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MAY 2, 2024

To be blunt, 2024 hasn't been kind to Tesla shareholders. Nevertheless, after showing some signs of maturity and providing investors with thorough updates during the first-quarter earnings call last week, shares in Tesla rebounded slightly. Since then, investors have learned that FSD has collected more than 1.3

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JANUARY 30, 2024

Importantly, scale can play an important role in driving down costs for shareholders. Issuers can leverage certain operational expenses for an ETF, such as marketing spend. That provides investors with tighter bid-ask spreads and helps the ETF price track the net asset value of the fund's holdings.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Fortunately for income investors, though, this is exactly the situation with Devon Energy. Cautious investors might balk at the company's ultra-high-yielding dividend, but after drilling down into the company's financials, they'll find that the distribution doesn't represent as much risk as they might have initially feared.

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MARCH 8, 2024

Why the latest go-private offer may be good news for Macy's shareholders. They just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy right now… See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of March 8, 2024 This video was recorded on March 4, 2024. Whether Spirit Airlines will seek another buyer. What do you think?

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Google's cloud computing arm is an underestimated growth engine for three reasons investors may be overlooking. Alphabet stock still has plenty of upside None of this is to suggest that current and would-be shareholders should ignore Alphabet's current legal troubles. How Google Cloud makes Alphabet stock a buy 1.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Being an investor in Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) could best be described by the opening words of the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities : "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." What does this mean for investors? To be clear, Roku shareholders have been on a roller-coaster ride in recent years.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Tripadvisor only started breaking out Viator's financial results in 2022, so investors can't track its progress too far back. And if its traffic is truly dependent on this spending, then the company may never be able to generate meaningful profits for shareholders. And it appears that Viator's time has finally arrived.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

And just when investors hoped that a complete spin-off of Alibaba Cloud from the group would rekindle growth and unlock shareholder value, the parent company's recent decision to cancel the spin-off further confused investors. In all, investors should now look forward to the future. So, what's going on with the business?

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OCTOBER 19, 2024

Trust in superior capital allocation Capital allocation in the oil space can be difficult because a company's survival is often prioritized over shareholder profits. While the best thing to do might be to send this free cash flow back to investors, management often gets involved in empire-building. of the company.

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JANUARY 11, 2025

billion of cash to shareholders, including about $4.7 billion), as the company used its strong balance sheet to return more money to shareholders. leverage ratio , well below its 20% to 25% target range. Given Chevron's low-leverage balance sheet, it will likely continue returning the bulk of its excess cash to shareholders.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Walmart's rebound Despite the stock's past struggles, Walmart has finally learned to leverage e-commerce to its advantage. Where that has left Walmart shareholders Unfortunately, these improvements have still left new investors with few reasons to buy. Unfortunately, these improvements may not make its stock a buy today.

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DECEMBER 7, 2024

Realty Income (NYSE: O) has done a fantastic job of growing shareholder value over the years. The REIT has grown by investing shareholder capital into income-generating net lease real estate. The REIT has grown by investing shareholder capital into income-generating net lease real estate. Here's a look at this smart strategy.

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APRIL 1, 2024

While Meta Platforms' detractors decry the amount of spending Mark Zuckerberg and his team are putting into developing virtual and augmented reality platforms, investors shouldn't overlook the fact that it's spent about twice as much on something else entirely over the past three years. Image source: Getty Images.

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MAY 2, 2024

At the risk of stating the obvious, this is a pre-stock split price; that piece of financial engineering is subject to shareholder approval in a vote to be taken at the company's June annual meeting. Like many recent changes in analyst evaluations, Palmer's modification came just after Chipotle unveiled quarterly results.

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AUGUST 17, 2024

MSTR data by YCharts MicroStrategy as a leveraged Bitcoin ETF Later in the same earnings call, co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor described MicroStrategy as a more flexible and ambitious version of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Peter Thiel is best known as one of the co-founders of PayPal and an early investor in Meta Platforms , then known as Facebook. Thiel remains one of the largest shareholders in Palantir, which has a market cap around $83 billion as of this writing. As it scales, Palantir is exhibiting tremendous operating leverage.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

The company also provided investors with an optimistic outlook for what's ahead. Furthermore, the company is on pace to reach its leverage ratio target of around 2.5 With its balance sheet improving, AT&T could soon start returning additional cash to shareholders through an increased dividend and stock repurchase program.

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APRIL 29, 2024

I am Shirish Jajodia, vice president of investor relations and treasury at MicroStrategy I'll be your moderator for MicroStrategy's 2024 first quarter earnings webinar. These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The "ultimate financial measure": F ree cash flow per share In his 2004 letter to Amazon shareholders, Jeff Bezos said (emphasis mine): Our ultimate financial measure, and the one we most want to drive over the long term, is free cash flow per share. How can investors use this metric? Image source: Getty Images.

