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1 Unstoppable Stock Set to Join Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta in the $1 Trillion Club

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By 1965, he was running his own investment company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). It has amassed an expansive portfolio that includes several wholly owned private companies, and 47 publicly traded stocks and securities. But that's just one of the conglomerate's many success stories. million today.

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

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So to get started, it's best for beginners to stick to a well-proven method: Buy good companies with bright prospects and hold them over the long term. One company that can be a good start for new investors is Chinese technology giant Tencent (OTC: TCEHY). Image source: Getty Images.

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Berkshire Hathaway's Beating the Market, But Its Biggest Holdings Aren't. What Gives?

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It's a conglomerate that just so happens to use much of its idle cash to hold stocks of publicly traded companies. A category of organizations called business development companies (or BDCs) can do the job too. Take Prospect Capital (NASDAQ: PSEC) as an example. Prospect is currently yielding an impressive 13.2%.

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Transcript: David Layton

The Big Picture

How much is it the value of the company you’re investing in? How much is the prospective market size, as well as how robust local economy is? It’s all about what are this company’s prospects? How are you going to steer this company to be able to maintain its market position? LAYTON: Yeah.

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The Year of Concentration, Crypto, China

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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.