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JULY 24, 2024

The Oracle of Omaha has been a net seller of equities for his company's portfolio in each of the last six quarters, as reported by Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). There's no doubt Bank of America has been a very successful investment for Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Warren Buffett keeps selling stocks.

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JULY 27, 2024

Unfortunately, the race to keep up with AT&T and T-Mobile left Verizon with a total debt of $149 billion, and the company has made very little progress in reducing that burden. billion for the company in the first two quarters of the year, or approximately $11 billion annually. That has led to a dividend cost of $5.5

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AUGUST 24, 2023

That excludes companies worth less than $300 million or that trade over-the-counter. Imminent bankruptcy off the table When Carvana stock dropped more than 90% to end 2022, the market was essentially predicting that the company would go bankrupt. Fortunately for shareholders, Carvana's management renegotiated some of its debt.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

According to the company, approximately 91% of its total rent is resilient to economic contractions or pressure from online retailers. This is because the company's renters are primarily found in industries that draw customer traffic in any economic climate. Shares can be purchased for 11.6x AT&T's 6.5%

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As the industry leader in graphics processing units (GPUs) -- a critical component for most AI infrastructures -- the company has seen demand skyrocket in recent years. But Nvidia isn't the only company benefiting from the rise of AI. Yet some companies haven't seen their market caps surge as much as others. billion valuation.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Let's discuss what the next 10 years could hold for the company and its investors. But despite having a well-defined niche, it has struggled to create shareholder value -- with the stock falling by over half since its initial public offering (IPO) in mid-2021. Can the company survive another decade? Lucid burned through $752.9

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MAY 6, 2024

Through strong same-store sales and unit volume growth, Chipotle has been able to consistently grow revenue and earnings over the last 20 years, rewarding shareholders in the process. The company opened 12 locations in 2023 and wants to grow its unit count by at least 10% per year going forward. Its consolidated operating margin was 7.6%

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MAY 8, 2024

The company relies on promotional listeners that purchase new/used vehicles to become self-pay subscribers. In spite of these challenges, there are a couple of reasons to believe Sirius XM can deliver triple-digit returns to patient shareholders from here. AGNC pays a monthly dividend and is currently sporting a 15.1%

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Over the past year, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been the talk of the town and one of the stock market's best-performing large companies. The company designs the kind of advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) technology needed for artificial intelligence (AI). The company's operating income rose 25% year over year to hit $26.9

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Prolific investor Warren Buffett has never split his company's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) So let's look at what happens when a company splits its stock and whether Berkshire Hathaway, as a nearly $800 billion holding company with a diversified portfolio of businesses and stocks, might consider this move in the near term.

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JULY 28, 2023

DigitalOcean Holdings (NYSE: DOCN) is a cloud computing company that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions. The company designs its cloud services to be easy to use and affordable for small developer teams and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). Here's why.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Whereas publicly traded companies that don't offer a payout delivered a modest annualized return of 3.95%, the dividend payers more than doubled up the nonpayers with a 9.18% annualized return. A perfect example is its June 2023 acquisition of electronic-vapor company NJOY Holdings. Image source: Getty Images.

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JULY 18, 2024

The widely followed S&P 500 index includes some of the strongest companies in the world, and many of these industry leaders regularly distribute dividends to shareholders. This should allow the company to maintain its impressive pace of dividend growth -- a 20% annualized rate over the last 14 years.

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

But where there are high dividend yields, there's usually plenty of risk to go around, so it's key to understand how likely it is that the company will be able to sustain itself moving forward. A new management team is a necessary precondition for any hope of the company's long-term survival. There are several reasons for that.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to a report issued last year by the Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, dividend-paying companies have generated an annualized return of 9.18% over the past half-century (1973-2022). Furthermore, any potential liabilities would likely be determined by the U.S. These results shouldn't be a surprise.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

This outperformance isn't a surprise when you consider that companies doling out a regular dividend are usually profitable on a recurring basis, time-tested, and capable of providing transparent long-term growth outlooks. Ford also has a healthy balance sheet that should allow it to return plenty of capital to its shareholders.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

The company's response to the outage likely helped. While the effects of the outage still reverberated for days, the fact that it got on top of the problem quickly showed the company cared more about protecting the reputation of its software than the short-term fallout related to the outage. Analysts also appear confident in the stock.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

This means I filed Articles of Incorporation with my state as well as some forms with the IRS to specify that I wanted to operate my company as a specific kind of corporation called an S-corp. There are many benefits of incorporating your business (and a few disadvantages too).

