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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This means even if growth slows after that year, e-commerce will continue to create trillions in shareholder wealth. In truth, Amazon has become more a conglomerate underpinned by e-retailing than an e-commerce company. This segment solves a critical problem for the business while leveraging a regional challenge.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

He called her "an extraordinary manager" at Berkshire's 2023 Shareholder meeting in May. That leverage puts added pressure on management if oil prices decline in the future, making it less profitable to drill. As a result, she sees oil climbing to $80 per barrel by the end of the year. Buffett has a lot of confidence in Hollub.

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JULY 31, 2023

With the market's warm reception to Tilray Brands ' (NASDAQ: TLRY) latest earnings report, the marijuana conglomerate's outlook is looking better and better. Generating FCF will also open several doors that it could take to accelerate shareholder returns. In short, the stock market is forward-looking.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Food conglomerate Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) is a rare example of his investments gone bust. Here are three reasons why the future looks bright for Kraft Heinz and its shareholders in 2024 and beyond. But management has brought leverage down to 2.9 The stock price is down over 60% from a high over six years ago.

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MARCH 10, 2024

When his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Brand power In Berkshire Hathaway's most recent letter to shareholders, Buffett praised his longtime partner Charlie Munger for many things, including a key lesson he taught Buffett. Image source: Getty Images. AAPL Shares Outstanding data by YCharts.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The company has grown from its flagship soda product in the late 1800s to a beverage conglomerate with an unmatched global distribution network that will continue to quench the world's thirst. The conglomerate owns dozens of brands, selling products worldwide to an estimated 5 billion worldwide consumers.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Buffett acknowledged in last year's shareholder letter that stakes in Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and American Express (NYSE: AXP) , which Berkshire Hathaway has held for decades, have provided it with billions of dollars in unrealized gains from share price appreciation that was partially powered by their growing dividends.

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JULY 17, 2024

The company has done a masterful job of betting on its best brands and avoiding investing too heavily in new brands or making ineffective acquisitions -- choosing instead to pass along its profits to shareholders through buybacks and dividends. It is now leveraging that pricing model through a growing home delivery service.

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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. Instead, Apple leverages its loyal customer base to drive sales of its iconic iPhone. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)

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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. is close to record lows, so Zoom could bolt higher as it leverages its name recognition and AI-related capabilities to attract more business.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The conglomerate possesses an array of strong entertainment businesses. As part of this, shareholders will receive stock in the new company in exchange for Sony shares. In its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, the conglomerate's revenue rose 12% year over year to 2.6

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AUGUST 17, 2024

One stock that has provided stellar returns for its shareholders since its 2016 initial public offering (IPO) is Kinsale Capital (NYSE: KNSL). The specialty insurance company has a strong position in a highly competitive industry and has rewarded shareholders handsomely in the process. Don't take my word for it, though.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

The combination of premium-priced products and operating leverage has led to outsize profitability. It also doesn't hurt that Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway is a big shareholder. The conglomerate owns 2.6% Other businesses can only dream about being as financially sound as Apple is. of Apple's outstanding shares.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The company is now taking these initial applications further, leveraging AI "to help employees improve customer experiences, streamline operations, foster innovation, gain a competitive advantage, boost efficiency and uncover new growth opportunities." Nevertheless, with a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 21.5,

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

But Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Cash flows and returns to shareholders Another attribute Buffett likes is high and stable margins, with companies that seek to improve those margins continuously. hasn't only been selling stocks; it has also been buying or adding to a few select holdings.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The conglomerate also owns YouTube, the second-largest website in the world behind Google. Alphabet is also leveraging investments in artificial intelligence (AI) to increase consumer usage of its apps. The company is using that FCF to invest in its AI tech, and to reward shareholders by repurchasing stock and paying a $0.20-per-share

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

is a sprawling conglomerate worth over $770 billion. Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has generated incredible market-beating returns for shareholders through prudent long-term buy-and-hold investing. It uses all that cash to return money to shareholders through a robust stock repurchase program, with $77.5

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

CVS Health CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) is famous for its retail pharmacies, but it's actually a vertically integrated healthcare conglomerate that leverages its retail footprint to fuel the growth of related businesses. Here's how they could make excellent, long-term additions to just about any income-seeking investor's portfolio.

