The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

While Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway certainly takes outsize positions in stocks ( Apple, for example), the massive conglomerate has a diverse equities portfolio worth north of $310 billion. However, advisory revenue from mergers and acquisitions (M&As) beat consensus nicely.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 15, 2024

However, a look inside Warren Buffett-led conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway 's stock portfolio might reveal some of the most interesting opportunities for long-term investors right now. With the possibilities created by the Discover acquisition, Capital One is worthy of a closer look right now.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 17, 2024

In reality, two new companies came out of the spinoff of Solventum (NYSE: SOLV) and 3M (NYSE: MMM) -- a newly created healthcare company and an industrial conglomerate without a healthcare business. Third, it's worth noting that 3M Healthcare/Solventum was the focus of 3M's merger and acquisition activity over the past five years.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

There are roughly four dozen stocks in the massive portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) , and to be fair, there's a solid investment case to be made for most of them. Which of these two stocks owned by the Warren Buffett-led conglomerate is the better fit for you? banks typically report.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 19, 2023

The company has a well-recognized portfolio of brands such as Head & Shoulders, Crest, Oral-B, Pampers, and Pantene. CEO Jon Moeller expects the majority of the company's growth to be organic, although that does not rule out selective acquisitions in the beauty and personal healthcare sectors. Meanwhile, 3M has also set aside $10.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Investors' mindsets around what stocks to buy change as they age and their portfolios grow. But playing safer doesn't mean investors shouldn't keep trying to grow and build their portfolios. But playing safer doesn't mean investors shouldn't keep trying to grow and build their portfolios.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Seeking passive income is a good way to supplement your portfolio while mitigating some of the volatility associated with owning individual stocks. First, the company is a specialist in mergers and acquisitions. One of the more interesting ones of the last few years was the acquisition of on!, year over year for Altria.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Industrial conglomerate 3M (NYSE: MMM) spent 2018 to 2023 on a slow and steady downward slide. Brown also said he's evaluating 3M's research and development spend and the company's portfolio for potential mergers and acquisitions. 3M gave up its dividend growth streak, losing its Dividend King status.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When Berkshire closed its acquisition of General Re, it became the owner of NEAM. Put another way, New England Asset Management is Warren Buffett's "secret" portfolio. This secret portfolio closed out the third quarter with 111 holdings. Image source: Getty Images. As of Sept. Discovery , AT&T's net debt has shrunk to $128.7

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Need some new names for your portfolio? It's never a bad idea to start your search with stocks already hand-picked by Warren Buffett (and his lieutenants) and currently held by his conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway. After all, there's a good reason he's called the "Oracle of Omaha." That's due to the nature of its business, of course.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But following four-plus decades of acquisitions, mergers, bankruptcies, innovation, and economic shifts, only two public companies still hold this pristine credit rating. In April, S&P reaffirmed its AAA credit rating on J&J, albeit with a negative outlook. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

However, for those looking to fortify their portfolios with a leading defense stock like Lockheed Martin, confidence that the future remains bright is equally important. billion in 2023 on dividends, stock buybacks, capital expenditures, and mergers and acquisitions. billion, representing a 1.6% increase over 2022.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

RTX (NYSE: RTX) , the giant aerospace conglomerate formed by the merger of the Raytheon defense company and United Technologies' airplane business, reported miserable earnings last week. Despite sales growing 8% year over year, RTX suffered a steep 91% collapse in second-quarter earnings, reporting just $0.08

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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. It could potentially reinvigorate sales growth by reinvesting more of its retained earnings into expansion initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 15, 2024

billion write-down on its acquisition of VillageMD, yet another warning sign. It's a household name in consumer staples, and its merger was engineered nearly a decade ago with the help of Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate remains a major shareholder.

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The Motley Fool

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. Also active brokerage accounts continuing to climb even after the TD Ameritrade merger. That's up 4%.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We covered some interesting food-related mergers recently. If you look at the portfolio of brands that Kellogg has in total, it's impressive, but cereal is really only just one part of that. They're just like a whole conglomeration of brands, similar with PepsiCo , with all of the Frito-Lay stuff. Welcome, Jason. How are you?

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

The last 12 months, last four quarters, they've been negative, and there's been a lot of puts and takes, a lot of acquisitions, some divestitures. Why does Brookfield this huge conglomerate, why do they want to pay a hefty premium for this company that sells indexed annuities in life insurance? billion, Fiscal 22, they did about 2.2

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 10, 2023

“While we anticipate periods of uncertainty to persist, we expect our portfolio will continue to be resilient and create value for CPP contributors and beneficiaries for generations to come.” Investments in public equities and renewable energy, along with gains by external portfolio managers, contributed to the quarter’s results.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so I joined Goldman in there, it was a 12-person merger department. So I joined Goldman and their merger department, but said, I’d like to be your LBO guy. The head of mergers and everyone watched over me there. I started at Goldman at ’81 doing, you know, mostly raid work and more traditional merger and seller work.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Financials could benefit from lower regulation, more lenient policies regarding mergers and acquisitions, and higher interest rates. It provides exposure to a variety of end markets, such as industrial conglomerates, railroads, defense contractors, agriculture, construction, and more. in a single session.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

per cent return of its reference portfolio. The reference portfolio, made of 85 per cent global equity and 15 per cent Canadian bonds, benefited last year from stock price surges in the seven largest U.S. The pension fund's returns over the past 10 years have also fallen short of the reference portfolio, but only by 0.3

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, by the time I got there, it was well beyond just, you know, financing customer acquisitions of appliances. COHAN: Well, basically, what became General Electric, which was a merger of two companies, you know, sort of what was a pioneer in bringing electric power, the generation of electric power, and then creating the electric power grid.

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