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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. The REIT has made 646 consecutive monthly dividend payments to its shareholders and increased its distribution in each of the past 106 quarters.

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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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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. Its profit margin of 10.5%

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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 22, 2024

Shareholders have been very happy with Costco 's (NASDAQ: COST) track record. Prospective investors will also be inclined to buy, and existing shareholders will be encouraged to hold, because Costco shares have bucked the trend of the death of brick-and-mortar retail. This is despite an uncertain economic backdrop.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

The company generates over $42 billion in annual revenue, over 40% of which is free cash flow. Broadcom's management returns cash to shareholders via dividends. 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. government.

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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. Ford also has a healthy balance sheet that should allow it to return plenty of capital to its shareholders.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Some of the information we provide during today's call regarding our future expectations, plans, and prospects may constitute forward-looking statements. 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. Equity issuances.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

By comparison, publicly traded companies that don't pay a dividend have delivered a considerably tamer annualized return of 3.95% over the same five-decade stretch. Companies that consistently pay a dividend to their shareholders are almost always profitable and time-tested. Image source: Getty Images. If the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

If a company pays a dividend long enough, it becomes part of its identity. That's the case with healthcare standout Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) , which has paid and raised its shareholder dividend for 62 consecutive years. In other words, the company pays just over half of its cash profits out as shareholder dividends.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Lucky for us, Buffett outlined why he is hoarding the cash in his annual letter to shareholders. Let's look at how Berkshire built its unprecedented cash hoard, what the company currently does with its cash, and what it might take for Buffett to deploy it meaningfully. What else could Berkshire do with its cash?

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AUGUST 1, 2023

While its shareholders suffered during that period, contrarian investors can consider its aftermath an opportunity to buy shares of one of the best companies in China for cheap. It delivered respectable first-quarter 2023 results, with revenue and operating profit up by 11% and 9%, so the worst is probably over for the company.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Very few public companies offer monthly dividends, and the ones that do are typically real estate investment trusts (REITs) because they are legally required to pay out 90% of their taxable earnings to shareholders. Additionally, an increasing share count reduces the value of each shareholder's stake.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We've increased our regular dividend rate 160%; and including both regular and special dividends, paid or committed to pay more than $13 billion directly to shareholders; and $3.2 billion of that free cash flow back to our shareholders through a mix of our regular dividend and opportunistic share repurchases. We generated $1.6

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Roblox (NYSE: RBLX) stock has been on a roller-coaster ride since the company went public in 2021. In its first year as a public company, shares climbed over 90% from their IPO price to reach a high of $134.72 Heavy losses add another layer of uncertainty that shareholders must endure. just a few months later.

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JULY 5, 2023

However, not being involved in the AI hype wave is actually a bonus for prospective and current shareholders as it allows investors to accurately assess the company from a more neutral standpoint. While 33% may sound impressive, it's the lowest quarterly revenue growth figure that the company has reported as a public company.

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DECEMBER 24, 2023

Young up-and-coming companies often lack the cash to attract top candidates, whereas it's relatively easy to issue shares and pay these employees with stock. Regardless, the high insider ownership aligns management's interests with those of other shareholders. On Holding isn't your usual prospective investment though.

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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 17, 2024

Splits are superficial in the sense that they have no effect on a company's market cap or operating performance. With a forward-stock split, a public company is angling to make its shares more nominally affordable for retail investors. Image source: Getty Images. While sales jumped 14.1%

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APRIL 28, 2024

Second, the prospect of a healthy economy but with lower-interest rates could be in the cards -- a so-called "soft landing." While inflation has remained a tad stubborn and the prospects for rate cuts have been pushed out in time, most still believe the Federal Reserve will begin to cut rates sometime later this year.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Roku lucratively rewarded shareholders from its initial public offering (IPO) through 2021 but has lost 85% of its value since peaking in the 2021 stock market bubble. Or is the stock's decline a permanent loss, a warning sign to prospective investors to stay away? billion in cash and zero debt on its balance sheet.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Some of the information we provide during today's call regarding our future expectations, plans and prospects may constitute forward-looking statements. billion in equity in a manner that we believe to be accretive to existing shareholders. I will be your moderator for MicroStrategy's 2024 third-quarter earnings webinar. in 2021, 1.8%

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MAY 16, 2024

Following the recent update, Hartford Funds found that non-paying public companies averaged a 4.27% annual return over the prior half-century, and were 18% more volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. In short, these are businesses we'd expect to rise in value over time and make their patient shareholders richer.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today's conference call may include forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Lennar's business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, strategies, and prospects. And over time, it would be our goal to align capital return to shareholders more closely with that cash flow. times, up from 1.4

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JULY 31, 2024

We completed the previously announced acquisition of the Management Contract of Great Ajax, which was a residential mortgage REIT, which is now we're going to transition that into an opportunistic commercial mortgage REIT, which will help generate fee-related earnings for shareholders as we reposition the company and grow it.

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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. With that, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Thibaut. Now, getting into the quarter.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We believe that creating moments of WOW for customers across selection, price, and service formed the foundation for long-term growth, profitability, and ultimately free cash flow, which serves as the basis of long-term shareholder value. And we see many paths to making this a worthwhile investment for shareholders.

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JULY 21, 2023

With that, I'll now turn it over to Jeff for his 85th earnings call as a public company CFO and his 41st and final call as the CFO of American Express. billion of capital to our shareholders in the second quarter, including common stock purchases of $1.1 I'm sure you will all enjoy getting to know him. We returned $1.6

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Net free cash flow and cash on the balance sheet funded year-to-date cash return to shareholders of $2.2 billion to shareholders in 2023, or about 67% of our estimated 2023 cash flow, assuming a $75 oil price, well ahead of our target minimum return of 60%. billion of cash return committed to shareholders this year.

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APRIL 30, 2024

To be clear, this is not just in size but more importantly, excellent risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders and LPs. As you think about all these comments, we're super excited where we are with the business and the prospects for the future. At NewRez, our mortgage company, Baron and the team did a great job during the quarter.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

But even at that level, a forward price to earnings ratio of 22 isn't too much to pay for a company with these stellar long term prospects particularly one that consistently produces better cash flow than earnings. Now Disney fans or Marvel shareholders may remember the significance of October 2009. How about this?

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Both teams are excited to share how we'll create greater value for our customers and shareholders alike. With over $100 billion in debt reduction behind us and $7 billion return to shareholders in 2023, we remain fully focused day-in and day-out on using lean to improve how we serve our customers and deliver value for shareholders.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Today's conference call may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Lennar's business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, strategies, and prospects. Following the spinoff, the new public company will be completely independent from Lennar. Let me turn to pure play.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Investors were also skeptical about Robinhood's prospects as a business. We had our first quarter of GAAP profitability as a public company in Q2. In the third quarter, we stayed focused on serving customers, growing our business, and driving long-term shareholder value. Put in a lot of work to make this a reality.

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