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AUGUST 25, 2024

Palo Alto's scale and diversification have enabled it to grow rapidly since its initial public offering in 2012. From fiscal 2012 to fiscal 2023, its revenue had a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 35%. Most of its recent growth has been driven by Prisma and Cortex, which it calls its next-gen security (NGS) services.

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JULY 8, 2023

times leverage ratio. The company plans to use excess free cash flow to reduce debt, which, along with earnings growth, should steadily drive leverage down toward its long-term target of less than 3.5 Its leverage ratio was down to 3.5 Crestwood ended the first quarter with a 4.2 The MLP generated nearly $1.7

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AUGUST 23, 2023

It used to be called Kraft Foods, before Kraft Foods spun off what would become Kraft Foods Group back in 2012 and simultaneously changed its name to Mondelez, acknowledging its (very) international presence. Its payout's been upped every year since Mondelez became Mondelez back in 2012, growing from $0.54 We love having Vicki run it."

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Private Equity Professional

JULY 16, 2024

Through this partnership, we will continue providing premium PPE products to our customers, leveraging our combined experience and industry knowledge.” “NSA The buy of Tri-Star is NSA’s 14th add-on acquisition since 2012 and the first investment since partnering with Blue Point less than two months ago.

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MARCH 3, 2024

The master limited partnership ( MLP ) has increased its payouts every year since its formation in 2012, and delivered 10% hikes in each of the last two years. times leverage ratio. times leverage ratio its stable cash flow can support. yield at its current share price. MPLX ended last year with $1 billion in cash and a low 3.3

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MARCH 10, 2024

Big-time growth and income MPLX has increased its distribution every year since its formation in 2012. times leverage ratio (well below the 4.0 Because of that, the company could reaccelerate dividend growth by giving its shareholders an even bigger raise this year. That's impressive, considering its monster yield of 8.4%.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Under Yates’ leadership, the CEFC was established in 2012 with AUD10bn of commitments to work with businesses, institutional investors and entrepreneurs to accelerate Australia’s investment into clean energy sector.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Index Futures Trading ; Relatively new (1982) product allowed broad and leveraged exposure; 4. 25th Anniversary Black Monday 1987 Crash (October 19, 2012). Art Cashin: Black Monday, An Unforgettable Single Day (October 19, 2012). _. Overheated market : +42.5% for the first 3 quarters of the year; 2. October 19, 2015).

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

From 2004 to 2012, he worked at Stone Tower Capital, latterly as a portfolio manager and member of the Fixed Income Investment Committee. David also spent four years at JP Morgan, holding positions in Credit Portfolio Research and Syndicated and Leveraged Finance.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 17, 2024

Gehrett began his career in the leveraged finance group at Jefferies & Company, before joining the investment team at Wellspring Capital Management.

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MARCH 25, 2024

It has grown its payout every year since its formation in 2012, including by 10% in each of the last two years. The transaction will give it the cash to reduce its leverage ratio by 1.5 times leverage ratio, well below the 4.0 The master limited partnership (MLP) currently yields 8.4%, several times above the S&P 500 's 1.3%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Maybe the most important piece of that portfolio is Hoka, acquired in 2012 for a reported $1.1 The company sees an opportunity to continue expanding internationally while entering new product categories, including apparel, to leverage its brand momentum and loyal customer following. The deal has been a smashing success.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 22, 2023

But the hope is that with a much larger number of units sold and higher revenue, the business will be better able to leverage its fixed costs and approach management's goal of EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) margins between 8% and 13.5% over the long term.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2023

The business stopped producing these cars in 2012, but management has plans to reintroduce an upgraded version. Evidently, we are seeing Tesla benefiting from operating leverage, something shareholders have been hoping for. The Tesla most people are familiar with currently sells four popular car models.

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MARCH 1, 2024

These include inverse ETFs (which would move in the opposite direction that Bitcoin moves) and leveraged ETFs, which would enable investors to make highly leveraged bets on Bitcoin directional moves. That's because three previous halving events (in 2012, 2016, and 2020) have sent Bitcoin soaring to new all-time highs.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Leveraging its leading position in the graphics card space, Nvidia has since grown from its relatively small 1999 public offering to the $1.5 Recognizing this, in 2012 Nvidia began experimenting with purpose-built AI processors using its graphics card tech. The rest, as they say, is history. trillion powerhouse it is today.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

The midstream company has increased its already massive payout every year since its formation in 2012, including by 10% this year. times leverage ratio (comfortably below the 4.0 The master limited partnership (MLP) currently pays a distribution that yields a whopping 9.3%. That big-time payout is on rock-solid ground.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

This segment provides cloud solutions -- such as cloud computing , Internet of Things (IoT) , and artificial intelligence (AI) -- that help enterprises leverage the latest technology to improve their business operations. Another up-and-coming business within Tencent that doesn't get much attention is its cloud and business services.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Raising nearly $12 billion, it was the most valuable initial public offering (IPO) for an American company since Meta in 2012. Initially established as a battery manufacturer in the 1990s, BYD has leveraged this expertise to become the leading automaker in China and to potentially challenge Tesla for the global top spot.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

It's not only in warehouses where UPS is leveraging the power of AI. The company has relied on AI since 2012 for optimizing delivery routes. From 2012 through 2020, UPS estimated that Orion had helped the company to achieve annual savings of approximately 100 million miles and 10 million gallons of fuel.

