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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) , like other companies that produce these key global fuels, doesn't control the often dramatic ups and downs of these commodities. And if things go according to plan, the recent upswing in oil prices should lead to sizable dividend increases for shareholders. What Devon does control, however, is its dividend.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Given that the company and its collaborator Vertex Pharmaceuticals will hear back on Dec. 8 from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the approval of exa-cel, their candidate to treat or cure sickle cell disease (SCD), the move is apt to rustle some feathers among shareholders. As reported by Fierce Biotech on Nov.

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MAY 4, 2024

Just one quarter after Meta Platforms announced its first-ever dividend payout, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) joined Meta, Microsoft , and Apple to become the fourth "Magnificent Seven" company to reward shareholders with a quarterly dividend. based company : $20.7 Alphabet's dividend will start at just $0.20

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Being a shareholder in Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) hasn't been a lot of fun lately (trust me, I'm one of them), unless you enjoy roller-coaster rides with lots of twists and turns. Let's see what this is all about and how it affects shareholders. The company also offers various other packages, including annual passes for $1,399 per person.

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MARCH 4, 2024

But a couple of months before that, investors get to leaf through the wisdom that courses through the pages of Buffett's annual letter to shareholders. Buffett wrote the following in the 2023 letter to shareholders: One investment rule at Berkshire has not and will not change: Never risk permanent loss of capital. annual meeting.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The company's results for the first quarter of fiscal 2024 were mixed relative to analyst expectations, but a surge in profit was enough to convince investors to push up the stock on Thursday. Disney's adjusted earnings per share shot up 23% year over year to $1.22, and the company believes EPS will grow by at least 20% in fiscal 2024.

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MAY 16, 2024

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett and his company Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) Berkshire's cash pile to top $200 billion this quarter As of the end of March, Berkshire had $189 billion in cash and equivalents on its books, which is a record for the company. had their annual meeting earlier this month.

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MAY 18, 2024

In a subsequent interview with CNBC, CEO Laxman Narasimhan identified the company's problem from his perspective by saying: "We have not been able to communicate to [occasional customers] the value that we provide." The company hopes to win business from occasional customers by providing bargains. Schultz said: "U.S.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Joining Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund in staging a proxy fight at the entertainment giant, Blackwells is seeking three board seats, and in a letter to shareholders, it proposed breaking up the company into standalone sports, entertainment, and experiences businesses.

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MARCH 17, 2024

When you think about large integrated oil majors, companies like ExxonMobil , Chevron , Shell , TotalEnergies , and BP probably come to mind first. Only 12% of its shareholders resided in the U.S. So it has let down shareholders before. But Norwegian energy giant Equinor (NYSE: EQNR) is also up there. as of the end of 2022.

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JULY 16, 2023

Most Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) shareholders are probably excited about the company's newly approved Alzheimer's drug Leqembi right about now, and it's no surprise why. For the business to grow, and for shareholders to earn a return, it needs to make more money from selling its medicines than it costs to develop them.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

But the difference with Kellogg is that the iconic food maker's good company/bad company spin-off is likely to lead to a major adjustment in both the business and the dividend policy. Given the company's name and history, cereal was also considered somewhat sacred. Image source: Getty Images. It's a common move on Wall Street.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

The company had enjoyed huge brand awareness for its "experiential" toy stores where kids get to create their own stuffed animals in a hands-on experience. The company's sales are booming, and profits have never been better. Perhaps this is why Build-A-Bear -- now a 26-year-old company -- has such high brand awareness.

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JULY 10, 2023

FMC (NYSE: FMC) shares fell sharply after the agricultural sciences company released its latest financial report, while Outset Medical (NASDAQ: OM) had to announce that it had received troubling correspondence from a key regulator. The company now expects sales in the second quarter of between $1 billion and $1.03 billion and $5.4

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

shareholders, you'll find Buffett discussing mistake after mistake, year after year. That makes his annual letter to shareholders a must-read for just about anyone who wants to learn to be a better investor or even a better decision-maker. And it couldn't have worked out better for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

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MAY 12, 2024

For one thing, both companies operate in fairly cutthroat, low-margin businesses: retail and server hardware. This unconventional success for both Amazon and Super Micro can largely be attributed to another similarity between them: Both companies use an unconventional "building block" approach to product development. Like Legos?"

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The company's overall market share is 47% when you take into account all of its brands. That changes the dynamics, and the company's three cigarette price increases in the first seven months of 2023 could be a sign of problems to come. If you look back over the past five years, the company's cigarette volume has declined roughly 23%.

