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DECEMBER 11, 2023

shareholders in 2003 that the only time he might have ever read an analyst report "was because the funny papers weren't available." However, he could be in for some great news if they're right about one of the conglomerate's holdings. The company continues to rank among the top innovators in the financial services industry.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Bank of America can easily acquire and service new customers, with the ability to provide an exhaustive list of products and services tailored to their specific needs. Another reason to buy the stock is because Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway is a huge shareholder, owning 11.4% of the massive bank.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

The industrial conglomerate has had to deal with a large number of legal issues recently, but reports suggested that 3M might be closer to putting another major problem behind it. It's never good news for companies to pay for doing harm, but most 3M shareholders had expected far worse. For Creative Planning, the news is a boon.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. -- Warren Buffett's 1988 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter When you invest with the mindset of holding for a lifetime, you think differently about the types of companies you want to invest in. billion on acquisitions.

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JULY 28, 2023

That's why shareholders shouldn't worry too much about higher loss rates and greater capital set aside for reserves. A strong brand is probably also a key reason that Warren Buffett, through his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway , owns 20% of the shares outstanding of the financial services business.

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MAY 30, 2024

Fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill is on the verge of one, pending shareholder approval next month. Some things to keep in mind Sony can accurately be characterized as something of a conglomerate. Specifically, the company will partially spin off its financial services unit in 2025.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

is a renowned conglomerate that has delivered impressive capital growth over multiple decades, thanks to Warren Buffett's exceptional skill in finding and investing in undervalued businesses. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Therefore, Berkshire's nearly 9% stake in the digital banking firm is somewhat surprising. since then.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Toshiba said on Monday a group led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) would launch a $14bn tender offer on Aug 8th to take the industrial conglomerate private and put it in domestic hands. Major contributors include chipmaker Rohm with 300 billion yen and financial services firm Orix with 200 billion yen.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

As long as one exercises patience and a tolerance for stock movements, these two e-commerce conglomerates below are in a solid position to build wealth for their shareholders. A growth stock that course-corrects from poor decisions can also present opportunity. In Q3, revenue of $4.3

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Meanwhile, faster-growing emerging-market regions, including the Middle East, Africa, and Southeastern Asia, remain largely underbanked and therefore ripe for disruption by financial-services providers like Visa. Something else that's been critical to Visa's long-term success is its avoidance of lending. Image source: The Motley Fool.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The conglomerate possesses an array of strong entertainment businesses. The company plans a partial spin-off of its financial services division in 2025. As part of this, shareholders will receive stock in the new company in exchange for Sony shares. As far as Sony's entertainment focus goes, the strategy is working.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

The company is a proper conglomerate with a hand in many different businesses. Its revenue is increasing steadily along all business arms save one, financial services. However, if you exclude financial services, sales increased 12.3%. Much more than an electronics company Sony gave the world the Walkman.

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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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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Given the success that Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway have had in picking stocks and acquisitions, it's common for investors to look at the conglomerate's holdings to get ideas for where to put their own money. Given the company's market position and financial standing, there's no reason to believe it won't do both.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest, a major Zoom shareholder, published an open-source report highlighting Ark's investment case, which forecasts a nearly 11-fold increase in the company's share price by 2026. Sea Limited Southeast Asian conglomerate Sea Limited is another stock struggling to recover from the downturn.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

The financial services company has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years. Buffett wrote to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders last year that American Express paid $302 million to Berkshire in 2022. It's also one of the conglomerate's biggest positions. BofA's forward dividend yield stands at nearly 2.6%.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The legendary investor and operator of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway is indisputably the best investor in modern times, generating huge returns for those who invested along with him. Management has shown it will consistently return capital to shareholders. It can pay to follow Warren Buffett.

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MARCH 10, 2024

Warren Buffett's investment conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , is the eighth most valuable company in the world with a market cap of about $870 billion. Both are ways that shareholders can enjoy outsized returns from top-quality businesses. Save for Saudi Aramco , they operate in the technology sector.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Warren Buffett, the longtime head of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , has delivered an impressive nearly 20% annualized return for shareholders since 1965, doubling the S&P 500 's benchmark return. The conglomerate holding company owns a majority stake in more than 60 businesses, like Dairy Queen and GEICO.

