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MAY 24, 2024

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 It's joining the streaming space to leverage an advertising business and fine-tuning its merchandise in different locations to better meet regional demand. million today.

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MAY 26, 2024

That continued until the company turned its first generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) profit in the fourth quarter of 2023 and again in Q1 of 2024. Nothing is certain, but notably, the company has cleared analysts' earnings estimates every quarter as a public company.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Formerly known as IBM 's (NYSE: IBM) IT infrastructure-services division, Kyndryl spun out as an independent public company in 2021. And some of our largest new logo signings have been for customers who want to leverage our hyperscale alliances and cloud migration expertise. Kyndryl got off to a rocky start in life.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Alphabet may not generate the same eye-popping returns it did in its first 20 years as a public company, but it still can be a core holding that can help you retire a millionaire. While it's difficult to predict where a stock will be in the next 20 years, Alphabet should be viewed as a core holding that can help power your portfolio.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. Leverage provides the opportunity to generate higher returns if the price increases.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Nvidia's latest 13F document shows that the company has investments in five public companies, including SoundHound AI. million, investors flocked to SoundHound AI stock as interest and speculation over Nvidia's relationship with the company intensified. While its stake is only worth $3.7

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AUGUST 25, 2023

A report issued by JPMorgan Chase 's wealth management division in 2013 found that publicly traded companies initiating and growing their payouts between 1972 and 2012 delivered an annualized return of 9.5%. annualized return for the public companies that didn't offer a dividend over the same 40-year stretch.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Likewise, if you'd like to buy a portfolio of value stocks , semiconductor stocks, or stocks focused on India, there are ETFs available. The other reason these two ETFs can be cornerstones for your portfolio is because time, historically, heals all wounds. By comparison, most expansions have gone on for multiple years, if not a decade.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

This outperformance isn't a surprise when you consider that companies doling out a regular dividend are usually profitable on a recurring basis, time-tested, and capable of providing transparent long-term growth outlooks. There's no doubt that AT&T's dividend is safe with its leverage declining. billion, as of June 30, 2024.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Becoming a public company, while a milestone event, was not the destination but the beginning of the next chapter of our journey. This flexible platform positions us for sustainable growth, and our upfront investment in it will create leverage as we scale. Our vertically integrated production capabilities are one example.

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MARCH 9, 2024

No public company has gone all-in on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) quite like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , which has purchased 193,000 bitcoins since 2020. As a result, the enterprise software company's stock is up over 900%, despite its core business stagnating. Are you a prospective investor who has a fear of missing out?

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JULY 21, 2024

With more than two decades of experience providing software tools to analyze large and complex data sets, Palantir is favorably positioned to leverage its know-how to offer AI solutions to existing and new customers. ai (NYSE: AI) is an enterprise AI software company that went public in 2020. Like Palantir, C3.ai And since C3.ai

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MARCH 14, 2024

A short track record as a public company Roblox is a classic example of a solid growth stock. The video game company almost doubled its quarterly revenue from $387 million in the first quarter of 2021 to $750 million in the final quarter of 2023, less than three years after it went public in March 2021.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The second quarter of 2023 marked our two-year anniversary as a public company, and I'm extremely proud to announce we have exceeded consensus estimates and raised our outlook every quarter since we've gone public with Q2 continuing this pattern. Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for joining us today.

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APRIL 24, 2024

In the last three months of 2023, SoFi reported its first-ever quarterly profit as a public company, producing earnings per share (EPS) of $0.02 It does still show you that SoFi is likely turning the financial corner as it starts to better leverage its operating costs. But things are changing when it comes to the bottom line.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Below, I explore the rise and fall of Stitch Fix and make the case for why I think the company is a solid acquisition candidate for the right partner. This chart explains it all The chart below illustrates Stitch Fix's quarterly revenue since going public. In 2020, these trends completely kicked into a new gear.

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MARCH 20, 2024

In other words, leveraging AI to make businesses more efficient could become a big theme. The company has outperformed analysts' top- and bottom-line estimates every quarter as a public company, which is promising for the future. Outperforming expectations, AI tailwinds, and a cheap starting valuation?

