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APRIL 25, 2024

On the surface, investing in a sin stock may not be the most appealing prospect. However, there are a couple of reasons why I still like Altria's investment prospects. I think management is showcasing some solid leadership with this move and underlining how important creating shareholder value is for the company.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

shareholders in 2003 that the only time he might have ever read an analyst report "was because the funny papers weren't available." However, he could be in for some great news if they're right about one of the conglomerate's holdings. It has huge growth prospects with the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. shares is $56.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Sure, the prospects of the Federal Reserve reducing interest rates could cause BofA's net interest income to decline. Note, though, that the Japanese conglomerate trades via two over-the-counter stocks. Berkshire owns stakes in five Japanese conglomerates. Its shares trade at a forward earnings multiple of below 11.8.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

He especially likes companies that return money to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks. But that's just one of the conglomerate's many success stories. The conglomerate has the financial results to back up those substantial gains. Buffett's most powerful weapon is time. Today, that position is worth $24.4

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Returning cash to shareholders Though Apple has reached a more mature stage of its lifecycle, one thing is certain: This business prints money. If top-line growth won't be enough to excite investors, Apple's ability to return huge amounts of cash to shareholders is still an attractive quality. billion in dividends and bought back $56.5

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JUNE 28, 2024

Buffett took Berkshire Hathaway from a struggling textile business and turned it into a conglomerate with a huge insurance business and equity portfolio at its center. It was a mistake to buy fifteen-year bonds, and yet we did," he wrote in his 1979 letter to shareholders. "We Should you invest $1,000 in Berkshire Hathaway right now?

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

The diversified conglomerate's share purchases occurred only a few months after T-Mobile completed its merger with Sprint, a move that made it one of the largest wireless carriers in the United States. Second, T-Mobile has been steadily buying back shares in recent quarters, which is a positive development for shareholders.

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JULY 21, 2023

In response, the management team has broken the conglomerate into six independent units, each charting its own path forward. The plan is to list the subsidiary and spin off the shares as dividends to shareholders. But not all shareholders will agree with that move. That's the belief that the company has good prospects ahead.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While that stake is only worth about 1% of Berkshire's total portfolio, the investment conglomerate owns over 12% of HP shares overall. Buffett loves dividends and companies that return excess cash to shareholders by cannibalizing their stock. But I believe Buffett bought the wrong HP stock, at least up until this point.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Factoring in its strong growth prospects makes Ally's price-to-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio of 0.91 The reason it's not higher on the list is the company's growth prospects are underwhelming. Mitsui In his latest letter to Berkshire shareholders, Buffett mentioned eight companies that he thought Berkshire would own "indefinitely."

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AUGUST 15, 2023

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. What started as a small messaging service company called QQ has become a conglomerate covering gaming , entertainment, fintech, cloud computing, and more. Image source: Getty Images.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

shareholders, you'll find Buffett discussing mistake after mistake, year after year. That makes his annual letter to shareholders a must-read for just about anyone who wants to learn to be a better investor or even a better decision-maker. And it couldn't have worked out better for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

The tech giants' business models Alibaba and Baidu are first-generation technology companies in China that have continuously evolved and adapted over the last two decades to become huge tech conglomerates. What are the prospects for Alibaba and Baidu? Their prospects are different, too. Let's begin with Alibaba.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Buffett highlighted eight stocks in his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that he expects the conglomerate to own "indefinitely." Buffett wrote in his annual shareholder letter that Hollub knows "how to separate oil from rock, and that's an uncommon talent, valuable to her shareholders and to her country."

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MARCH 23, 2024

Last year, he told Berkshire Hathaway shareholders at their annual meeting that Apple was "a better business than any we own." It's by far the biggest position for Berkshire, accounting for nearly 43% of the conglomerate's portfolio. The cloud units of Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft should have tremendous growth prospects.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

While investors should not give up on Apple stock, its prospects for beating the market over time have become increasingly uncertain. Ultimately, Apple should remain a top consumer and technology holding, and longtime shareholders have good reason to maintain their Apple positions. AAPL PE Ratio data by YCharts.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

They pay great dividends and have durable long-term growth prospects. Realty Income is a real estate investment trust (REIT) ; it acquires and leases real estate and distributes its taxable income to shareholders as dividends. Confidently buy and hold these names for the next 20 years. Realty Income stands out for a few reasons.

