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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Since 1965, he has steered his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , to average annual returns of 19.8% 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.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

The company's a conglomerate of household products, home to brands like Tide, Charmin, Gillette, Old Spice, Dawn, Cascade, Febreze, and many more. million over PepsiCo's lifetime as a public company. There's a solid chance you'll find Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) somewhere. calls on Coca-Cola.

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MAY 2, 2024

These competitive advantages have pushed Nvidia's stock higher by 500% since the start of 2023. I'm talking about conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , which has been led by billionaire CEO Warren Buffett since the mid-1960s. Lastly, Warren Buffett is a huge fan of repurchasing his own company's stock.

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APRIL 9, 2024

While no one knows this answer with any certainty, a strong argument can be made that the following five companies will reach the $1 trillion mark before 2030. Since becoming CEO of Berkshire nearly six decades ago, the affably named "Oracle of Omaha" has guided his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) to a nearly 20% annualized return.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

It's worth noting that 2023 was a banner year for York. In January, the PPUC permitted the company to raise rates on approximately 75,000 of its customers. This rate increase will allow the company to recoup approximately $176 million in spending for system improvements and infrastructure replacements.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Through decades of strategic investments, Buffett and his team have built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable public companies, with a market capitalization of over $780 billion. The iPhone is Apple's most important moneymaker, accounting for over 52% of its revenue in its fiscal 2023 (which ended Sept.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

Berkshire Hathaway is his holding company, which contains a plethora of businesses and stock investments inside it. Berkshire is Buffett's life's work, a sprawling conglomerate that owns independent businesses, like GEICO insurance, Duracell, Dairy Queen, and a combination of railroads, energy pipelines, and utilities.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The five largest companies in 2009 First off, a few notes on methodology. This list is made up of American-based public companies. Meanwhile, retail giant Walmart sat in second place, and industrial conglomerate General Electric rounded out the list in fifth. Notably, there were no technology companies in the top five.

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MARCH 6, 2024

Oddity Tech (NASDAQ: ODD) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Mar 06, 2024 , 8:30 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning, and welcome to ODDITY's fourth-quarter and full-year 2023 earnings conference call. Our financial results for 2023 were outstanding.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

The industrial science and technology conglomerate announced Saturday it had completed the spinoff of its environmental and applied solutions segment into the new public company Veralto (NYSE: VLTO). Danaher remains a huge conglomerate with 65,000 employees and 15 operating companies under its umbrella.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

If that name doesn't sound familiar, it might be because until recently Kenvue's products were part of a larger conglomerate, Johnson & Johnson. Kenvue just held its first earnings report as a stand-alone public company, and beat Wall Street expectations on both the top and bottom lines. to 5.5%, and declared a dividend.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

When you consider Buffett is worth over $110 billion, and his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , is one of the premier blue chip stocks on the market, it's easy to see why that might be the case. The portfolio consists of around 50 companies, but a handful make up most of it. As of Sept.

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JULY 29, 2023

Its first-quarter 2023 results support this argument, with revenue up 11% year over year. By investing in its partners -- like Pinduoduo and Meituan -- the tech conglomerate can participate in emerging industries like e-commerce and food delivery. Think of it as the " Warren Buffett of technology companies." The idea is simple.

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JUNE 27, 2023

It's made the company a certified blue chip stock and made many investors happy (and rich) along the way. Despite a slowdown in consumer spending, Coca-Cola's first quarter 2023 sales volume increased 3% year over year, and its revenue increased 5% year over year to $11 billion. In its fiscal year 2023, it made $611.3

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , the massive conglomerate led by Warren Buffett, is best known for its $365 billion stock portfolio and for its subsidiary businesses like GEICO, Duracell, and many others. Berkshire ended the third quarter of 2023 with $157 billion in cash on its balance sheet, an all-time high.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

The easy way to describe Berkshire Hathaway is to call it a conglomerate. Then there's the investments in other public companies, which tallied up to $280 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024. But even that doesn't really do justice to the massive portfolio of businesses it owns.

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MARCH 1, 2024

recently released its annual report, revealing that the conglomerate holding company held a record high of $168 billion in cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2023. In 2023, Berkshire generated $37.4 In 2023, Berkshire spent $9.2 Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) billion in 2022. billion to $167.8

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Study the management team and board of directors Public companies are obligated to apprise investors of who is on their management team, as well as provide the identities of prominent board members, directors, and major shareholders. So don't hesitate to buy competing businesses, as it often isn't contradictory in any way.

