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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. That same investment would have withered to roughly $137,000 as the company disappointed its investors with its slowing growth, shrinking moat, and persistent losses.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Thanks to slower growth in operating costs, Amazon returned to profitability, earning $30 billion in net income in 2023. It lost $3 billion in 2022. As its smaller businesses propel relatively rapid profit growth, the stock should continue to drive significant returns for investors. billion people.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Indeed, the upstart coffee chain faces heavy competition, and its stock price has shown few signs of recovery from the 2022 bear market. Also, when considering three of the companies' attributes, investors could take more of an interest. Valuation Furthermore, share prices have not recovered from the 2022 bear market.

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JUNE 27, 2024

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that "Nvidia's chips underpin all of the most advanced AI systems, giving the company a market share estimated at more than 80%." The company has been gaining steam since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. Read on to learn more. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

In 1980, eight of the top 10 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. As of 2024, none of these 10 companies remained in the top 10 by market cap. In fact, only one of the top 10 public companies by market cap ( Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) ) as recently as 2000 is still a top-10 company just 24 years later.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

These swings were especially pronounced in the growth stock -driven Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) , which shed 33% of its value during the 2022 bear market, but has rocketed higher by 49% since the start of 2023. When vaccines became available and life returned to some semblance of normal, the company's MAUs retraced.

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MAY 2, 2024

According to the report's findings, dividend-paying companies delivered an average annual return of 9.17% over a half-century (1973-2023), while being 6% less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. There are two reasons Realty Income's stock has vastly underperformed the S&P 500 since the summer of 2022.

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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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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. However, Wall Street was somewhat skeptical of the company due to its heavy reliance on government contracts.

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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 9, 2024

In 2022 and 2023, the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates 11 times in an effort to stifle abnormally high levels of inflation. has materially cooled from its high points during the summer of 2022. HTGC Total Return Level data by YCharts. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

11 months after its trading floor premiere fell briefly into the single digits in the springtime of 2022. Every analyst following the company expects DraftKings to post its first profit as a public company this quarter. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Its shares generated a mind-blowing total return of 774% in the last 12 months. To put that in context, it's taken Microsoft (which is no slouch regarding stock performance) the last eight years to generate a similar total return. The company has never conducted a stock split in its 17 years as a public company.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

Wood's flagship ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKK) generated strong returns, rising 67% with just a single week left in the year and recovering a significant amount of ground after big losses in 2022. However, ARK Next Generation Internet had a greater concentration of top-moving stocks, helping to amplify its returns in 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But in 2022, its revenue only grew 25% as both businesses faced tough post-pandemic slowdowns. Garena's Free Fire lost a lot of its paying users as the pandemic passed, and that slowdown was exacerbated by an unexpected ban in India -- its fastest-growing market -- which lasted from February 2022 to August 2023.

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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. in 2022 to $10.60 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Nvidia has generally performed poorly following stock splits Nvidia has completed six stock splits as a public company. As shown above, Nvidia returned an average of 8% during the six-month period following past stock splits. The S&P 500 tumbled 25% between January 2022 and October 2022.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

But even after the decline from its lofty share price, the company still has a market cap of about $20 billion. For perspective, VinFast generated only $634 million in revenue in 2022. The EV maker will announce its first quarterly report as a public company tomorrow, Oct. 5, before the market opens. and VinFast Auto Ltd.

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MARCH 2, 2024

"Over time, it takes just a few winners to work wonders." -- Warren Buffett, from the 2022 Berkshire Hathaway letter to shareholders One big winner can make a fortune. Indeed, after decelerating some in 2022, cloud spending appears to be reaccelerating as organizations explore how AI can improve their processes and generate efficiencies.

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JUNE 19, 2023

It has always traded at a discount since Alibaba stock is not stock in Alibaba, but rather in an American Depositary Receipt (ADR) or holding company that holds a claim on Alibaba's profits. In fiscal 2023 (ended March 31), revenue of more than $126 billion rose only 2% versus fiscal 2022 levels. and Alibaba Group wasn't one of them!

