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JANUARY 27, 2024

Posting annualized total returns of 26% since its initial public offering in 2009, OTC Markets Group (OTC: OTCM) may be one of the most surprising multibaggers on the publicly traded markets.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID) debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange with much fanfare on July 26, 2021 after merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The electric-vehicle (EV) stock jumped by double-digit percentages on the day of listing and hit an all-time high of $57.75 Where to invest $1,000 right now?

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JULY 13, 2024

The company conducted an initial public offering in April 1998, listing its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker "BRCM." Less than a year later, Broadcom conducted a 2-for-1 stock split on Feb. It did another 2-for-1 stock split on Feb. It depends on which Broadcom we're talking about.

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JUNE 29, 2024

Three stocks in particular stick out. This could be the next superstar Buffett stock Quite often, companies that operate outside the U.S. stock exchanges, are run by American founders, and backed by American investors. Buffett has owned the stock since the company's initial public offering (IPO) in 2021.

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AUGUST 27, 2023

Instacart originally planned its initial public offering (IPO) in 2022 after a surge in pandemic-era customers initially helped the company scale and turn a profit. However, activity in the IPO market slumped last year in the wake of the worst downturn in more than a decade, and Instacart shelved its plans to go public.

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JULY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, a reverse-stock split aims to increase a company's share price, usually with the purpose of ensuring that it meets the minimum continued listing standards for a major stock exchange. Although both categories can produce long-term winners, most investors tend to gravitate to companies conducting forward-stock splits.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) has been one of the best-performing stocks on the market since its initial public offering (IPO) in 2006, but despite gaining more than 5,000%, the stock had never once split. If it's approved, the stock will begin trading on a post-split basis on June 26.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Palantir is nearly 20 years old, yet it only went public about three years ago. Since its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in late 2020, Palantir stock has been no stranger to the highs and lows of public company scrutiny.

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MARCH 3, 2024

Now, just months later, market watchers are debating whether it's too late to buy the stock. Indeed, Arm Holdings has delivered 176% returns (as of market close on Thursday) since its late September initial public offering (IPO), more than 13 times the returns of the S&P 500.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Investors flock to stock-split stocks in 2024 Although there are two types of stock splits -- forward and reverse -- investors overwhelmingly favor one more than the other. Reverse splits are designed to increase a company's share price, often with the goal of ensuring continued listing on a major stock exchange.

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APRIL 20, 2024

The majority of investors don't have a chance to participate until a unicorn pursues an initial public offering ( IPO ). It's important to realize that the Destiny Tech100 was not trading on public exchanges in 2023. In fact, shares didn't hit the New York Stock Exchange until earlier this year.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Buffett tends to avoid technology stocks because he prefers to invest in businesses he understands, particularly those producing strong profits and those returning money to shareholders. But it just so happens that one tech stock, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , ticks both those boxes in a big way.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I can't wait to get my hands on one tech initial public offering (IPO) this month. The American stock exchanges saw 105 market entries in the first eight months of 2023. This giant has been tucked away under a fairly obscure parent company on the over-the-counter market for way too long.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

There are two types of stock splits -- forward and reverse -- with the former being far more popular than the latter among the investing community. Reverse splits are enacted to increase a company's share price, often with the goal of maintaining continued listing standards for a major stock exchange. Image source: Getty Images.

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JUNE 14, 2024

Meanwhile, the purpose of a reverse-stock split is to increase a company's share price. This is typically done to ensure that minimum listing standards on major stock exchanges are met. Since 2024 began, more than a half-dozen high-flying businesses with well-defined competitive advantages have conducted forward-stock splits.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Reverse-stock splits, which increase a company's share price, are usually completed from a position of operating weakness, and are often designed to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange. Among the 13 phenomenal businesses that have announced or completed a stock split in 2024, 12 are of the forward-split variety.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

operations on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the person said, asking not to be named as the talks are not public. While it’s not yet clear how much equity will be sold to investors, the initial public offering would raise roughly $540m if the company sold a 20% stake. s telecom unit SoftBank Corp. listed in 2018.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Aspen Insurance has chosen New York instead of London for its initial public offering (IPO) worth $4bn, as reported in an article by The Financial Times. According to people who were familiar with the decision, part of the reason were concerns surrounding valuations and stringent listing requirements in the UK.

