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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. million shares of Chipotle.

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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.

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JUNE 29, 2023

The confirmation comes exactly a week after news of the acquisition bid first came to light, and some two years after SAP spun the business out as an independent publicly traded company, having bought it back in 2018 for $8 billion just as Qualtrics was originally planning its IPO. billion in equity and $1 billion in debt.

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MAY 19, 2024

2018 : The Shiller P/E topped 30, yet again, for more than a year between 2017 and 2018, which led to a 20% pullback in the S&P 500 during the fourth quarter of 2018. Most public companies in the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite are able to take advantage of long-winded expansions.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

million $1,006 million 2018 43.7 The company also acquires other businesses. Here's what that's looked like since going public in 2015. But ideally, companies should create more than $1 of long-term shareholder value for every $1 they spend. Here's the year-by-year breakdown of PayPal's share repurchase activity.

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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. There are a lot of good reasons to pay attention to every investment decision Warren Buffett makes. Since taking control of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) If the ratio exceeded 1.2,

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In addition to having one of the largest nominal-dollar dividend payouts on the planet ($15 billion) among public companies, Apple has repurchased in the neighborhood of $600 billion worth of its common stock since the start of 2013. The name of that company is. Lastly, Warren Buffett loves a hearty capital-return program.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

ULA revenue and profits This question isn't as easy to answer as it perhaps should be, for two reasons: First, SpaceX is a private company , and so it doesn't (and doesn't have to) give regular and accurate data on its revenue, profits, or free cash flow. billion in 2018 -- was only $1.05 We're not totally in the dark.

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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 2018 : $72.738 billion 2019 : $66.897 billion 2020 : $72.358 billion 2021 : $85.971 billion 2022 : $89.402 billion 2023 : $77.55 billion on R&D since fiscal 2013 began. 2013 : $22.95

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Clearlake acquired Janus in February 2018 and remained its largest shareholder when the company listed on the NYSE in June 2021. Under Clearlake’s ownership, Janus executed several initiatives, including the development of new access control technologies and the purchase and integration of seven acquisitions.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Supreme Court's decision to officially legalize wagering on sporting events in 2018. 2018: 18% 2019: 43% 2020: 90% 2021: 111% 2022: 73% 2023: 76% (through the first nine months) Image source: Getty Images. Shares of the online wagering and fantasy sports leader have more than tripled in 2023. Business is slowing.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Nvidia's latest 13F document shows that the company has investments in five public companies, including SoundHound AI. million, investors flocked to SoundHound AI stock as interest and speculation over Nvidia's relationship with the company intensified. In 2018, Apple acquired SoundHound AI rival Shazam for $400 million.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

A starting shot signaled the beginning of a long race on May 14, 2018. The company's trailing-12-month revenue is up over 856% since going public just a few years ago, making it one of the fastest-growing public companies in the world. This was the day the U.S. Five years later, the market has exploded in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Grab, which acquired Uber Technologies ' Southeast Asian business in 2018, is the region's largest mobility and delivery services provider. Both companies integrate their own digital payment services -- SeaMoney and GrabPay -- into their mobile apps. In 2022, its revenue and GMV grew another 112% and 24%, respectively.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Here's what's made Nvidia the stock of the century (thus far) Throughout its 25 years as a public company, Nvidia has had moments where it's thrived. For quite some time, the company's graphics processing units (GPUs) used for gaming on personal computers were its calling-card to success.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Let's take a look at where it was five years ago, before it was even a public company, and where it is now. Year Revenue YOY Growth Operating Margin Net Income/Loss YOY Net Income Growth 2018 $3.7 B 42% 5% $(17 M) N/A Trailing 12 months $9 B 13% 22% $2.3 B 41% Data Source: Airbnb financial filings. YOY = year over year.

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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. billion 2018 217.7 Will the rise of AI mean the beginning of the end for Apple?

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MARCH 19, 2024

The same company with a prospectus that promoted a compound annual growth rate of 80% between 2018 and 2022 in its prospectus has slowed. In its first quarter as a public company, sales rose a mere 6%, and it announced layoffs in February. Business hasn't improved since its trading floor premiere.

