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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Then, in 2012, it took another huge step forward when it introduced a franchise-based model that would allow insurance agents to leverage their expertise and platform to sell policies. Goosehead took its customer-centric approach to insurance sales and built it up into a sizable company over the next decade.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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The Motley Fool

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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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

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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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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JULY 17, 2023

However, back when John Legere took over T-Mobile in 2012, he rebranded the scrappy challenger the "Uncarrier," doing away with customer pain points and charging lower prices, albeit on an inferior network. Discovery in the spinoff, it still has high leverage compared with T-Mobile. Verizon $152.9 $2.2 AT&T $137.5 $2.8

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

A report issued by JPMorgan Chase 's wealth management division in 2013 found that publicly traded companies initiating and growing their payouts between 1972 and 2012 delivered an annualized return of 9.5%. What this added protection does is allow AGNC to deploy leverage to bolster its profits and sustain its juicy payout.

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Our combined teams are already working well together to leverage each other’s talents and brand portfolios to rapidly grow our combined European, North and Latin America businesses. Becoming part of the Sodalis Group provides a very exciting new chapter for us. In June 2016, Brynwood sold High Ridge Brands to CD&R.

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This partnership, formed in 2012, was created to invest in organic and specialty consumer product companies. We continue to invest in our core categories, allowing us to leverage our deep category understanding and apply that knowledge to each investment.”

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AUGUST 8, 2023

In other words, they're a leveraged play on spot price movements in physical gold. Whereas gold doesn't offer a dividend, many of the largest precious-metal mining companies do pay a dividend to their shareholders. Further, gold companies can adjust their capital expenditures or growth strategies to alter their key performance metrics.

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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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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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The Motley Fool

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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Pension Pulse

APRIL 10, 2025

We are excited to continue this collaboration and now join forces with Ethos, BCI, and White Mountains, leveraging their collective expertise to enhance our capabilities and drive sustained growth. The business has consistently delivered strong operational performance by leveraging its extensive local relationships and nationwide expertise.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

After they release their "Explore" feature, which leveraged user data of where people actually go to make recommendations, I thought their biggest challenge would be getting more people to use it. This would result in a lot more web signups where people give Foursquare their social graph to leverage off the friend data to get results.

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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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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Tony Parella founded the company in 2012 and has built an industry leading brand and platform with premiere events at iconic racetracks, including Indianapolis Speedway, Circuit of the Americas, Laguna Seca, Watkins Glen, Road Atlanta, and Lime Rock. I am excited to lead us through this next chapter in our growing motorsports operation.”

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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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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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The Motley Fool

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 Big Picture

MARCH 10, 2023

Where the 2000s-era Fed ignored obvious recklessness among banks and leveraged asset managers, the current Fed seems to be overly concerned with asset prices and appearances. A key concept you learn driving a car at high speeds is to never overreact to a problem, or you will only make it worse.

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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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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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