The Motley Fool

MARCH 29, 2024

But even Buffett and his team at Berkshire Hathaway identified Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) as an investing opportunity back in 2021, when it was all of eight years old and before it became a public company. Nu has been demonstrating impressive performance so far, reporting high growth as it becomes consistently profitable.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Apple It seems cliche to start with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , but you don't become the world's most valuable public company for no reason. Time Period Services Revenue FY 2019 $46.2 Not many companies are better positioned to take advantage of that than Apple if it commits the resources. billion FY 2020 $53.7

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY) and Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) are two Buffett stocks that are stirring up excitement on Wall Street and could be excellent picks for an individual portfolio. Ally: Digital and value go hand in hand Ally was spun off as the financial arm of General Motors in 2009 and only became a public company in 2014.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

And American Express , which has expanded its banking services of late, is one of his largest and longest-held positions. Nu Holdings (NYSE: NU) is one of Buffett's more curious positions , because it was unprofitable when Berkshire Hathaway invested in it back before it was even a public company, and it sports a premium valuation.

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The Motley Fool

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. The one knock against Apple is its valuation.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

It was created as a financial arm of General Motors to help auto dealers finance auto sales, and over many decades it expanded into other areas of lending and finance. It rebranded as Ally in 2010 and became a seperate public company in 2014. It was forward-thinking at that time.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Apple It's virtually impossible to talk about tech stocks to hold on to for the long term and not include the world's most valuable public company, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). It's a company that needs no introduction. Apple's services segment has become increasingly important to its revenue, now accounting for 26% of it.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Apple Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is the world's largest public company with a valuation of $2.8 In fact, in 2020, after a decade of development, the company believed it had produced the world's largest and most advanced machine learning system in the financial services industry. Image source: The Motley Fool.

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Steve Sanduski

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In a Nutshell: What happens when a public company hires a woman as their new CEO? According to my guest today, research shows that company’s stock usually drops. Julia’s tips for men who want to help level the playing field and create more opportunities for women. Listen/read here.

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Axial

JULY 27, 2023

.” Industries : Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Technology, Industrials, Business Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Health Care, Telecommunications, Consumer Services, Financial Services, Retail Visit FOCUS IB’s Profile “ASA Ventures Group (AVG) provides M & A representation to middle-market private companies.

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Axial

MAY 4, 2023

” Industries: Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Materials, Financial Services, Distribution, Industrials, Real Estate , Business Services, Consumer Services Visit Ardent’s Profile “Plethora Businesses is a leading M&A Advisor for the lower middle market.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

We're fortunate that we don't have to spend money on marketing, which actually creates a lot of leverage in our financials service as well. You almost come into a business as totally ready to be a public company from revenue growth and debt maturity perspective. I actually like being in a public company.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And Robinhood is no longer just the trading app, we've been rapidly evolving into a broad financial services platform serving multiple financial needs, including spending, savings, and retirement. We had our first quarter of GAAP profitability as a public company in Q2. Now, let's turn to our financial results.

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The Motley Fool

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. PennantPark has been paying a monthly dividend since July 2011, which is mere months after it debuted as a public company.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

This was also our first quarter of GAAP profitability as a public company. based financial services firm and one of our top 25 customers started their automation journey with RPA in 2018 and have since adopted our full platform. We make AI actionable, unlocking the promise of this next evolution in technology.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 10, 2023

As Cloud Intelligence Group moved toward becoming a public company, I look forward to reengaging with everyone in my new role in the journey ahead. Now, I will pass to Toby to go through the financial updates. Toby Xu -- Chief Financial Officer Thank you, Daniel. Thank you, everyone.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

To that end, the company formed Mercado Pago to offer financial services that facilitated purchases. So successful was this segment that it offered services to businesses and customers outside of MercadoLibre. The company extended that innovation to order fulfillment and delivery through Mercado Envios.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

