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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Tesla's $776 billion market cap has made it an integral part of the Magnificent Seven , which have propelled the broader market higher in 2023. While Tesla stock has been a successful investment for many, I can't help but overlook what appears to be a $625 billion blunder in the making for the company's faithful shareholders.

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MAY 4, 2024

The practice is so powerful that Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway doesn't even bother paying a dividend -- choosing instead to reward shareholders by growing the business and repurchasing shares. Compared to Q1 2023, Chevron generated 14% lower diluted earnings per share and 5.6% The buybacks have been adding up.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

8 from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the approval of exa-cel, their candidate to treat or cure sickle cell disease (SCD), the move is apt to rustle some feathers among shareholders. If you're a shareholder already, you've probably come to terms with that. and CRISPR Therapeutics wasn't one of them!

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AUGUST 8, 2024

More specifically, I want to zero in on a piece that enthusiasts tend to shake their heads at, although it's something that should excite shareholders. Disney has now put out the world's highest-grossing films in May ( Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ), June ( Inside Out 2 ), and July ( Deadpool & Wolverine ).

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MARCH 3, 2024

shareholders for 46 straight years, Warren Buffett would eventually run out of new things to say. To this end, here's a closer look at three of the top tips from Buffett's 2023 letter to Berkshire Hathaway's investors. They should prove useful, even if you're not a Berkshire shareholder yourself.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

Metric Fiscal 2015 Fiscal 2016 Fiscal 2017 Fiscal 2018 Fiscal 2019 Fiscal 2020 Fiscal 2021 Fiscal 2022 Fiscal 2023 Fiscal 2024 Dividends paid $7.29 Its focus is on passing profits directly to shareholders through buybacks and dividends. Add up the total capital returned during this period, and you'll get $147.8 billion $7.44

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Despite the poor performance of the stock price, Equinor continues to generate solid earnings and return a record amount of capital back to shareholders. Renewable power generation reached 677 GWh in third-quarter 2024 compared to just 373 GWh in third-quarter 2023. Image source: Getty Images. 7, Equinor announced that it acquired a 9.8%

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

UiPath (NYSE: PATH) shareholders haven't had a great 2024. The RPA market opportunity was valued at just shy of $3 billion in 2023. While the rest of the market rose, the software company's shares have fallen by about 50%. Often, all a stock needs is a glimmer of hope to kick-start a rally. I'd say yes.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Department of Energy still believes 2024's worldwide photovoltaic panel installations will be about one-third better above 2023's tally despite the logistical headwind, underscoring its rapid growth that's expected to remain in place for many more years. Solar power remains an integral, growing part of the planet's future energy production.

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MARCH 4, 2024

But a couple of months before that, investors get to leaf through the wisdom that courses through the pages of Buffett's annual letter to shareholders. Buffett wrote the following in the 2023 letter to shareholders: One investment rule at Berkshire has not and will not change: Never risk permanent loss of capital.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian discusses what shareholder approval to sell more shares could mean for Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) stock investors. Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of August 4, 2023. The video was published on August 6, 2023. and Nikola wasn't one of them! The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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JUNE 15, 2024

million GPUs for AI-accelerated data centers in 2023. This combination of innovation, first-mover advantages, and otherworldly pricing power, has sent Nvidia's share price soaring by more than 700% since the start of 2023. At the very least, Nvidia accounting for 98% of AI-GPUs shipped during 2023 lands it in the former category.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

billion in fiscal 2023. The new dividend plus the share buybacks add up to more than $6 billion of capital returns to shareholders over the next year. Disney's adjusted earnings per share shot up 23% year over year to $1.22, and the company believes EPS will grow by at least 20% in fiscal 2024.

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JULY 16, 2023

Most Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) shareholders are probably excited about the company's newly approved Alzheimer's drug Leqembi right about now, and it's no surprise why. For the business to grow, and for shareholders to earn a return, it needs to make more money from selling its medicines than it costs to develop them. billion in 2022.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

This is thanks, in part, to Carnival's fantastic earnings performance, but another element may be even better news for shareholders. But one other element represents even better news for the company and shareholders because it may help Carnival address its biggest challenge today: reducing debt. Image source: Getty Images.

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MARCH 17, 2024

Only 12% of its shareholders resided in the U.S. Equinor plans to grow its installed renewable energy capacity at a 50% compound annual rate between 2023 and 2030, reaching an installed capacity of 12 to 16 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, which will net an after-tax return of 4% to 8%. Equinor's renewable power generation grew by 17% in 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

But when businesses scrutinize spending and demand to see a financial benefit, good things can happen for shareholders. After dubbing 2023 its "year of efficiency," the company's profits soared without sacrificing growth. For perspective, Meta Platforms stock has quadrupled since the start of 2023.

