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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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JULY 28, 2024

for shareholders since taking over the business in 1965. 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. Buffett's produced an average compound annual gain of 19.8% in that time.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

10 of next year to shareholders of record as of Dec. It's been four years since Disney shareholders received some cheese from the House of Mouse. Disney's last semi-annual dividend was declared in late 2019. billion acquisition of key 21st Century Fox assets that it acquired midway through fiscal 2019.

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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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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) shareholders have experienced an eventful five years. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

After a devastating pandemic shutdown and a reemergence, Carnival Cruise Lines (NYSE: CCL) is finally surpassing 2019 levels on several metrics. billion, well above the previous record of $6 billion set in 2019. It also anticipates transferring $10 billion in enterprise value from debtholders to shareholders by the end of 2026.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Billionaire Warren Buffett has always had a thing for companies that return capital to their shareholders. In 2019, Buffett told CNBC that he had made a mistake. "I Kraft Heinz has paid a dividend every year since 2012, although it did have to cut its dividend in 2019 and hasn't raised it since. We overpaid for Kraft."

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

That's important because it suggests their investments are creating value for shareholders after factoring in debt and equity financing. While that's the case across the board, TotalEnergies has a much wider spread between its ROIC and WACC than Shell, suggesting it's making more money on its investments for shareholders.

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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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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. Here's what investors need to know. In fiscal 2023, which ended Nov.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Berkshire is not big on newcomers," he jokes in his most recent annual letter to shareholders. Buffett called Apple "a better business than any we own," at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting last year. As a result, shareholders, including Berkshire Hathaway, can claim a bigger stake in Apple's earnings every year.

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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. Exxon's growing earnings and cash flow enable it to return more money to shareholders in dividends and buybacks. That is job No. It's focusing its investments on its advantaged assets (i.e.,

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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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

shareholders, Warren Buffett identified one company that has better prospects than the average American corporation. In his most letter to shareholders, Buffett identified several stocks in the portfolio that he plans to hold indefinitely. In his 2023 letter to Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)

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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. I don't mind at all under current conditions building the cash position," he told shareholders. It was U.S.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Most of the profits earned by hotel, apartment, retail, or office REITs are passed back to the REIT's shareholders in the form of dividends. The so-called yield curve 's inversion seen back in 2019 also works against mortgage REITs, by driving their short-term borrowing costs above the interest rates on the longer-term loans they're buying.

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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. This combination has helped Chevron's upstream earnings per barrel continually rise, from roughly $7 per barrel in 2019 to around $10 per barrel today.

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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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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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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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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 bad news is that none of these potentially bullish catalysts will be resolved in time for the annual shareholder meeting. It's not a surprise that Disney is in the crosshairs.

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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. In other words, history says Nvidia shareholders are likely to make money in the remaining months of 2024. Read on to learn more. Not one currently recommends selling.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

From IPO hype to survival mode It seems like eons ago, but it was in May 2019 when Beyond Meat stock debuted for public trading at $46 per share amid hype and buzz in the financial press. Sure, history may end up proving Brown right and Beyond Meat's long-term shareholders could end up turning thousands into millions.

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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. Could the outlook for shareholders finally be improving? Its recent surge in price helps shareholders have a better exit. Is this a rip worth buying?

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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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JUNE 10, 2024

The company only went public in June 2019. For example, Affiliated Managers Group stock is outperforming the S&P 500 since it was removed in late 2019. Therefore, investors for CrowdStrike and KKR are having a good day today whereas Illumina shareholders are having a bad one.

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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 If that's the case, shareholders need to continue to monitor this company on a quarterly basis. billion investment in Canadian cannabis company Cronos Group.

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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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AUGUST 2, 2024

Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 GMV growth 49% 96% 47% 12% 20% GPV growth 55% 110% 59% 24% 29% Revenue growth 47% 86% 57% 21% 26% Data source: Shopify. In June 2023, Shopify divested its capital-intensive logistics division (which it previously expanded through its acquisitions of 6 River Systems in 2019 and Deliverr in 2022).

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MAY 17, 2024

Buffett's interest in this particular stock, however, is mostly rooted in how consistently the company's able to turn ever-growing revenue into ever-growing profits, much of which are immediately passed along to shareholders in the form of dividends. billion was within sight of 2019's $10.5 In this vein, Coca-Cola earned nearly $7.8

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APRIL 29, 2024

In Warren Buffett's latest annual letter to shareholders -- Buffett has written a letter to his shareholders on an annual basis for nearly a half-century -- he spoke of eight businesses that he and his team plan to hold stakes in "indefinitely." Let's take a closer look at these eight phenomenal companies.

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