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shareholders for 46 straight years, Warren Buffett would eventually run out of new things to say. They should prove useful, even if you're not a Berkshire shareholder yourself. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. In his 47th letter to Berkshire's investors posted on Feb.
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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!
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*.
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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