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Berkshire Hathaway Is Great. Here's Why You Shouldn't Buy It.

The Motley Fool

In many ways, Berkshire Hathaway is more like a mutual fund than a traditional company. That's largely because of Warren Buffett's influence on the company. The company ended the first quarter with around $182 billion in cash on its balance sheet. That's larger than the market cap of most public companies.

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Meet the Stock-Split Stock I've More Than Quadrupled My Stake In This Year (Hint: It's Not Nvidia, Broadcom, or Chipotle Mexican Grill)

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Rather, the stock-split stock I've more than quadrupled my stake in over the last two months is the only high-profile business to notify its shareholders of a coming reverse split. Some mutual funds and institutional investors simply won't purchase stocks with a share price below $5 because they're deemed too risky.

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5 Magnificent ETFs to Buy Hand Over Fist for the Second Half of 2023

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Exchange-traded funds offer a number of advantages, such as instant diversification or concentration with the click of a button. For investors who may not have the time to research individual companies, can't stomach a volatile market, or who simply want to complement their existing investment strategy, ETFs can be a smart place to turn.

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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We have a packed agenda lined up for the next three days, and we're excited to see our customers, partners, analysts, shareholders, and employees, all in person to share our passion for BI, AI, bitcoin, and innovation. billion in equity in a manner that we believe to be creative to existing shareholders. Equity issuances.

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Ambitious Plans for U.S. Semiconductor Growth

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Always something to keep in mind, it was really interesting to note and the letter he quoted that from the peak in 1996 you had 7,300 US public companies, now we have 4,300 and he feels that total should have grown dramatically not shrunk, so that's a big delta there. Short sellers and activists are pretty different in my mind.

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BlackRock (BLK) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. active fixed income mutual funds. We celebrated the 25th anniversary of BlackRock becoming a public company, and we closed our acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners. We ended the quarter with AUM near $11.5

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Seven ways to talk your financial execs out of jargon and bad writing

Investment Writing

His annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders relies heavily on plain language. For example, “A number of good things happened last year, but let’s first get the bad news out of the way,” he says on page 3 of his 2012 shareholder letter (PDF). ” That’s not justified.