Remove Conglomerates Remove Leveraging Remove Public Companies
article thumbnail

Just Started Investing? Here's One Solid Stock to Buy With $2,000

The Motley Fool

What started as a small messaging service company called QQ has become a conglomerate covering gaming , entertainment, fintech, cloud computing, and more. While many factors contributed to Tencent's success, one of the most important aspects is the company's ability to choose the right strategies and execute them well over time.

Investing 246
article thumbnail

Alibaba Stock: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

The Motley Fool

For one, it can leverage AI applications due to its position as the world's fourth-largest cloud company. Still, in 2022, Alibaba and other Chinese stocks faced delisting threats from the SEC before the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board received access to the audit information regarding its financial statements.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

2 Ways Tencent Can Grow in the Coming Years

The Motley Fool

This segment provides cloud solutions -- such as cloud computing , Internet of Things (IoT) , and artificial intelligence (AI) -- that help enterprises leverage the latest technology to improve their business operations. Tencent benefits from the strength of its partners It's rare to find a remarkable growth company like Tencent.

article thumbnail

Meet the Only 2 Game-Changing Businesses With a Higher Credit Rating Than the U.S. Government

The Motley Fool

But following four-plus decades of acquisitions, mergers, bankruptcies, innovation, and economic shifts, only two public companies still hold this pristine credit rating. However, S&P also pointed to levers J&J has at its disposal to quickly reduce its leverage as the reason for leaving its rating unchanged.

article thumbnail

Got $1,000? 3 Healthcare Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever

The Motley Fool

UnitedHealth generates nearly $400 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the world's largest companies. UnitedHealth can leverage its size to provide better products and services for less in a highly fragmented but massive U.S. today, yet the dividend consumes only 60% of the company's cash flow.

article thumbnail

NCR (VYX) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

In addition to signing new customers, we renewed and expanded with our existing restaurant customers this quarter, including a leading restaurant conglomerate in the U.S., These third-party applications leverage the cloud-based architecture of our platform and generate either transaction-based or recurring revenue with healthy margins.

article thumbnail

Splunk (SPLK) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Our new Splunk AI system leverages generative AI to provide an immersive chat experience and helps make our search processing language, or SPL, are easier to use by enabling the use of natural language to create SPL queries. In addition, we're applying AI to help teams accelerate time-to-value through assisted intelligence. In Q2, a U.S.-based