streaming app it acquired in 2019 to have some skin in the digital space beyond the mobile app for streaming its flagship satellite radio broadcasts. Outside of the 2019 spike fueled by the Pandora acquisition, organic growth has been in the single digits for nine consecutive years.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Firdapse launched at the start of 2019, and Fycompa only launched at the start of 2023, so there's likely more top-line and also bottom-line growth on the way for both as they penetrate their markets. Being a shareholder can be difficult sometimes Catalyst isn't exactly like other biotech companies. Once the offering closes on Jan.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of December 16, 2024 All these references are non-GAAP financial measures defined in our earnings press release.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

Some producers earn higher returns on their reinvested capital dollars than rivals. Here's a look at the return on invested capital ( ROIC ) among some of the largest integrated oil companies using data from New Constructs. Focusing on investing for returns The oil industry has shifted its mindset in recent years.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Exxon's current corporate plan aims to double its earnings capacity by 2027 from 2019's baseline for earnings and commodity prices. low cost of supply and high returns), with the bulk going toward Guyana , Permian Basin, Brazil, and LNG. It returned a peer-leading $32.4 That is job No. billion last year, including $14.9

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APRIL 22, 2024

Caterpillar Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) stock has been on a tear over the past year, generating a total return of 62% for shareholders. In addition to its dividend, Caterpillar is shareholder-friendly in another way: share repurchases. billion to shareholders. Today, the company pays a quarterly dividend of $1.30

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MARCH 16, 2024

million BPD in 2019. That gave it the money to invest in growing its production, return cash to shareholders through a growing dividend (22% increase) and share repurchases (including some of the preferred shares owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway ), and strengthen its balance sheet. million BPD, and Saudi Arabia's 9.7

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MAY 25, 2024

He told Berkshire Hathaway shareholders earlier this month that he finds it "quite attractive" to sit atop a massive cash stockpile instead of buying stocks. Amazon continues to give shareholders plenty to dance about. Buffett hasn't added to Berkshire's position in Amazon since 2019. The stock soared nearly 81% last year.

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APRIL 25, 2024

After really disappointing shareholders during the period after its initial public offering in May 2019, this transportation-as-a-service stock has been crushing it more recently, up a phenomenal 120% in the past year alone. That was up 17% year over year, and it was 165% higher than pre-pandemic 2019. billion of revenue.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Berkshire is not big on newcomers," he jokes in his most recent annual letter to shareholders. But if Buffett sees value in these two stocks, they can likely produce strong returns for investors regardless of whether they lean more toward Buffett's investment style or more toward growth stocks. Nonetheless, his company owns about $1.8

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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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JUNE 27, 2024

Somewhat surprisingly, history says Nvidia shareholders could make more money in the second half of 2024, even after triple-digit gains in the first half of the year. Specifically, the stock has produced a positive first-half return in 18 years and a positive second-half return in 16 of those 18 years, or 89% of the time.

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MAY 12, 2024

There's clearly something special about a company that can add significant shareholder value over a time period in which the price of its main product deteriorates. CVX Total Return Level data by YCharts What exactly is Chevron doing so well? The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Investors seeking better-than-average returns typically have to take on greater-than-average risk. shareholders, Warren Buffett identified one company that has better prospects than the average American corporation. of Berkshire's equity portfolio, even more if you include the preferred shares Buffett acquired in 2019.

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MAY 12, 2024

And that rate was 35% not that long ago, and it's been 52% in the past," he told the audience in Omaha at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting. "I Buffett also sold shares of Apple in 2019 and 2020 for tax purposes. And with high short-term rates in the current environment, he's getting a great return to just sit on cash.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Smooth sailing Carnival's business is giving its shareholders plenty of reasons to be optimistic. This number exceeded the previous record, which came in fiscal 2019. Revenue took a huge hit, dropping 91% between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2021. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Hence, shareholders who bought this AI stock for anything other than a speculative play should get out now. Most signs pointed to Supermicro's growth story being plausible, and I am one of the shareholders who believed it. The company subsequently issued a correction in its May 2019 annual report and paid a $17.5

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MAY 2, 2024

Go back to 2018 and 2019 -- the last two years before the COVID-19 crisis rocked the business -- and Royal Caribbean was also leading the way then under more typical maritime conditions. 2018 Net Margin 2019 Net Margin Royal Caribbean 19% 17% Carnival 17% 14% Norwegian Cruise Line 16% 14% Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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APRIL 11, 2024

That situation should put shareholders on notice, forcing them to consider whether they should stay in Altria stock amid this uncertainty. In 2019, Altria made a $1.8 Despite that massive dividend, the S&P 500's total return has dramatically outperformed Altria over the last five years. MO Total Return Level data by YCharts.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Top-line growth expectations Of the things it must do to create shareholder value , growing revenue will be the easiest task for Chipotle over the next five years. In Q1 2019, it only had a restaurant-level operating margin of 21%. Therefore, I'm not counting on profit-margin improvement to assist with driving shareholder returns.

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JULY 1, 2024

Jensen Huang is by far the largest internal shareholder of Nvidia. Outside of management, who else is a major Nvidia shareholder? Should you become an Nvidia shareholder? Many of Nvidia's largest shareholders have either been working at the company or sitting on its board for a long time. It sold its stake back in 2019.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

At least three other activists are setting the stage for a proxy battle ahead of the media giant's upcoming annual shareholder meeting. The return of a popular CEO halfway through the slump hasn't helped turn the bearish sentiment around. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Consequently, Palantir shares jumped more than 11% on the news, and history says there may be more gains in store for shareholders if the company is added to the Nasdaq-100. Here's what I found: The last five years: About 40 companies have been added to the Nasdaq-100 since 2019. Here's what investors should know. per diluted share.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Becoming a professional fund manager isn't easy, but it turns out that beating the returns of some of the best fund managers in the world is. There's a big drag on active funds' investment returns: fees. As such, the average professional investor should only expect to produce returns in line with the overall market returns.

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JULY 17, 2024

With nearly 70 years of public investing experience (that he has documented publicly with annual shareholder letters along the way), he brings a wealth of knowledge to each of his investment decisions. billion of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders' cash to work by buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock itself.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Longer-term shareholders of Nvidia have reason to be happy A $1,000 investment made in Nvidia five years ago would be worth more than $28,000 today (with dividends reinvested). I'm sure many people wish they bought shares of Nvidia back in 2019, or better yet, back in 1999 when the company went public. Data by YCharts.

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MAY 19, 2024

It's been a disappointing journey for shareholders of plant-based meat company Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND). Shares are down 96% from their all-time highs in 2019. In just one month, Beyond Meat stock is up 34%, outpacing the 2% return for the S&P 500. Could the outlook for shareholders finally be improving?

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