In just the past few weeks, the House Financial Services Committee and the House Ag Committee passed the landmark crypto market structure bill and the stablecoin bill with bipartisan support. It's an important stepping stone to getting people access to better financial services. Thanks for taking my question.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is the 13th consecutive quarter as a public company in which we have met or exceeded our revenue guidance range. We ended the quarter with $723.3 million in cash, cash equivalents, and investments. All these numbers exceeded our guidance and exceeded analyst consensus. None of this should have come as a surprise.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Companies that pay a regular dividend to their shareholders are usually profitable and time-tested. What's more, income stocks have a history of running circles around public companies that don't offer a payout in the return department. The more than 1.03

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Finally, I'd like to mention the well-deserved recognition we received from Fortune and a Great Place to Work Foundation, who ranked Mr. Cooper as one of the best workplaces in financial services and insurance. And I'm pleased to report we've already kicked off the capital raising process for our first MSR fund.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: So I spent a year, my father said to me, “Look, if you’re going to be in the financial services business you should probably work in New York.” Otherwise, the West Coast, if you were in the financial services business, it was rough life. And so you look at, well, why go public, right?

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

Founded in 2014 by Gerry Cardinale, RedBird integrates sophisticated private equity investing with a hands-on business building mandate that focuses on three core industry verticals– Media & Entertainment, Sports and Experiential Consumer, and Financial Services.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Congress, the Federal Reserve, and public sector organizations in Europe and Asia to major corporate customers including more than half the Fortune 100. Excluding noncash stock based compensation and other public company expenses, G&A was $9.5 Editorial costs were approximately $4.5 G&A expenses for the quarter were $14.4

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

As a textbook land-and-expand story, this customer first came to us in 2017 for our allocation security services and has continued to expand over the years with this deal encompassing the vast majority of Cloudflare's platform. A Fortune 100 financial services company signed a similar 4-year $10 million pool of funds deal.

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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 Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

If we pivot for a second to their consumer health unit, which recently went public, Kenvue, that also reported and beat analyst estimates for their first quarterly reports since being a public company. American Express is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Rohan Sivaram has been named Confluent's next chief financial officer. Rohan is a seasoned finance and operations leader with nearly two decades of experience at leading companies across financial services, cybersecurity and data infrastructure. Steffan Tomlinson -- Chief Financial Officer Thank you, Jay.

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The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2024

And when I told her I was leaving SoFi after four years, just ’cause I was done with my financial services chapter until now, and she said, Hey, I’ve got a company for you in LA that I’m just about to invest in with two great founders. 00:54:23 [Speaker Changed] The company itself. Can you go meet them?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

When we look at the broader financial services landscape, we're certainly not back to what we would consider normal levels in the capital markets overall, but we did see improvement. So yes, we're seeing many of the things that others are seeing in our markets, particularly for our financial services customers.

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The Motley Fool

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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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Bluff Point actively invests in information services companies supporting the banking, trust, securities, retirement and wealth management sectors of the financial services industry, as well as the healthcare information services sector.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mike Murray -- Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer Financial services earned $66 million of pre-tax income in the first quarter on $193 million of revenues, resulting in a pre-tax profit margin of 34.3%. We expect our home sales gross margin in the second quarter to be approximately 22.6%

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2024

Risk Connector is now in use with large enterprises in financial services and tech, and we look forward to its continued growth. million, a net increase of approximately $1 million, largely reflecting the impact of the full-year public company expenses in the acquisition of Dragonfly, offset by in-year cost savings actions.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

Continuing with GBS, we're bringing together the best capabilities of our Analytics and Engineering and Applications business, now called Consulting and Engineering Services, with industry veteran Howard Boville as our general manager. In financial services, we provide core banking solutions to numerous banks globally.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

financial services organization. public company customers comply with the SEC's recently announced rules on cybersecurity incident disclosure that will be effective later this year. Gary, maybe for you, you mentioned the new regulations around public companies and reporting of incidents. Your line is open.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

She is a strategic, disciplined, and highly regarded executive with an impressive background leading all aspects of finance within an innovative, high-growth public company. I'll now turn the call over to Julia to provide an update on our Q2 financial performance.

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