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AUGUST 15, 2023

So to get started, it's best for beginners to stick to a well-proven method: Buy good companies with bright prospects and hold them over the long term. One company that can be a good start for new investors is Chinese technology giant Tencent (OTC: TCEHY). Image source: Getty Images.

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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. The company's earnings have almost always been negative, and Kyndryl is burning cash on a regular basis. The mood around Kyndryl's modest growth prospects has changed. What's changed?

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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. Despite these challenges, Palantir's business has thrived so far in 2023.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

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AUGUST 2, 2024

For much of the past year, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) enjoyed the esteemed title of the world's most valuable public company. In the long term, though, Microsoft's prospects are as strong as ever. A good approach to Microsoft's stock is to dollar-cost average your investments.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Tempus delivered decent financials in its first quarterly report as a public company last week. The prospects remain promising. She's been selling some of Ark's weaker investments to throw more weight behind a market winner early in its publicly traded tenure. Image source: Getty Images. Revenue rose a better-than-expected 25%.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Throughout its entire history as a public company, shares have never had this low of a valuation. It's hard to have any sort of confidence as it pertains to Spirit's prospects. Is Spirit too cheap to ignore? Spirit shares trade at a dirt cheap valuation right now. Turnarounds seldom turn," Warren Buffett is credited with saying.

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MARCH 10, 2024

Although he doesn't manage a public company or hedge fund like Buffett and Griffin do, he's donated a boatload of money to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Microsoft, however, should have tremendous growth prospects thanks largely to the rising adoption of generative AI. They're loaded with dividend stocks.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

It's easy to see why investors weren't won over by the prospect of placing bets on live sports being decided in arenas and playing fields filled with empty seats, cardboard cutouts, or virtual fans. Every analyst following the company expects DraftKings to post its first profit as a public company this quarter.

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JUNE 16, 2024

In its 12 years as a public company , Meta has never performed a stock split. That's in stark contrast to other tech megacaps like Adobe and Microsoft , who split their shares four and seven times, respectively, in the first 12 years of their existence as public companies. Meta's management isn't a fan of stock splits.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

Lower rates boost spending and economic growth, and investors tend to get excited by those prospects. Microsoft will become the world's most valuable company Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is worth $2.8 Meanwhile, Microsoft has more robust growth prospects. As a result, the S&P 500 returned an average of 17.6% Here's why.

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MAY 2, 2024

According to the report's findings, dividend-paying companies delivered an average annual return of 9.17% over a half-century (1973-2023), while being 6% less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. PennantPark has been paying a monthly dividend since July 2011, which is mere months after it debuted as a public company.

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JULY 1, 2024

It even briefly took the title of the "world's most valuable public company," passing tech titans Microsoft and Apple. A high valuation can be justified when the company's growth prospects match it, but at some point, even the most promising companies can reach valuations that go beyond what's fundamentally reasonable.

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JULY 10, 2024

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. Although some reverse-stock splits can be long-term winners, most investors tend to focus their attention on public companies conducting forward splits.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Third, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted new rules that require public companies to disclose "material cybersecurity incidents" within four business days. No company wants that type of publicity. A security breach can tarnish a company's brand image, and that damage can have lasting effects.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

Here's everything you need to know about this top-performing Ark Invest ETF and why Wood is so optimistic about the exchange-traded fund's long-term prospects. Leading the way higher As you can see below, ARK Next Generation Internet and ARK Innovation largely made the same moves throughout the year.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

The latest report ranked more than 1,700 public companies based on their long-term revenue growth prospects. Fortune Magazine regularly teams up with analysts from Boston Consulting Group to publish an annual edition of the Fortune Future 50.

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APRIL 22, 2024

Prospective investors missed out on the recent special cash dividend of $15 per share. Moreover, these are two large-cap companies with long histories as public companies, meaning sudden surges in price are atypical. per share, equating to an annual yield of 0.65%.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Grab's near-term prospects look brighter In 2021, Grab's first year as a public company, its revenue rose 44% as its GMV grew 29%. Sea's stock might seem cheap at less than 2 times this year's sales, but its high-growth days are likely over, and both of its core businesses could face existential challenges.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

To address this, the company's AI is compiling factors that point to possible party animals, to stop them from booking beforehand. In November, Airbnb made its first acquisition as a public company: GamePlanner.AI. Management says it's working, which is good for its community of hosts.

