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JANUARY 26, 2024

Helping businesses find, acquire, and grow customers, ZoomInfo Technologies (NASDAQ: ZI) and its business-to-business data platform has been on an absolute roller-coaster ride in its first few years as a public company. Keeping $0.18 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The latest report ranked more than 1,700 public companies based on their long-term revenue growth prospects. Most cohorts have also beat the market in terms of total returns, and the authors believe the laggards (2020 and 2021) could outperform in the long run. Here's what investors should know about Datadog and Snowflake.

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MAY 9, 2024

Snowflake went public in late 2020, and shares have continually compressed since the market bubble popped months later. Long-term investors who believe in Snowflake's business model should consider the stock a high-potential long-term investment idea that could lift a portfolio over the coming decades.

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MARCH 28, 2025

Let's try both media companies on for size. The case for Fubo Fubo has had a wild first four years and change as a public company. It went public at $10 in fall 2020, and within two months was peaking north of $60. Each stock has its own bullish merits and potential pitfalls.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Investors went wild over Upstart Holdings (NASDAQ: UPST) stock when it first went public in late 2020, only for the shares of the artificial intelligence (AI) credit scoring company to crumble in 2022 as lending slowed. billion in the fourth quarter, and its interest-earning portfolio was up 91% to $8.2

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JANUARY 23, 2024

In particular, I've added a handful of high-octane dividend stocks to my portfolio. and has returned $25 billion in aggregate dividends to its shareholders since becoming a public company in October 1997. While there was plenty of buzz surrounding pot stocks in late 2020 and early 2021, it quickly faded. quarter to $1.82/quarter.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Currently, only seven public companies have a market capitalization that exceeds $1 trillion. More companies will undoubtedly reach the trillion-dollar threshold as the global economy continues to expand. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Englander's Millennium dumped more than half its stake in Palantir over three months Palantir has been a continuous holding in Millennium Management's mammoth portfolio since it became a public company in September 2020. The final piece of the puzzle for Millennium's investment team was, likely, Coca-Cola's valuation.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) minted a lot of millionaires in its first four years as a public company. The streaming device and software maker went public at $14 on Sept. Period 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Active Accounts (Millions) 19.3 28, 2017, and it soared 3,325% to its all-time high of $479.50 on July 26, 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For investors looking for Buffett stocks to add to their portfolios, Berkshire Hathaway's top five holdings are a good go-to. With $1,000, I would invest $200 into each company and trust the long-term results. Company Percentage of Berkshire Hathaway Portfolio Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) 46.3% Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) 8.2%

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Wood was an early supporter of Palantir following the company's initial public offering (IPO) in 2020. However, Wall Street was somewhat skeptical of the company due to its heavy reliance on government contracts. military and Western allies.

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JUNE 27, 2024

History says Nvidia could continue soaring in the second half of 2024 Nvidia became a public company in 1999. The chart below shows its share-price appreciation (or depreciation) in the first and second halves of each full year since its initial public offering (IPO). Read on to learn more.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman at MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , a company that specializes in business intelligence software. However, MicroStrategy is better known as the first public company to adopt Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as its primary treasury reserve asset, and it recently rebranded itself as a "Bitcoin development company."

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JULY 16, 2024

Cathie Wood has struggled to beat the market after a blowout 2020 put her Ark Invest family of exchange-traded funds on the map. It doesn't help that the popular e-commerce platform also happens to be one of Ark Invest's 10 largest holdings across its combined portfolio. She continues to add to her existing positions. Why the fall?

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AUGUST 7, 2024

Not only is it a Dividend King, but its ongoing 62-year dividend growth streak is one of the longest of any public company on record. The company boasts a AAA credit rating, higher than the U.S. government, and is one of just two public companies with the designation.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been the world's most valuable public company since 2011 when it had a market capitalization of just under $340 billion. Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month.

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MARCH 31, 2024

It's the second-largest public company in the world for a reason, and I don't think its stock price is about to collapse. Yet however impressive its past performance, what matters to investors is how the company will perform going forward. billion 2020 196.9 Will the rise of AI mean the beginning of the end for Apple?