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JULY 27, 2024

Both operate in the e-commerce sector, focus on customer satisfaction, and deliver remarkable returns to shareholders. Another significant difference is that Amazon is a highly diversified tech conglomerate with other businesses including cloud computing through Amazon Web Services (AWS), logistics, advertising, and more. billion.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

It's also very encouraging to know that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is a top shareholder. The conglomerate owns 20.8% Perhaps more important, though, is a prospective investor's time horizon and initial capital outlay. of the business, a holding that's currently worth $30.7 That's certainly a major vote of confidence.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

A near-forever business is the gift that keeps on giving Jason Hall (Berkshire Hathaway): 2023 will be remembered by most Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and followers as the year we lost Charlie Munger. Those other adjacent businesses Amazon.com has started as offshoots of that retail business have more attractive prospects, though.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

After all, when a company goes public, existing shareholders are cashing out, meaning both the company and its investment bankers have incentives to market the company to public shareholders -- that means you! -- at a high price. That means public shareholders will have little say in how Arm is governed.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Toshiba said on Monday a group led by private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) would launch a $14bn tender offer on Aug 8th to take the industrial conglomerate private and put it in domestic hands. The tender offer, which values the electronics-to-power station’s maker at 2 trillion yen ($14 billion), will complete on Sept.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In a move that many would have once considered surprising, investors seem to have written off the artificial intelligence (AI) prospects of Google parent Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG). Furthermore, the capex investments will likely deliver returns that increase the company's free cash flows over time.

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MARCH 9, 2024

Similar to Amazon, Microsoft's Azure cloud platform carries some of the most lucrative growth prospects for the company as it relates to AI. What's even better is that in the wake of this newfound growth, Meta has found ample ways to reward shareholders. The one concern I have about Microsoft is its valuation.

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MAY 5, 2024

From 1964 to 2023, the venerable investment conglomerate generated astounding returns of 4,384,748% for its shareowners. Berkshire's subsidiaries were chosen by Buffett for their strong competitive positions and attractive expansion prospects. Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

However, each of these companies could be considered a diversified conglomerate. For example, per the company's most recent shareholder letter, investors learned that the company's latest AI development has been deployed across 100 organizations , and the company's current pipeline has 300 or more identified opportunities.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As such, 3M is a value stock and a turnaround prospect for investors. Honeywell is getting a major makeover Daniel Foelber (Honeywell): The industrial conglomerate's stock is trading down 7.8% For one, the company has demonstrated consistent interest in rewarding shareholders over the past decade. compound annual growth rate.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The Oracle of Omaha has generated fortune-building gains for Berkshire Hathaway 's shareholders for nearly 60 years by investing in high-quality businesses with attractive long-term growth prospects. Buffett's investment conglomerate has purchased shares on multiple occasions since then.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Last year, Buffett had the conglomerate repurchase a whopping $9.2 At Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting earlier this year, Buffett said that Apple was "an even better business" than Coca-Cola , which he referred to as "a wonderful business." Oxy is the conglomerate's sixth-largest position. billion worth of stock buybacks.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

The industrial conglomerate has long been a fascinating investment proposition. 3M isn't perfect The industrial conglomerate is far from perfect. If management and/or the board decide a dividend cut is in the best interest of shareholders (whom the board represents), you can bet it won't be a decision taken lightly.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Let's look at why these three sale-priced stocks are buy prospects right now. 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.

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MARCH 11, 2025

The conglomerate currently owns almost 22% of the outstanding shares of a top credit card business, which makes up 15% of the entire $288 billion portfolio (as of March 4). As we look ahead, it's easy to be optimistic about the company's growth prospects. What about valuation? It's worth taking the time to also consider the valuation.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

Although Apple stock has been a great investment since Buffett and his team first started buying the tech giant in 2016 , it's unlikely that the iPhone maker will continue to outpace small- and mid-cap growth stocks over the next 10 to 20 years due to its enormous size and moderate growth prospects.

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JULY 31, 2024

I believe the prospect of lower interest rates could also be a boon for the company. The Oracle of Omaha's conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway , is a large shareholder, and the fact that the position is being trimmed might be a cause for concern.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amex also rewards shareholders through regular share buybacks. Regular share buybacks help to boost earnings and signal to investors that management is optimistic about the company's near-term prospects. Besides paying dividends, Starbucks also rewards shareholders by buying back its shares. in the past five years.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

What's more, the stock has the approval of famed investor Warren Buffett, whose conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway owns a 5.9% He's been a shareholder for over seven years now and has made a killing on the stock But with a market capitalization of just under $2.8 Investors would have loved to have the tech giant in their portfolios.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

The company rode into Wall Street on a horse named Google, and that's still Alphabet's most important business by a wide margin -- but the reorganization into an umbrella company created a multi-sector conglomerate of the future. I've been a happy shareholder since 2010 but now I'm tempted to buy some more. But times are changing.

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