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28.4% of Warren Buffett's $303 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in 3 Stocks He Plans to Hold Forever

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shareholders: "When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever." Coca-Cola (8.4%) Buffett usually has a Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) product on the table in front of him at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meetings. But it's historically expensive for the stock.

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Break Up Disney? Why the Latest Activist Proposal Could Be Good News for Disney Shareholders

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Joining Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund in staging a proxy fight at the entertainment giant, Blackwells is seeking three board seats, and in a letter to shareholders, it proposed breaking up the company into standalone sports, entertainment, and experiences businesses. billion for sports, $3.8 billion for entertainment, and $13.7

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This Unstoppable Telecom Giant Returned More Capital to Shareholders Than Both AT&T and Verizon Over the Past Year, and It Just Raised Its Dividend 35%

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And many of the biggest companies in the industry are happy to return that cash to shareholders. billion to shareholders over the last 12 months. billion to shareholders over the past year. But one of its biggest competitors has returned even more cash to shareholders. It sports a 5% dividend yield, paying out $8.2

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Organigram (OGI) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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The company expects to further leverage lower-cost seed-based technology by targeting approximately 20% of harvests from seeds in fiscal 2025 with monthly fluctuations between 15% and 30% depending on the cultivar requirements. Included in the efficiency gains was the achievement of 9.1 million in Q4 compared to $3.5

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Carnival Corp. (CCL) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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And with ROIC ending 2024 at 11%, comfortably above our cost of capital, we are already delivering long-term value for our shareholders as we lay the foundation we'll build upon in 2025 and beyond. times net debt to EBITDA, closing in on our expectation to reach investment-grade leverage metrics in 2026. We ended 2024 with $27.5

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Is Ares Capital Stock a Buy Now?

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Learn More Ares Capital fills a hole left by banks Ares Capital Corporation is a business development corporation (BDC) that provides financing to middle-market companies -- those with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ranging from $10 million to $250 million.

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2 Warren Buffett Stocks to Hold Forever

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In his 1988 annual letter to shareholders, Buffett penned that when it comes to owning outstanding businesses with excellent management, "our favorite holding period is forever." As for why Buffett's love grew for Apple, the company returns an incredible amount of capital to its shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

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