The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2024

After all, the company is already worth more than $2 trillion in market capitalization. The Latin American company went public in 2007, and since then, revenue has grown from just $52 million in 2006 to $14.5 While the e-commerce tailwind is ongoing, investors will likely not make enormous gains with Amazon's stock.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2024

The company's stock is now down approximately 95% from its post-merger peak and has a market capitalization of roughly $6.9 Assuming the company's share count held constant, the EV upstart would have a market capitalization of roughly $462 billion at that price. Is there a feasible path for it to deliver returns on that level?

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 4, 2024

Egress was founded in 2007 and offers a cloud email security platform using what it calls an adaptive security model, which leverages AI to assess human risk and provide email protection. Albion’s relationship with Egress started in 2014 with a Series A £2.2m funding, when the company was a team of 12.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It's leveraging its AI investments to grow two businesses at scale. That's the first time Gates has reduced his position in the stock since 2007. Meanwhile, it's using excess capital to strategically acquire smaller operators to grow its scale or adjacent businesses to expand its operations. as of this writing.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 12, 2024

UEC data by YCharts Capitalizing on a multibillion-dollar opportunity Something big is happening right now: a worldwide shift in energy production attracting trillions of dollars of capital. Investing in mining companies can be an easy way to bet on commodity prices in a leveraged way. in clean energy investments.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2024

The company first launched its service in 2007. Fixed expenses, mainly for content, are better leveraged as sales rise over time. Management even conducts share repurchases to return capital to investors. Netflix deserves credit for spearheading the streaming movement and helping accelerate the demise of cable TV.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meanwhile, ASML Holding (NASDAQ: ASML) cranked out over 32,000% between capital gains and dividends. If you had bought $20,000 worth of stock at the 2007 IPO price and held, your position would be worth more than $1 million today. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) returned more than 147,000% since its initial public offering (IPO).

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 29, 2024

” Source: Worldpac Carlyle’s experience with industrial carve-outs includes more than $13 billion of capital invested over the past 20 years in companies such as Axalta, Nouryon, Atotech, Signode, and Allison Transmission. Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) invests worldwide in buyouts, growth capital, real estate, and leveraged finance.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Feb 23, 2024 , 10:00 a.m. ET Contents: Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Greetings, and welcome to the Main Street Capital Corporation fourth-quarter earnings conference call. Image source: The Motley Fool. Thank you, Mr. Vaughan.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The big open secret here is that AGNC, like other mortgage REITs , makes liberal use of leverage in an effort to enhance shareholder returns. In and of itself using leverage isn't a bad thing, but it increases risk. That's particularly true when you use a lot of leverage, like pledging 92% of your mortgage bond portfolio as collateral.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I'm talking about Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) , the massive money-center bank that the Oracle of Omaha has owned since 2007. They also provide different capital markets activities. The company's ability to leverage its expenses has resulted in consistent profitability , something that shareholders can be happy about.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

AB NAV Lending will leverage the core capabilities, resources, and infrastructure of AB-PCI, which manages $17bn in assets with a team of 75 professionals. Adeyemo joins AB-PCI from Barclays, where he delivered fund financing solutions since 2007 and actively led the sourcing and structuring of NAV loans.

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 12, 2024

Wynnchurch Capital has acquired ORS Nasco , a North American wholesale distributor of industrial maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplies, from One Equity Partners. Essendant acquired ORS Nasco in 2007 from Brazos Private Equity. “We billion of committed capital.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

NNN REIT also has a conservative investment-grade balance sheet with a low leverage ratio and primarily low-cost, long-term, fixed-rate debt (it has a sector-leading 12.1-year It has acquired over $10 billion of properties since 2007, with more than 70% of its volumes coming from existing relationships.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Permira Credit, a European alternative credit investor, has promoted David Hirschmann, who joined the business in 2015, and Ariadna Stefanescu, who has been with the firm since inception in 2007, to Co-Heads of the business, with immediate effect. Stefanescu has over 20 years of European credit experience.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

It expects its leverage ratio to be around 3.7 That supports its investment-grade bond rating and gives Williams lots of financial flexibility to capitalize on new opportunities. may not be high, but the company has not only paid a dividend regularly for several decades now but has also increased it every year since 2007.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The company boasts a strong balance sheet with a leverage ratio of 3x and liquidity of around $4 billion. Enterprise has delivered an average return on invested capital ( ROIC ) of 12% over the last 10 years. Its credit rating ranks as the highest in the midstream energy industry.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 19, 2023

Considering the long-term growth in the space, there are a number of ways to capitalize on the growth opportunity in the fintech sector. Most fintech companies benefit from operating leverage, meaning that profit margins improve as revenue grows, and Remitly fits that model as well. Image source: Getty Images.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2012

It is the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn--the city’s most exciting and creative borough. In fact, it’s what Henry Blodget told me I should do the first time I met him--back in May of 2007 during a pre-Business Insider lunch at Coffee Shop.

