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JANUARY 9, 2025

True Religion announced on Tuesday that private equity firm Acon Investments has acquired a majority stake in the company. SB360 Capital Partners, chaired by American Eagles CEO Jay Schottenstein, also took part in the deal. The US-based clothing company will maintain its independence following the acquisition.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the hottest stocks on Wall Street over the past two years and performed well enough that it's vying for the title of the world's largest company against Apple. However, its next-generation Blackwell Architecture is ramping up production and primed to be a massive boost for the company.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The oil behemoth has transformed into a much more profitable company. On its third-quarter conference call, CEO Darren Woods shared the secrets to the company's success and explained how it has become the most profitable company in the oil patch. Investing more than $20 billion of this capital into lower emissions opportunities.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As measured by market capitalization , there has never been a company worth $4 trillion, but Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is starting to close in. If a company can grow its revenue by 8.3% On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is in a precarious situation right now. Like all other consumer goods businesses, this company walks a tightrope between shrinking margins and lower sales -- and it's harder to find the right balance in an unstable economy. The company's sales growth has stalled out.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The company went from primarily serving the video-gaming market with its chips and generating less than $5 billion in annual revenue to a position as artificial intelligence (AI) chip leader. My prediction is one catalyst will help this AI powerhouse do something that no other company has ever done. Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 29, 2024

By now, investors are well aware of breakout stories like Nvidia and Palantir Technologies that have been early to capitalize on the boom, but there are likely to be plenty of other winners from the new technology. Sign Up For Free However, there are still other opportunities to capitalize on the growth in AI.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Among the companies vying to capture this massive potential, Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) , valued at $3.88 Namely, the company has forged an exclusive partnership with defense technology innovator Anduril while completing a strategic $430 million capital raise that solidifies its top-tier position within the industry.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Since 2023, spending on data center chips and components appears to be growing exponentially, as some of the world's biggest technology companies race to develop the most powerful AI software. Artificial intelligence (AI) recently changed that. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Image source: Nvidia.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

Many of these companies are structured as master limited partnerships (MLPs), which pass through their profits to their unitholders and as such don't pay corporate taxes. As a result, most pay out very generous distributions, which are similar to dividends, but much of the payout is considered a return of capital.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

The lure of these benefits is creating tremendous demand for leading semiconductor companies that provide cutting-edge processors to enable AI. Micron achieved record revenue in the most recent quarter, and the company's operating leverage is also allowing a lot of that additional revenue to generate higher profits.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Ogunlesi will help the company secure the infrastructure needed to advance artificial intelligence development. The company warned that $175bn in global AI investment funds could flow to China-backed projects without action. OpenAI has added Adebayo Ogunlesi, CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, to its board.

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Billionaire Warren Buffett has always had a thing for companies that return capital to their shareholders. Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway owns several high-yielding stocks in its portfolio. Berkshire and a private equity company called 3G Capital bought Heinz. We overpaid for Kraft." billion in debt.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

And Berkshire owns many well-known companies, such as GEICO, Clayton Homes, Fruit of the Loom, Dairy Queen, and more. But sometimes, it can't buy an entire company, and in that case, it invests in stocks. But today, it's one of the few companies that's worth over $1 trillion. These investments are worth roughly $2.3

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

and Palantir With its $550 million market capitalization, BigBear.ai Despite this substantial size difference, the two companies have some similarities. 30), Palantir's revenue soared by 30% year over year driven precisely by large enterprise customers adopting the company's Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP).

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JANUARY 6, 2025

After the company's remarks, we will have a question-and-answer session, and we'll have a few instructions at that time. These statements reflect the company's beliefs based on current conditions but are subject to risks and uncertainties. million release of cash from working capital. Capital expenditures of 118.2

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JANUARY 2, 2025

The company has a major deal with Uber Technology 's (NYSE: UBER) Uber Eats food delivery platform, which will see thousands of its self-driving robots deployed across U.S. They are also the company's largest shareholders, which means they have a direct stake in its long-term success. cities in 2025. It spent $25.3 Serve has just $50.9

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JANUARY 6, 2025

However, from time to time, a company may invest in other businesses and acquire a small equity stake. In 2024, a 13F filing revealed that semiconductor giant Nvidia has ownership positions in six publicly traded companies -- Applied Digital , Arm Holdings , Nano-X Imaging , Recursion Pharmaceuticals , Serve Robotics , and SoundHound AI.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

The company's terrific technological lead in the AI GPU space has given it a wide moat, and its rivals remain way behind it when it comes to selling AI GPUs. Though the company's total revenue increased an impressive 94% year over year in the previous quarter to $35.1 billion, while AMD 's revenue from this segment came in at just $3.5

