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NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Opendoor, which went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ), held firm and remains the largest iBuyer in the U.S. EBITDA = Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. With an enterprise value of $3.05 Metric 2021 2022 2023 1H 2024 Revenue $8.0 billion $15.6 billion $6.9

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most exhilarating investment decisions often involve putting your hard-earned money to work in exciting companies that successfully disrupt industries and increase in value many times over. But all three companies have what it takes to steadily grow earnings and return value to shareholders over the long term.

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JULY 21, 2024

NVDA data by YCharts Druckenmiller swapped out shares of one of the most valuable companies on earth -- Nvidia -- with shares in something that's on the other end of the spectrum entirely. Most investors are aware of the S&P 500 -- an index of 500 of some of the largest companies on the stock market.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The company's realized price of copper per pound was $3.85 In addition, as company president Kathleen Quirk said on the earnings call: "It's obvious that there haven't been new projects sanctioned in our industry for some time. Fortunately, the company is in a good position for two reasons. in 2023, following $3.90 in October.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That makes it one of Berkshire's top holdings, just behind fellow oil and gas company Chevron (NYSE: CVX). A big bet on oil prices Occidental and Chevron are both integrated oil and gas companies. It strengthened that position with the acquisition of Anadarko, supported by Berkshire's $10 billion investment in the company.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ: RKLB) , the creator of the Electron orbital rocket, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) three years ago. The combined company's stock started trading at $11.58, soared to an all-time high of $20.72 With an enterprise value of $3.7 Image source: Getty Images.

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APRIL 2, 2024

The energy infrastructure company could produce even higher total returns in the coming years. times their enterprise value -to-rate base and 16.5 Enbridge recently closed the purchase of The East Ohio Gas Company, the first of its three gas utility acquisitions from Dominion. times price-to-earnings. Gulf Coast region.

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APRIL 6, 2024

Buying back more than 55% of its outstanding shares over this time has made the company an unlikely multibagger for buy-and-hold investors. Here's what sets the company up for enduring success over the coming decades. per gallon for the last two years despite the company's focus on low pricing. Image Source: Getty Images.

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MAY 9, 2024

However, Bitcoin's rally also lit a fire under stocks like Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) , one of the world's top cryptocurrency exchanges, and MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , an aging enterprise software company that started hoarding Bitcoin in 2020. billion -- which is more than half of its enterprise value of $25.3

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

The opportunity for the company's Square and CashApp ecosystems to gain an expanding slice of an estimated $205 billion addressable market highlights a significant runway. With Square, the company is seeing a multiyear transformation as sellers adopt more products and contribute to higher recurring revenue streams.

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JUNE 16, 2024

The trend helped company-operated stores' contribution margin reach 29.8%, expanding from 24.2% Separately, adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) grew by 120% to a record $52.5 Unless the company plans to reinvent itself, prime locations will become harder to secure. in Q1 2023.

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MAY 28, 2024

With the stock now trading where it was in 1998, let's look what has gone wrong for the company and whether investors should consider picking up shares in the stock at these levels. Company struggles One of the biggest issues facing Walgreens, and the pharmacy industry in general, has been constant reimbursement pressure.

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MAY 6, 2024

Over the next year, the company consistently reported negative adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) until it broke the streak in the third quarter of 2023. Its recently reported first-quarter results continued this trend, showing that the worst is behind the company.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The deal marked a turning point for the company, moving away from investments in entertainment to refocus efforts on its telecom strengths. In the second quarter, adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) increased by 2.6%, while free cash flow of $4.6 billion was up $0.4 billion was up $0.4

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JUNE 10, 2024

The companies in this line of business, such as ASML (NASDAQ: ASML) , make the intricate (and expensive) machinery that creates various semiconductor chips, such as Nvidia's graphic processing units (GPUs). For ASML, analysts forecast the company will see a jump in revenue later this year and into the next. The company generated 27.6

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MARCH 25, 2024

BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company on Dec. The data mining company's shares started trading at $9.84 Let's see why the company initially impressed the bulls, how it let them down, and where the stock might be headed. and climbed to an all-time high of $16.12

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MAY 11, 2024

With its first-quarter results, Enterprise once again showed the steadiness of its business model. However, the company is set to go into growth mode, which should excite investors even more. Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, rose 6% to nearly $2.5 billion and $3.75

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The online real estate company's stock started trading at $31.47 after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in December 2020 and reached its record high of $35.88 That slowdown is jarring and even more disappointing when compared to the company's pre-merger outlook for generating $9.8

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MAY 5, 2024

Its vast ecosystem and devoted user base make it likely that the company will continue to grow for years, particularly as it offers more services and becomes a bigger player in AI. Starbucks Another company with a legion of devoted customers is Starbucks. It would be premature to worry about Apple's business.

