The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2024

Last month, Japanese conglomerate Sony Group (NYSE: SONY) announced a 5-for-1 stock split. Although stock-split stocks can carry interesting investment prospects, there are some important details smart investors might want to unpack before loading up on the company's stock. The latter posted a 45% annual decline in operating income.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2025

The conglomerate currently owns almost 22% of the outstanding shares of a top credit card business, which makes up 15% of the entire $288 billion portfolio (as of March 4). This leading financial stock has been a major winner, rising 7,600% since its initial public offering (IPO) in 1972.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

JPMorgan Chase Whatever the mystery stock is, it's probably in the financial services sector. However, Berkshire didn't publicly reveal any purchases of financial stocks in either quarter. However, Berkshire didn't publicly reveal any purchases of financial stocks in either quarter. Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF).

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Two financial services giants have also fallen out of Buffett's favor to some extent. Berkshire continued to sell shares of Bank of America in Q2 and also sold 21% of its stake in Capital One Financial. He also trimmed the conglomerate's positions in Liberty Media Class A and Liberty Media Class C by less than 2% each.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

However, Buffett's conglomerate owns 41.2% of the dialysis services provider. stake in the Japanese conglomerate, but he and his team agreed not to increase its holdings above 9.9%. The digital bank should have solid long-term growth prospects as it offers more financial services to underserved customers in Latin America.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A highly dependable dividend grower American Express (NYSE: AXP) , or Amex for short, is a global leader in credit card and payment services, offering a range of products and solutions for consumers and businesses. In the last five years, the credit card and payment services giant has increased its quarterly cash distribution by 8.9%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

stock market, shares of Singapore-based tech conglomerate Sea Limited (NYSE: SE) are down by nearly 89% from an all-time high in October 2021. In such a macroeconomic environment, if you are on the hunt for high-quality stocks that have seen a dramatic fall from their all-time highs, here's a look at two such companies.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

million shares the conglomerate is now sitting on a 224 million share stake that makes up nearly 5% of Berkshire Hathaway's total equity portfolio. It may be because Capital One is better shielded against a deteriorating credit market than it's getting credit for. Occidental Petroleum Buffett's been a big, steady buyer of oil stocks of late.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2024

Without the need for physical bank branches, and using a mobile-first approach, the business offers customers various financial services products to tackle their banking needs. Berkshire Hathaway has been a shareholder since Nu's initial public offering, with the conglomerate currently owning 2.2% of the outstanding stock.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2025

That's enough to rank Apple as the conglomerate's largest holding by far, making up 23.5% billion of the domain name registry services and internet infrastructure provider. The company established a strong position in its home country of Brazil, with more than 50% of adults there using its financial services platform.

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FMG

JUNE 22, 2022

Almost all businesses need marketing, from supermarkets to mega conglomerates. Marketing is the lifeblood of any successful company because it brings in new prospects and keeps current ones interested. Now as a financial advisor, your marketing might look different compared to someone in the insurance field or the grocery game.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

financial services organization. based multinational conglomerate and long-standing hybrid security customer significantly expanded their use of Splunk by shifting more of their workload to cloud and through a new seven-figure, three-year observability deal for the new healthcare division and cloud stack. In Q2, a U.S.-based

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 18, 2025

Shares of the giant conglomerate have jumped nearly 14% year to date. British financial services company Aon 's (NYSE: AON) stock is up 11% Two other stocks in Berkshire's portfolio with technology connections have also been big winners. Granted, the conglomerate's valuation is a bit high with shares trading at 25.7

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How much is the prospective market size, as well as how robust local economy is? It’s all about what are this company’s prospects? And we looked more like an industrial conglomerate than — RITHOLTZ: That’s where I was going to go. How much is it the value of the company you’re investing in?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2025

While his Berkshire Hathaway operates in a wide range of sectors, it's categorized in the financial services sector because of its huge insurance businesses. You might be surprised at just how important other financial stocks are to Buffett. of the conglomerate's portfolio. of the conglomerate's portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In fact, Berkshire Hathaway , the conglomerate headed by legendary capital allocator Warren Buffett, has been a shareholder since the IPO. Given Buffett's adeptness at analyzing financial services companies, the fact that he's an owner of Nu should give retail investors confidence. Nonetheless, it still owns 1.8%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Berkshire owns so much of the food company that it's listed among the conglomerate's subsidiaries on its website. The financial services company offers a forward dividend yield of 3.27%. Ally and Citigroup also could have the best growth prospects over the near term if Wall Street is right. times forward earnings.

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