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Image source: DraftKings 2023 Investor Day Presentation. It's this business growth driven by continued user growth (one of the results of simply remaining operational in a state once the DraftKings app is launched there) that has been pushing the stock upward since early 2023. Image source: DraftKings 2023 Investor Day Presentation.

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IonQ was one such company that missed its pre-merger expectations from 2021 to 2023. Metric 2021 2022 2023 Pre-merger revenue estimate $5 million $15 million $34 million Actual revenue $3 million $11 million $22 million Data source: IonQ. At the end of 2023, it expected its revenue to rise 9% to 21%.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

It generated more than five times as much revenue as its closest competitor, Offerpad (NYSE: OPAD) , in 2023. Metric 2021 2022 2023 1H 2024 Revenue $8.0 Metric 2021 2022 2023 1H 2024 Revenue $8.0 In 2023, soaring interest rates chilled the real estate market and drove up Opendoor's costs of acquiring and fixing new properties.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

In 2023, the company reported an operating profit of $28.7 Here's a breakdown of how it has performed versus the broad index going back to 2018, which was the last time it was a market-beating stock. Year Verizon Stock S&P 500 2024 6.1% 2022 -24.2% -19.4% 2018 6.2% -6.2% Source: yCharts. gain in 2019.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Q3 2023 Q4 2023 Q1 2024 Q2 2024 Q3 2024 90+ Day Personal Loan Delinquencies 0.48% 0.56% 0.72% 0.64% 0.57% Data by SoFi Technologies. In early 2023, the company's financial services segment was still losing money. Table by author. economy is entering a sweet spot for SoFi and its personal loan business.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

Apparently, only about 10% of pre-retirees in America are planning to wait until they turn 70 to claim their Social Security benefits , per the 2023 Schroders U.S. As of the end of 2023, the average monthly Social Security retirement benefit for 66-year-olds was $1,740, or $20,880 for the year. Retirement Survey.

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

From 2013 to 2023, MercadoLibre grew its gross merchandise volume (GMV) at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20%, its total payment volume (TPV) at a CAGR of 54%, and its total revenue at a CAGR of 41% in USD terms. from 2023 to 2030.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Nvidia was reportedly the second-largest customer of TSMC in 2023, accounting for 11% of the manufacturer's top line. TSMC's revenue in December 2023 was down 8% year over year, so the sharp increase in December 2024 revenue makes it clear that it is indeed manufacturing more chips for Nvidia this time around.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

According to an estimate from Statista Market Insights, the global e-commerce market will expand from 2023's $3.6 In Q3 2023, its international segment suffered an operating loss of $95 million. For example, merchants who joined Shopify in 2020 saw their sales grow nearly 100% by 2023. trillion to a whopping $6.5

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Intel's problems started with a difficult transition from 14nm to 10nm chips (2017-2020), then worsened with even more delays in its subsequent transition to 7nm chips (2020-2023). From 2018 to 2023, Intel's annual revenue fell from $70.8 What's next for Intel? billion to $54.2

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

billion in net-equity sales Q1 2023 : $10.41 billion Q2 2023 : $7.981 billion Q3 2023 : $5.253 billion Q4 2023 : $0.525 billion Q1 2024 : $17.281 billion Q2 2024 : $75.536 billion Q3 2024 : $34.592 billion On a cumulative basis, Warren Buffett has overseen $166.22 30, 2024.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Meteoric rise The financial sector had a rocky 2023, driven by the March 2023 banking crisis that saw some small to midsize banks fail and pressure the entire sector. through the first three quarters of 2023. 1, 2023, the ETF is up a staggering 57.2%. The Vanguard Financials ETF was down 2.9% Since Oct.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Plug Power's revenue rose 40% in 2022 and 27% in 2023. But from 2023 to 2026, analysts expect Plug's revenue to grow at a CAGR of 25% as it narrows its net losses. Its net losses also widened throughout both years as it integrated those acquisitions. Department of Energy (DOE) also recently granted it a new $1.66

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

It expanded its food delivery business by acquiring Postmates in 2020, and it turned profitable in 2023 by exiting its weaker overseas markets and divesting its non-core divisions. Image source: Uber. Uber's stock bounced back as the pandemic headwinds dissipated.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The S&P 500 generated gains of 24% in 2023 and is up more than 26% thus far in 2024 (as of this writing). He goes on to point out that the S&P 500 member companies are expected to generate earnings per share (EPS) of $269 in 2025, an increase of 19% compared to early 2023.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

All numbers represent millions of shares: Company Q3 2023 Q4 2023 Q1 2024 Q2 2024 Q3 2024 Nvidia 43.6 A closer look at Susquehanna's semiconductor moves Thanks to a nifty tool called the 13F filing , investors can find itemized breakdowns of all the buys and sells institutional money managers make on a quarterly basis. Broadcom 4.0

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Ackman first initiated a position in Alphabet in early 2023 when OpenAI's ChatGPT was taking the world by storm. However, as Ackman told CNBC in a September 2023 interview, "Google really fumbled their offering." Alphabet stock has soared nearly 90% since the end of the first quarter of 2023 when Ackman first invested in it.

