The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2024

It's the second-largest public company in the world for a reason, and I don't think its stock price is about to collapse. Yet however impressive its past performance, what matters to investors is how the company will perform going forward. Year iPhone Unit Sales iPhone Revenue 2015 231.2 million $155 billion 2016 211.8

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Looking back over the past eight years that PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has been a public company, it hasn't been the success investors were hoping for. A little history and context When I talk about PayPal going public, I mean for the second time. Let's see what that means and if it can change.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 7, 2024

However, its commitment to R&D is dwarfed by another "investment" that no other public company has come close to matching. billion in buybacks 2014 : $45 billion 2015 : $35.253 billion 2016 : $29.722 billion 2017 : $32.9 billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. Apple's capital-return program is truly on another level.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For investors looking for tech stocks that they can hold onto for the next decade, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM) (aka TSMC) are options you don't have to second-guess. Apple Apple held the title of the world's most valuable public company for a while until Microsoft recently passed it.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 7, 2024

Key qualitative differences between Nvidia now and Cisco in the late 199Os Cisco's CEO in the below chart refers to John Chambers, who led the company from 1995 to 2015. Cisco was founded in 1984 by two Stanford University computer scientists and went public in 1990. The similarities are only surface deep.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2023

Volvo, which itself had been acquired by the Chinese automaker Geely (OTC: GELYY) in 2010, bought Polestar's brand in 2015. That new division caught the attention of the SPAC Gores Guggenheim, and Polestar was spun out as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The big opportunity for SoundHound While SoundHound has only been a public company for about 18 months, the company has actually been around since 2005. It was started by two Stanford graduates with the goal of bringing conversational intelligence to many applications, and that central goal and task hasn't changed for 18 years.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

The company has acquired more than 2 million customers since it was founded in 2015 and, according to reports, is attracting historically underinsured demographics, including people aged 19 to 34. That's near the cheapest level since it became a public company in 2020: LMND PS Ratio data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 15, 2024

Apple's physical product innovation has led the way for more than a decade, with the company now also emphasizing high-margin subscription services. billion of its own common stock since the start of 2013, which is tops among public companies. To boot, Apple has repurchased $650.9 The likeliest answer is valuation.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In September, shares of gym chain Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) dropped to multiyear lows after the company suddenly removed Chris Rondeau from his position as CEO. 2013, leading the company through its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. Rondeau had been at the helm since Jan.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Its forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 18 is the lowest it's been since 2015, and the company's yield is back to 3%. The 207 straight years it's doled out a payout is 60 years longer than any other public company. To boot, NextEra Energy is a phenomenal value after a challenging year that saw Treasury yields soar.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This marks the cheapest it's traded to forward-year earnings since 2015 and makes NextEra shares a phenomenal buy. The company has paid a continuous dividend to its shareholders since its founding in 1816. That's 207 consecutive years -- six decades longer than any other public company in the United States.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 31, 2023

That said, the company is still growing its top line and has yet to report a year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue as a public company. Etsy had its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. In the second quarter of 2023, Etsy posted revenue growth of just 7.5%, which was one of its slowest growth rates ever.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It's a rare growth company that was profitable even at IPO, and revenue continues to grow fast while net income increases as well. In the 2023 third quarter, Oddity's second as a public company, it kept up its top performance and beat its own guidance. Net income rose from $2.8 million to $3.8

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Meanwhile, its share repurchase program over the past decade is unmatched by any public company. According to monthly search share data provided by GlobalStats, the last time Google closed out a month with less than a 90% share of worldwide internet search was March 2015. Apple's iPhone accounts for better than 50% of U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

The company has also received some negative press this summer. One of its roller coasters -- which opened in 2015 at its Carowinds park near Charlotte, North Carolina, and cost an estimated $30 million to build -- was shut down when a stress fracture was discovered. The ride has since reopened after being under repair for six weeks.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not only does this outpace the annualized return of the S&P 500 over this stretch, but it more than doubled the 3.95% annualized return of public companies that don't offer a dividend. Dividend Equity ETF had more than $76 billion in assets invested in 104 companies. As of Jan. 5, the Schwab U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

When it comes to investing in tech stocks, many investors wrongly focus on share price as a perceived indicator of a given company's value. You should also consider metrics like market cap (the total value of a public company's shares outstanding) relative to the size of a business' total addressable market (TAM).

