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MARCH 30, 2024

But if you work for a public company, you may receive a combination of cash and shares of its stock as compensation. The problem with being paid in stock, though, is that if you keep accumulating shares of the same company, eventually, they might comprise a very large chunk of your portfolio. That could lead to a huge imbalance.

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APRIL 21, 2024

Down 63% from its initial public offering in 2021, Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD) is a shining example of why investors should usually wait to see a few quarters of earnings data from a newly public company before buying. Despite these impressive figures, Sportradar's most robust growth may still be ahead. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In particular, I've been looking closely at business development companies ( BDCs ). What are business development companies? At their core, they're capital providers to early-stage businesses looking for funding to get their operations off the ground. Moreover, underwriting protocols vary from one company to the next.

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MAY 28, 2024

With thousands of publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds to choose from, there's an investment strategy that fits the goals and risk tolerance of just about every investor. In other words, they're just the type of companies we'd expect to increase in value over the long run. Image source: Getty Images.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After all, you don't get to be the world's most valuable public company by accident. 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 companies, historically returns roughly 10% annually over the long run.

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JULY 26, 2023

The master limited partnership (MLP) has increased its distribution to investors for 25 straight years, its entire history as a public company. The energy midstream company has plenty of fuel to continue growing its prodigious payout. billion of major capital projects in its backlog, including $3.8 dividend yield ).

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Palantir: The original AI expert Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) is coming up on its third year as a public company. Its success was born of the ability to gather siloed data from various private and public databases and run the information through AI algorithms to track terrorists. Image source: Getty Images. Sounds good, right?

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Yet three of the most valuable companies today -- Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) , and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) -- actually generated those jaw-dropping gains over the past few decades. A $1,000 investment in its initial public offering (IPO) would be worth $2.28 million today.

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JUNE 9, 2024

He's known for investing in companies with the goal of unlocking value for himself and other shareholders. A quick look at Southwest Gas and Icahn Enterprises Icahn Enterprises owns or effectively owns some companies, meaning it has total control of the entities. Centuri's market capitalization was valued at $2.21 It depends.

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DECEMBER 1, 2024

However, the concentration is a bit misleading considering Berkshire holds more cash than the entire value of its public equity portfolio, and it owns businesses that aren't public companies, including several insurance firms, retail, manufacturing, and service companies, BNSF Railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, and more.

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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. Microsoft has dealt with many antitrust concerns as a public company, paying billions in fines.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Here's how he counsels investors to use it when evaluating a company. He noted how something looks off with the changes in net income, so even though a public company has fulfilled its legal duty by reporting "this worse-than-useless 'net income' figure" according to regulations, it makes him uncomfortable. billion ($22.8

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APRIL 23, 2024

Approximately 40% of the company's annualized contractual rent can be traced back to grocery stores, convenience stores, dollar stores, home improvement stores, and drug stores. Despite its CRE portfolio having representation in 86 industries, the company's foundation is laid on industries that are insulated from economic hiccups.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Although Berkshire is known for its public equity investments in companies like Apple and Coca-Cola , the value of the rest of the business is actually much higher. In fact, Berkshire's holdings in public companies are worth about $320 billion compared to the $1.026 trillion market cap for Berkshire as a whole.

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JULY 31, 2024

Rithm Capital (NYSE: RITM) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Jul 31, 2024 , 8:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good morning and welcome to the Rithm Capital second-quarter 2024 earnings call. Should you invest $1,000 in Rithm Capital right now?

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AUGUST 28, 2024

With thousands of publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to choose from, investors have a plethora of ways they can grow their wealth. Companies that regularly share a percentage of their profits with investors are usually time-tested and recurringly profitable. Image source: Getty Images.

