It’s no secret that Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has a soft spot for dividend paying stocks. Perhaps more surprisingly is that Buffett keeps a $157 billion cash hoard on the Berkshire balance sheet and refuses to pay a dividend to his own shareholders.
The reasoning is simple, Buffett thinks he and Berkshire can earn a better return on that cash than shareholders can.
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IPG Photonics has carved out a niche in the laser technology industry and today stands head and shoulders above its peers, not least because of its extensive patent portfolio, featuring over 1,700 patents. Combined, these create an intellectual property fortress that not only protects the firm’s innovations but also presents a barrier to entry for competitors.
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If you have been keeping a close eye on markets and recent earnings reports, one figure that might cause you to scratch your head is Berkshire Hathaway’s enormous $157.1 billion cash pile. Why is Buffett holding so much cash?
One theory is that something ominous lies ahead for the economy and markets more generally.
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Some things are just hard to explain away, like why a stock will dramatically outperform at certain times of the year. But that’s exactly the case for Performance Food Group, a company very few investors have even heard of let alone invested in.
Performance Food Group is a standout candidate over the next couple of months for investors who are willing to bet on the increasingly embraced idea of seasonality.
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AMD’s MI300 chip has the potential to become the fastest product in the company’s history to reach $1 billion in sales. That single product is contributing to an overall great quarter.
In Q3, AMD reported revenues of $5.8 billion, beating analysts’ expectations of $5.7 billion. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.70, also exceeding the forecasted $0.68.
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You know that feeling when you finally get that red wine stain out of your white shirt? Well, there’s a good chance Stepan Company had a hand in that minor miracle.
Certainly, they might not be a household name, but their chemicals are in a ton of stuff we use every day. And when the market struggled to stay afloat in October,
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What a horrific year Enphase Energy has had, plunging 54% for the year and still there a few months to go. For a company that’s virtually synonymous with solar technology, what has caused this big crash in an industry that has so many tailwinds?
After all,
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It’s not widely known that Nvidia once designed its chips to specifically fall just below U.S. export restrictions, ensuring they remained marketable in China. Unfortunately for them, that loophole just got sealed, and it has big implications for investors.
Nvidia share price hit choppy waters after new U.S. export restrictions aimed to sever the chipmaker’s ties with China.
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Despite its role as a low-fee trailblazer, 2023 has been a really rough year for Schwab, down 34% year-to-date. But recent developments hint at the fog of uncertainty lifting. Indeed, Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger described the company’s current struggles as a “dense fog.” This opacity primarily stems from deposit outflows, unrealized losses on securities, and rising interest rates.
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Chipotle has managed to do what few food companies ever achieve, keep prices low, win over customers with taste, and maintain high quality offerings. But recently one of those three ingredients was forsaken because the company hiked prices to combat inflation, which has a knock-on effect not only to you and me but to the broader economy.
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