The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Long-suffering 3M (NYSE: MMM) shareholders must have been pleasantly surprised by its first-quarter results Tuesday morning, and the stock is moving higher as a result. The company has completed the spinoff of its healthcare businesses as Solventum and finalized legal settlements related to water contamination and its combat earplugs.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

The industrial conglomerate has paid dividends to its shareholders for over a century without interruption and has raised its payout annually for more than 60 straight years. The company has been battling legal issues related to water pollution and potentially faulty earplugs sold to the military.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

The conglomerate's portfolio has substantially outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 since Buffett became CEO in 1965. of the conglomerate's stock investments. Buffett and his team have also overcome the potentially disadvantageous effects stemming from the legal requirement to disclose their quarterly buys and sells.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Read on to learn more about two stocks that could deliver life-altering gains to their shareholders in the coming years. Archer struck a deal with travel conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises in November to build an all-electric air taxi service across India by 2026. The legalization of sports gambling is gaining steam in the U.S.,

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Among the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) , you'll find plenty of companies with the financial strength to reward shareholders with dividend growth over the long run. Yet shareholders can't count on dividends until the money hits their brokerage accounts. Should you invest $1,000 in Chevron right now?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 21, 2024

Here's why it's better to wait until after April 1 if you really want to purchase shares of the beaten-down industrial conglomerate or its healthcare unit. Existing 3M shareholders will get one share of Solventum for every four shares of 3M they own as of the record date for the distribution, which was March 18. dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

Shares in industrial conglomerate 3M (NYSE: MMM) rose by slightly more than 10% in December, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. For several reasons, a better economic growth outlook is music to the ears of 3M shareholders. A better growth environment for 3M?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2024

Buffett indicated in his shareholder letter last year that he plans to hold the stock indefinitely. Amex made up more than 10% of Berkshire's stock portfolio before the recent selling, while Visa was the conglomerate's 14th largest holding and Mastercard its 16th largest holding.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

3M (NYSE: MMM) has faced challenges in recent years -- and not just in the legal realm where it faced a number of lawsuits. The industrial conglomerate also has a track record of mediocre growth and margin erosion, which doesn't position it as a high-quality stock pick.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The Indian company emphasized that he was appointed by the Caisse, its controlling shareholder. Difficult to comment without additional information, judge Nicola Bonucci, associate professor at Paris Cité University and former director of legal affairs at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

While most Dow Jones stocks aren't going to rival the growth potential seen from innovative juggernauts like Nvidia and Broadcom , many are well-positioned to make their shareholders richer over time. As we turn the page to the second half of 2024, three magnificent businesses among the Dow's 30 components stand out as no-brainer buys.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Johnson & Johnson Healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is the second phenomenal stock in Buffett's secret portfolio that's a surefire buy in 2024.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2023

Ricky Mulvey: Today, the UFC is this mixed martial arts conglomerate. The company that Art Davie had partnered with was called Semaphore Entertainment Group that was a subsidiary of BMG, the Big Music Conglomerate, and they had started this smaller pay-per-view company. It's something that's regularly on ESPN. I think it will be TKO.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

This customer awarded Iron Mountain a contract to manage documents that must be retained while legal proceedings are ongoing. Finally, a multinational conglomerate company has signed a deal with us to manage its ALM needs for data center decommissioning as well as their end user devices. A recent example of this is in the U.K.,

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Ron, in a filing, the consumer goods company said it will be spending $25 million on digital forensics and legal work related to the hack, but it may pale in comparison to what they feel in terms of the business impact due to disruptions. Ron Gross: Yeah. It's a little scary out there right now. Tough news for them.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

Bill Mann: It's funny because stock buybacks are thought to be a very efficient way to return cash to existing shareholders in the form of there's not much in the way of tax, and every share of stock you should think of as being a perpetual claim on earnings and assets of a company. I feel like that's legally required.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 27, 2025

The company is still dealing with billions in legal liabilities tied to glyphosate lawsuits inherited from its $63bn Monsanto acquisition in 2018. Its recent outreach highlights continued pressure on Bayer to break up its conglomerate structure. The discussions come amid renewed investor interest in consumer health assets.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 2, 2025

The Warren Buffett-led conglomerate owns a whopping 35% of the outstanding shares, which at least warrants a closer look from the average investor. with a legal monopoly over the industry. Its moat, capital returns, and the fact that Berkshire Hathaway is a big shareholder are notable. Berkshire Hathaway owns dozens of stocks.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Following the completion of this in-depth internal portfolio review, I'm prepared to share with you today that the Honeywell Board of Directors has concluded that the separation of Automation and Aerospace is in the best interest of Honeywell shareholders. On the next page, we'll talk about Honeywell Aerospace in more detail.

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Pension Pulse

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. In 2019, his company, Adani Green Energy Ltd.,

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Sirius XM Holdings (33% stake) Berkshire owns 33% of the digital audio company Sirius XM Holdings (NASDAQ: SIRI) , and it's the 15th largest position in the conglomerate's equities portfolio. Visa recently reported strong earnings and returned close to $28 billion to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Given our outstanding 2024 performance, our conviction in the business to continue to deliver robust free cash flow and our commitment to maximize shareholder value, I have two updates to share. They're a conglomerate. We've never been better positioned to take advantage of the massive opportunity ahead.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It said, basically any company meeting with Amazon for deal talks or an investment, there's a line that you sign that says anything retained in the memory of an Amazon executive in those talks could be used without any legal consequence to Amazon. He said my shareholders would skewer me if I had one quarter of losses.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 22, 2025

Dylan Lewis: Bill, do you see an X-TikTok conglomerate like that? They also offered investors one of the best shareholder yields in 2024, 3.7%, if you add together, dividends and shared purchase. Dylan Lewis: Bill, what legally non binding radar stock do you have this week? Bill Mann: I do. It will go up, Rick.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So when I think of GE in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the three things that come up; GE Capital, obviously; the rise of shareholder value, which a lot of people point to General Electric as a key driver of that; and then Six Sigma. COHAN: — and shareholder value. He had shareholders eating out of the palm of his hands.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 24, 2024

I had, I had a, you know, a history of being very scoopy, getting inside companies, getting people And, and you know, Amazon’s such a big company, you know, they’re $2 trillion today and they’re kind of like a giant, they not kind of, they’re giant conglomerate. 00:33:48 [Speaker Changed] Right. It is today.

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