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AUGUST 10, 2023

Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Aug 10, 2023 , 7:30 a.m. Welcome to Alibaba Group's June quarter 2023 results conference call. Welcome to Alibaba Group's June quarter 2023 results conference call. In July, we published our fiscal year 2023 ESG report. Image source: The Motley Fool. Please go ahead.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

This surge was driven by an increase in the number of large deals, with five transactions surpassing $5bn, compared to two deals in 2023 and just one in 2022. Amid a decline in sponsor-to-sponsor deal activity since 2022, carve-outs and public-to-sponsor deals have attracted investors seeking scalable healthcare assets.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2023

Not all public companies will be great investments, and there are some big names that have terrible operating trends. In this video, Travis Hoium covers four companies that face an uphill battle being good investments for long-term shareholders. Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Aug. The video was published on Aug.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2023

That new division caught the attention of the SPAC Gores Guggenheim, and Polestar was spun out as a public company. That SUV was initially scheduled to arrive in mid-2023, but some software issues forced it to postpone its launch to early 2024. billion in 2023, and then to $1.06 billion in 2024.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2023

No public company is really looking to go down the bankruptcy path, which is why it is so important for investors to pay attention when one warns that bankruptcy is a very real possibility. More often than not, these reviews are positive and a company doesn't have to say anything about them. The outlook doesn't look good.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Few public companies dominated the headlines in 2023 more than Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) , whether it was its involvement with OpenAI's Chat GPT, its successful $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, or antitrust probes. billion in its fiscal year 2023, equating to an impressive CAGR of 34.6%. competition rules.

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The Motley Fool

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. As of July 2023, the total U.S.

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The Motley Fool

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 ). For most of its time as a public company, DocuSign has been unprofitable but has demonstrated impressive revenue growth. One year later, that number was $240 million.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many investors wondered if Apple could keep growing after Jobs' death in 2011, but his successor Tim Cook maintained the company's momentum by upgrading its core devices, launching new products like the Apple Watch and AirPods, and expanding its services ecosystem. trillion, making it the fifth most valuable public company in the world.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Nov 09, 2023 , 5:00 p.m. Welcome to The Trade Desk third quarter 2023 earnings conference call. Welcome to The Trade Desk third quarter 2023 earnings conference call. 2023 has already been the biggest year of innovation in the history of The Trade Desk.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After all, you don't get to be the world's most valuable public company by accident. Of course, it's easy to look at a company like Apple's success in retrospect and think about how you might've missed a once-in-a-generation opportunity, but I believe it is still in the relatively early phases of what it can be.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Looking back over the past eight years that PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has been a public company, it hasn't been the success investors were hoping for. A little history and context When I talk about PayPal going public, I mean for the second time. puts on PayPal and short October 2023 $52.50 The pandemic changed all that. .*

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2024

Dutch Bros (NYSE: BROS) stock appears to have started off its life as a public company on the wrong foot. In that environment, Dutch Bros stock rose by just over 10% over the last year, though at some points in early 2023, it was up by more than 40%. BROS data by YCharts. That included a 4% increase in same-shop sales.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The chips weren't down for DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) in 2023. The sports wagering and fantasy sports speedster has more than tripled this year, one of the market's biggest gainers with a 215% surge heading into the final trading day of 2023. For starters, DraftKings didn't go public via the traditional IPO route.

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The Motley Fool

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. PennantPark has been paying a monthly dividend since July 2011, which is mere months after it debuted as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

It accounted for only about 16% of net sales in 2023, but due to significantly higher margins, it contributed the majority of Amazon's operating income. Overall, net sales in 2023 totaled $575 billion, 12% higher than one year ago. Despite Garena's struggles, net income was $163 million, its first annual profit as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

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. Roku's numbers of active accounts and streaming hours have risen constantly since its IPO, but its average revenue per user (APRU) peaked in 2022 and fell in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 22, 2024

Management has lowered its outstanding share count by 11% over the past five years, allocating $5 billion in 2023 alone. Digging into its financials, Caterpillar produced record-high top and bottom lines despite elevated interest rates in 2023. billion in Q4 2023. As of Costco's fiscal Q2 2024, the company had 73.4