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MAY 28, 2024

The Dow Jones Industrial Average , S&P 500 , and Nasdaq Composite were whipsawed between bear and bull markets in successive years from 2020 through 2023. The Japan-based consumer electronics company announced a 5-for-1 stock split on May 14 , with an effective date for the company's American depositary receipts (ADRs) of October 8.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

We've witnessed two bear markets (2020 and 2022) and a seemingly unstoppable bull market that took all three major indexes to new all-time highs less than two years ago. Healthcare company UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) , whose shares closed at $508.01 Investing on Wall Street comes with its ups and downs.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Academy Sports and Outdoors (NASDAQ: ASO) went public in 2020 and may be obscure. Comparing Academy to its rivals With 1,148 locations as of the second quarter of 2023, Hibbett is actually the largest chain of these three companies. This similarity could partly explain why these two companies have higher operating margins.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Today, Berkshire Hathaway owns a portfolio of 56 publicly listed stocks and securities worth $352 billion, as well as dozens of wholly owned companies under the conglomerate's umbrella. Apple Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the world's largest public company with a valuation of $2.8 Image source: The Motley Fool.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

six weeks packed full of operating results from public companies), can make it easy for important data to fly under the radar. Stanley Druckenmiller slashed his fund's stake in Nvidia Druckenmiller tends to minimize risks when investing and attempts to align his portfolio with the health of the U.S. and global economy.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Acquisitions have mainly been small, except for 2020's $7 billion acquisition of Mellanox, which makes high-performance networking products. According to public records. **LAN Studies support the theory that stocks of public companies run by founder-CEOs tend to perform better over the long term than those run by non-founders.

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MARCH 19, 2024

billion S&P 500 companies collectively spent on share repurchases on a trailing-12-month basis, as of Sept. The reason public companies enact share repurchase programs is threefold: For companies with steady or growing net income, a steady reduction in the number of outstanding shares can increase earnings per share (EPS) over time.

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MARCH 15, 2024

HP: 79,666,320 shares sold (22,852,715 shares remaining) Another high-profile name that took a big haircut in Berkshire Hathaway's investment portfolio during the fourth quarter is personal computing and printing services provider HP (NYSE: HPQ). billion of its own common stock since the start of 2013, which is tops among public companies.

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MAY 16, 2024

Meanwhile, reverse-stock splits aim to increase a company's share price to ensure it meets the minimum listing requirements on a major stock exchange. For all intents and purposes, most investors seek out companies enacting forward-stock splits. When complete, this split will lower Sony Group's U.S.

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MAY 27, 2024

A forward stock split involves reducing a company's share price to make it more nominally affordable for investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases with their broker. Meanwhile, reverse stock splits are designed to increase a public company's share price to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Public companies that pay a regular dividend are almost always time-tested, have clear long-term growth outlooks, and most importantly are profitable on a recurring basis. annually, Buffett's company will receive nearly $992 million in dividend income over the next 12 months. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

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Insight Partners

APRIL 1, 2025

The first decision you must make is your endpoint: an initial public offering (IPO), acquisition by a public company, acquisition by a private company, or a private equity takeover? Each requires you to make different decisions as your company grows. At the end of 2024, the company was valued at $15B.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It became the first public company to reach a $1 trillion market cap in August 2018, and was the first to top $3 trillion in June 2023. billion 2018 : $72.738 billion 2019 : $66.897 billion 2020 : $72.358 billion 2021 : $85.971 billion 2022 : $89.402 billion 2023 : $77.55 Apple's iPhone is also unmistakably dominant in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Beginning in 2020, the three major stock indexes have traded off bear and bull markets in successive years. Meanwhile, Apple's capital-return program is unrivaled by all other public companies. Over the past four years, Wall Street has been a stomping ground for volatility. 2 in global cloud infrastructure services market share.

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JUNE 29, 2024

The company got off to a blistering start when it went public in late 2020, but the past few years have revealed the cyclical nature of the young company. The stock peaked at more than $400 in the year after its initial public offering (IPO) and is down 94% from its high. The stock, priced around 3.7

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

What their research showed was that dividend stocks more than doubled the average annual return of public companies that didn't offer a dividend: 9.17% vs. 4.27%. billion in net sales reported in 2020. For all intents and purposes, its brand-name drug portfolio has significantly strengthened over the last four years.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

During its first few years as a public company, Stitch Fix consistently generated respectable levels of growth. In 2020, these trends completely kicked into a new gear. While revenue initially dipped in early 2020, Stitch Fix bounced back spectacularly and witnessed record growth that lasted until the end of 2022.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

DraftKings' business began to pick up dramatically after the Supreme Court ruling, but it somehow managed to accelerate its top-line gains in 2020 when the COVID-19 crisis shut down many live sporting events. 2018: 18% 2019: 43% 2020: 90% 2021: 111% 2022: 73% 2023: 76% (through the first nine months) Image source: Getty Images.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

After declining in each of its first two years as a public company, Palantir finally paid off for its shareholders. Decelerating growth isn't a death sentence, especially when a company is posting high top-line gains that are seemingly unsustainable. Palantir went public in late 2020.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

And at this point, I've held it longer than any other stock in my portfolio. And for much of PayPal's life as a public company, free cash flow increased. Metric 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023* Net revenue $17.8 I've left my PayPal investment completely untouched since 2015 -- I haven't sold, trimmed, or added to it. billion $5.1

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