The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2024

It's growing in importance because it's where the conglomerate monetizes many of its AI initiatives, from new data center chips to large language models that form the foundation of AI software applications. It also wholly owns private companies like Dairy Queen, Duracell, and GEICO.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

By investing in its partners -- like Pinduoduo and Meituan -- the tech conglomerate can participate in emerging industries like e-commerce and food delivery. Over the years, Tencent has operated like a stock investor, buying up small stakes in growth companies like Snap and Tesla. The idea is simple.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

It's a conglomerate that just so happens to use much of its idle cash to hold stocks of publicly traded companies. Private companies, however, are a compelling alternative to ordinary stocks. If it's not coming from Berkshire's biggest stock positions, where's all of this value coming from? And not just right now.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Put another way, over half of Berkshire Hathaway's value derives from private companies or businesses it owns outright. Follow what smart minds do Unlike other conglomerates, Berkshire Hathaway doesn't pay a dividend. At the time of this writing, Berkshire has a market cap of $779.5 Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

But I was just wondering in terms of the acquisition, the Epygenix acquisition is there any data that shared – that you intend to share soon about other past readouts just given it's a private company and people might not be familiar with their story. This is a conglomerate with deep expertise the drug discovery.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2023

The company went public through an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004 after years of steadily growing its student loan book. But then, the Obama administration decided to ban private companies from originating student loans, taking the process in-house for the federal government.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

We've gone from the Pentagon spending now to these Defense Conglomerates. You're not like a private company in Silicon Valley able to be as agile. One you mentioned is Northrop Grumman, who had almost $750 million over ten years for a tech overhaul, but they essentially produced nothing.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

and we’re a steward of these companies, and we take that very seriously. And we looked more like an industrial conglomerate than — RITHOLTZ: That’s where I was going to go. LAYTON: — like a private equity firm. You sit on the board of directors on a number of portfolio companies.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 25, 2024

By the way, if you did that, you'd be getting more dividends from those companies than Nvidia earns an entire year. Dylan Lewis: It's the ultimate conglomerate. Bill Mann: Man, I can't wait to start researching this obscure company that you guys have been talking about. Sorry, I just had to bring it into the conversation again.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

After all, we were the -- we effectively sponsored what is one of the most highest-valued private companies today when we invested in them and really took a bet on them and their innovation 4, 5 years ago. We're not a conglomerate here. We are sort of one company. And that has led to great success for Microsoft.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

It includes public and private companies. Ah, so before I say that, we’re not investing in the private companies. So you don’t have any conglomerate, you know, like a Schlumberger or something that’s creeping into there like an s and p.

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