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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. Let's not forget that Coca-Cola has one of the most impressive capital-return programs, too.

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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 29, 2023

Going the SPAC route was a popular way to streamline the process of going public at the time, but history hasn't been kind to most companies that went this route. DraftKings eventually began trading in April of 2020 , a month into the pandemic-related U.S. DraftKings is one of only a handful of successful SPAC debutantes.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

The Buffett Indicator is the ratio of a country's total market capitalization of public companies to its gross domestic product (GDP). Simply put, it compares the value of a country's public companies to the total value of the goods and services the country produces in a year. stock market is overvalued or undervalued.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After all, you don't get to be the world's most valuable public company by accident. Since the beginning of 2003, Apple's total return has been over 8,800%. So if you had invested $10,000 in the company back then and held on through all the intervening years while reinvesting your dividends, your stake would be worth over $8.8

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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. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Keeping $0.18

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Unfortunately, that might be the best-case scenario for this increasingly embattled company. Public companies are required to have auditors and to file their financial statements by certain deadlines. The company has fallen out of compliance with both requirements, putting it at risk of delisting by te Nasdaq.

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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The S&P 500 index has averaged 10% annualized returns during the past half-century, but it's not that difficult to outperform that target if you invest in a group of well-chosen growth stocks. Here's why these stocks should deliver superior returns. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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. To reach $1 trillion, the stock must increase 1,233%, which implies annual returns of 19% over the next 15 years.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

For instance, enthusiasm for all things AI helped the " Magnificent Seven " stocks provide outsize returns for shareholders and contributed to the Nasdaq Composite 's jaw-dropping 43% return in 2023. Wood was an early supporter of Palantir following the company's initial public offering (IPO) in 2020.

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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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MAY 9, 2024

These stocks have the ingredients to generate lucrative investment returns over the long term and both trade at attractive prices today. Snowflake went public in late 2020, and shares have continually compressed since the market bubble popped months later. The stock is up over 2,000% over the past three years.

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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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What happened Shares of recently minted public company VinFast Auto (NASDAQ: VFS) collapsed as much as 44.6% The Vietnamese manufacturer of electric vehicles ( EVs ) just went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and soared over 100% on the back of investor hype and its low float.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Realty has enjoyed a 13% compound annual return since its 1994 debut on the public markets. Between its anticipated 4% to 5% dividend yield and 4% to 5% growth in AFFO per share, the expectation is for Realty Income to produce 8 to 10% in operational return. So far, this strategy has paid off.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Roku has posted double-digit annual revenue growth every year as a public company, but for the first time since 2020 the top-line gains are accelerating in 2024. Analysts don't see a return to reported profitability until 2027, but momentum suggests that it could happen earlier than that. Image source: Getty Images.

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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. Trevor Jennewine has positions in Amazon and Nvidia.

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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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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. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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. However, I believe Apple is well-positioned to continue returning good shareholder value. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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. The fact that most companies lack a well-defined game plan to generate a positive return on their AI investments is a strong clue that we're in the early stages of what's likely another bubble-bursting event.

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MARCH 9, 2024

No public company has gone all-in on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) quite like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , which has purchased 193,000 bitcoins since 2020. As a result, the enterprise software company's stock is up over 900%, despite its core business stagnating. MSTR Total Return Level data by YCharts.

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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. The company didn't post disappointing financial results, and it has yet to announce its first quarterly results as a public company. She continues to add to her existing positions. Why the fall?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It's not only important to know how a company makes money -- it's also important to know how that money is spent. In this article, I'll take a big picture view of PayPal's profits and capital allocation before explaining why I believe shareholders can hope for better returns moving forward. million $1,400 million 2020 12.0

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Federal Reserve is meeting this week and has hinted broadly that it will cut interest rates for the first time since 2020. Cathie Wood hasn't lost all faith in the company. Advertisers immediately curtailed their spending, and The Trade Desk reported a quarterly net loss for the first time as a public company.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

Back in June, it spun off Shopify Logistics, which includes Six River Systems (its warehouse robotics company), various warehouses it had purchased, as well as its latest acquisition, Deliverr. These businesses were sold for a fraction of what Shopify paid, marking a huge loss for the company. Data by YCharts.

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JUNE 24, 2024

From hype to the trash heap Snowflake went public in late 2020, near the peak of a euphoric stock market that snatched up growth stocks due to zero-percent interest rates. Today, Snowflake is trading at a fraction of the valuation it once did and its lowest as a public company.

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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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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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OCTOBER 18, 2024

The reason so many investors attempt to mirror Buffett's trades is because he's crushed the benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) in the return column over a span of almost six decades. Since taking over as CEO, the Oracle of Omaha has overseen an aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) of nearly 5,600,000%!

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Q2 2020 $17 million Q2 2021 $48 million Q2 2022 $115 million Q2 2023 $141 million Data source: Block. If you look at Block's quarterly operating margin , it has managed to break even just a few times as a public company. Should the company regain that profitability level, the stock would be valued at 24 times earnings.

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JULY 3, 2023

That new division caught the attention of the SPAC Gores Guggenheim, and Polestar was spun out as a public company. It launched its second vehicle, the Polestar 2 electric sedan, in 2020. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of June 26, 2023 Leo Sun has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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JULY 2, 2023

During the bull run of 2020 and early 2021, it was easy to be a stock picker as it seemed like everything was going up. Luckily, there are many companies that make great investments even when times are tough. That's when companies like Walmart (NYSE: WMT) shine. SPX data by YCharts. SPX data by YCharts.

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