The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Claver imagines a world where Ripple manages the lion's share of international payments someday -- and also takes over other money-transfer settlement systems such as the stock market. In that world, the system could settle as much as $6.6 That would be a mind-blowing 23,900% above today's XRP price, which stops at $0.55

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

However, Berkshire is built with staying power, arguably unmatched by any company on Wall Street. For starters, Berkshire owns many private companies across various industries. Some of Berkshire's well-known consumer-facing companies include GEICO Insurance, Duracell, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, and Clayton Homes.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The rest of Berkshire's value comes from its insurance businesses, ownership of BNSF railroad, Berkshire Hathaway Energy , and other private companies. However, Berkshire continues to be heavily invested in the market and has used excess earnings to repurchase its own stock -- a testament to its confidence in its long-term strategy.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

However, there are several asset classes outside of the stock market that can profit during inflationary surges. Private equity Have you ever read about a company that makes an interesting or compelling product only to learn that you can't invest because it's still private?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

government and its allies as a private company. But Palantir's 2020 IPO shined a light on the vast potential for AI, and its stock was off to the races. Palantir stock currently trades for 78 times forward earnings, which could ultimately push the company to a $1.1 trillion market cap over the next 10 years.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The stock market is a proven wealth generator over the long term, even for conservative investors who buy index funds. But some individual stocks like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) have delivered an absolute fortune to investors who were game enough to bet on them early. Netflix was founded in 1997.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He purchased his first stock at age 11, and by 1965, he was operating his own investment company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). He still runs the company today. Berkshire's largest holding today is Apple , which became the world's first $1 trillion company in 2018.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By 1965, he was running his own investment company, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). It has amassed an expansive portfolio that includes several wholly owned private companies, and 47 publicly traded stocks and securities. Buffett remains at the helm of Berkshire today.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Private credit Around 4% of high-net-worth families' portfolios are invested in private credit, according to the KKR survey. What is private credit? It's where investors loan money to private companies. Private credit is often less risky than private equity. Over the 10 years ending on Dec.

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Fortune Financial

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Due to this, inflation has become part of daily conversations causing investors to consider alternative investments outside of the stock market. Stock Market, leaving 90% unaccounted for by most investors — this is where alternative investment opportunities come into play,” said Freisner. Private Real Estate Video.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 17, 2025

Dave, at the age of 28, was savvy enough that he had a CPA, so he was an accountant, but he had very little experience with the stock market. What would you say to that person who is just now getting excited about investing in the stock market with maybe 100 or an extra 200 bucks a month? I got one from Goldman Sachs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2023

Shopify has become something of a poster child for inflated valuation and loss-generating businesses common during the 2021 stock market cloud-computing boom. Three items to monitor Shopify reported a very steep generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) operating loss in Q2 2023 of $1.64 billion on revenue of $1.69

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 15, 2024

The "Magnificent Seven" stocks have paced the broader stock market for three years. It's the only "Magnificent Seven" stock down over that time; the next closest, Apple, is up 13%. The company's diversified collection of high-quality assets has continued to grow and outperform the S&P 500 index for decades.

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Private Equity Professional

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The “Magnificent Seven” refers to a group of seven high-performing and influential technology companies in the U.S. stock market, including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla. Private companies continued to face challenges throughout 2024.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

Although it's a private company, it's hard to imagine that its market capitalization would be anywhere close to Vertex's if it went public, considering it has a pretty thin pipeline and no commercialized products. It could be easy to dismiss this biotech as a potential challenger to Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Is the Stock Market Gaslighting Us? A downturn in the market doesn’t always precede a downturn in the economy. Yes, the stock market is forward-looking, but sometimes it sees things that aren’t there. At its low, the S&P 500 was 25% below its high. Cumulative vs. . •

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

That improvement has helped the company's profitability, although, according to Jassy, there is still room for improvement. The stock market is also pricing in this improvement, as the stock trades at a pricey 41 times forward earnings. Segment Q1 FY 2023 Operating Margin Q1 FY 2024 Operating Margin North America 1.2%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 29, 2024