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APRIL 10, 2025

In 2023, Visa accounted for $6.445 trillion in credit card network purchase volume in the U.S., Johnson & Johnson A second Dow component that makes for a no-brainer buy following a three-day, 4,260-point wash-out in Wall Street's ageless index is healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey and contributor Matt Frankel dive into Boston Omaha , a company that could be poised to be the next great conglomerate. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of December 11, 2023 This video was recorded on Dec. Has the company earned that swagger? Motley Fool Money starts now.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

In August 2023, Fitch Ratings followed suit and cut the U.S. But following four-plus decades of acquisitions, mergers, bankruptcies, innovation, and economic shifts, only two public companies still hold this pristine credit rating. credit rating from AAA, the highest possible rating, to AA+, the second-highest possible rating.

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JULY 25, 2023

Visa (NYSE: V) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Jul 25, 2023 , 5:00 p.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Welcome to Visa's fiscal third quarter 2023 earnings conference call. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Visa's fiscal third quarter 2023 earnings call.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a big-time winner so far in 2023. But Microsoft is lagging the market; gaming revenue was up just 1% year over year in the company's quarter ending June 30. To help spark its gaming business, Microsoft struck a deal to acquire the game studio conglomerate Activision Blizzard for $69 billion.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

After a great 2023 so far, stock market indexes like the S&P 500 are approaching all-time highs, bringing a bit of caution from some investors who may fear a crash is waiting on the horizon. is the cream of the crop when it comes to conglomerates, having amassed a market capitalization of over $770 billion (as of Dec.

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MARCH 8, 2024

None of the companies that have corresponded with the overwhelming percentage of gains and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are in the Russell 2000. Most of the companies that are in the S&P 500 in 2023 actually trailed the performance of the S&P 500. The same exact companies that are in the index failed to beat the index.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Total deployments of Gigawatts in 2023 increased 125 percent versus 2022. Mary Long: Constellation Software is a conglomerate of over 500 software businesses. The general theme to this family is that they're all, at least right now, well run vertical market software, aka VMS companies. That seems to me to be a positive sign.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Aug 23, 2023 , 4:30 p.m. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of August 21, 2023 Actual events or results may differ materially. On the durability side, we were named a leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for application performance monitoring and observability.

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MAY 9, 2024

In addition to signing new customers, we renewed and expanded with our existing restaurant customers this quarter, including a leading restaurant conglomerate in the U.S., In 2023, we began providing real-time data and menu cataloging for this customer. who has been an NCR Voyix customer for more than 20 years.

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APRIL 18, 2023

BARATTA: The media conglomerate? textbook company, Houghton Mifflin, back when there were actually textbooks in schools. But we can, things that are mature, things where we’ve realized value, sometimes we’re taking companies public and we can sell stock. The first deal we looked at was in France.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Do you think this company is an attractive buyout candidate? If I was a media entertainment conglomerate, I would certainly be interested in Marvel. For public companies, you can say of Nvidia or Marvel or Amazon. The Motley Fool recommends Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2023 $57.50

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MAY 8, 2024

The company's financials are among the best on Wall Street, and it is one of two public companies with an AAA credit rating, something not even the U.S. As a mature healthcare conglomerate, Johnson & Johnson won't blow you away with growth. billion and Ambrx Biopharma for another $2 billion. government can boast.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of 12/18/2023 This video was recorded on Dec. But how many shares does the company have outstanding? In this city when you think of public companies based in Washington, DC, any standout performers come to mind for you? and Walmart wasn't one of them!

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2006, he jumped to Discovery Communications, where he led the TV Conglomerates transformation. Its first annual report after the merger in February 2023 showed more than $48 billion in total debt. During the strike, he made a lot of public conciliatory comments about the unions, but he still towed the line with his fellow studios.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Earlier this month, industrial conglomerate Honeywell International (NASDAQ: HON) announced plans to break itself up into three stand-alone publicly traded entities. But GE began focusing on quarterly profits at the expense of long-term vision, and its conglomerate structure became a hinderance rather than an advantage.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In The Power of Dividends: Past, Present, and Future , the analysts at Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, compared the performance and relative volatility of dividend stocks to nonpayers over a 50-year period (1973-2023). Just over a dozen public companies have paid a continuous dividend for over a century.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

In The Power of Dividends: Past, Present, and Future , the researchers at Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, noted that dividend stocks returned an annual average of 9.17% from 1973 to 2023, and did so while being 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Image source: Getty Images.

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MARCH 9, 2025

Learn More Berkshire invested in a cloud computing company called Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) in 2020. As a result, I wasn't surprised when the conglomerate sold its entire position last year. This was the slowest pace in its tenure as a public company. It didn't appear to tick many of Buffett's usual boxes at the time.

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