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JULY 10, 2023

The maker of various products for crop protection gave an update on how things went in the second quarter, and shareholders weren't pleased with what they heard. FMC reduced its guidance for both the second quarter and the full 2023 year. billion in revenue for 2023. Full-year revenue is likely to be between $5.2 billion and $5.4

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

The Canadian pipeline company just announced another raise for shareholders in 2024, bringing it to 29 straight years of dividend increases. That should translate into those annual dividend increases for shareholders. That's especially true when there's a clear path to continued dividend increases.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

USI Insurance Services, a leader in risk management, employee benefits and retirement consulting announced that existing shareholder KKR is making a new equity investment of more than $1bn in the Company. Following the closing of the transaction, KKR will be USI’s largest single shareholder. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) shareholders had a fantastic 2023 as their stock gained 80% on the year, easily beating the 24% rally in the S&P 500 and the 43% spike in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Index. The 2023 rally was powered by several encouraging trends that imply much higher annual earnings ahead for this massive business.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The dividend hike and aggressive share repurchase program are the kind of shareholder-friendly moves that typically elicit a warm response from the market, and the stock was also well positioned to benefit from such a move. billion worth of its stock, and it plans to finish the share repurchase program by the end of next year.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Altria (NYSE: MO) owns the Marlboro brand in the United States, which held a massive 42% market share in the first quarter of 2023. That changes the dynamics, and the company's three cigarette price increases in the first seven months of 2023 could be a sign of problems to come. So that's a second push toward higher cigarette prices.

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APRIL 11, 2024

The Motley Fool recommends Intel and recommends the following options: long January 2023 $57.50 Neil Rozenbaum has positions in Alphabet and Intel. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Alphabet and Nvidia. calls on Intel, long January 2025 $45 calls on Intel, and short May 2024 $47 calls on Intel.

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JULY 14, 2023

In fact, major vaping and marijuana investments have only left shareholders with billions of dollars of write-offs. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of July 10, 2023 Reuben Gregg Brewer has positions in Procter & Gamble. It has been looking for new sources of revenue, including forays into the vaping space and marijuana.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Investing is complicated, as shareholders of marketplace Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) already know. The S&P 500 has rallied in 2023, with the index up 19% year to date as of this writing. Good riddance to 2023? Revenue growth of just 10% in 2022 and 8% year to date in 2023 look quite pedestrian by comparison.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Yet Walmart in that report raised its 2023 outlook for a second straight quarter while showing some encouraging trends around market share and profits. These are green flags for Walmart's potential for the remainder of 2023. Shareholders have more to celebrate around cash flow, which jumped higher by $3 billion to $19 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, investors in another stock got schooled in Friday's premarket session, as Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL) released financial results late Thursday that didn't match up with shareholder expectations. Yet even Scholastic's affirming its past guidance wasn't enough to set shareholders at ease. Here's the latest on these stocks.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Tencent (OTC: TCEHY) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Mar 20, 2024 , 8:00 a.m. Welcome to Tencent Holdings Limited 2023 fourth quarter and annual results announcement webinar. In 2023, we sharpened our strategic focus and achieved substantial progress in our major products following our high-quality revenue growth model. Good evening.

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JULY 14, 2023

What happened Share of Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) hugely underperformed the broader market in the first half of 2023, falling 21.4% That said, this offbeat oil stock can still pay massive dividends to shareholders once oil prices start to recover. When oil prices are high, shareholders receive big, fat dividend checks.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

But in the third quarter of 2023, management shared a surprising statistic: In 2019, 30% of its media spend was dedicated to digital media. In comparison, it spent a whopping 60% on digital channels through the first three quarters of 2023. In 2023, it's on pace to generate just shy of $2 billion in full-year revenue.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Revenue projections of between $93 million and $95 million for the fiscal second quarter and between $410 million and $414 million for the full 2024 fiscal year were promising, and shareholders particularly like the prospects for Accolade to come close to breaking even on the basis of adjusted pre-tax operating earnings.

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JULY 30, 2023

Some of the Dow stocks look set to soar in 2023 and beyond, like the three we'll discuss here. This big move should pay off Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is transforming, and it's the transformation that could propel this Dow stock higher in 2023 and beyond. As its preliminary second-quarter numbers show, Chevron generated $6.3

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JULY 7, 2023

Bluerock Total Income+ Real Estate Fund, the largest 1940 Act real estate interval fund in the industry as measured by net assets, announced it has paid total distributions to shareholders exceeding $1 billion since its inception in 2012. The significant milestone comes after the Fund recently paid its 42nd consecutive quarterly distribution.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

on Thursday, following the electric vehicle (EV) maker's release on the prior afternoon of its fourth-quarter 2023 report. The stock's decline is largely attributable to management issuing 2024 production guidance that's only in line with the number of vehicles the company produced in 2023. Free cash flow was negative $1.41

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JUNE 20, 2024

Shareholders of Canadian payment platform Nuvei have approved a plan for the company’s acquisition by US private equity firm Advent International, valuing the deal at $6.3bn. In a vote, 99.24% of participating shareholders endorsed the proposal, which will see them receive $34 per share in cash.

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MARCH 14, 2024

In the 2023 fourth quarter, gross merchandise volume (GMV) increased 23% to $75.1 SHOP Operating Margin (Quarterly) data by YCharts Management noted that it's bringing in cash -- it generated more than $900 million in free cash flow in 2023 with a 13% margin after an outflow in 2022. billion, and revenue increased 24% to $2.1

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