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AUGUST 9, 2024

That means it also includes stocks like pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly , global investment bank JPMorgan Chase , and Visa. It even features Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment conglomerate. Although the tech sector has a 32.5% Vanguard ETFs are popular for their cheap holding costs.

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MAY 1, 2024

Thanks to his remarkable track record leading Berkshire Hathaway over the past several decades, Warren Buffett is an investing legend in the eyes of many. For the average investor, looking at what the conglomerate owns can provide potential stock ideas. The Oracle of Omaha has been invested in Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) since 2007.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

In the third quarter alone, Warren Buffett and his team at Berkshire Hathaway have offloaded a staggering 235 million shares of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). This, coupled with a steepening yield curve, puts the bank in a position to increase net interest income next year. times earnings and 1.74

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Archer struck a deal with travel conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises in November to build an all-electric air taxi service across India by 2026. Archer also reached an agreement with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office in October to launch a similar air mobility network across the United Arab Emirates. It has a contract with the U.S.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Venerable tech conglomerate International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) is experiencing a banner year. For instance, analyst Amit Daryanani, of investment banking firm Evercore ISI, raised his price target for IBM from $215 to $240 in September. Big Blue's share price rose to new heights thanks to a confluence of factors.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Berkshire would inject $5 billion of capital into Bank of America in return for $5 billion of preferred stock paying a 5% dividend. Berkshire also received warrants, allowing the conglomerate to purchase 700 million shares at a strike price of $7.14 per share any time over the next decade. Buffett has been selling the stock as of late.

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MAY 23, 2024

American Express: Trading around $242 a share American Express (NYSE: AXP) has long been a staple of Berkshire Hathaway's investment portfolio. The conglomerate first purchased shares in the early 1990s and has since held those shares for almost three decades, earning a 17x return and a consistent dividend.

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JULY 9, 2023

If so, investment bank analysts on Wall Street can think of a few they'd like you to consider. The average target for this e-commerce, video game, and financial-services conglomerate suggests a 71% gain could be around the corner. Are you looking for growth stocks that can outperform in the year ahead?

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

In its most recent long-term outlook, the investment bank said the performance of the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) during the next 10 years should seriously pale in comparison to the past 10. That's owning something like the Vanguard S&P 500 Value ETF (NYSEMKT: VOOV) , or a conglomerate like Berkshire Hathaway.

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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. To get started investing, check out our beginner's guide to investing in stocks.

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JULY 10, 2023

He was also based in New York, where he focused on North and South America transport and energy investments. Prior to OMERS, Crane worked in investment banking at UBS and Morgan Stanley. Before that, he was a field engineer for Swiss global engineering conglomerate Foster Wheeler. He holds a B.S.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Investment banks, there’s two and a few others. But the brokerage houses, you know, Morgan and Merrill and the investment banks, multi-trillion dollars. So when the Royals came for sale, they were putting it together, a conglomerate in Kansas City. You only need one CFO one HR person, all that stuff.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Are these all run independently or are they run as part of a big conglomerate or a little bit of each? What sort of advice would you give to a recent college grad interested in a career in either media or investing? 00:05:59 [Speaker Changed] So over my two plus decades at the company, the answer is yes and yes, right?

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JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah. They’re trading. They’re advising clients.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I was actually running the Investment Banking Club at BYU, and you know, thought I was interested in that, interested in going to Wall Street. And we looked more like an industrial conglomerate than — RITHOLTZ: That’s where I was going to go. I was tentatively committed to go to Lehman Brothers.

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JANUARY 19, 2025

See the 10 stocks Bank of America: Chasing the king JPMorgan Chase Berkshire has owned Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) for many years and it's the conglomerate's third-largest equity position, consuming 12% of the overall portfolio. Bank of America's return on tangible common equity (ROTCE) has averaged about 13.2%

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JANUARY 3, 2025

trillion in assets stemming from a combination of basic consumer banking, wealth management, investment banking, credit card services, and more. And the usual valuation metrics say as much -- to the extent they can be calculated for this complicated conglomerate. That's JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) , which boasts $3.6

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APRIL 18, 2023

BARATTA: The media conglomerate? RITHOLTZ: — firms or private equity firms? BARATTA: Yeah. The first job for Morgan Stanley was McCown De Leeuw. And we were like, look, we’d be great partners as you’re looking at assets. The first deal we looked at was in France. RITHOLTZ: Sure. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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DECEMBER 21, 2024

7: Japan Airlines and Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo recently formed a joint venture called Soracle Corporation. 19: Boutique investment bank Needham initiated coverage of Archer stock on Nov. 19 and placed a buy rating on the stock with a projected price target of $11.

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JANUARY 11, 2025

To be sure, this wasn't simply out of the goodness of his heart; he made strategic investments that enriched Berkshire's shareholders. The investments included: Goldman Sachs: The investment bank that played a key role in the lead-up to 2008 received $5 billion from Berkshire in September of that year.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

His conglomerate also wholly owns an array of businesses, and has a $325 billion cash stockpile ready to be put to work when he and his lieutenants see worthwhile investing opportunities. Since Buffett took the helm in 1965, his investment decisions have propelled Berkshire Hathaway's stock to a compound annual return of 19.8%

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FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Net revenue was up 12% in 2024, driven by notable gains in commercial and investment banking, as well as in asset and wealth management. And that is precisely what we've seen at JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) , the massive Jamie Dimon-led financial services corporation. Last year was another impressive showing from the business.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

prosecutors have also charged Gautam Adani , widely considered to be Asia’s second-richest man, and two other executives at a Indian green energy company that is part of a conglomerate he controls with several fraud-related charges in connection with the alleged scheme. Spent most of his career, until then, on an investment banking desk.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Dylan Lewis: Bill, do you see an X-TikTok conglomerate like that? We have earnings out from JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells, Citi, Bank of America. If it's a bank, it probably reported in the past week. Commercial investment banking, pretty much everybody. Again, investment banking fees were big there, up 24%.

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APRIL 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So have we now gotten to the point where this sort of silliness is over, or are the venture capitalists and investment banks that bring these companies public, are they still playing that game? This is a conglomerate in the 1970s. DAMODARAN: — it probably would have super voting right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker. I mean, investment bankers were rock stars, right? COHAN: — because, you know, there were 72 partners and 72 non-partners in the investment banking group, so very small.

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DECEMBER 22, 2024

Still, it seems likely that it will rise back above the mark again, effectively making the conglomerate the tenth trillion-dollar company. JPMorgan Chase No banks have yet reached the $1 trillion market cap level, but JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) could become the first. Year to date, the bank is up 35%, and its market cap is $648.6

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JANUARY 23, 2024

From the very first day that I joined, I turned down an offer from Hillary Clinton at the time, which, you know, my father’s a risk averse immigrant, so his two pieces of advice for to me were to work at Lehman Brothers for investment banking, good call, and to work for Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama.

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DECEMBER 26, 2024

of Jefferies' total revenue in the third quarter of 2024 stemmed from investment banking, which has especially enjoyed strong momentum this year. In his letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders earlier this year, he noted that the conglomerate's share of AmEx's 2023 earnings was much higher than its initial $1.3 Roughly 56.5%

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JANUARY 2, 2025

Over decades of building Berkshire Hathaway into the massive conglomerate it is today, Warren Buffett has become the most renowned investor in the world. Even if the 10-year yield continues to climb, banks can perform well as long as the yield curve doesn't invert. The proof is also in the pudding.

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