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MAY 16, 2024

The company, for example, has grown its distributions per unit at a 6% compound annual growth rate from 2012 through 2023, and it's targeting consistent 5% to 9% annual distribution growth in the years ahead. It's also worth mentioning that Chevron has a very healthy balance sheet and low leverage ratios.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Rubicon will continue to pursue its dedicated investment strategy of partnering with founders and management teams to build market-leading enterprise software companies by leveraging its best-in-class value creation framework.

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APRIL 9, 2024

What the bulls want Despite ongoing revenue declines and hundreds of millions of dollars in quarterly net losses recently, Peloton deserves credit for what it has accomplished since its founding in 2012. And its brand is well-known in the industry.

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JUNE 15, 2023

An elite dividend American Tower has an excellent track record of paying dividends since it converted to a REIT in 2012. While its current leverage ratio of 5.2 Meanwhile, the company's falling leverage ratio will give it additional financial flexibility to make acquisitions in the future. last year and should rise 10% in 2023).

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

During the decade between 2012 and 2021 -- before the one-two punch of a weakening economy and rampant inflation crushed consumer spending -- the online retail specialist grew its stock price by 1,830%. Stock-split buy No. 2: Amazon Another industry leader that's dirt-cheap right now is Amazon. and the fourth-largest worldwide.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Morgan Asset Management, released a report that compared the returns of publicly traded companies initiating a dividend and growing their payout over a period of 40 years (1972 to 2012) to publicly traded companies that didn't offer a dividend over the same time line. This leverage also supports the company's juicy payout.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2023

XOM Debt to Equity Ratio data by YCharts Exxon tends to maintain a low level of leverage. The master limited partnership (MLP) has increased its distribution per unit every year since oil refiner Marathon Petroleum formed it in 2012 to operate and acquire midstream energy infrastructure: MPLX Dividend data by YCharts.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

Microsoft is leveraging the old with the new. Apple reinstated its quarterly-dividend program in the summer of 2012 and has increased its payout by 154% in under 12 years. Windows is still the world's leading operating system for desktops, while Azure is the global No. 2 cloud-infrastructure service platform. smartphone market share.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2024

AI-fueled product improvements and new tools Adobe released its subscription suite of applications called Creative Cloud in 2012. It leverages generative AI and is useful for short-form video content like Instagram Reels and TikTok, as well as improving resumes, banners, logos, etc. It has made plenty of improvements since then.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Shares of Meta Platforms -- back when it was Facebook -- sold off immediately after its 2012 public offering. We've also seen many highly rewarding stocks bounce back from major post-IPO pullbacks. It wouldn't start climbing in earnest until the latter half of 2013. Make no mistake.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

When Instagram was acquired back in 2012, the company reportedly only had 13 employees and was pre-revenue. More specifically, by leveraging generative AI and machine learning, Airbnb is looking to build a more sophisticated platform. Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising tidbit is that Airbnb reportedly acquired GamePlanner.AI

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While that might not sound like much, any progress is beneficial, considering that its recent decline was the worst since 2012. Futures contracts allow traders to speculate on Bitcoin while using leverage, and while not recommended, they play an integral role in Bitcoin's short-term price movements.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The stock has already climbed over 1,000% from its 2012 initial public offering price, but it has more long-term upside as it continues to open new stores. The strong showing in direct-to-consumer not only leverages strong profit levers, but it enforces brand loyalty. One of those is Five Below.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

Further, these markets can be very profitable (Redwood can earn a double-digit return on its assets using leverage). MPLX has increased its payout every single year since it came public in 2012, including by 10% last year. While these are smaller niches than conventional mortgage loans, they're still very large market opportunities.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

leverage ratio (well below the 4x range its stable cash flow can support). It recently raised its payout by another 10% and has given investors a raise every year since Marathon created the company in 2012, growing the payout by more than 200% overall. That excess cash strengthened its already fortress-like balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

A surprising tech holding Arguably the most surprising tech holding in Berkshire's portfolio is cloud-based data warehousing specialist Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) -- so named by its founders in 2012 because snowflakes are "born in the cloud." million shares) in September 2020, then spent roughly another $1 billion to purchase an extra 4.04

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

On and Lululemon both leverage their proprietary technologies to sell pricier products than most of their competitors. Lululemon developed a proprietary fabric that was preshrunk, was stretchier than many other fabrics, and wicked away moisture during sweaty workouts. YOY = Year over year. By comparison, Lululemon generated $2.1

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