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APRIL 22, 2024

Caterpillar Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) stock has been on a tear over the past year, generating a total return of 62% for shareholders. Today, the company pays a quarterly dividend of $1.30 In addition to its dividend, Caterpillar is shareholder-friendly in another way: share repurchases. billion to shareholders.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

When Berkshire holds a greater than 10% stake in a public company, it's required to file a Form 4 with the SEC disclosing share acquisitions and dispositions within two business days of a transaction. Since July 17, Buffett's company has disclosed 16 separate Form 4 filings concerning Bank of America.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

Meanwhile, public companies that didn't offer a payout trudged their way to a less-impressive annualized return of 4.27% over the same 50-year stretch, and were, on average, 18% more volatile than the S&P 500. Since York Water's founding in 1816, the company has paid a continuous dividend to its shareholders.

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JUNE 27, 2024

Somewhat surprisingly, history says Nvidia shareholders could make more money in the second half of 2024, even after triple-digit gains in the first half of the year. History says Nvidia could continue soaring in the second half of 2024 Nvidia became a public company in 1999. Read on to learn more.

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JUNE 9, 2024

He's known for investing in companies with the goal of unlocking value for himself and other shareholders. A quick look at Southwest Gas and Icahn Enterprises Icahn Enterprises owns or effectively owns some companies, meaning it has total control of the entities. And, as a large shareholder, he pushes for those changes.

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MARCH 13, 2025

The advertising-technology (adtech) company has created a lot of shareholder value since it went public in 2016 -- the stock has gained about 2,000% in value even after including its current drop. The Trade Desk stock has consistently outperformed its regular financial guidance since going public.

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MARCH 2, 2024

Investors look forward to Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter, and in the 2023 version, released on Feb. shareholder whom Buffett described as understanding "many accounting terms, but. And since they track publicly-traded companies, the value of these equity positions changes daily -- as much as $5 billion per day.

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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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MAY 5, 2024

Besides being the chairman and CEO of the eighth largest public company in the world, Buffett has an impressive track record as an investor. His first purchase of the company's stock dates to 1962. Yes, Buffett's biggest stock purchase for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders last year was Berkshire Hathaway stock itself!

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

The filing noted that it released another approximately 26 million shares to be sold by other shareholders. Those proceeds won't go to the company, but they add to the downward pressure on the stock. But even after the decline from its lofty share price, the company still has a market cap of about $20 billion.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Since taking the reins as CEO in 1965, the aptly dubbed "Oracle of Omaha" has overseen a nearly 5,200,000% cumulative return for Berkshire's Class A shareholders (BRK.A). During Berkshire's most recent annual shareholder meeting, Buffett opined that corporate tax rates were liable to climb in the future.

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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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OCTOBER 19, 2024

Despite its growing portfolio of AI products and services, the cloud computing company is experiencing a deceleration in its revenue growth and blowout losses at the bottom line. In other words, you could argue he often sees more value in his own company than any other across the entire market. Snowflake simply doesn't fit the bill.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

It's been a public company since 2009 and has been profitable and free cash flow generative every year since its initial public offering ( IPO ). For most of its time as a public company, DocuSign has been unprofitable but has demonstrated impressive revenue growth. To businesses, data is vital.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

While "years" tends to be the typical holding period for a stock in Berkshire's portfolio, Warren Buffett's latest annual letter to shareholders outlined eight stocks that were dubbed "indefinite" holdings. Since then, Berkshire's stake in the company has grown to almost 255.3 billion) of Berkshire Hathaway's invested assets.

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JULY 30, 2024

Valuation, shareholder rewards, and outlook Walmart stock trades at 28.9 Target has done so since it became a public company in 1967. Both companies have steadily reduced their outstanding share count through buybacks in recent years, with Walmart decreasing its share count by 5.7% Target generated $8.46 and Target by 10.2%

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Specifically, Buffett and his team have sold more than 515 million shares of Apple and reduced their company's position to an even 400 million shares. He believes shareholders will, in hindsight, value Berkshire Hathaway locking in sizable gains at a lower tax rate.