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MARCH 3, 2024

Not only do they provide passive income, but they can also produce above-average total returns as they grow their earnings and shareholder payouts. Here's why they think investors should buy them hand over fist this month. at the current share price, that's probably not going to bother income-oriented investors. times last year.

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APRIL 27, 2024

Granted, the index is still up on the year, but with many stocks still trading at high multiples, some investors may be concerned about further downward pressure. However, stock market corrections, and especially bear markets, have historically been phenomenal buying opportunities for patient investors.

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JULY 11, 2024

Adding an accelerant Brookfield Renewable and some partners (its parent, Brookfield Asset Management , and Singapore's state investment company Temasek) recently struck a deal to acquire a majority stake in Neoen from some of its largest shareholders. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Filling them up, therefore, allows the company to leverage these high fixed costs and turn a higher profit. With its strong profitability, the cruise line rewarded shareholders with share repurchases and a high-yield dividend. Therefore, there's plenty of reason to be encouraged if you're a Carnival shareholder.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

It's been frustrating for investors in Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) stock. Most investors have avoided the stock as the company undergoes multiple internal and external challenges, including competition, slower growth, and geopolitical tensions. Still, there are a few things that investors should note.

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

Given that solid performance, investors may be wondering if the stock is a buy, sell, or hold at this point. The company had to cut its distribution in half in the fall of 2020 after it had gotten over its skis with its debt and needed to reduce its leverage. That would make it a solid hold for these investors.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Sirius XM Holdings ' (NASDAQ: SIRI) may have fallen out of favor for most investors, but arguably the best stock picker of our time sees things differently. This is an icy cold regulatory filing and not a warm Buffett note to shareholders or a chat with investors at the company's iconic annual shareholder meeting.

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JUNE 21, 2024

Recently, the company executed a 10-for-1 stock split, meaning investors now have 10 times as many shares, with each one worth 10% of what they were just before the split. There are many factors at play here, but smaller investors who can now afford to buy in might have contributed to the gain. The stock is up over 10% since the split.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

shareholders that "our favorite holding period is forever." Here's a look at what Buffett had to say about the oil stock in Berkshire's latest annual letter to shareholders, as he likened it to his company's stakes in Coca-Cola and American Express. In 1988, Warren Buffett famously wrote to Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B)

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MAY 12, 2024

There's clearly something special about a company that can add significant shareholder value over a time period in which the price of its main product deteriorates. The company has demonstrated a strong ability to allocate shareholder capital, with impressive returns on capital employed that lead the oil majors.

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MAY 12, 2024

There are a number of reasons PayPal is losing investor confidence. One of them was the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to leverage PayPal's huge data trove and create more value for clients and expand its opportunities. But most investors should wait for sustained improvement. So far, it's going well.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Even if you're not an investor that regularly swings for the fences, you've likely dreamed of hitting a proverbial grand slam that gets your portfolio over the seven-figure hump. Leveraging its leading position in the graphics card space, Nvidia has since grown from its relatively small 1999 public offering to the $1.5

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MARCH 19, 2024

The high-flying AI server specialist filed this morning to sell 2 million shares, diluting existing shareholders by approximately 3.6%. Investors often balk at secondary offerings as they dislike being diluted and prefer companies to fund growth out of profits or debt.

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MARCH 16, 2024

Many income investors focus mainly on a company's track record for making and raising dividend payments, and the dividend yield. Apple prefers to return money to shareholders via stock buybacks rather than with dividends. It has delivered the trifecta for shareholders. Microsoft is in this elite category.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

The stock climbed nearly 45% amid renewed investor sentiment. But bullish investors might have their sights set on the coveted $1,000 mark, which would translate to a near-50% gain. This massive size gives the business negotiating leverage to acquire goods from suppliers at low per-unit costs, savings that are passed on to customers.

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MAY 16, 2024

Dividends compensate patient shareholders for enduring the cyclicality of the oil patch. Meanwhile, utilities often choose to reward investors with dividends, given the sector's low growth. forward-yielding stock certainly warrants attention from income investors looking for prime dividend stocks.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Palantir Technologies is delivering a banner year for shareholders driven by exceptional growth and accelerating profitability. There's a lot to like about Palantir, but investors may also want to take a look at other industry players following a similar path of disruptive innovation. computer vision leadership Where BigBear.ai

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APRIL 30, 2024

Despite a modest pullback, investors have witnessed the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average , benchmark S&P 500 , and growth-powered Nasdaq Composite jump to record-closing highs within the last five weeks. Microsoft is leveraging the old with the new. 2 cloud-infrastructure service platform. smartphone market share.

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