The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

Berkshire Hathaway The first "boring" company that's quietly but steadily delivered a nearly 20% annualized return spanning almost six decades is conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). Image source: The Motley Fool. since taking over in the mid-1960s.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

I'm talking about conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , which has been led by billionaire CEO Warren Buffett since the mid-1960s. Second, the Oracle of Omaha and his team have a penchant for buying shares of companies that pay a regular dividend.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This company has its fingers in a lot of different pies. The easy way to describe Berkshire Hathaway is to call it a conglomerate. Then there's the investments in other public companies, which tallied up to $280 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024. It is more like a mutual fund that's run by a star manager.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey and contributor Matt Frankel dive into Boston Omaha , a company that could be poised to be the next great conglomerate. This is with a couple of private equity funds, including Arkhouse management and Brigade Capital Management. Has the company earned that swagger? It's not a ton.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 15, 2024

The company's revenue has grown more than seven-fold in its approximately five years as a public company. Yes, British American is a tobacco company that sells cigarettes. But it's also a diversified conglomerate that produces both old and next-generation nicotine products, and it is diversified globally.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Now, this is a different transaction with Apollo acquiring both entities, both -- every and our gaming and digital entities going private, it provided the opportunity for me to stay with RemainCo with a public company and help to drive our goals there. I think it's been hampered by the conglomerate discount that our company received.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

Are these all run independently or are they run as part of a big conglomerate or a little bit of each? 00:05:59 [Speaker Changed] So over my two plus decades at the company, the answer is yes and yes, right? Funko Inc is a pop culture company. It’s a public company. That’s the signature item we sell.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. And so it was a whole new idea, I found it very interesting.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this city when you think of public companies based in Washington, DC, any standout performers come to mind for you? I would pick something like a discount broker index fund, as you mentioned, or Quicken, and I'd say, everybody should use this. David Gardner: I'm so glad we found you, you found us. That's how Marriott started.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

I eventually did figure out what a brokerage account was, how to get one set up, move forward with that, and I haphazardly picked some index funds and let things lie. Index funds are OK. That's Number 1 advice for most Motley Fool investors is start with index funds if you don't already have them. Mary, thank you.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

When I started at Blackstone, I think we’ve just started investing our third private equity fund. We had our second real estate fund, which was I think about $1.2 BARATTA: So I think we just raised a small credit fund, which is $900 million, and then we had an M&A advisory business. BARATTA: The media conglomerate?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2025

Indeed, the company he runs, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , is more like a mutual fund than a traditional corporation. While he doesn't talk about his investments or his investment approach very often, the man known as the Oracle of Omaha does provide some insights when he pens his company's annual shareholder letter.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

With thousands of publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to choose from, it's a near-certainty that one or more securities can help you meet your financial goals. Best of all, companies that pay a regular dividend have handily outperformed nonpayers over the long run. I expect it to do so again.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2025

With thousands of publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to choose from, Wall Street offers countless ways for investors to grow their wealth. Companies that provide investors with a regular dividend tend to be profitable on a recurring basis, and in many instances can offer transparent long-term growth outlooks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This step, coupled with the previously announced plan to spin Advanced Materials will result in three industry-leading public companies with tailored strategies and growth drivers. Now let's turn to Page 6 to talk about what it means for each of these three stand-alone companies.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

officials allege: Senior executives at Quebec’s provincial pension fund manager tried to win contracts by paying Indian officials hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and interfered with corruption investigations in the United States, American prosecutors allege. In 2019, his company, Adani Green Energy Ltd.,

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from Lazard to Merrill to JPMorgan, tell us about those other experiences, how do they compare to Lazard which seems much more unique, being in a public company versus a partnership. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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