The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Apple It seems cliche to start with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , but you don't become the world's most valuable public company for no reason. Time Period Services Revenue FY 2019 $46.2 Not many companies are better positioned to take advantage of that than Apple if it commits the resources. billion FY 2020 $53.7

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Grab's near-term prospects look brighter In 2021, Grab's first year as a public company, its revenue rose 44% as its GMV grew 29%. Its financial services GMV also rose 27% as it expanded its online lending business. In 2022, its revenue and GMV grew another 112% and 24%, respectively.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 28, 2025

It acquired buy-now-pay-later company Afterpay in 2021, and just recently rolled out Afterpay on the massively successful Cash App card. Just recently, Square Financial Services received FDIC approval to offer a consumer loan product as well, called Cash App Borrow. Looking ahead, Block is emphasizing its lending capabilities.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 28, 2024

Dividends aren't a guarantee and there's always the possibility that a company's struggles could necessitate a reduction. By "ultra-high-yield," I'm referring to public companies whose yields are, at minimum, four times greater than that of the S&P 500's yield. Thankfully, not all ultra-high-yield income stocks are trouble.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

Financial Services Company, Rocket Companies owner of Rocket Mortgage, will be buying Redfin for what was initially announced as an all stock $1.75 It is a merger Monday in the truest sense. Tim, I feel like I'm on CNBC. Deals to kick off the fresh week. We had no idea. billion deal. Tim, you're surprised to see this one?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Through decades of strategic investments, Buffett and his team have built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable public companies, with a market capitalization of over $780 billion. however, its ability to maintain its place at the top of the tech world will likely rest on how well it succeeds with its services.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 20, 2024

E-commerce is the company's core segment, but it's also finding success in other areas of the digital economy, such as gaming and financial services. Sea trades at about $74 per share as of this writing (valuing the company at $42.4 Sea's digital financial services segment also made a positive contribution, up 21.0%.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Companies that pay a regular dividend to their shareholders are usually profitable and time-tested. What's more, income stocks have a history of running circles around public companies that don't offer a payout in the return department. The more than 1.03

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Apple Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the world's largest public company with a valuation of $2.8 In fact, in 2020, after a decade of development, the company believed it had produced the world's largest and most advanced machine learning system in the financial services industry. Image source: The Motley Fool.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, the company's services segment continues to grow like wildfire, with a shift to subscription services expected to lift the company's operating margin over time and lessen the sales fluctuations observed during iPhone replacement cycles. The one knock against Apple is its valuation.

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

” “I am thrilled to join Flexpoint, one of the premier financial services and healthcare-focused investment firms,” said Ms. ” Flexpoint Ford makes minority and majority equity investments of $50 million to $500 million in private and public companies operating in the healthcare and financial services sectors.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It began as a cooperative for student loans, and it grew from there as management recognized the need for a full financial services center geared toward the needs of students and young professionals. That's why it has a range of products in three segments: the original lending products, financial services, and technology platform.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Shares of the online brokerage and financial services platform are up roughly 200% year to date, propelled by a sharp rebound in customer trading activity and accelerating profitability. The case to buy or hold Robinhood Robinhood began trading as a public company in July 2021 at $38 per share. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The company doesn't have physical brick-and-mortar locations akin to legacy players such as Wells Fargo. While this digital approach to financial services may seem unconventional, it appears to be working. Let's dig into the company's operation and assess why the stock may be experiencing some depressed pricing action.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And these are; accelerating software revenue growth, continuing to advance adoption of our financial services, and continuing to control costs and finding additional operational efficiencies. And finally, our goal of expanding financial services such as payments, capital and instant payouts remains the same. Thanks a lot.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

He has extensive experience advising international private equity houses, financial sponsors and public companies on a wide range of transformational transactions, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and disposals, GP-led M&A, secondaries transactions, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures, IPOs, restructurings and refinancings.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 18, 2024

According to a press statement, Peel specialises in public company M&A and takeover code transactions, advising boards, bidders and vendors on takeover, reverse takeover and bolt on M&A. Peel will be based in PwC’s Manchester office.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Nu is a fintech powerhouse in Latin America that provides banking and other financial services all on a digital app. It's headquartered in Brazil and also services Mexico and Colombia with a smaller and growing platform. Berkshire Hathaway invested $500 million in a funding round just before the IPO.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This segment started as a way for the underbanked population to have access to its digital platform, but it's expanded to a large financial services business with credit and investment products. MercadoLibre has never split its stock in its 17 years as a public company, and it's gained 7,380% over that time.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