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Anzu Partners

DECEMBER 4, 2024

WASHINGTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Anzu Partners , an investment firm delivering capital and strategic support to breakthrough technology companies, and J.A. Founded by Mr. Jeff Green, the firm has been helping businesses navigate the complexities of government since 2007. Green’s deep insight and expertise within the U.S.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Private equity firm Integral Corp is aiming to launch a find of around $3.3bn in the next four to five years by leveraging the funds it raised in an initial public offering in Tokyo last month, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2025

Stock splits, which occur when a company divides its existing shares into multiple shares, effectively increasing the outstanding shares while maintaining the same market capitalization , have been all the rage on Wall Street over the past few years, with companies like Amazon , Nvidia , and Tesla participating in the frenzy.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 8, 2024

You go back to that 2007 Warren Buffett wrote in one of his letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. When you look at the capital position they are in, they have a ton of debt on the balance sheet. We've had a lot of consolidation starting in say, 2007-2008. Airlines as we know, very difficult line of work.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2015

In 2007, I was at the SXSW where Twitter blew up. When everyone is Meerkatting, how can brands and venues leverage access to more bandwidth, a key component of livestreaming, to their advantage? Venture Capital & Technology' Yuliya is really becoming an asset to the WSJ''s tech coversage. Future star to watch.).

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

One quarter ago, we laid out a scorecard with our capital allocation priorities for 2024. Our net leverage ratio improved with record adjusted EBITDA, which increased 25% over the first quarter with expected production and current prices, along with the remaining $14.8 Our net leverage ratio improved to 2.3 Moving to Slide 6.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. Venture capital isn't a game or club any more than any other industry is.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

We expanded our overall use of leverage as we continued to use debt prudently to enhance our investment returns. We rotate capital out of assets with the same level of discipline with which we invest. This activity generates capital, which we deploy into future investment opportunities that align to our strategy.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

Leveraging our Deep Brew analytics platform, we have identified customer experience outlier stores, approximately 10% of our network, and have developed targeted plans to address and improve them, including accelerated Siren System deployment. We are ahead of plan on productivity. Additionally, our higher effective tax rate had a $0.03

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The other thing that's really interesting about OpenAI, is you've got five capital leading this round. They've chosen to set out these big flashy evaluations, and I focus instead on AI, the enterprise level and buying it to businesses where you could make a huge impact on margins, can top line, as well as bottom line, leveraging AI.

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Blackstone News

JULY 9, 2024

He led investment banking activities including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital raising, structured finance and syndicated lending, supporting Citi’s broader banking client base and international businesses in over 95 countries. Tyler Dickson added: “I’ve admired Blackstone’s innovation since leading the firm’s IPO in 2007.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This is the size of a major new mine with low capital investment required, low incremental operating costs, and that will significantly enhance the value and competitive position of our Americas production. All of these projects are brownfield opportunities where we're leveraging existing assets and established operations.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While staying disciplined with overall capital management, we leaned further into premium amenities during 2023, which continue to resonate exceptionally well with a growing range of moviegoers. This leverage was partially offset by wage rate pressure and the expansion of operating hours. Facility lease expense was $78.8

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Customers are building a range of AI use cases from semantic search to retrieval augmented generation or RAG, where organizations can leverage the use of their private data to increase the accuracy of LLMs. million in capital expenditures and principal repayments of finance lease liabilities, free cash flow was $35 million in the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

Our clients need capital, and our debt brokerage team did a fantastic job finding the appropriate capital for their needs. The vast majority of 2024 commercial real estate loan maturities are on non-multifamily assets, and the start to the year by our debt brokerage team using non-agency capital is encouraging.

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SuperAngel.Fund

APRIL 21, 2023

While there are historic amounts of venture capital dollars on the sidelines , much of it waiting for the market to feel more “stable”, we continue to invest, seeking founders and opportunities that go against the herd. .”

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

This above-market growth is being driven by several factors, to improvement of user experience we minimized as a highlight, our strategic investment in chip infrastructure, which are driving faster growth in specific target regions, and a well-executed marketing campaign that is leveraging on the awareness we generated in Q4 around peak season.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The good news about these investments is that we intend for them to be relatively capital light, consistent with our core business. The first chapter was when we had this idea, Joe, Nate, and I 2007, 2008 and we went on a really crazy hypergrowth rocketship, and that was Phase 1. Lee Horowitz -- Analyst Great, thanks so much.

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