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MAY 16, 2024

Meanwhile, reverse-stock splits aim to increase a company's share price to ensure it meets the minimum listing requirements on a major stock exchange. For all intents and purposes, most investors seek out companies enacting forward-stock splits.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When Berkshire Hathaway holds a greater than 10% stake in a public company, it's required to file Form 4 with the SEC within two business days of each buy or sale transaction. By steadily reducing his company's outstanding share count, Buffett is incrementally increasing the ownership stake of shareholders.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

If the deal involves cash, then shareholders could be banking on a big payday coming their way. Depending on the premium an acquirer could pay, shareholders might get a much higher return on their investment than if they sold their investment prior to the acquisition. Should you invest in CRISPR stock today?

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

Altria Group American tobacco giant Altria Group (NYSE: MO) has made millions for shareholders over the past century selling Marlboro cigarettes in the United States. The company's golden years are far behind it now that the general public is better informed about the dangers of smoking. Image source: Getty Images 1.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

With that in mind, Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) and Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) rewarded shareholders with monster returns of 345% and 395%, respectively, over the last five years. That share price appreciation makes both companies stock-split candidates in 2024.

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APRIL 25, 2024

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett put it well in 2023 in a letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders: "The weeds wither away in significance as the flowers bloom. The growth in a long-term winner can often dwarf losses elsewhere in a portfolio. Over time, it takes just a few winners to work wonders" for your returns.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

-based company held its initial public offering (IPO) in mid-September 2023. 31, 2023, is its second quarterly report released as a public company, but just its first report that covers an entire period in which it was publicly traded. So, its fiscal Q3 2024 report, for the period ended Dec. 32% Data source: Arm Holdings.

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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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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Englander's Millennium dumped more than half its stake in Palantir over three months Palantir has been a continuous holding in Millennium Management's mammoth portfolio since it became a public company in September 2020. The final piece of the puzzle for Millennium's investment team was, likely, Coca-Cola's valuation.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Furthermore, some BDCs, such as Ares Capital, offer more sophisticated financing solutions -- making them appealing to larger public companies as well. BDCs have an unusual corporate structure in that 90% of taxable income is distributed to shareholders on an annual basis. Well, not exactly.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Palantir: The original AI expert Palantir (NYSE: PLTR) is coming up on its third year as a public company. Its success was born of the ability to gather siloed data from various private and public databases and run the information through AI algorithms to track terrorists. Image source: Getty Images.

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JUNE 15, 2024

However, stock splits have historically been bad news for Nvidia shareholders. The company's value has declined by an average of 23% during the 12-month period following past splits. Here's what investors should know.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

That would supply the oil giant more cash to return to shareholders and invest in growing its lower-carbon energy businesses. Shares are down more than 20% since it came public, driving its dividend yield up to 3.8%. That's largely due to turnover among shareholders. In the third quarter, it reported $3.9 billion in sales, a 3.3%

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AUGUST 16, 2023

The logical next stock-split stock: Costco Wholesale If there's one publicly traded company that makes for the most-logical stock-split candidate , it's warehouse club Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST). Healthcare company UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) , whose shares closed at $508.01 Shares ended at just shy of $563 on Aug.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

In his 2021 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, he wrote that he prefers to have 100% of his money invested in equities. And there's a good case to be made that Buffett is telegraphing a $277 billion warning that the stock market could be headed for trouble. Image source: The Motley Fool. Trouble ahead for the stock market?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Based on Berkshire's 13Fs, as well as the Oracle of Omaha's commentary during his company's latest annual shareholder meeting, it would appear that no stock is loved more than tech giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). For example, retiring shares is incrementally increasing the ownership stakes of existing shareholders.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

While lightning occasionally strikes, most millionaire-makers are boring but successful companies that grow earnings for decades, often sharing profits with shareholders via dividends. Management has given shareholders 67 consecutive raises, and there's no reason to think it will stop. million with dividends reinvested.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

During Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in early May, he opined that the corporate tax rate would likely climb in the future. To add to this point, Berkshire's chief has continued to praise Apple's business, even as he sizably pared down his company's No. 1 position.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These types of issues are never a good look for a public company. The company lowered its 2024 guidance from a range of $631 million and $640 million to a range of $590 million to $600 million. SentinelOne's shareholder structure consists of A and B shares. However, there is more to this story.

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