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JUNE 7, 2024

However, Buffett's conglomerate owns 41.2% of the dialysis services provider. Buffett lavished praise on Mitsui (and the other four Japanese companies in which Berkshire has invested) in his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Like Nu, DaVita achieved most of its gains in Q1. Berkshire currently owns an 8.3%

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Its fully online financial services provide customers with a wide range of products to fit their needs. Investors who might still be hesitant should understand that Berkshire Hathaway has been a shareholder since Nu's initial public offering in December 2021. The Warren Buffett-led conglomerate owns 2.2%

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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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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Block now operates more as a conglomerate of numerous business and consumer services across a wide spectrum, and not all the services are necessarily connected. We finally have line of sight to seeing more of Square within Cash App, and vice versa," Dorsey wrote in the Q3 2023 shareholder letter released last month.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

Despite flying under the radar, financial services company White Mountains Insurance Group (NYSE: WTM) continually makes its patient shareholders richer. Inclusive of its rather small dividend, White Mountains has delivered a greater than 7,900% total return to its shareholders since going public in 1985.

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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%

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NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Warren Buffett has generated tremendous gains for the long-term shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway over the years. There's no better way to learn how to do it yourself than to pay attention to the stocks that the conglomerate buys and sells. accounts it acquired for its gold card last quarter.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

But the Oracle of Omaha also likes to own financial services companies. There's one in particular, which the conglomerate has owned since 2011, that might fly under the radar. Tremendous gains Bank of America and American Express get a lot of the attention because they are two top Buffett stocks in the financial sector.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Berkshire Hathaway has owned many businesses over the years, but not many have been a mainstay in the conglomerate's portfolio quite like American Express (NYSE: AXP). That's certainly healthy growth potential that shareholders can get excited about. The card payments business has been a holding for about three decades now.

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JUNE 22, 2023

Buffett's endorsement Having Warren Buffett as a fellow shareholder certainly helps retail investors who are on the fence about buying Ally stock. of the outstanding shares, Buffett's conglomerate has a sizable stake in Ally. 10 stocks we like better than Ally Financial When our analyst team has a stock tip, it can pay to listen.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Then, Motley Fool analyst Buck Hartzell joins host Alison Southwick and Motley Fool personal finance expert Robert Brokamp to kick off a series on Berkshire Hathaway , and how the conglomerate's collection of businesses work together. I think you've been to a number of their annual shareholder meetings. Hi Buck how you doing?

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

On the call with me today, we have Atlassian's CEO and co-founder; Mike Cannon-Brookes; and chief financial officer, Joe Binz. Earlier today, we published a shareholder letter and press release with our financial results and commentary for our first quarter of fiscal year 2025. This call will include forward-looking statements.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. So, in some sense, even the financial services sector, for example, is a good place where there's a lot of Oracle that still needs to move to the cloud. The lesson learned from the cloud side is this, we're not running a conglomerate of different businesses.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2023

And finally, as we've said before, we're committed to returning value to our shareholders through technical innovation, strategic acquisitions, stock repurchases, prudent use of debt, and a dividend. These companies include Nomura, Vodafone, Telecom Italia Mobile, Saudi Telecom, a huge Korean conglomerate, and a huge U.S.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

For instance, a multinational conglomerate has seen a 75% improvement in case deflection rates with ITSM and HRSD Enterprise Plus, pushing toward its goal of automating 60% of transactional work. Another large tech company adopted ITSM Enterprise Plus to increase self-service by 30% while enhancing employee satisfaction.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Here are some of the fund's biggest holdings, along with the percentages of its assets they comprise: Lockheed Martin , 4.46% AbbVie , 4.43% Home Depot , 4.21% BlackRock , 4.16% Coca-Cola , 4.12% These industry leaders have long histories of rewarding their shareholders with steadily growing cash dividends. Dividend Equity ETF's portfolio.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

But how about a globally diversified conglomerate started by brothers, and these brothers have been a bit more successful so far than David and Tom Gardner and perhaps ironically in this case, the company has a much larger market cap than our company and yet those brothers maintain, I would say, a much lower profile than maybe Tom and I do.

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