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APRIL 28, 2024

The highly anticipated debut of social media site Reddit (NYSE: RDDT) as a public company sent the stock skyrocketing to a 52-week high of $74.90 IPO stocks are tricky investments for retail investors, who don't often get access to shares until they go public. The firm priced shares at $34 before going live on March 21.

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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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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2023

No public company is really looking to go down the bankruptcy path, which is why it is so important for investors to pay attention when one warns that bankruptcy is a very real possibility. More often than not, these reviews are positive and a company doesn't have to say anything about them. The outlook doesn't look good.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Software is king Microsoft is already the biggest of the " Magnificent Seven " stocks -- and the world's largest public company -- but the tech giant could continue its remarkable growth streak over the next few decades. Consider just the enterprise software services segment that's anchored by its Azure platform.

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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. The pandemic changed all that.

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 26, 2024

The cyber specialist has had a bumpy three-year ride as a public company

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MARCH 5, 2024

His job was likely to make sure the company was performing well during Snowflake's first few years on Wall Street, making sure the business didn't buckle under the scrutiny public companies receive. Snowflake has beaten analysts' revenue estimates every quarter as a public company.

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APRIL 16, 2024

In a letter to Model N, ClearBridge wrote: “We believe the proposed acquisition materially undervalues Model N’s outlook as a public company or value to strategic or financial buyers.” Clearbridge, which has more than $188bn in AUM and owns around 6.9%

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

While a big improvement, Oatly is still highly unprofitable and has never generated a profit over a 12-month period as a public company. Operating income improved from a loss of $72 million last year in Q1 to a loss of $28.4 million this year.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2023

There wasn't any specific news on the newly public company, but hot initial public offering (IPO) stocks often begin to fall after early surges if their valuations become inflated. While Cava wasn't profitable at its IPO in June, it has already posted a profit in its first quarterly report as a public company, with $6.5

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2024

billion S&P 500 companies collectively spent on share repurchases on a trailing-12-month basis, as of Sept. The reason public companies enact share repurchase programs is threefold: For companies with steady or growing net income, a steady reduction in the number of outstanding shares can increase earnings per share (EPS) over time.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In November, Shift4's CEO Jared Isaacman surprised investors by saying, "We are actively exploring strategic opportunities and alternatives that will reduce distractions and serve our company, employees and shareholders best." Therefore, the still unconfirmed rumor from Bloomberg could indeed be legitimate. What should shareholders do now?

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

In addition, Clover Health delivered its first positive quarterly adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) as a public company. The average analysts' estimate was for a loss of nearly $0.14 It also raised the lower end of its full-year insurance revenue guidance range from $1.18 billion to $1.2

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Investors have gravitated to stock-split stocks A " stock split " is an event that allows a publicly traded company to cosmetically alter its share price and outstanding share count by the same factor. I say "cosmetically," because stock splits have no effect on a company's underlying market cap or its operations.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

But even after the decline from its lofty share price, the company still has a market cap of about $20 billion. The EV maker will announce its first quarterly report as a public company tomorrow, Oct. For perspective, VinFast generated only $634 million in revenue in 2022. 5, before the market opens.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

A short track record as a public company Roblox is a classic example of a solid growth stock. The video game company almost doubled its quarterly revenue from $387 million in the first quarter of 2021 to $750 million in the final quarter of 2023, less than three years after it went public in March 2021.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 20, 2024

The company's trend of rapidly rising revenue is expected to continue. And in a rare move by a public company, SoundHound also announced its revenue expectations for 2025. The company anticipates sales to accelerate that year, rising past $100 million in sales. The company is not cash-flow positive either.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

But it is approaching the cheapest valuation it has had by that metric in its time as a public company. That's still quite strong. I won't call Atlassian stock cheap at 11 times trailing sales. It's still executing well, and the fears about its future seem overblown.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 6, 2024

That's a lofty valuation for a company that still must prove it can grow revenue and profits as a public company in an industry where so many players have struggled to so. The company generated revenue of $804 million in 2023, along with a net loss of $91 million and negative free cash flow of $85 million.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2023

After four years as a public company, that seems increasingly unlikely to happen, as most consumers who would be customers of the product probably already have tried it.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2024

He said they lack public company experience, as well as expertise and knowledge of the business. Knowledge and expertise will be necessary as the company works to build out infrastructure for its hydrogen fuel cell trucks. Shindler warned investors that Nikola does not endorse the M&M Residual nominees.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) has been through a lot as a public company, but it hasn't been able to build trucks profitably to scale the business. In this video, Travis Hoium goes through the company's operations and current cash challenge. And now cash is becoming a problem. Stock prices used were end-of-day prices of Sept.

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The Motley Fool

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)

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Broadridge Financial Broadridge Financial provides public companies with investor communication materials like proxy statements, annual reports, quarterly reports, prospectuses, and other shareholder documents. The valuation is a bit high with a P/E of 33, but it is not outside of its recent historical range.

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MAY 8, 2024

Last week, Peloton’s CEO Barry McCarthy quit and the company announced around 400 job cuts as part of a plan to reduce costs after posting weak results in its latest earnings report. According to CNBC’s source, there is no certainty a deal will happen and the business could remain a public company.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 19, 2024

In 1980, eight of the top 10 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. As of 2024, none of these 10 companies remained in the top 10 by market cap. In fact, only one of the top 10 public companies by market cap ( Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) ) as recently as 2000 is still a top-10 company just 24 years later.

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MARCH 10, 2024

Although he doesn't manage a public company or hedge fund like Buffett and Griffin do, he's donated a boatload of money to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Just take a look at the holdings of famous billionaire investors such as Warren Buffett and Ken Griffin. They're loaded with dividend stocks.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 21, 2024

Down 63% from its initial public offering in 2021, Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD) is a shining example of why investors should usually wait to see a few quarters of earnings data from a newly public company before buying.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) recently completed its 25th year as a public company. It increased its cash distribution to investors every year while significantly growing the company's value. On the fourth-quarter conference call , Teague stated: "2023 marked our 25th anniversary as a public company.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Through decades of strategic investments, Buffett and his team have built Berkshire Hathaway into one of the world's most valuable public companies, with a market capitalization of over $780 billion. Warren Buffett has long been arguably the most recognizable name in investing.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What happened Shares of recently minted public company VinFast Auto (NASDAQ: VFS) collapsed as much as 44.6% The Vietnamese manufacturer of electric vehicles ( EVs ) just went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and soared over 100% on the back of investor hype and its low float.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Revenue growth accelerated to 35% year over year in the 2023 fourth quarter, and SoFi delivered its first generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) profit as a public company, as promised, with $48 million in net income. Management expects net profit in the 2024 first quarter and full year.

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MARCH 30, 2024

MercadoLibre has been a public company since 2007, and it has never split its stock. Net income was negatively impacted by a tax liability in the fourth quarter, but MercadoLibre remains reliably profitable, with $165 million in the fourth quarter.

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MARCH 11, 2024

In the last three years, the company produced a whopping $285 billion of cumulative operating cash flow. That figure alone exceeds the market caps of the majority of public companies out there. Alphabet's finances are in tip-top shape.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Solid performance from a new arrival to the market In Fidelis' earnings release, the company quoted CEO Dan Burrows as saying that " The fourth quarter was a strong finish to a milestone year for Fidelis in which we became a public company and strengthened our position as a global specialty insurer.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Global-e's track record as a public company is relatively short Global-e has been one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies , more than tripling its revenue from $136 million in 2020 to $409 million in 2022. Potential investors must be willing to accept the downsides of investing in a young public company.

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