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The Big Picture

MAY 5, 2024

She served as the Chief Revenue Officer at Microsoft, COO, and Chief Marketing Officer at SoFi (2015-2019), Most recently, she was President of Honey, where she orchestrated the sale of to Paypal for $4 billion. She was named one of Ad Age’s 100 Most Influential Women in Advertising. WHERE DID ALL THE STOCKS GO?

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Anzu Partners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Mr. Nicol commented: “Scaling NUBURU’s commercial efforts is critical for the Company’s growth strategy as a public company. About NUBURU Founded in 2015, NUBURU, Inc. Zediker added: “Having Ron in an active management position will allow us to double down on our efforts to scale the business.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Launched in 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are frequently referenced by investors as part of a call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Globally, women make up 28% of public company boards and 19% of the C-suite.

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Anzu Partners

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As such, we are pleased to appoint Brian as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer. He is an accomplished and respected leader with profound expertise in scaling and operating public companies. About NUBURU Founded in 2015, NUBURU, Inc.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I think he was the first guest on your podcast, the Knowledge Project, back in 2015. Shane Parrish: I've made a lot of different investments, from start ups to private companies, to public companies. I sit on the board of a public company. Mary Long: You talked to Michael Malpieson quite a few times.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

the tight-knit firmament of private and public companies that drive the province’s economy. It has significant stakes in most of Quebec’s flagship companies, many of which leaned heavily on the Caisse as they grew into industry champions, including Alimentation Couche-Tard, CGI, Intact Financial and WSP Global.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But I think right now, generally speaking, I think we're going to see a lot of companies still hanging on the sideline because the conditions are just so difficult right now for those growth companies to get out there and be public companies. I mean, it's such a different life being a public company.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Union Square Ventures raised its first fund in NYC in 2004 and it wouldn’t see the first local IPO from that fund, Etsy, until 2015. The biggest tech IPO in New York, Datadog, came four years later, with companies like MongoDB coming in between. It takes a long time to build a truly thriving, world-class entrepreneurial tech community.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

I believe you had Art Peck Helming the retailer from 2015-2019. But when Mickey left the family that owns Gap or now owns part of it, it's a public company as the Fisher family, they really just never figured it out. Gap's had a lot of people coming in and out the door as CEO. Now they've got Richard Dickson.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Just thinking the Layer 2 solutions have been around now, I think Lightning was started back in 2015. Brian Armstrong -- Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Yeah, it's a good question because if I go back to 2015, I probably would have thought it would have happened faster. And it was very nascent. Thanks for taking my question.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

I checked it November of 2015, which by my school boy math puts this as the 94th consecutive historical mailbag. If you have feedback for me, criticism, or praise, or anything in between, I'm listening, and the best bits I read out. This is our pact. This is what we've done this very week of every month, since we started doing mailbags.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

My pal Rick Engdahl, I have brought you a fresh new podcast every week since July 2015. For public companies, you can say of Nvidia or Marvel or Amazon. Another thing I've never yet done, here's another never, is repeat a Rule Breaker Investing podcast. That's 450 weeks in a row. How about this?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This is the 440th podcast for Rule Breaker Investing, one a week, a brand new show every week with no skips, no repeats going back to July 2015. We only got to enjoy Pixar as its own public company for several years with Steve Jobs, by the way, as CEO before it got eaten up by Disney.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Most everything that influences the price of oil is outside the control of a company like Schlumberger. In 2014, what we were saying was an inventory surplus, which by the way was further exacerbated when economic sanctions were lifted on Iran in 2015, and their inventory came online too, so even more inventory surplus to come.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

data center REIT as a well-positioned but poorly trading public company with tremendous long-term potential. Our BREIT, BIP Infrastructure, and BPP perpetual strategies acquired the company for $10 billion in 2021, and its lease capacity has already grown sixfold in less than three years.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

It's truly has been a privilege of a lifetime to lead the company as CEO on our three strategies of consumption, cloud computing, and globalization since 2015 and be a part of Alibaba's high-growth period. This quarter is a combination of my eight-year leadership of Alibaba and the start of my new journey. Thank you, everyone.

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Axial

MAY 4, 2023

Our team has advised on over $2 billion of successful transactions with private equity firms, high net-worth individuals, and public companies. “Vesticor Advisors provides M&A and capital raising advisory services exclusively to founder and owner-operated companies.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. They’ve been around literally nearly a century.

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The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2024

And then what eventually was the bridge between Pinterest and SoFi in 2015? I was there 2015. I think if you were going to get a job at a public company, you should read their annual report. 00:54:23 [Speaker Changed] The company itself. And so that was a fun run. And so we did that. There were 75 employees.

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