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3 Stocks to Add to Your Portfolio in the Event of a Market Downturn

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Here are three stocks that will be worth adding to your portfolio even when the market takes its next downturn. Walmart has been a market-beating stock over its lifetime as a public company. A $10,000 investment in Walmart at its initial public offering , with dividends reinvested, would now be worth $492,000.

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If You Bought 1 Share of Coca-Cola at Its IPO, Here's How Many Shares You'd Own Now

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5, 1919, Coca-Cola debuted as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange at an initial public offering (IPO) price of $40 per share. Beverage colossus Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is a perfect example. Image source: Getty Images. Unraveling Coca-Cola's stock-split history On Sept.

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3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into $1 Million (or More)

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Apple Apple went public at a split-adjusted price of $0.10 A $1,000 investment in its initial public offering (IPO) would be worth $2.28 Apple is now the world's most valuable publicly traded company with a market cap of $3.47 Amazon Amazon went public at a split-adjusted price of $0.075 a share on May 15, 1997.

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Could Super Micro Computer Become the Next Nvidia?

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Incorporated in 1993, the company's stock debuted via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2007. The company makes and sells computer hardware, with a focus on server, storage, and security equipment. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into $1 million

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If you'd invested $1,000 in Amazon stock at the time of its initial public offering (IPO), you'd have almost $1.9 Walmart has been a public company a lot longer than Amazon, and if you'd invested $1,000 in it in 1970 with dividends reinvested, you'd have more than $4.6 million today. AMZN data by YCharts.

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Uber Beats Analyst Estimates, Tips the Scale From Growth Mode to Its First Annual Profit as a Public Company

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How Uber reinvented itself Even before its initial public offering (IPO), Uber's competitive advantages were evident. The company had expanded around the globe, and its marketplace model was well-suited to high profit margins at scale. Image source: Getty Images.

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This Dividend Stock Is Carl Icahn's Biggest Bet. Should You Buy It?

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An example of this is CVR Energy (NYSE: CVI) , which the company treats as an operating subsidiary because it owns a controlling stake (66% of the shares) in the still publicly traded company. But it has also invested in a portfolio of five stocks, in which it owns only part of the public companies.