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JANUARY 31, 2024

It's not been a particularly great month for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) shareholders. Indeed, it's been a lackluster past few months for shareholders with the stock sliding back to where it was priced in July of last year. Maybe the company's age and sheer size is finally catching up with it. Or maybe not. Dig deeper, though.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Companies with unusually high yields can be particularly risky for a variety of reasons. The company has a strong presence in Japan, the U.S., The company also has a robust pipeline of experimental drugs and vaccines, with over 50 candidates in ongoing clinical trials. However, not all dividend stocks are great buys.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

Key takeaway One of the drawbacks of investing in individual stocks for future income generation is that a company may reduce or stop paying dividends. The main point, however, is that these Vanguard funds would have delivered positive returns over the prior 10 years, regardless of whether shareholders reinvested the dividend or not.

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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. Even as the secular decline of the company's wireline segment remains a drag on the top line, the core-mobility group and consumer-wireline segment are seeing a resurgence of momentum.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

The company blamed rising depreciation expenses, "unfavorable" news on liability claims, the cost of rolling out its new pricing plan, and other factors. Fortunately for its shareholders, Dollar Tree appears ready to rid itself of Family Dollar. Despite that increase, net income fell 13% to $433 million.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

The bear case for 3M Lee Samaha : Even setting aside its ongoing exposure to potential legal liabilities, 3M has struggled operationally in recent years. Unfortunately, if a company keeps missing sales guidance, it will likely suffer margin erosion and the need to restructure. The latter is not a minor issue. Should you buy 3M now?

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

economy continuing to chug along, coupled with the prospect of the Federal Reserve reducing interest rates in 2024, has investors incredibly bullish on fast-paced companies as a whole. Although the company's sales growth is topping 50% on an annual basis, its cost of revenue is growing at an even faster pace. As of Sept.

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JULY 21, 2024

CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD) made headlines around the world on Friday -- but not for a reason the company or its shareholders were happy about. The company repaired the software bug, but affected computers require manual reboots -- a process that could take some time. But this is just a small part of the picture.

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JUNE 30, 2024

When it comes to investing in dividend stocks, you need to make sure the companies you buy have a strong underlying business and balance sheet that will support and help grow the dividends being paid out. That places the pharmaceutical giant in a very select group of companies that have earned the moniker Dividend King.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

A low-cost approach to dividend investing The iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (NYSEMKT: DGRO) stands out with its minimal 0.08% expense ratio and focus on companies with sustainable dividend growth. companies with strong financial health and consistent dividend increases. The fund tracks the Morningstar U.S. SPX data by YCharts.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Whereas Wall Street has historically been bullish on time-tested and/or brand-name companies, it's the lesser-known stocks that can sometimes offer truly jaw-dropping upside potential, according to analysts. This growth is dependent on the company opening a number of electrolytic liquid hydrogen production plants.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Companies that dole out a regular payout to their shareholders tend to be profitable on a recurring basis, time-tested, and can offer transparent long-term growth outlooks. Morgan Asset Management, the wealth management division of JPMorgan Chase , found that companies initiating and growing their dividends delivered a 9.5%

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AUGUST 7, 2024

It involves buying and holding companies that pay and raise their dividends year after year. Additionally, companies must grow and responsibly manage their money to afford an ever-increasing obligation like a growing dividend. Abbott is a global company with over $40 billion in annual sales.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

The company's 10-for-1 split occurred in August. While the split lowered the price of individual shares, it didn't change the company's overall market value. This is in spite of the company exiting the second quarter with a net loss of $102.6 In fact, the company's share price follows Bitcoin pretty closely.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies that pay a regular dividend to their shareholders tend to be profitable on a recurring basis and time-tested. What's more, dividend stocks have statistically left non-paying companies eating their dust over long periods. By comparison, publicly traded companies with no payout crawled to a meager 1.6%

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Companies can't pay quarterly or monthly dividends to their shareholders unless they already have reliable profits. Pinning financial liability on a telecom provider for old cables that were legal when they were installed seems like an uphill battle. The 5G rollout isn't AT&T's only growth driver.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

According to a study from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds, publicly traded companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1973 and 2022 generated an annualized return of 10.24%. AT&T: 6.61% yield The first top-notch dividend stock that stands out as a no-brainer buy in 2024 is none other than telecom company AT&T (NYSE: T).

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JANUARY 3, 2024

When volatility picks up on Wall Street, professional and everyday investors have a tendency to seek out companies that offer a history of outperformance. In simple terms, a stock split is an event that allows a publicly traded company to alter its share price and outstanding share count while having no impact on its market cap or operations.

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DECEMBER 25, 2023

Though volatility is perfectly normal for the broader market, heightened vacillations in equities often lead investors to seek out the safety of profitable, time-tested companies. While there are some instances of companies thriving following a reverse-stock split, most investors are focused on high-flying businesses enacting forward splits.

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