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JULY 14, 2023

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Percentage Decline in Cigarette Volume -5.8% -7.3% -0.4% -7.5% -9.7% In fact, major vaping and marijuana investments have only left shareholders with billions of dollars of write-offs. However, it was nearly 23% below the number sold in 2018, just five years earlier.

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MARCH 17, 2024

Only 12% of its shareholders resided in the U.S. It's not a high-growth business, but it is sustainable, which will allow the company to continue rewarding shareholders with stock buybacks and dividends. per share in 2019 to just $0.09 So it has let down shareholders before. as of the end of 2022.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Investors might be displeased with the single-digit potential gain, but it's worth pointing out that Crocs sales in 2023 were substantially higher than they were in pre-pandemic 2019. This business is poised to continue rewarding shareholders over the long term. This is still a business in full-on growth mode.

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

If Ford cuts its dividend, all of its shareholders feel the pain. But that might not be all that shareholders can expect. It didn't pay one at all in 2019, 2020, 2021, or 2022.) quarterly dividend, providing a nice performance boost for shareholders who choose to reinvest the dividend (as most should ).

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JANUARY 22, 2024

But this performance didn't do enough for long-term shareholders looking to claw back losses. This translates to a loss of 68% since January 2019. In 2023, shares of Carnival (NYSE: CCL) crushed the overall market, as they soared 130%. For comparison's sake, the S&P 500 rose 81% during this same time.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

To illustrate the decline, revenue for Build-A-Bear Workshop fell 15% from the end of 2009 through the end of 2019. From 2019 through 2022, Build-A-Bear's e-commerce demand grew more than 135%. Therefore, it doesn't need much earnings-per-share (EPS) growth to likely generate some good shareholder returns. BBW data by YCharts.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

Private credit funds are in talks to provide up to $2.5bn in financing for the sale of US packaging firm Trivium Packaging, which was formed in 2019 through a merger of Ardagh Group’s food and specialty packaging business and Exal Corp, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

If you're a shareholder or thinking about investing in this stock, you need to know what he said and why it opened a can of worms. Starboard's criticism is targeted squarely at Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who has led the pharma juggernaut since early 2019. 22, there's a lot less ambiguity.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Just like airplanes take off and land, shares of Spirit Airlines (NYSE: SAVE) have taken shareholders on a ride. The company initially gave shareholders a sigh of relief when it said it was able to secure an extension with bondholders to refinance its debt. The business has made for a terrible investment. This isn't a new development.

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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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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The fact that Chipotle has proven to be an outstanding business that has compounded shareholder capital means that it should be on your investing radar. Chipotle has exhibited solid growth between the third quarters of 2019 and 2024, with revenue doubling over those past five years. This is a highly profitable organization.

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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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JUNE 23, 2023

Airlines aren't productive (at least for shareholders) The ultimate test of whether a company is allocating capital productively for shareholders is the comparison between its return on invested capita l (ROIC) and its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Net Profit 2019 2020 2021 2022 (Est.)

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But it's not exactly an encouraging sign that the company, which just went public in 2019, is selling more stock to raise money, the result of which was share dilution for existing shareholders. Its share price is down more than 70% since its IPO in 2019. In the third quarter (which ended Sept.

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

If you're looking for a growth stock investor to follow, it's hard to find one more prolific than Masayoshi Son, the CEO and largest shareholder in Softbank (OTC: SFTBF), a massive diversified holding company based in Japan. The stock has soared since its IPO last September on strong growth from AI-related demand and in the smartphone market.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

billion in net cash at its disposal, the company can continue returning capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. Notably, Alphabet initiated its first-ever dividend in 2024 and has repurchased 11% of its outstanding shares over the past five years, increasing existing shareholders' ownership stake.

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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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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway didn't initiate a position in Amazon, though, until the first quarter of 2019. Instead, Buffett told CNBC in May 2019 that "one of the fellows in the office that manage money" (a reference to either Todd Combs or Ted Weschler) bought shares of Amazon. And he didn't make the call to buy the stock.

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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 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, 2023

For example, in the first nine months of Costco's fiscal 2019 (ended May 12, 2019), the company reported total revenue of $105 billion. Multiple benefits for shareholders That's why management got approval from the board of directors to reauthorize a $4 billion share repurchase plan earlier this year.

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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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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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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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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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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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JUNE 22, 2024

An investment of $10,000 in AMD back in June 2019 would be worth $55,410 today. At this point in 2019, AMD was executing against the growth strategy it outlined for investors at its Financial Analyst Day in May 2017. By 2019, AMD's margins, revenue, and earnings were on an upward trajectory, and it should see more growth.

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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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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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OCTOBER 28, 2024

During its latest annual shareholder meeting, ExxonMobil reiterated that it remains committed to paying a dividend, even during low commodity price cycles, while ensuring the dividends it pays during an oil boom are sustainable during price lows. Even before ExxonMobil acquired Pioneer Natural Resources in a massive $64.5

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