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

Below are the past 10 wage base limits: Year Wage Base Limit 2015 $118,500 2016 $118,500 2017 $127,200 2018 $128,400 2019 $132,900 2020 $137,700 2021 $142,800 2022 $147,000 2023 $160,200 2024 $168,600 Source: Social Security Administration. Below are the past 10 COLAs: Year COLA 2015 1.7% 2016 0% 2017 0.3% 2018 2% 2019 2.8%

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lending is still the core business though, and management was warning that it would come in below 2023 levels for most of the year. It's also been responsible for most of the profits, and this all put investors on edge. SoFi has massive potential SoFi continues to grow its platform at a rapid pace.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

But shares currently trade at 52 times earnings , a discount to the multiple of 62 times earnings in January 2023. Indeed, the stock currently trades at 42 times earnings, which is double its valuation of 21 times earnings in early 2023. Long-term investors should feel comfortable buying this stock today.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

In 2023, some of these stocks wildly outperformed the cryptocurrency, and many investors decided to invest in them rather than Bitcoin itself. For example, consider this 2023 chart comparing Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) and the crypto: Bitcoin/U.S. Heading into the final week of 2023, Riot Platforms was up as much as 455%.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

At the end of September 2023, Tepper's fund held 10.25 With Nvidia becoming the largest publicly traded company and adding $3 trillion-plus in market value since the start of 2023, ringing the register and locking in gains is certainly one viable explanation for this selling activity. In 2022 and 2023, U.S.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

For comparison, generative AI accounted for 15% of Broadcom's fiscal 2023 semiconductor revenue of $28 billion -- just $4.2 Importantly, that includes the revenue contribution from VMware, which it acquired in November 2023. billion in revenue in fiscal Q4, which would be a 51% increase from the prior year.

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

However, its total revenue still declined by 1% in 2023, and analysts expect its total revenue to grow at a compound annual rate of less than 1% from 2023 to 2026. It has also been rolling out new generative AI tools for crunching large amounts of data.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Here's the full breakdown: Age Range 90th Percentile Household Income Under 35 $146,000 35-44 $249,000 45-54 $310,000 55-64 $316,000 65-74 $254,000 75 and older $170,000 Data source: Survey of Consumer Finances, Of Dollars and Data (2023). It still takes an income well above average. It's not everything, though.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

in 2023, and 11.5% In 2023, the drop was 5.5%. Altria's cigarette volumes declined 9.7% in 2022, 9.9% in the first half of 2024. In the first nine months of the year, the drop was 10.6%, but that period can't be compared to British American Tobacco because the European company only reports semi-annually.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

billion in cash, equivalents, and short-term investments, and in 2023 it reported free cash flow (FCF) of nearly $22.1 So, with this information in hand, we can estimate using its 2023 annual revenue of $54.3 It currently has more than $7.2 billion that AbbVie's top line for 2029 should be worth at least $75.4 billion, and roughly $83.1

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JANUARY 4, 2025

According to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence , aeronautics sales earned Northrop about a 10% operating profit margin in the first three quarters of 2024, similar to what it has earned in most years, with the exception of 2023. (If If you recall, 2023 was the year Northrop took a $1.3

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

In April 2023, Palantir released its fourth major product called the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). Metric Q3 2023 Q4 2023 Q1 2024 Q2 2024 Q3 2024 Revenue growth (% year over year) 17% 20% 21% 27% 30% Customer count 453 497 554 593 629 Adjusted gross margin 82% 84% 83% 83% 82% Adjusted free cash flow $140.8

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DECEMBER 15, 2024

The company's huge success in recent years, as demonstrated by revenue soaring 25-fold between 2018 and 2023, has certainly drawn the attention of competitors. However, that slowed dramatically this year, as sales were up just 29% in the first six months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. That's not worrying.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

22, 2023, Deere reported its full fiscal 2023 results and forecast $7.75 billion Deere earned in fiscal 2023, but it was still impressive given that it had worked through so much pent-up demand in the prior few years. billion to $8.25 billion in net income for fiscal 2024. The forecast was noticeably weaker than the $10.17

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Since the start of 2023, its revenue rose by 320%, and its profits skyrocketed by 1,340%. Alongside that incredible business performance came impressive stock returns, which is why the stock price is up 600% since 2023. Nvidia has a few new tailwinds in 2025 Nvidia's rise hasn't been all fluff.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

decline in 2023. That would be a 25% improvement over its 2023 revenue. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Popularly known as TSMC, this foundry giant is coming off a terrific 2024. The company's revenue increased 34% last year, which was a big improvement over the 4.5% billion, which was higher than the growth analysts expected.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

Furthermore, Shopify increased the prices for its services in 2023, so its not clear how that affected customer churn. billion impairment from the sale of the logistics business in 2023 led to losses in that year despite a $1 billion gain from its equity investments. billion increased 23% yearly.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

According to Vanguard's 2024 How America Saves report, about 14% of employees contributed the max to their 401(k) plans in 2023. Some folks contribute just enough to grab the employer match , while others go all in to max out their 401(k) contributions. For 2025, you can contribute up to $23,500.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From 2013 to 2023, its annual revenue declined from $576 million to $496 million as it struggled to keep pace with faster-growing cloud competitors like Microsoft and Salesforce. MicroStrategy's transformation into a Bitcoin hoarder was abrupt. To offset that pressure, Saylor pivoted the company toward Bitcoin.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

For instance, the RMD payment due on a traditional IRA in 2024 is based on the year-end account balance from 2023. Her traditional IRA had a balance of $100,000 as of December 31, 2023. RMDs are generally due at the end of each year, and they are based on account balances RMDs are calculated based on the account balance as of Dec.

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