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JULY 7, 2024

This prestigious index, which informs the popular Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) and other Nasdaq-tracking exchange-traded funds, comprises the top 100 largest and most actively traded companies on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

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MAY 16, 2024

Forward-stock splits are designed to make a company's shares more nominally affordable for everyday investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases with their online broker. Meanwhile, reverse-stock splits aim to increase a company's share price to ensure it meets the minimum listing requirements on a major stock exchange.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Reverse-stock splits are geared toward increasing a company's share price. This is usually done to ensure it meets the continued minimum listing standards of a major stock exchange. On the other hand, forward-stock splits reduce a company's share price. Image source: Getty Images.

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JUNE 24, 2024

With a forward-stock split, a company is decreasing its share price to make it more nominally affordable for retail investors and perhaps its employees. Conversely, the purpose of a reverse-stock split is to increase a company's share price, usually to ensure it meets the minimum listing standards on a major stock exchange.

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JUNE 19, 2024

And Google is backing a hot new AI company that conducted its initial public offering (IPO) last week. On Friday, June 14, 2024, Tempus conducted its IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Google DeepMind developed Go-playing phenomenon AlphaGo and AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts the structures of proteins.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Next-generation manufacturing platform developer Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) was shaping up to be a big winner on the stock exchange this week. Thanks to news that a veteran executive at a top company in the industrial sector was joining its board of directors, the stock saw a decent pop in price.

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MAY 14, 2024

Stock splits are solely intended to make shares more nominally affordable for retail investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases (what's known as a "forward-stock split"), or to increase a company's share price to ensure minimum listing standards are met on major stock exchanges (what's known as a "reverse-stock split").

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MAY 27, 2024

A forward stock split involves reducing a company's share price to make it more nominally affordable for investors who may not have access to fractional-share purchases with their broker. Meanwhile, reverse stock splits are designed to increase a public company's share price to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

There are two classes of stock splits, one of which investors gravitate to far more than the other. Reverse-stock splits have a goal of increasing a company's share price, often to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Forward-stock splits make a company's share price more nominally affordable for everyday investors, which can be particularly helpful for those without access to fractional-share purchases. Meanwhile, reverse-stock splits are designed to increase a company's share price to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

It's best thought of as a cosmetic tool used to make shares more nominally affordable for everyday investors (as with a forward-stock split), or to boost a company's share price to ensure continued listing on a major stock exchange (as with a reverse-stock split).

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JULY 10, 2024

With a forward-stock split, companies are purposely reducing their nominal share price to make it more affordable for everyday investors and/or their employees. Meanwhile, a reverse-stock split is aimed at increasing a company's share price, often with the goal of meeting continued listing standards on a major stock exchange.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The company's initial public offering (IPO) took place in 2008, with the three-class structure engineered in advance of the stock exchange listing. At the moment, the market cap of the Class A shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange is over $502 billion. and Visa wasn't one of them!

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MAY 28, 2024

A forward-stock split is designed to make a company's shares more nominally affordable for investors who might not be able to purchase fractional shares through their online broker. Meanwhile, a reverse-stock split aims to increase the share price of a publicly traded company to ensure its continued listing on a major stock exchange.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Private equity firm Creador on Tuesday said it bought a 40 per cent stake in Malaysia’s Pet World International, months after Reuters reported the pet foods manufacturer was planning an initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore to raise up to $100 million.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

German sandals maker Birkenstock will debut on the New York stock exchange Wednesday with a valuation of $8.6bn that belies its former dowdy image, with the brand now a fashion favorite and the pink footwear of choice for “Barbie.” announced that they have reached.

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JUNE 21, 2023

It is the largest such initiative enacted by the government to date. U Power is a relatively recent arrival to the stock exchange, and as such is subject to big swings in share price. Its Wednesday bounce was from a relatively low base, as the stock is down considerably from its initial public offering (IPO) price.

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JULY 13, 2023

So what After market hours Wednesday, Imax announced that it has made a formal offer to acquire the chunk of associated business Imax China that it doesn't already own. It is offering 10 Hong Kong dollars ($1.28) per share in cash for the outstanding stake for Imax China, which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

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JULY 7, 2023

IK Partners has confirmed its £269m acquisition of Medica Group, de-listing it from the London Stock Exchange in the latest sign of a public-to-private frenzy in the UK. The private equity house tabled a bid for Medica in late April and said this morning that IK IX Fund has now completed the deal.

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