The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The benefits for Main Street included significant dividend income, fair value appreciation, and the realized gain, resulting in best-in-class returns on our equity investment, in addition to the attractive interest income provided by our debt investments. This compares favorably to the 4.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2024

In 2007, Buffett sold Berkshire's shares in PetroChina for $4 billion (he paid $488 million for the shares four years prior). The main concern is the potential for lower oil prices to pressure the company's financial results, and the impact this could have on the debt reduction plans.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 28, 2024

It takes net income and it adds back certain non-cash expenses like depreciation, stock-based compensation. Now, it doesn't include things like capital expenditures, acquisitions, increases or decreases in debt, other long-term liabilities. Real estate gets depreciated over time. So you'll find it. I think this is fantastic.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In 1987, the market crashed and they had four billion dollar debt at 17 percent. They spun them out in the year 2004 with a billion dollars of debt on the balance sheet. Blockbuster was a cash flow machine, could handle that debt, and they were going on down the road. Well, a third of our debt was due in the year 2009.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

It took accountants about 18 years and in 2007 or eight, they decided, finally, if you gave options or restricted stock to your employees, that had to be treated as an expense and lowered income. 2019, accountants finally come to their senses and say leases are debt. They've always been debt. I've always treated them as debt.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

In the second quarter, we reduced our net debt by $25 million and ended the quarter with a revolver draw of $62 million with cash of nearly $25 million on hand. Global electricity demand is expected to grow 4% in 2024, that's the highest since 2007. Carlos will discuss some of these details later in the presentation.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

Ministers and regulators are said to be concerned that Britain ’s biggest water supplier, which has 15 million customers in the capital and along the Thames Valley , may be unable to service its huge debt pile. Bankers at Rothschild were hired in March to examine financing options for the firm, which has £14bn of debt and 7,000 employees.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

While you are looking at the balance sheet, you'd be looking at the amount of debt a company has got, the amount of cash a company have got. You're comparing debt, the total debt to a profitability metric like EBITDA. It's also got 250 million in short term debt, 1.5 billion in long term debt.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I mean, land appreciates and improvements depreciate, right, the way you should think of it. In the office environment, landlords, many landlords can’t capitulate because the debt service, they can’t cover the debt service. That it’s the product mix has skewed higher end. Why has that happened? RITHOLTZ: Right?

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And I asked them not to shut down the subprime mortgage market because it does serve a large swath of the American public who has a slightly higher rent to income or debt to income ratio, or has defaulted on a credit card in the past or something. You have to have a debt load below a certain level, or the price for you is zero.

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