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JUNE 14, 2023

Mature, profitable companies with long track records of paying shareholders, and also increasing the amount they pay yearly, can be a strong foundation for any retirement portfolio. The healthcare conglomerate sells pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices. Dividends can do this well. The stock offers a solid 2.5%

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AUGUST 22, 2024

As Buffett wrote of Occidental's CEO Vicki Hollub in a 2023 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, "Vicki does know how to separate oil from rock, and that's an uncommon talent, valuable to her shareholders and to her country." billion stake). The assumption, however, ignores a couple of details.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Davidson, recently cut his rating on the tech conglomerate from "buy" to "neutral." The company integrated OpenAI's capabilities into its Azure platform to allow developers to build new applications that could automate tasks and leverage massive amounts of data. This allows the company to return a lot of capital to shareholders.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, operating margins increased roughly 6 points driven by improved operating leverage through cost management and the higher gross margin noted earlier. billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. Now to our segment results. And finally, we returned $9.1

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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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MAY 9, 2024

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.

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JULY 30, 2024

This simple straightforward transaction provides a clear-cut separation of global lottery from gaming and digital for IGT shareholders. billion, which provides a quicker realization of value upon closing, thereby eliminating IGT shareholder exposure to execution risk regarding integration efforts and synergies. Liquidity of $1.7

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APRIL 30, 2024

With the power of both our brands, now combined with the distribution cloud of Disney, we believe we can leverage our collective strengths to really take advantage of the increased demand while distinguishing ourselves from competition. A key component of the new arrangement is the ability to leverage the powerful Disney sales network.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Earlier today, we published a shareholder letter and press release with our financial results and commentary for our first quarter of fiscal year 2025. As always, our shareholder letter contains management's insight and commentary for the quarter. This call will include forward-looking statements.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

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

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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. Together, these results continue to demonstrate our ability to drive a strong balance of world-class growth, profitability and shareholder value.

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MAY 2, 2024

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. We look forward to continuing our growth journey as we deliver our best-in-class and integrated solutions to our clients and create value for our shareholders.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

And we're on track to deliver the highest-performing lowest-power 800 gig pluggable that will leverage three-nanometer technology and enable our customers to reach greater distances and unmatched economics. In addition, I'd like to thank our partners, customers, and shareholders for their ongoing support.

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APRIL 30, 2024

We are also very pleased to continue to strengthen our leadership position in Sleep/Wake with licensing of TPM-1116, licensing and audits and assets were the natural next step for us, as it leverages our established experience and expertise, both in development and commercialization of treatments of Sleep/Wake disorders.

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MARCH 6, 2024

We took the company public with an amazing shareholder base, and we finished the year with a very strong balance sheet, including $168 million of cash and short-term investments with zero debt. It also leverages ODDITY LABS to develop high performing products from our proprietary molecules that truly solve consumer skin issues and concerns.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Each quarter, the company he runs, Berkshire Hathaway , discloses its current holdings to shareholders. are buying/adding Ulta Beauty (ULTA) Ulta Beauty caught Berkshire’s eye in the most recent quarter, and the conglomerate opened a position in the purveyor of beauty products, albeit a relatively small 690,000 shares.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The conglomerate trimmed its holdings in Apple ( AAPL ) and HP ( HPE ) while adding to its stakes in oil giants Chevron ( CVX ) and Occidental Petroleum ( OXY ). With some $60 billion managed by dozens of teams, Citadel’s December-quarter 13F discloses positions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the aggregate, thanks to leverage.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It also brings with it the power of Disney, the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate. This has not only created significant value for our guests and shareholders but also is a great calling card as we strategically look to find additional companies to join our family. National Parks.

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JULY 25, 2023

And finally, we signed a co-brand agreement with Indian conglomerate, Adani, serving 400 million customers through retail, airports, and online travel services, among others. Let me now turn to new flows, again, with a focus on how effectively we are delivering on our priorities. I fell as I entered the '90s. Thank you, Ryan.

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