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JULY 30, 2024

The core reason is the compounding effect of dividend reinvestment, along with the generally above-average financial health of dividend-paying companies. Both companies are prized by dividend investors for their reliable payouts, prudent capital management, and top-tier competitive positions in the retail landscape.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Private equity and venture capital firms typically have access to investments that are not available to everyday investors. Well, to put it simply, these funds raise capital from ultrahigh-net-worth individuals called accredited investors. Just as with public companies, valuations in start-ups can fluctuate.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

The company's rapid ascent from gaming chipmaker to poster child of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution and one of the largest public companies in the world has been nothing short of remarkable. Companies needed to retrofit their data centers with a different networking technology like InfiniBand to keep up.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

This marks a roughly six-week stretch where most S&P 500 companies will lift their proverbial hoods and report their quarterly operating results from the most recent quarter. In one respect, the company absolutely deserves some level of valuation premium given that its services are irreplaceable at scale. Image source: Coca-Cola.

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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 company also completed its second PDH facility in the third quarter. billion to $3.75

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

During his nearly 60 years as CEO, he's overseen an aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) Generally, Buffett is attracted to time-tested, profitable businesses, with strong management teams, well-defined competitive advantages, and established capital-return programs. of more than 5,500,000%! American Express: $40.9

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Although other billionaire money managers might outpace Buffett's annual return from time to time, the greater than 5,500,000% cumulative return the Oracle of Omaha has overseen in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) Since July 17, Buffett's company has disclosed 16 separate Form 4 filings concerning Bank of America.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Founded in 2005 and hitting the public markets by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), SoundHound AI is a leader in what it calls "conversational intelligence." SoundHound wants to be the company that gives these typically text-based algorithms the words they need to enter people's day-to-day lives.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Rithm Capital (NYSE: RITM) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Apr 30, 2024 , 8:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Hello, and welcome to the Rithm Capital first quarter 2024 earnings conference call. Should you invest $1,000 in Rithm Capital right now?

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JUNE 27, 2023

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) currently has a market capitalization of $1.3 trillion, making it one of only six public companies worth more than $1 trillion. But the company has a strong foothold in several growing industries that could propel its valuation to $4 trillion by 2030. trillion, and shares trade at 2.6 times sales.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Software is king Microsoft is already the biggest of the " Magnificent Seven " stocks -- and the world's largest public company -- but the tech giant could continue its remarkable growth streak over the next few decades. Consider just the enterprise software services segment that's anchored by its Azure platform.

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APRIL 27, 2024

He focuses on investments in solid companies that he believes will grow in value over many years. The company is reportedly spending up to $1 billion per year on generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Over the last year, the company has reduced shares outstanding by about 3.5%.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Companies that regularly dole out a dividend to their shareholders tend to be profitable on a recurring basis, are time-tested, and can provide investors with transparent long-term growth outlooks. annualized return for the public companies that didn't offer a dividend over the same 40-year stretch. That compared to a measly 1.6%

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Despite an exceptionally strong year for equities in 2023, there are still a handful of companies catching the attention of Buffett and his investment team. Apple checks most of the key boxes Warren Buffett and his investing lieutenants (Todd Combs and Ted Weschler) look for in a company. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett.

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JULY 22, 2024

As AI's transformative power becomes increasingly apparent to society at large, savvy investors are scrambling to identify the companies best positioned to ride this technological tsunami to stratospheric heights. The company's trailing price-to-earnings ratio of 68.9 Its recent public offering, which raised $35.7

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JUNE 23, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase , released a study that compared the performance of publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 to public companies that didn't offer a payout over the same timeline. annualized return for the non-payers.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

The first public company to amass a $1 trillion valuation was Apple in 2018. Its market capitalization has since grown to over $3 trillion. Meanwhile, four other companies have now also crossed the exclusive $1 trillion mark: Microsoft , Amazon , Nvidia , and Google parent Alphabet. Image source: Getty Images.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of banking giant JPMorgan Chase , published a report that compared the total returns of publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts to public companies not offering a dividend over a 40-year period (1972-2012). The results were literally night and day.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Helping businesses find, acquire, and grow customers, ZoomInfo Technologies (NASDAQ: ZI) and its business-to-business data platform has been on an absolute roller-coaster ride in its first few years as a public company. Consider the company's gross profit margin compared to its P/S ratio over the last few years.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Cybersecurity company SentinelOne (NYSE: S) was one of Wall Street's hottest tickets when the stock went public in the summer of 2021. Today, shares are down more than 75% from their high after earnings missteps and rumors about the company's future. These types of issues are never a good look for a public company.

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