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What Does It Mean for Investors if CRISPR Therapeutics Gets Bought Out in 2024?

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In CRISPR's case, the company is well-funded, and it isn't carrying significant obligations on its books. That's nearly five times the amount of its total liabilities: $359 million. CRISPR could pay off all of its liabilities, both short and long term, and still have more than $1 billion left in short-term liquid assets.

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Time to Pounce: 2 Electrifying Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks That Are Begging to Be Bought in August

The Motley Fool

Recently, the investment advisors at Hartford Funds refreshed their data from an extensive report that examined the numerous ways dividend stocks have one-upped non-payers over multiple decades. If there were ever to be any health-related liability claims against the company, they'd almost certainly be settled in court.

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Stock Split Fever Is hitting the Market Again With Walmart's and Chipotle's Stock Splits: These 2 Top Stocks Could Follow

The Motley Fool

This is a lucrative undertaking that gives the company tons of cash to fund other ventures and invest for interest income. Total company revenue increased 83% year over year in the quarter. MercadoLibre has been a public company since 2007, and it has never split its stock.

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Prediction: 3 Boring Stocks That'll Be Worth More Than Nvidia by 2029

The Motley Fool

This is why Berkshire's 44-stock, $404 billion investment portfolio is prominently composed of cyclical companies that can take advantage of lengthy economic expansions. Public companies that regularly dole out dividends are often profitable on a recurring basis and have proven their ability to navigate recessions.

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Want $300 in Super Safe Dividend Income in 2024? Invest $4,175 Into the Following 3 High-Yield S&P 500 Stocks.

The Motley Fool

Last year, the Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research published data showing that dividend stocks averaged an annualized return of 9.18% over the past half-century (1973-2022). By comparison, publicly traded companies that don't pay a dividend have delivered a considerably tamer annualized return of 3.95% over the same five-decade stretch.

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2 Utility Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist in 2024 and 1 to Avoid Like the Plague

The Motley Fool

The company has paid a continuous dividend to its shareholders since its founding in 1816. That's 207 consecutive years -- six decades longer than any other public company in the United States. This is a fund designed to help those who lost a loved one in the tragic wildfire, as well as people who were severely injured.

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Will 3M's High-Yielding Dividend Face the Same Fate as Walgreens' Once-Mighty Payout?

The Motley Fool

During its last fiscal year, the company's earnings per share declined more than 20%. That left it with only $665 million in free cash flow after funding its capital spending ($1.5 The company's free cash flow was about $1 billion short of its total dividend outlay for the year (nearly $1.7 billion to less than $2.3

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