This helps to explain why shares of tech company SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) rocketed from a 52-week low of $1.49 But just days later, financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald downgraded the stock because of SoundHound's lofty valuation at the time. The company's trend of rapidly rising revenue is expected to continue.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 29, 2024

But even Buffett and his team at Berkshire Hathaway identified Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) as an investing opportunity back in 2021, when it was all of eight years old and before it became a public company. Nu has been demonstrating impressive performance so far, reporting high growth as it becomes consistently profitable.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And American Express , which has expanded its banking services of late, is one of his largest and longest-held positions. Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) is one of Buffett's more curious positions , because it was unprofitable when Berkshire Hathaway invested in it back before it was even a public company, and it sports a premium valuation.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

It was created as a financial arm of General Motors to help auto dealers finance auto sales, and over many decades it expanded into other areas of lending and finance. It rebranded as Ally in 2010 and became a seperate public company in 2014. It was forward-thinking at that time.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY) and Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) are two Buffett stocks that are stirring up excitement on Wall Street and could be excellent picks for an individual portfolio. Ally: Digital and value go hand in hand Ally was spun off as the financial arm of General Motors in 2009 and only became a public company in 2014.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Apple It's virtually impossible to talk about tech stocks to hold on to for the long term and not include the world's most valuable public company, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). It's a company that needs no introduction. Apple's services segment has become increasingly important to its revenue, now accounting for 26% of it.

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SEI

AUGUST 30, 2024

SEC cyber regulations apply to a broad range of roles within public companies and the financial services industry specifically. These seven steps will help your organization build a strong cybersecurity structure.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I'm in Miami today, together with Jon Jaffe, our co-CEO and president; Diane Bessette, our chief financial officer; David Collins, who you just heard from, our controller; and Vice President Bruce Gross -- and Bruce Gross, our CEO of Lennar Financial Services; and a few others are here as well.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

As Cloud Intelligence Group moved toward becoming a public company, I look forward to reengaging with everyone in my new role in the journey ahead. Now, I will pass to Toby to go through the financial updates. Toby Xu -- Chief Financial Officer Thank you, Daniel. Thank you, everyone.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Maybe I'll give a secondary answer if I come up quickly, but I know we want to get through this fast here at the end, but we are creating databases that create scoring systems for public companies and features and industries and public companies using AI tooling, and it's really wonderful and interesting.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

International accounting network Moore Global has reported record revenues for 2024, marking its fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, driven by increased private equity backing for its client companies and the rise of artificial intelligence in financial services, according to a report by The Times.

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Steve Sanduski

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In a Nutshell: What happens when a public company hires a woman as their new CEO? According to my guest today, research shows that company’s stock usually drops. Julia’s tips for men who want to help level the playing field and create more opportunities for women. Listen/read here.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

As a textbook land-and-expand story, this customer first came to us in 2017 for our allocation security services and has continued to expand over the years with this deal encompassing the vast majority of Cloudflare's platform. A Fortune 100 financial services company signed a similar 4-year $10 million pool of funds deal.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2024

I'm in Miami today, together with Jon Jaffe, our co-CEO and president; Diane Bessette, our chief financial officer; David Collins, who you just heard from, our controller and vice president. Bruce Gross is here, our CEO of Lennar Financial Services; and we have a few others as well. So starting with financial services.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I'll note that this is the 15th consecutive quarter as a public company in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance. In the first quarter, the company closed 71 agreements, including 72 new pilots marking a 117% year-over-year increase in our pilot count. I'll now turn it over to Hitesh to cover the financials.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

We're fortunate that we don't have to spend money on marketing, which actually creates a lot of leverage in our financials service as well. You almost come into a business as totally ready to be a public company from revenue growth and debt maturity perspective. I actually like being in a public company.

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American Investment Council

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

On April 25, 2022, the AIC originally submitted a comment letter to the SEC that noted: “The cumulative effect of these unnecessary changes will be to stifle a particularly vibrant sector of the financial services industry – saddling it with unjustified burdens and constraints.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 18, 2024

It is bittersweet to be talking about the company's results publicly for the first time since his passing. Don took great pride in the company's growth, profitability, and shareholder returns, which have been at the top of all public companies in America for the past decade.

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