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APRIL 22, 2024

and the company's subscription-powered Services segment has been its most-consistent performer for years. Further, the $651 billion in share repurchases Apple has undertaken since the start of 2013 is tops among all public companies. On the bright side, Apple's iPhone still dominates in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In its first reported quarter as a public company, its fiscal Q1 2020 (ended April 30, 2019), CrowdStrike posted year-over-year revenue growth of 103%. Consistently slowing revenue growth over its history as a public company doesn't sound great, but it doesn't tell the whole story. Secondly, 37% growth is still very good.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The team will continue to partner with companies and businesses in need of transitional capital and provide flexible debt and non-control equity solutions to both private and public companies. The opportunistic credit team will be led by Aaron Rosen and Craig Snyder, who serve as Co-Portfolio Managers of special opportunities.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Walmart joins the select group of less than a dozen high-profile companies to have conducted a forward-stock split since the midpoint of 2021. It won't, however, be the last widely owned or high-flying public company to declare a split. Image source: Getty Images. But innovation is, arguably, the real secret sauce of late.

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MAY 2, 2024

Second, the Oracle of Omaha and his team have a penchant for buying shares of companies that pay a regular dividend. Public companies that pay a dividend are usually profitable on a recurring basis and capable of providing transparent long-term growth outlooks.

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JULY 2, 2023

CrowdStrike's dollar-based net retention rate has been above 120% in all but three quarters dating back to the beginning of its fiscal 2018. That's when companies like Walmart (NYSE: WMT) shine. Walmart has been a market-beating stock over its lifetime as a public company.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

But dig deeper, and you'll find that Berkshire Hathaway owns and operates a lot of very boring businesses, including railroads, energy companies, and utilities. Many of the public companies that Berkshire has shares in also lack the glitz and glamor that comes with popular growth stocks.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2024

ADC data by YCharts The above chart illustrates how far off their highs each of these stocks remain, going back to February 2018 when Vici Properties went public as a spinoff of Caesars Entertainment. Three favorites of mine are Agree Realty (NYSE: ADC) , Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE: ARE) , and VICI Properties (NYSE: VICI).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Dan Loeb of Third Point (210,000 shares) Viking Global and Renaissance Technologies completely exited their fund's stakes in the world's largest public company. Terry Smith of Fundsmith (705,498 shares). The reasoning behind these sales may boil down to a combination of history and valuation.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, the company's services segment continues to grow like wildfire, with a shift to subscription services expected to lift the company's operating margin over time and lessen the sales fluctuations observed during iPhone replacement cycles. Apple's capital-return program is also unmatched among publicly traded companies.

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JUNE 19, 2023

Though Berkshire Hathaway has scooped up shares of tech stock Apple from time to time in recent quarters, the bulk of Buffett's purchases in the largest public company by market cap in the U.S. Take tech stock Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , Berkshire Hathaway's largest holding by a significant amount , as an ideal example.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Clearlake acquired Janus in February 2018 in partnership with the founding management team and remained its largest shareholder when Janus listed on the New York Stock Exchange in June 2021. Together with management, we achieved over 140% EBITDA growth and made investments to transition the business to a public company.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Apple Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the world's largest public company with a valuation of $2.8 The bank launched an AI-powered virtual assistant called Erica in 2018, and its CEO Brian Moynihan says Erica has since spent 10 million hours conversing with customers. Here are seven AI stocks Buffett and Berkshire are currently holding.

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APRIL 28, 2024

The growth scares of 2016, 2018, Covid, and the 2022 downturn all caused significant angst in the market, but didn't result in recession -- or at least in case of the pandemic, not a "traditional" one. The IWM merely tracks the 2000 smallest public companies above a certain threshold (leaving out microcaps) in a diversified manner.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Mary Long: This is a company that has compounded shareholder value at a rate of 34% over the course of its history as a public company. I think one of my favorites is from a letter he wrote in 2018. Now we often, if you read the proxy statement of any public company, they will talk a lot about alignment.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If you go back to the WMIH merger in 2018, which is when we became a fully independent public company, our first priority was deleveraging, which we accomplished by refinancing our senior notes and extending our liquidity runway. Now, that's the lowest level of Mr. Cooper's history as a public company.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

While we, as a public company, always provide you with the split times quarterly results, we are running a marathon, not a series of sprints. Please consider the following: Revenues in the first six months of 2018 were $3.6 Underwriting profits in the first six months of 2018 were $209 million. billion, compared to $4.2

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JULY 1, 2023

When you go back to 2018 for Carnival, the coverage ratio is close to 20. But I think as we think about and we look at companies that have had sustained out-performance, there tends to be great leadership and great culture behind that and there's a lot of numbers and some studies that have been done with public companies to back that up.

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