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MAY 30, 2024

Still, it requires a perspective of seeing where a company like Chipotle could go based on its past and that of comparable enterprises. When Ackman's fund first bought its stock in 2016, Chipotle had a 10-year track record as a public company and had expanded to about 2,000 restaurants.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

The first public company to amass a $1 trillion valuation was Apple in 2018. Meanwhile, four other companies have now also crossed the exclusive $1 trillion mark: Microsoft , Amazon , Nvidia , and Google parent Alphabet. The leaders now come from the technology sector.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Recent volatility has knocked the stock from a forward P/E of 38 to 30, making Broadcom an increasingly interesting stock idea given its growth prospects. Microsoft has generated $74 billion in cash flow over the past four quarters, more than most public companies are worth. government.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

For instance, when Berkshire holds a 10% or greater stake in a public company, it's required to file Form 4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) every time shares are purchased or sold. Profit-taking is one possible answer.

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JUNE 5, 2024

public company to cross the $3 trillion market cap threshold. Investors would be better served to keep their eye on Nvidia's operating and financial results -- which have been consistently stellar -- for insight into the company's ongoing prospects. Finally, a note on valuation.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Then, you can analyze the company's future prospects and compare them to the past return. Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) conducted its initial public offering (IPO) in June 2019. Looking back five years, starting with its early days as a public company, how much money would you have if you'd invested $1,000 in October 2019?

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JULY 3, 2024

A stock split is a tool publicly traded companies can lean on to cosmetically alter their share price and outstanding share count by the same factor. I say "cosmetically," because stock splits have no effect on a company's market cap or its operating performance. Image source: Getty Images. per share, his $6.50 If the U.S.

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JULY 2, 2024

At its peak two weeks ago, Nvidia briefly surpassed Microsoft and Apple to gain the title of "most-valuable public company." This demonstrates just how quickly Sea's online marketplace has scaled and explains why billionaire investors are so excited about the company's prospects. For some context, Shopee saw $10.3

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

in the mid-1960s, he's overseen a greater than 5,700,000% aggregate return in his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) and guided Berkshire to become only the ninth public company to reach the $1 trillion market cap plateau. Since Warren Buffett became the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) When the U.S.

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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.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Its biggest point of differentiation is that it owns or has an interest in 14 in-service nuclear power facilities (which includes 25 actual nuclear power plants), the largest nuclear power assemblage of any public company. This is a high-risk play, of course, but investors who think long term might like the prospects here.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

There wasn't any specific news on the newly public company, but hot initial public offering (IPO) stocks often begin to fall after early surges if their valuations become inflated. While Cava wasn't profitable at its IPO in June, it has already posted a profit in its first quarterly report as a public company, with $6.5

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Part of the reason why Vici Properties has been able to keep raising its dividend every year since it became a public company in 2018 is that it has built-in rent hikes in its leases. All in, Vici Properties has an attractive dividend yield right now and solid prospects for continued dividend growth over time.

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APRIL 6, 2024

That's a lofty valuation for a company that still must prove it can grow revenue and profits as a public company in an industry where so many players have struggled to so. The company generated revenue of $804 million in 2023, along with a net loss of $91 million and negative free cash flow of $85 million.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

First, rising interest rates made the prospect of future debt-financed acquisitions less appealing. It also meant refinancing the company's existing debt could be costlier. The REIT pays its dividend monthly and has increased its payout 123 times (and for 105 consecutive quarters) since becoming a public company in 1994.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

By "regulated," I mean the company can't increase rates on its customers without first getting approval from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PPUC). Regulated utilities avoid the prospect of potentially volatile and unpredictable wholesale pricing. While this might sound like a hassle, it's actually fantastic news.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

EOG recently celebrated our 25th anniversary as an independently traded public company. I'd love to hear your latest thoughts on how you're thinking about the prospectivity more on the west side of the play, either in that black oil or volatile oil in the play? So, obviously, it's an oil prospect. Please go ahead.

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