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

In the 2023 fourth quarter, it added 585,000 new accounts, a 44% increase year over year, and 695,000 new products, a 41% increase. million customers in the 2023 fourth quarter to end the year with a total of 93.9 in 2023 in the fourth quarter. billion in funding in 2023. It added 4.8 That increased from $8.20

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The Motley Fool

JULY 9, 2023

He hasn't itemized WhatsApp revenue since, but did note in Q1 2023 earnings that it's becoming material to the company. It's a tall ask considering Apple is the world's only public company worth that much today. What's the point here? Could Meta be a $2 trillion stock? However, the path seems feasible at the least.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Growth stocks rebounded sharply in 2023, and that was good news for star investor Cathie Wood and her Ark Investment Management family of exchange-traded funds. Yet ARK Innovation wasn't Wood's best performer in 2023. A look at the top holdings within ARK's winning ETF in 2023 makes it easy to identify the source of its outperformance.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Realty has enjoyed a 13% compound annual return since its 1994 debut on the public markets. The REIT recently reported strong Q3 2023 results. Revenue growth for Shopify has remained consistent throughout its time as a public company. So far, this strategy has paid off. The bottom line has been more of a struggle.

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The Motley Fool

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. In 2023, that dynamic shifted. Like many tech companies, DigitalOcean experienced a slowdown in revenue growth.

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The Motley Fool

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. in 2023 from the prior year, with the brand chosen by consumers close to 8.3 billion times.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Besides being the chairman and CEO of the eighth largest public company in the world, Buffett has an impressive track record as an investor. One stock that he consistently added to in 2023 and continues to buy in 2024, though, is Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY). His first purchase of the company's stock dates to 1962.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

In addition, Clover Health delivered its first positive quarterly adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) as a public company. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of August 1, 2023 Keith Speights has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. billion to $1.2 billion. .*

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

Despite the success tech stocks witnessed in 2023, there are a handful of stocks that I would still stock up on with no hesitation. TSMC's top-of-the-line chips have made the company the go-to place for companies like Apple , Tesla , and Nvidia. It's a company I'd feel comfortable holding on to for the long haul.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 8, 2024

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. Google is a cash cow for the company, with the search engine generating $175 billion in revenue in 2023, an increase of nearly 8% from 2022.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2024

Although aggregate corporate share buybacks in 2023 fell from the record levels observed during the 2022 bear market, the $787.3 billion S&P 500 companies collectively spent on share repurchases on a trailing-12-month basis, as of Sept. 30, 2023, remains well above the historic average. billion to $97 billion for the year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2024

According to the report, dividend stocks averaged a 9.17% annual return between 1973 and 2023 , and did so while being 6% less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. Based on the research I've done, York's continuous dividend streak is 60 years longer than the next-closest continuous payout streak from a public company in the U.S.,

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But even after the decline from its lofty share price, the company still has a market cap of about $20 billion. The EV maker will announce its first quarterly report as a public company tomorrow, Oct. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of October 2, 2023 Howard Smith has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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The Motley Fool

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. It wasn't until October 2023, when the global smartphone market grew 5% year over year , that it reversed course from the previous 27 months. Bringing in $89.5

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

Palantir: The original AI expert Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) is coming up on its third year as a public company. Its success was born of the ability to gather siloed data from various private and public databases and run the information through AI algorithms to track terrorists. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 2, 2024

The fast-growing chain of Mediterranean fast-casual restaurants went public at $22 in the springtime of last year. by the end of 2023. Growth and top-line store-level performance have slowed since Cava's first quarter as a public company when revenue soared 62% on the strength of brisk expansion and an 18.2%

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Apple It seems cliche to start with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , but you don't become the world's most valuable public company for no reason. In its Q2 2023, ended April 1, Apple made $94.8 billion Q3 2023 $20.9 In its Q2 2023, Microsoft had $52.7 billion in revenue, and iPhone sales accounted for more than 54%.

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The Motley Fool

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. The Motley Fool recommends the following options: short September 2023 $67.50 Chart by author.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

2023 has come to an end, and one thing we can be sure of is that the 2024 winners won't necessarily be the same as the 2023 winners. But many of them will since great companies that are achieving their goals and leveraging their opportunities are likely to continue performing well and generating investor confidence.

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