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...Over the past 10 years the size of its buyback scheme dwarfs both its R&D spend and the buyback schemes from peers, adding up to a total of $658bn, according to data from S&P Global....
...The stock has gained nearly 40 per cent over the past 12 months, outpacing the S&P 500’s 20 per cent rise....
...Its forward P/E is just 15. We’re still searching for good stock picks. If you’ve got a candidate, email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
.../ From E R Yescombe, YCL Consulting, London N10, UK...
...In the US, Hulu continues to operate as a separate service to Disney and is the home to edgier programming, such as R-rated films....
...Earlier this month S&P Global’s purchasing manager indices showed the sharpest decline in private sector activity since November 2020....
...After all, how much marketing or R&D do you need for a product where you have a huge natural advantage from your legacy franchise?...
...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....
...It was the most discussed stock this week on the r/WallStreetBets, a forum popular with retail investors, according to data provider Breakout Point....
...CD&R could equally sell the food manufacturing business....
...At the time, their size, relative to the S&P 500, meant any influence was small, and r/WallStreetBets was largely dismissed as a curiosity....
...After closing, we expect to remove $100 million of annualised operating expenses on a net basis or roughly $25 million per quarter, primarily from reduced R&D spend....
...A lack of these was a big barrier to Tesla’s entry to the S&P 500 in spite of rapid stock price gains. It finally joined in December as the sixth-biggest company on the benchmark index....
...The International Maritime Research and Development Board (IMRB) is a $5bn programme, governed by the IMO, to co-ordinate and fund applied R&D to catalyse the introduction of zero-carbon fuels and technologies...
...The rally came after a user on Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets forum urged people to buy shares and silver options to put a squeeze on banks....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 rose 1.4 per cent, with more than four-fifths of the companies in the index advancing....
...The three joined from the S&P 400 benchmark of midsized companies and will switch places with tax software group H&R Block, Coty, a beauty company, and Kohls, a department store, which are dropping to the...
...To be fair, many have escaped to the seaside towns outside of New York City since the widespread coronavirus lockdowns in March, but few are getting R&R at the moment....
...Over this period, the S&P 500 ESG index, which tracks big US companies with high ESG ratings, beat the normal S&P index by 0.6 per cent....
...“We want to add to our pipeline organically through our own R&D and through acquisitions,” he said, adding that the proceeds would not go to paying down debt....
...Amazon’s 14 per cent decline is only half the fall seen in the S&P 500....
...But both soared double digits Wednesday on seemingly no news: What they share is that both have become the object of co-ordinated buying by users on the Reddit forum r/wallstreetbets....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...But that still falls short of the 3.4 per cent of sales that L’Oréal spends on R&D. Despite Coty’s problems, earlier this year JAB spent $1.75bn to raise its stake from 49 to 60 per cent....
...Fifty years ago it was all the rage for American business icons to be driven by fear of microbes into becoming reclusive and now it’s the opposite: Elon R Musk, Tesla Inc: [T]his is the time to think about...
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