What company in the United States generates revenues and profits that rivals big tech companies but is valued at less than half of most of them? The answer turns out to be Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
Last quarter alone, Berkshire Hathaway generated an astonishing $89 billion in revenues and reported $17 billion in operating income.
When it comes to government relying on AI companies, Palantir seems to attract most investor attention and with good reason too.
Palantir is famous for big data analytics and analyzing massive amounts of information to make informed insights that can help government primarily, and increasingly commercial enterprises in sectors ranging from healthcare to finance.
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If you want to get paid monthly, you’ll probably struggle to find ways in the stock market. While real estate offers a straightforward path to collecting rent checks monthly, dividend investing is generally limited to paying shareholders on a quarterly schedule.
Some rare exceptions do exist, such as Realty Income, which is known as The Monthly Dividend Company.
Smartsheet isn’t a company on the tip of most retail traders tongues but it might be soon. What started out as a spreadsheet with collaborative project management features has grown into a work management software worth $5.7 billion.
Better yet, it’s growing at a rapid rate and is sitting squarely in the middle of a market that is forecast to grow at 13.4% annually through 2026.
George Soros had an old rule: invest first, investigate later. When a great opportunity seemed ripe for the picking, he would buy it, and figure out later if he was right.
It’s actually the opposite of what most funds do, which is to spend many months researching and dotting all their “i”s and crossing all their “t”s before patiently waiting for the price to get to the level they think is right.
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When Facebook first grew to prominence, a lot was made of how much attention per day Mark Zuckerberg’s company captured among users. It was common to see the average daily usage was close to a full hour per day per person.
Over time the scale of Facebook’s base proved astonishing. A full 1 billion users tapped into Facebook,
If you’ve been around the investing block a few times you know the old jokes about stocks falling the second you buy them. Peter Lynch, the legendary investor who averaged a 29.2% return from 1977 to 1990 doesn’t shy from plunging stocks like most others, though. Instead he embraces it and calls corrections for what they truly are.
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Apple fell in line with the rest of the tech titans during its most recent quarterly release when CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple plans to integrate artificial intelligence into its suite of products and services.
That news alone sparked a $10+ per share rally after hours, largely eroding the 15% decline in share price during the first part of the year.
The decision to follow a billionaire investor makes intuitive sense. The logic goes something like this: A billionaire only became rich by making a series of decisions that grew their wealth, if I follow their next decisions, I can be rich too. It seems rationale but it can be hazardous to your portfolio.
If you haven’t tuned into the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting to see highlights, a certain moment is grabbing headlines but another more nuanced one is where your attention should go.
The most poignant moment of the day was when Warren turned to his new right-hand man Greg Able but invited former lieutenant Charlie Munger for his views.
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