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APRIL 8, 2024

The company would later enact two stock splits, a nearly 2-to-1 split in March 2014 and a 20-to-1 split in July 2022. Alphabet may not generate the same eye-popping returns it did in its first 20 years as a public company, but it still can be a core holding that can help you retire a millionaire. million today.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

To address this, the company's AI is compiling factors that point to possible party animals, to stop them from booking beforehand. In November, Airbnb made its first acquisition as a public company: GamePlanner.AI. These exclusive brands accounted for 14% of sales in 2022 -- the last full-year update on this from management.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Secondly, it allows compounding to occur over many years, increasing returns for investors. The trick is to know which companies to buy and hold in the first place. The company focuses on renting in sectors that are resilient to economic downturns, making the rents they collect more secure should we enter into a recession at any point.

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JUNE 23, 2024

to-1 in 2022 to 5.9-to-1 SoFi's deposit base started at zero in early 2022 and is now nearly as large as the company's loan portfolio. In the first quarter, the company's total number of products grew by 38%, but this was the slowest pace since it became a public company. to-1 today.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Following a challenging year in 2022, which saw all three major stock indexes plunge into respective bear markets, the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average , benchmark S&P 500 , and innovation-driven Nasdaq Composite have all launched to new all-time highs in 2024. In case you haven't noticed, the bulls are running wild on Wall Street.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

In particular, one table compared the average annual return of income stocks to non-payers over the last 50 years (1973-2023), while also taking into account the average volatility of each group. Meanwhile, non-payers were 18% more volatile than the benchmark index and produced a subdued annualized return of just 4.27% over 50 years.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Should Visa achieve analyst projections for earnings and rise to a trailing earnings valuation of 34 in one year, its stock would increase by 18% -- an excellent return for a mature stock like Visa. Snowflake Some investors may be surprised that Berkshire owns a stake in a high-growth company like Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW).

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JUNE 27, 2023

Total returns for the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index are up around 350% in the past decade, compared with around 230% for the more diversified S&P 500 over the same timeframe. Regardless of tech's great run, many companies have blossomed and then have fallen by the wayside. billion FY 2022 $78.1 billion FY 2020 $53.7

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MARCH 11, 2024

In the last three years, the company produced a whopping $285 billion of cumulative operating cash flow. That figure alone exceeds the market caps of the majority of public companies out there. Of course, Google Search, which generated 56% of overall company revenue in the fourth quarter, remains Alphabet's crown jewel.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Since AT&T divested content arm WarnerMedia in April 2022, which was subsequently merged with Discovery to create new media entity Warner Bros. This 208-year streak of continuous dividend payments is about six decades longer than any other public company in the U.S. billion, as of Dec. Growth for the world's No.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Tempus delivered decent financials in its first quarterly report as a public company last week. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*. Image source: Getty Images.

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MAY 24, 2024

The Amazon of e-commerce Amazon's overall returns have been some of the highest in the history of the stock market. If you'd invested $1,000 in Amazon stock at the time of its initial public offering (IPO), you'd have almost $1.9 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. million today.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Since taking the reins as CEO, the aptly dubbed "Oracle of Omaha" has overseen an aggregate return in his company's Class A shares of 4,927,141%, as of the closing bell on March 8, 2024. That compares to a total return, including dividends paid, of around 33,500% for the S&P 500 over the same period.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

Coupang has only been a public company for approximately two years, but the results over that time have been impressive. Revenue growth, after slowing during 2022, has rebounded and accelerated in each of the last three reported quarters. 30, 2023), the company's most recently reported quarter. billion $2.7 billion $3.7

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MARCH 10, 2024

For most of its time as a public company, DigitalOcean appeared to be in hyper-growth mode, featuring impressive revenue and customer growth while remaining unprofitable. Like many tech companies, DigitalOcean experienced a slowdown in revenue growth. In 2023, that dynamic shifted.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Since taking the reins as CEO in 1965, the aptly dubbed "Oracle of Omaha" has overseen a nearly 5,200,000% cumulative return for Berkshire's Class A shareholders (BRK.A). The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. billion Q1 2023: $10.41 billion in cumulative net-selling activity since Oct.

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