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MARCH 5, 2024

shareholder letter, and investors carefully scour it for Buffett's nuggets of wisdom. He clarified a particular feature that Berkshire favors for its portfolio -- but he says that companies with this feature are "rare enterprises." If a company is still doing this well into its lifetime, that's not a great sign.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, investors in another stock got schooled in Friday's premarket session, as Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL) released financial results late Thursday that didn't match up with shareholder expectations. Yet the company's financial results still looked pretty ugly. Here's the latest on these stocks. Revenue of $228.5

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MARCH 16, 2024

The company benefited from strong production growth in the Rockies and Permian Basin, which offset weaker output in the Gulf of Mexico due to a third-party pipeline outage. The oil company's strong production rate enabled it to generate lots of cash. His company recently bought some more shares of Chevron. It produced $5.5

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Tobias Financial

APRIL 15, 2024

Tobias Financial Advisors is pleased to announce that Yesenia Realejo , CFP®, Catalina Franco-Cicero , MS, CFP®, CTS , and Edgar Collado , CEPA®, have become new shareholders and co-owners of the firm. Their elevation reflects their unwavering dedication, expertise, and invaluable contributions to our company.

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Tobias Financial

APRIL 12, 2024

Tobias Financial Advisors is pleased to announce that Yesenia Realejo, CFP®, Catalina Franco-Cicero, MS, CFP®, CTS , and Edgar Collado, CEPA®, have become new shareholders and co-owners of the firm. Their elevation reflects their unwavering dedication, expertise, and invaluable contributions to our company.

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MARCH 16, 2024

According to a report by Janus Henderson Global, companies paid a staggering $1.7 trillion in dividends to their shareholders in 2023. Hundreds of companies helped drive the corporate sector's record dividend outlay. billion in dividends last year, which was the most of any company. It also grew its payout by 3.4%

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Investing is complicated, as shareholders of marketplace Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) already know. The stock is down even though the company's revenue is at an all-time high. Etsy's drop can be simply explained as follows: The company's growth rate dropped in 2022, leading to a lower valuation. Good riddance to 2023?

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APRIL 27, 2024

Many are also curious as to whether Lucid is a Chinese company or not. There are a variety of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers based in China, after all, and demand for EVs in the country remains strong, so it's certainly a worthy consideration if Lucid is a Chinese company. EV companies to consider.

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MAY 12, 2024

It's not a large company. Doomsday -- but in a good way SNC's new Air Force contract hires the defense company to supply four new aircraft to replace USAF's existing fleet of E-4B Nightwatch Advanced Airborne Command Posts (AACP) by July 2036. But it's probably still a disappointment for the company's shareholders.

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JANUARY 27, 2024

The six most valuable companies in the world by market cap all have one thing in common: each is valued at over $1 trillion. With a market cap of roughly $592 billion, Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) is the world's largest healthcare company and the 10th most valuable business in the world. LLY Total Return Level data by YCharts.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

It's still early in Rivian's production ramp-up, and the company is still burning through cash. A better EV approach Rivian took an unusual approach among EV start-up companies. Most importantly for Rivian is that the leading parcel delivery companies have committed to shifting their new van purchases to electric models.

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APRIL 20, 2024

When you're looking for businesses that send their shareholders a check every three months, it helps if the company dominates its industry. Durability is key If a company is able to pay a rising dividend for nearly seven decades, it must possess some positive attributes that have worked in its favor. There are growth investors.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

government and its allies as a private company. Still, it's never too early to consider how a company will perform over the long term. Let's look at Palantir's history, the current environment, and what the company will have to do to become a trillion-dollar company. The company's formation came in the wake of the Sept.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 7, 2023

Bluerock Total Income+ Real Estate Fund, the largest 1940 Act real estate interval fund in the industry as measured by net assets, announced it has paid total distributions to shareholders exceeding $1 billion since its inception in 2012. The significant milestone comes after the Fund recently paid its 42nd consecutive quarterly distribution.

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PE Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to terms of the agreement, Textainer shareholders will receive $50 per share in cash. The post Stonepeak to take marine cargo containers leasing company Textainer private for $7.4bn appeared first on PE Hub.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

While Tesla is viewed by its shareholders as something of an artificial intelligence (AI), technology, and automaking company rolled into one , I'm going to show you why it's nothing more than a car company that should be valued as such by Wall Street. This means 85% of the company's revenue comes from selling and leasing EVs.

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MAY 4, 2024

The company has a fleet of equipment valued at $21 billion as of March. If it hits its full-year goal, the company will have earned over $10 billion in free cash flow in just five years. Not bad for a company with a market cap of $46 billion as of this writing. The company had $714 million in Q1 free cash flow.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The company called the FTC lawsuit "misguided" in that Amazon would have to do things that would hurt consumers and sellers to comply and said the FTC has a "fundamental misunderstanding of retail" that required a better explanation from Amazon. How Amazon responded Amazon was quick to rebut the lawsuit and its allegations.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

In the three months leading to June, S&P 500 companies spent just $175 billion on share buybacks, a 20% tumble compared with the year before, according to preliminary S&P data reported by the Financial Times this past weekend, the lowest amount since the early days of the pandemic. That leaves less cash to pay out shareholders.

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APRIL 19, 2024

In 2022, management decided the best course of action would be to simply sell the company's assets, pay back its debt, and return the proceeds to investors. Here's how it's going, and why shareholders could quickly be handsomely rewarded. Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of April 17, 2024.

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