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Not all public companies report on the same schedule, and athletic-wear giant Nike (NYSE: NKE) gave its update in December. It's looking to cut around $2 billion over the next three years by leveraging more automation and technology and efficiencies through scaling. The gross margin expanded from 42.9% last year to 44.6%

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The big news was that SoFi reported its first quarterly net profit as a public company, which was $48 million. As interest rates ease, SoFi is in a great position to leverage its large and growing customer base to gain deposits, fund loans, and benefit from higher net interest income and revenue.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Costco's unmatched scale results in negotiating leverage with vendors, which benefits customers. Customers must pay annual fees, which have proven pricing power , to shop at the company's warehouses. In its entire history as a public company, shares have virtually never been this expensive. Costco's 10.8%

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 1980, around 60 publicly traded companies possessed the highly coveted AAA credit rating. But following four-plus decades of acquisitions, mergers, bankruptcies, innovation, and economic shifts, only two public companies still hold this pristine credit rating. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When SoFi provides that, it gains their trust and leverages its accounts to generate fees and revenue, scaling its business and becoming more profitable. Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

after the ride-hailing company announced better-than-expected fourth-quarter 2023 results. On Uber's first profitable year as a public company Uber's fourth-quarter 2023 revenue grew 15% year over year (13% at constant currency) to $9.936 billion, translating to net income of just over $1.429 billion, or $0.66

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

It managed through the supply chain problems by using its leverage to create its own, and it was finally challenged by inflation when sales growth dipped temporarily toward the negative. 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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MARCH 8, 2024

The better buy: Target Target faces tough near-term challenges, but it's weathered plenty of downturns throughout its 56 years as a public company. It can leverage its scale to continue expanding and diluting its costs, its stock is cheap, and it can continue to pay attractive dividends for the foreseeable future.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

The company added 25,000 locations since last year, ending the third quarter with 99,000. It leverages technology to shake up a traditional industry with a best-in-class offering. It took a dip last year to post its first quarterly net loss since becoming a public company. Toast is a classic Cathie Wood stock.

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MARCH 4, 2024

In particular, a collaboration with Ned Davis Research revealed that companies paying dividends averaged an annual return of 9.18% over a half century (1973-2022). This compared to a considerably more modest average annual return of 3.95% for the public companies that didn't offer a payout over the same period.

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JULY 19, 2024

Down 67% from highs, Five Below stock is now in its worst drawdown ever as a public company. Physical retail needs strong customer traffic and spending to achieve profitability and operating leverage over its fixed costs and real estate costs. Here's why shares fell yet again this week.

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JUNE 29, 2024

The company is taking on traditional credit scoring models, like Fair Isaac 's FICO scoring system, which it says shuts worthy borrowers out of the financial system. The model has been trained and refined for over 10 years and can quickly approve more borrowers at lower interest rates, thanks to its highly automated processes.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Providing the infrastructure and tools that companies need to leverage AI makes AWS an important part of the technology's ecosystem. Microsoft Microsoft, maybe more so than any other tech company, has done a great job diversifying its business and building a comprehensive suite of products and services.

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JUNE 27, 2024

Annaly has declared $25 billion in dividend payments to its investors since becoming a public company in October 1997, while AGNC Investment doles out its dividend on a monthly basis. If these changes happen too quickly, neither company can make these adjustments. billion investment portfolio in highly liquid agency assets.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Like many newly minted public companies, Reddit stock experienced an initial price pop but quickly cratered as some investors grew skeptical of the company's growth prospects. The company touted how its user data could be leveraged to help big tech companies train information workloads and large language models (LLMs).

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. I'll elaborate on the intelligent leverage and BTC yield concepts in the next few slides. Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005.

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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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APRIL 5, 2024

The company's newest product, aptly named Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), takes it to another level. As companies realize they must leverage AI to keep up with competitors, it will drive demand. The company is long-term debt-free and has $3.7 Palantir reported $2.2 billion in cash and investments.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Consider buying one (or all of them) and watch your portfolio grow. UnitedHealth generates nearly $400 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the world's largest companies. UnitedHealth can leverage its size to provide better products and services for less in a highly fragmented but massive U.S. Here is what I found.

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JULY 20, 2023

Good morning, and thank you for joining our second-quarter earnings call and our very first as a public company. Over the last 135 years, we have established ourselves as the world's largest pure-play consumer health company. So, this quarter was yet another proof point showcasing the power of our portfolio.

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