2024 has been a surprising year for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. The company became the first American business outside of the tech sector to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, and an unusually buoyant stock market has caused many of its holdings to gain substantially in value.
Despite these successes, Buffett personally appears to be turning bearish.
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Warren Buffett’s portfolio at Berkshire Hathaway has been an excellent source of ideas for generations of investors. Even though the Oracle of Omaha is pulling back to cash heavily this year, there are still some fantastic stocks being held at Berkshire that appear undervalued and bear watching.
Here are three of the best Buffett stocks to look into if you have a few thousand dollars to put to work in today’s market.
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Headlines swirled in recent days that Mark Zuckerberg was meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Some speculated Zuckerberg was going to “bend the knee” while others thought he was looking for an active role in the new administration.
What we haven’t seen anyone discuss yet is whatever conversation did take place in that room appears to have been received well by markets because Meta now seems to be breaking higher.
Dividends have historically been an extremely important factor in investors’ overall returns in the stock market, providing liquid income and creating opportunities for growth through reinvestment.
Today, though, soaring stock prices associated with expectations of high future growth have sent dividend yields well below their historical averages. The S&P 500 today yields just 1.2%,
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It wasn’t long ago that I highlighted Planet Labs as a stock with the potential to blast off. At the time it was sitting at $1.90 per share.
Fast forward to the present and Planet Labs has soared well above $4 per share and is now posting gains of over 100%.
Retail growth stories tend follow predictable patterns of early excitement, rapid growth, and then the inevitable pains of scaling. Every once in a while, though, a company breaks the mold in subtle yet important ways. Dutch Bros might well be that company and arguably is much more than a coffee chain.
Walking into a relatively new location in Phoenix last week,
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At today’s $673 billion valuation, Walmart’s metrics track remarkably close to Microsoft’s pre-trillion phase, though through a distinctly retail-centric lens.
Where Microsoft achieved its milestone through software margins expanding from 28% to 35% over five years, Walmart charts its course through scale economics and business mix evolution, as evidenced by its operating margin expansion from 4.6% to 4.7% year-over-year.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance stands at a critical juncture in the company’s 170-year history with revenues of $147 billion but a market capitalization of just $7 billion.
A heavily burdened balance sheet has been the prime culprit of the stock’s downfall but, under new CEO Tim Wentworth, management is undertaking an ambitious realignment aimed at stabilizing the core pharmacy business while taking the chop to some of its healthcare investments.
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Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) has been among the biggest beneficiaries of this year’s AI bull run and the more recent post-election rally. The stock started this year at just $16.58 and has since skyrocketed to over $60 per share.
The last month has been particularly dramatic when PLTR started November a little over $40 before being pushed skyward following election news that was deemed positive and a stellar Q3 earnings report.
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Renowned e-signature company DocuSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:DOCU) has got firmly back on track after some turbulence in 2021 and 2022 when the company’s share price declined by more than 75%.
The recent stock performance has fared much better, begging the question where is the ceiling for this once hot stock?
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