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Billionaire Warren Buffett Sold 26% of Berkshire's Stake in Bank of America and Is Piling Into a Financial Juggernaut That's Soared 33,000% Since Its IPO

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This selling activity has been particularly pronounced among his company's top investment holdings, including money-center colossus Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). Since July 17, Buffett's company has disclosed 16 separate Form 4 filings concerning Bank of America. since January 1871.

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3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into $1 Million (or More)

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Apple Apple went public at a split-adjusted price of $0.10 A $1,000 investment in its initial public offering (IPO) would be worth $2.28 Apple is now the world's most valuable publicly traded company with a market cap of $3.47 Amazon Amazon went public at a split-adjusted price of $0.075 a share on May 15, 1997.

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If You Invested $1,000 in PayPal Stock When It Went Public, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

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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. Let's see what that means and if it can change.

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Wall Street's Next Stock Split -- a 27,000%-Gainer Since Its IPO -- Is Imminent, and I'm Not Talking About Broadcom

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It's cosmetic in the sense that a stock split doesn't change a company's market cap, and it has no impact on its operating performance. With a forward-stock split, a public company is making its shares more nominally affordable for everyday investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases through their broker.

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2 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks That Are No-Brainer Buys in February

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What their research showed was that dividend stocks more than doubled the average annual return of public companies that didn't offer a dividend: 9.17% vs. 4.27%. Since its initial public offering in 1994, Realty Income has increased its dividend 128 times, including for 109 consecutive quarters.

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Meet the Hypergrowth Stock Up 1,500% Since Its IPO That 3 Prominent Billionaire Money Managers Have as Their No. 1 Holding

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While billionaire money managers have done well riding the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, there's one hypergrowth stock among the bunch -- which has gained north of 1,500% since its initial public offering (IPO) -- three of Wall Street's prominent billionaire investors have as their top holding.

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Is Upstart Holdings Stock a Buy?

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The company got off to a blistering start when it went public in late 2020, but the past few years have revealed the cyclical nature of the young company. The stock peaked at more than $400 in the year after its initial public offering (IPO) and is down 94% from its high.