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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. BDCs have an unusual corporate structure in that 90% of taxable income is distributed to shareholders on an annual basis.

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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). During Berkshire's most recent annual shareholder meeting, Buffett opined that corporate tax rates were liable to climb in the future. billion Q1 2023: $10.41

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JANUARY 13, 2024

It's been a public company since 2009 and has been profitable and free cash flow generative every year since its initial public offering ( IPO ). Over a few years, DocuSign's stock took a round trip from $37 in 2019 to a high of $310 in 2021 and back down to a low of $39 in 2022. To businesses, data is vital.

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JUNE 9, 2024

He's known for investing in companies with the goal of unlocking value for himself and other shareholders. A quick look at Southwest Gas and Icahn Enterprises Icahn Enterprises owns or effectively owns some companies, meaning it has total control of the entities. And, as a large shareholder, he pushes for those changes.

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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. Apple's $700 billion investment has been a godsend for its shareholders Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett made Apple his company's top holding for a good reason. Image source: Apple.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Specifically, Buffett and his team have sold more than 515 million shares of Apple and reduced their company's position to an even 400 million shares. He believes shareholders will, in hindsight, value Berkshire Hathaway locking in sizable gains at a lower tax rate.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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. The multibillion-dollar question Since going public, PayPal has spent over $19 billion repurchasing its own shares. million $3,400 million 2022 41.0

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The filing noted that it released another approximately 26 million shares to be sold by other shareholders. Those proceeds won't go to the company, but they add to the downward pressure on the stock. But even after the decline from its lofty share price, the company still has a market cap of about $20 billion.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Investors look forward to Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter, and in the 2023 version, released on Feb. shareholder whom Buffett described as understanding "many accounting terms, but. Metric 2021 2022 2023 Net income (loss) $89.9 24, he didn't disappoint. She's a longtime Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)

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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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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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JULY 28, 2024

The total market value of the company is nearly $150 billion, making it one of the largest public companies in the world as well. Comcast's shareholder returns are potentially unsustainable Comcast is a very shareholder-friendly company -- this is something that many investors appreciate.

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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. The REIT has made 646 consecutive monthly dividend payments to its shareholders and increased its distribution in each of the past 106 quarters.

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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 11, 2024

Warren Buffett has been a net seller of stocks for two years (and counting) While 13Fs can be especially helpful in identifying which stocks Berkshire's brightest minds are buying and selling, the company's cash flow statement is invaluable when it comes to detailing the sentiment of Buffett and his team. 1, 2022 through Sept.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

While "years" tends to be the typical holding period for a stock in Berkshire's portfolio, Warren Buffett's latest annual letter to shareholders outlined eight stocks that were dubbed "indefinite" holdings. The Oracle of Omaha and his team began purchasing shares of Occidental in the first quarter of 2022. 3: Occidental Petroleum, $14.5

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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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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Because Realty is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT), it is obligated to pay 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders as dividends. Since its inception as a company, more than $800 billion has been transacted on its platform. The three largest are grocery stores, convenience stores, and dollar stores.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

1, 2022 through June 30, 2024), Buffett and his top investing aides, Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, have sold close to $132 billion more in stocks than they've purchased. During Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in early May, he opined that the corporate tax rate would likely climb in the future. 1 position.

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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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JUNE 24, 2024

Nvidia has generally performed poorly following stock splits Nvidia has completed six stock splits as a public company. The S&P 500 tumbled 25% between January 2022 and October 2022. Even more worrisome, Nvidia has consistently lost momentum following previous stock splits. Here's what happened the last five times.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Broadridge Financial Broadridge Financial provides public companies with investor communication materials like proxy statements, annual reports, quarterly reports, prospectuses, and other shareholder documents. Its net interest margin was up almost 100 basis points to 4.04%, from 3.06% in the second quarter of 2022.

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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. Let's face it: No company or stock has ridden the AI wave better or to greater heights than Nvidia. No one knows this better than the Oracle of Omaha.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Realty Income (NYSE: O) is a real estate investment trust ( REIT ), which means it has to pay out at least 90% of its taxable income as a dividend to its shareholders. The REIT takes this very seriously and even refers to itself as "The Monthly Dividend Company." Fortunately, this can be done without owning any actual real estate.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Lucky for us, Buffett outlined why he is hoarding the cash in his annual letter to shareholders. Let's look at how Berkshire built its unprecedented cash hoard, what the company currently does with its cash, and what it might take for Buffett to deploy it meaningfully. billion in 2022. In 2023, Berkshire generated $37.4

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AUGUST 1, 2023

While its shareholders suffered during that period, contrarian investors can consider its aftermath an opportunity to buy shares of one of the best companies in China for cheap. One was that the company had become gigantic, generating 555 billion yuan ($79.6 billion) in revenue in 2022. Image source: Getty Images.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Tencent can still dance Tencent's success puts it in league with the biggest companies in the world. billion) in net profit in 2022. Despite its size, there are reasons to think that the tech company can continue to grow for many years. For perspective, it generated 555 billion yuan ($79.6 billion on WeChat.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

For a company as well-known as Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) , it's hard to believe that it's only been a public company for less than three years. Q2 2021 Q2 2022 Q2 2023 83 million 104 million 115 million Data source: Airbnb. As the name suggests, this is the clearest indication of the use of the Airbnb platform over time.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Despite the decline, the company is reaching new heights in sales and profitability, creating what appears to be an undervalued stock. billion in revenue, an 11% jump from 2022. In early 2022, Crocs acquired competing casual footwear brand HeyDude for $2.05 billion in cash and about $500 million in stock. Etsy generated $2.71

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JUNE 15, 2024

The stock surged 225% during the past year and 850% since November 2022, when the launch of ChatGPT sparked the artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush. However, stock splits have historically been bad news for Nvidia shareholders. The company's value has declined by an average of 23% during the 12-month period following past splits.

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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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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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MARCH 14, 2024

A short track record as a public company Roblox is a classic example of a solid growth stock. The video game company almost doubled its quarterly revenue from $387 million in the first quarter of 2021 to $750 million in the final quarter of 2023, less than three years after it went public in March 2021.

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MAY 24, 2024

If you'd invested $1,000 in Amazon stock at the time of its initial public offering (IPO), you'd have almost $1.9 As you can see in the chart, that includes a major downturn in 2022, in addition to other bumps along the road. million today. AMZN data by YCharts. What's happening today? million today.

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JUNE 21, 2023

With the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite still off their peaks, the market for initial public offerings has been rather quiet in 2022 and throughout 2023. But this all changed recently when Cava Group (NYSE: CAVA) went public on June 15. Even if the upside might be sizable, owning newly public companies is a risky endeavor.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the aftermath of the 2022 bear market, many stocks are trading at significant discounts to their previous highs. This is mostly due to market sentiment changing for some companies as business fundamentals were previously detached from the stock performance. billion in Q4 2022 to negative $195 million in Q2 2024.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As you do, you might notice one more little oddity about the company that makes me extra happy to have had the opportunity to add Hershey to my own portfolio. I'm partnering with one big owner Shareholders effectively own Hershey, as with all public companies. Shareholders hire a board of directors.

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