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Why Shares of VinFast Auto Collapsed This Week

The Motley Fool

What happened Shares of recently minted public company VinFast Auto (NASDAQ: VFS) collapsed as much as 44.6% The Vietnamese manufacturer of electric vehicles ( EVs ) just went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and soared over 100% on the back of investor hype and its low float.

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1 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock You'll Want to Have on Your Radar as Rate Cuts Loom

The Motley Fool

In particular, I've been looking closely at business development companies ( BDCs ). What are business development companies? Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. BDCs are pretty interesting.

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Redfin Is "Under Contract"

The Motley Fool

In this podcast, Motley Fool analyst Tim Beyers and host Dylan Lewis discuss: Rocket Companies ' plans to own even more of the homebuying process with an all-stock purchase of Redfin. On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a Double Down stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. We had no idea.

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Berkshire Hathaway Holds Bank of America, American Express, Visa, and Mastercard Stock, but So Does This Low-Cost Vanguard ETF

The Motley Fool

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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2 Nasdaq-100 Stocks That Are No-Brainer Buys in 2025, and 1 to Avoid

The Motley Fool

The Nasdaq-100 , which is comprised of 100 of the largest non-financial public companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, gained 25% last year and 92%, in aggregate, over the two-year period between the start of 2023 and end of 2024. The company closed out the third quarter with $70.9 billion daily active users.

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3 Sensational Warren Buffett Stocks That Make for Slam-Dunk Buys in September

The Motley Fool

in the mid-1960s, he's overseen a greater than 5,700,000% aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) and guided Berkshire to become only the ninth public company to reach the $1 trillion market cap plateau. Most people are familiar with the company because of its world-leading e-commerce segment. If the U.S.

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The metrics that matter for a successful exit

Insight Partners

startups founded in 2018 that used Carta for cap table management: 49% have shut down, 5% were acquired, and just 0.2% only four made it to a public listing. At Insight, weve found that successful companies plan for every stage of their journey, all the way through to exit. Choose your exit: IPO or acquisition?