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DECEMBER 17, 2024

Bill Ackman likes to focus on just a few companies at a time. His hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, invests in high-quality businesses with stocks that Ackman feels have become mispriced relative to their intrinsic value. billion portfolio is invested in just three companies. As a result, over 45% of Pershing Square's $13.4

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Those companies also took the lead in the fast-growing market for artificial intelligence (AI) cloud services, renting state-of-the-art data center infrastructure to businesses who use it to develop and deploy AI software. The cloud computing industry is dominated by trillion-dollar giants like Amazon , Microsoft , and Alphabet.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Golden Goose, the Italian luxury sneakers and apparel brand, has secured a 12% minority investment from Blue Pool Capital, a Hong Kong-based investment firm. Read more: [link] Tikehau Capital agreed to acquire a majority stake in TTSP HWP, a German technical advisory firm specialising in data centres.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

Since artificial intelligence (AI) emerged as the capital market's next big obsession a couple of years ago, the term " Magnificent Seven " began to gain steam. Below, I'll reveal my pick for the top Magnificent Seven stock and make a case for why I think this company will emerge as one of AI's most lucrative opportunities in the long run.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Learn More The most magnificent of the seven Alphabet is one of seven leading tech companies dubbed the Magnificent Seven due to their strong growth prospects and stock price performance in recent years. That's a robust growth rate for a company as big as Alphabet. Alphabet is capitalizing on that same growth catalyst.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Companies such as Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) have turned out to be big beneficiaries of the growth in AI-fueled semiconductor demand. In this article, we will take a closer look at the prospects and the valuation of both companies to find out which one of these two is the better AI stock to buy right now.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The company disappointed investors with its outlook for slower-than-expected revenue growth and earnings growth in 2025. But Loop Capital maintains its $200 price target on the stock, implying 82% upside, as of this writing. These are companies whose products or services are based heavily on their AI capabilities.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

Through its four core operating segments -- cardiovascular, neuroscience, medical-surgical, and diabetes care -- the company continues to cement its position as a global leader in medical technologies. The company is integrating machine learning and automation into several different applications. Revenue climbed 5.3% represents a 10.5%

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JANUARY 16, 2025

The company also added more than two million fiber subscribers over that time off a much smaller base, which helped to offset slumping demand for legacy wireline services. Postpaid phone churn was most recently just 0.78%, a historically low level for the company that indicates that very few customers are jumping ship to competitors.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

As usual, I'm going to give a macro and strategic overview of the company. debt to total capital ratio. We continue to be exceptionally positioned as a company from our balance sheet to our operating strategy to be able to adjust and address as the -- to adjust and address the market as it unfolds as we enter 2025.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Meta has never split its stock before, so this is a bit of uncharted territory for the company. So, there's historical precedent for a company like Meta to split its stock around these price points, but why does it matter? They are: Stock splits allow companies to give stock grants to employees more easily.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

The data analytics company is now worth $180 billion, but certain Wall Street analysts expect Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) and Uber Technologies (NYSE: UBER) to surpass that figure before year's end in 2025. The stock price needs to increase 29% next year for the company's market value to reach $180 billion. Revenue increased 26% to $2.1

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Specifically, he dumped one of Wall Street's hottest AI stocks with a seemingly impenetrable moat in favor of another scorching-hot AI company. 3), the company recorded $12.2 The point being that Broadcom is a diversified tech company that could, in theory, navigate a potential AI bubble better than most AI stocks.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Sign Up For Free These companies operate in very different parts of the economy, but both have been brilliant investments. It's the largest software company and second-largest public cloud, as measured by sales. Nearly 70% of Fortune 500 companies use the product. Start Your Mornings Smarter! Even Buffett seems to agree.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

One AI company that has bucked the trend, however, is data analytics provider Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR). What I mean by that is the company's profit margins are widening, thereby strengthening Palantir's cash-flow generation and liquidity position. The clear anomaly shown is Palantir's valuation relative to its peers.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

stocks across all market capitalizations and sectors. This comprehensive approach ensures investors gain exposure to both established market leaders and emerging growth companies, from large-cap stalwarts to promising small-cap enterprises.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Company Overview and Recent Focus Rocket Lab USA , known for its Electron rocket, offers revolutionary launch services to government and commercial clients. Within segments, the company's ongoing efforts to bolster space system capacities took a pivotal role. The companys strong customer backlog -- up by 80% to $1.05

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JANUARY 11, 2025

Companies in the energy midstream space are also poised to get a nice boost because AI training and inference are very energy-intensive endeavors. Sign Up For Free In order to meet growing power needs, utility companies and data center operators are increasingly turning to natural gas. billion and $4 billion this year.

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