2024 has gotten off to a sizzling start in the stock market. One company that seems to have lost its groove, however, is Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW). Shares of the database management company are down 21% so far this year. Snowflake investors have been left with little to cheer about. Data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The stock market is rewarding growth at the moment. Momentum trading is firing on all cylinders, with many growth stocks up over 100% this year. The first catalyst was the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, which has driven increased returns for technology companies.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 14, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is still a dominant trend in the stock market, but not every AI stock is worth buying. Now that the initial rush into these companies is over, you have to take a close look at them to see if they're worth buying, as some are grossly overvalued.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 24, 2024

Reddit 's (NYSE: RDDT) shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. On its first day on the market, the stock skyrocketed 48%. A long time coming Although Reddit is new to the stock market, the company has been around for nearly two decades.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The stock market has been soaring over the past year, but unfortunately that doesn't mean all stocks have been winners. Some are down big as elevated interest rates have made it difficult for companies to keep their costs down. And even once-promising and seemingly safe dividend stocks have had to reduce their payouts.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2023

Why you can't buy OpenAI stock yet. The company has not yet entered the public stock market with an initial public offering (IPO), and co-founder Sam Altman says he has no plans of taking that route to Wall Street. You can't invest in OpenAI yet.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 23, 2024

And they're all increasingly worth a look, particularly given how the overall stock market continues to inch toward uncomfortably high valuations. Maybe you shouldn't be nibbling on conventional stocks either. Private companies, however, are a compelling alternative to ordinary stocks.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That's when our stocks really go bananas. For us to tack on 12% points of outperformance in this market has been particularly sweet, even if 2007 so often felt bittersweet. Fellow Fools, the stock market is a roller coaster, full of swoops and dives. Remember, stock market equals roller coaster.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Who knows, but it's pretty clear these companies are not going anywhere. stock market."

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Well, if the stock market goes up, they win, the stock market stays the same, they win the stock market tanks, they win. Well, if the stock market goes up, they win. The stock market stays the same, they win the stock market tanks, they win. They win no matter what.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

CPPIB is one of the world’s largest investors in private equity, which has been an important driver of returns. It invests with external managers and also invests directly in private companies in North America and Europe. Interest rates have gone up, which has made it more difficult for these companies to access capital.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 7, 2024

Transitioning to a private company with these strong partners will not only limit our exposure to volatile financial markets, it also will ensure ALLETE has access to the significant capital needed for our planned investments now and over the long term. Per Share in Cash DULUTH, Minn.— May 6, 2024 — ALLETE, Inc. Advisors J.P.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 7, 2024

Just watching a company go, 5x on you, maybe one that you weren't even paying attention to or 4x or 3x, wherever you might have purchased Nvidia is hard. Ricky Mulvey: What's your mindset advice then to someone who's seeing these all time highs in the stock market? What's your mindset advice to them as they approach the market?

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Pension Pulse

MAY 30, 2024

There are great public and private companies in that portfolio. Emond, addressing the audience of business people who came to listen to him. The implementation of these new technologies is already starting to bear fruit. “In

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

You couldn't buy Vanguard it's a private company, but if you'd bought those three companies he was writing about that were cheating with their unfair competitive advantages more than two decades ago, you'd be a very happy investor today. They have as much chance of hitting a winning stock as you or I do.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

When you are a publicly traded company or when you're a private company, you're going to have hard assets on your books. Help, help me Ronta. Here we go. Let's start with the net tangible assets space. I think that's pretty easy to understand. ROUNTA can't give you everything.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

 At The Money: Finding Overlooked Private Investments , with Soraya Darabi, TMV (October 02, 2024) The Efficient Market Hypothesis informs us that stock markets reflect all of the information known about any company. But is that also true for start-ups and venture-funded private companies?

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was, and they were interestingly, I think it’s true to say the first non-utility non railroad that was thought stable enough to be allowed to be a public company. All the utilities and railroads at the beginning of the stock market were thought stable enough. And private equity values continue to be up.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

CDPQ's own public equities portfolio saw its performance "driven by growth stocks, as well as by large positions in Quebec companies, which performed well." The private equity portfolio was affected by interest rate hikes as well as by an increase in financing costs, which affected certain private companies.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 30, 2023

If a "sponsor," such as an insurance company or reinsurance company (a company that insures insurance companies), wants to transfer some or all of the risk it assumes in insuring a catastrophe, it can set up a separate legal structure—commonly known as a special purpose vehicle (SPV).

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