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JULY 15, 2024

Let's examine the AI-driven tailwinds for both companies and see which stock is a better chipmaking play right now. It also sells infrastructure, Wi-Fi, and custom chips -- as well as networking and storage devices -- for the cloud, 5G, automotive, enterprise networking, and AI markets. Image source: Getty Images. FY = fiscal year.

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JULY 1, 2024

The latter only includes the stocks of midstream companies structured as master limited partnerships (MLPs) , while the former includes midstream companies structured as both MLPs and corporations. MPLX MPLX (NYSE: MPLX) is a midstream company involved in logistics and storage as well as gathering and processing (G&P).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) went public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on April 28, 2022. The audio and speech recognition company's stock started trading at $8.72 Working with SoundHound could also be a compelling choice for companies that don't want to tether themselves to one of those tech giants.

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MARCH 17, 2024

SoundHound's namesake app is used to identify and discover songs, while its Houndify developer platform enables companies to create their own speech-recognition tools. Both companies have close ties to Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). SoundHound went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in 2022.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) minted a lot of millionaires in its first four years as a public company. 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. With an enterprise value of $9.1 on July 26, 2021.

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DECEMBER 17, 2023

Sometimes a boring company that consistently pays out its growing free cash flow is something to get excited about. One such company offering an exceptional dividend is Enbridge (NYSE: ENB). The Canadian pipeline company just announced another raise for shareholders in 2024, bringing it to 29 straight years of dividend increases.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Many factors can cause a company to trade at a relatively lower valuation. It's a confounding discount, since the economically equivalent companies have the same earnings ($0.72 The company and its partners recently agreed to acquire Triton International in a cash-and-stock deal, valuing Triton's equity at $4.7

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But Druckenmiller has quickly changed his tune on the three biggest companies in the world. The tobacco company's smoke-free product portfolio includes popular heat sticks brand Iqos and Zyn nicotine pouches. The stock currently trades at an enterprise value of 12.2 It now estimates 36.5

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

QuantumScape (NYSE: QS) , a developer of solid-state batteries, went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Nov. It also declared its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) would turn positive by 2027. Based on its current enterprise value of $2.54

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

But we can discuss why the company's immense cash generation ability leaves it positioned to be a winning investment over the next two decades. Here's what makes the company an excellent bet to continue beating the Dow Jones over the long haul. Generating $4.4 Generating $4.4 Here's how Waste Management does it. Planning to spend $1.2

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APRIL 1, 2024

But Buffett came close to making that commitment to shareholders in his most recent letter for a handful of companies he finds unparalleled in their industries. Coca-Cola was one of the companies Buffett was referring to when he originally made his statement about Berkshire’s favorite holding period.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

The bulls lost interest in the company as its growth slowed, it racked up losses, and rising interest rates compressed its valuation. During the company's latest conference call , CFO Elena Gomez said that since the "broader macro environment remains mixed," the company expects its "GPV trends to remain at current levels in the near-term."

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Symbotic (NASDAQ: SYM) has been one of the market's hottest growth stocks since it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) last June. The warehouse automation company's shares opened at $10.54 each on the first day, soared to an all-time high of $63.54 on July 31, 2023, and currently trade at about $56.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) became the world's first publicly traded electric vehicle (EV) charging network company after it merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on March 1, 2021. That stock offering won't increase its leverage, but it will cause significant dilution for a company with an enterprise value of only $1.4

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

At its current price, it trades near the high end of its historical enterprise value -to- EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) range, excluding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He bought shares of the company in the first quarter of 2023, just as the AI boom was getting started.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

That said, while the healthcare business provides relatively stable earnings, I would argue that it's been one of the company's most disappointing in recent years. The healthcare business generated 36% of the segment's operating income in 2022. It then bought wound care business Acelity for a consideration of $6.7 at the end of 2022.

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APRIL 4, 2024

However, everything has not always been smooth for the company. In fact, back in 2020, the midstream company slashed its distribution in half. First, let's first look at what the company does and how it grows its distribution. So, what's in store for Energy Transfer's stock and its distribution? In 2023, it generated $7.6

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Sometimes, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the stock market is a voting machine for an election of a company's progress. Sometimes, valuations get ahead of company progress, causing stock prices to eventually correct despite relatively good news from companies. Valuations also matter. Here's why.

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