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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Metric Fiscal 2015 Fiscal 2016 Fiscal 2017 Fiscal 2018 Fiscal 2019 Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023 Fiscal 2024 Dividends paid $7.29 Its focus is on passing profits directly to shareholders through buybacks and dividends. Add up the total capital returned during this period, and you'll get $147.8 billion $7.44

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JANUARY 29, 2024

The company largely financed its acquisitions by issuing new shares and diluting existing shareholders. It failed to secure a partner with big pockets to help it fund growth, and it chose to aggressively expand its footprint by acquiring smaller companies.

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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. As one of the biggest consumer goods companies in the world, Coca-Cola naturally spends a lot of money on advertising.

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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. Finally, Domino's Pizza trades at a reasonable price-to-earnings ratio of 29, making the stock an appealing buy for long-term investors.

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DECEMBER 25, 2024

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. Berkshire invested in Amazon in 2019, although Buffett has often expressed regret for not buying the stock sooner.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Tim Beyers: Yes, if you are a Redfin shareholder and I am, you are rooting heavily for Rocket Companies to recover its share price because that is going to affect what you are going to get as a Redfin shareholder once this deal closes. We're not at the premium that was originally discussed because it's an all stock. That'd be nice.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The New York-based private equity firm, which focuses on middle-market buyouts and growth investments, first backed Simple Mills in October 2019, becoming its largest shareholder. The deal marks the end of Vestars five-year investment in the company, during which it played a pivotal role in scaling the brands growth.

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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. He then provided a specific example, highlighting the refining business : In 2024, year-to-date earnings are roughly double what they were in the same period of 2019 on a constant-margin basis.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Under the proposed deal, shareholders can choose from three options: to receive HKD13.00 of disinterested shareholders have already provided irrevocable commitments to support the proposal as of 4 December. per share in cash; exchange one equity share for every existing share held; or a combination of cash and equity shares.

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Private Equity Professional

JANUARY 14, 2025

Cortec Group acquired RMS from Incline Equity Partners in June 2019. We are thrilled with the result of this transaction for RMSs management and shareholders and are confident RMS is well-positioned to build on its strong track record of growth, said Scott Schafler , a founding partner at Cortec.

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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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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Warburg Pincus, ESR’s largest shareholder with a 14% stake, plans to roll over its holdings into the new private entity rather than sell for cash, according to one of the sources. The company raised $1.6bn during its 2019 IPO in Hong Kong, pricing shares at HKD16.8

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Carlyle bought Forgital in 2019. Zulli, Tabanelli, e Associati and Perris e Associati served as financial advisors to Spezzapria family minority shareholders. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Its products are sold to clients in over 40 countries.

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MARCH 10, 2025

From 1965 through 2024, he delivered a 5,502,284% cumulative return for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Kroger Berkshire Hathaway has maintained a stake in Kroger (NYSE: KR) , one of the prominent grocery store chains, since 2019. Warren Buffett's investing skills have created enormous wealth for his investors.

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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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APRIL 11, 2025

As REITs do, Realty Income pays most of its income to shareholders as nonqualified dividends. in 2019 to $4.01 The stock may be down over 30%, but Realty Income's business makes almost 22% more money per share now than in 2019. What makes Realty Income so magnificent The main reason to invest in Realty Income is its 6% dividend.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Abertis was already the majority shareholder in Trados. Trados is a holding company which oversees investment in a 14.5km stretch of the M45 Madrid ring-road in Spain, which is managed through a concession agreement with the Autonomous Community of Madrid granted in 2019 and valid until 2029.

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APRIL 3, 2025

How does a company provide ever-rising value to its shareholders? Merely growing its top line isn't the only way a company can bolster shareholder value, though. As for its net benefit to shareholders, Alphabet's total outstanding share count was reduced from just over 12.6 Most people would simply say by growing.

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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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JULY 12, 2024

In July 2019, the company let go of Bruce Linton, who at the time was an icon in the Canadian cannabis industry and co-CEO with Mark Zekulin. million it reported for fiscal 2019. In fiscal 2019, its net loss was CA$670.1 Canopy Growth (NASDAQ: CGC) has gone through a lot of change over the past five years.

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MARCH 28, 2025

Sometimes, a generous dividend yield comes from a thriving company eager to share its surplus cash profits with shareholders. per share since the DowDuPont restructuring was completed in the summer of 2019. The dividends held steady in 2019 and 2020, but returned to growth with a 7.6% Dividends can be tricky. increase in 2021.

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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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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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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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MARCH 19, 2025

From 1965 through 2024, Warren Buffett's investing skills delivered a cumulative return of 5,502,284% for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Berkshire Hathaway bought a stake in the online tech titan in 2019, and still held 10 million shares in the fourth quarter.

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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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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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