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JULY 21, 2023

American Express (NYSE: AXP) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Jul 21, 2023 , 8:30 a.m. Welcome to the American Express Q2 2023 earnings call. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of July 17, 2023 And then Jeff Campbell, chief financial officer, will provide a more detailed review of our financial performance.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The company was once an underdog maker of personal computers in a market dominated by Windows-powered PCs. Its business stagnated in the late 1980s and early 1990s before its co-founder Steve Jobs returned as its CEO in 1997. Apple also returned a lot of its cash to its investors through its buybacks and dividends.

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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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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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JANUARY 13, 2024

While the index has yet to return to its 2021 high, it's not far off. Technology is at the center of everything we do, and some of the largest companies in the world reside in this sector. 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 ).

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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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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. That increases the likelihood that it will return to India, a market with 1.4 billion people.

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

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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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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After all, you don't get to be the world's most valuable public company by accident. Since the beginning of 2003, Apple's total return has been over 8,800%. So if you had invested $10,000 in the company back then and held on through all the intervening years while reinvesting your dividends, your stake would be worth over $8.8

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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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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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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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APRIL 22, 2024

Caterpillar Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) stock has been on a tear over the past year, generating a total return of 62% for shareholders. Management has lowered its outstanding share count by 11% over the past five years, allocating $5 billion in 2023 alone. billion in Q4 2023. As of Costco's fiscal Q2 2024, the company had 73.4

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The master limited partnership (MLP) recently finished its 25th year as a public company operating in the sector. It has increased its distribution every single year since coming public, which is no small task in the volatile sector. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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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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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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. ARKK Total Return Level data by YCharts. Coinbase stock has almost quintupled in 2023.

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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. With this dismal return, how should you envision the future? calls on eBay.

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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. YouTube, which the company acquired for $1.7 The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Although it forecast a sales increase in the 2024 first quarter, management does not expect a return to profitability. 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

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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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MARCH 2, 2024

As of the end of 2023, Dutch Bros spanned 16 states and over 831 shops, a nearly 24% increase in the number of locations in just one year. Even though same-shop sales rose by only 3%, the company's revenue increased by 31% during the same period to $966 million. To be sure, its net income in 2023 was modest, just $1.7

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AUGUST 27, 2024

While Treasury bonds, housing, and commodities like gold, silver, and oil, have had their moments in the sun and, in many instances, made investors richer, no asset class has come close to matching the average annual return from stocks over the last century. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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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. compound total return of the S&P 500 index during that time. One stock that he consistently added to in 2023 and continues to buy in 2024, though, is Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY).

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MARCH 3, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway bought and sold several stocks in the 2023 fourth quarter, completely selling out of four positions. Berkshire Hathaway first invested in Nu in 2021, before it became a public company. As of the end of Q4 2023, Nu has 95 million customers, 19 million more than last year. Today, it owns 2.3%

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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. 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.

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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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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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MARCH 27, 2024

Want to find stocks capable of life-changing investment returns? Millionaire-making tech stocks like Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) , Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) , and The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD) have turned modest investments into tremendous wealth over their times as public companies. billion in all of 2023.

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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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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. However, I believe Apple is well-positioned to continue returning good shareholder value. billion in revenue in its fiscal 2023's fourth quarter (ended Sept. Bringing in $89.5

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

-based company held its initial public offering (IPO) in mid-September 2023. 31, 2023, is its second quarterly report released as a public company, but just its first report that covers an entire period in which it was publicly traded. So, its fiscal Q3 2024 report, for the period ended Dec.

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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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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. Wood and Ark Invest returned to aggressively buying Palantir stock. Image source: Getty Images. billion in sales by 2030.

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