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AUGUST 7, 2023

It's been a tough past couple of years for Chewy (NYSE: CHWY) shareholders. We've seen plenty of highly touted, publicly traded companies end up imploding, punishing all-too-patient shareholders as a result. Shares of Meta Platforms -- back when it was Facebook -- sold off immediately after its 2012 public offering.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2023

That should also mean bigger returns for Chevron shareholders in terms of both dividends and share repurchases. 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

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

Companies that regularly dole out a dividend to their shareholders tend to be profitable on a recurring basis, are time-tested, and can provide investors with transparent long-term growth outlooks. What this added protection does is allow AGNC to deploy leverage to bolster its profits and sustain its juicy payout.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

Alphabet The first superior stock with all the tools and intangibles needed to deliver for shareholders in the new year is Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) , the parent company of world-leading internet search engine Google and streaming platform YouTube, among other ventures. Image source: Getty Images. dividend yield.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

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

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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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MARCH 30, 2024

Here's why these Motley Fool contributors think all three dividend stocks have what it takes to continue raising their payouts and rewarding shareholders. 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. Image source: Getty Images.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It started paying dividends to its shareholders in November 2012. The company has a solid track record of rewarding shareholders with generous dividends, and its improving cash flow situation should allow it to maintain or even increase its payout in the future. In fact, the current dividend yield is only 0.03%.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2025

Over the past three years, AppLovin's outstanding share count has decreased by 11%, demonstrating management's commitment to increasing existing shareholders' ownership stake. Meta Platforms Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) , formerly Facebook, has never split its stock since its 2012 IPO. In its most recent quarter, Meta posted $40.6

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The mortgage REIT's falling dividend has weighed on its ability to create value for shareholders over the years. leverage ratio (well below the 4x range its stable cash flow can support). That variability has forced AGNC Investments to cut its dividend several times over the years: AGNC Dividend data by YCharts. annualized).

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

Genworth continues to make strong progress against our strategic priorities to drive long-term growth and shareholder value. We are very pleased with Enact's continued strong operating performance, capital levels and shareholder distributions. billion in approvals on a net present value basis since 2012.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

February 2012: 2-for-1 stock split. energy drink sales, the company can leverage its visibility to expand into other opportunities. The company conducted its first stock split in June 2022, giving shareholders a whopping 10 units for each one they previously owned. November 2016: 3-for-1 stock split.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

Genworth continued to make strong progress in the first quarter against our strategic priorities to drive long-term growth and shareholder value. We are very pleased with Enact's continued strong operating performance, capital levels, and shareholder distributions. per share and adjusted operating income of $85 million or $0.19

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

More important to current and prospective shareholders, MercadoLibre is very much in the right place at the right time with the right lineup of services. Atlantico reports that between 2012 and 2022, the continent's internet penetration rate grew from 42% to 74%. In fact, it was more of an eBay clone in its early days.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, operating margins increased roughly 6 points driven by improved operating leverage through cost management and the higher gross margin noted earlier. billion to shareholders through share repurchases and dividends. Now to our segment results. And finally, we returned $9.1

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MAY 7, 2024

Delek Logistics started back in 2012 as a classic drop-down story. The combination of the primary equity issuance and extending our debt to 2029 improved Delek Logistics' ability to pursue its growth plans through improved leverage and financial liquidity. In addition, we reduced the leverage ratio to 4.01 last quarter.

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MAY 7, 2024

Our linear channels are deeply embedded in our direct-to-consumer strategy, as they continue to deliver high-quality content that reaches demographics not captured on streaming alone, allowing us to broaden our audiences and leverage our unmatched content engine across an expansive base. billion annualized target.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In the quarter, we continue to execute against our strategy that is driving long-term growth and shareholder value. We're very pleased with Enact's operational strength's capital levels and consistent shareholder distributions. Our first priority is to create shareholder value through Enact's growing market value and returns.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 2023, Genworth made outstanding progress against our three strategic priorities, which enabled us to return significant value to our shareholders. They operate as a closed system, leveraging existing reserves and capital, current premiums, as well as future new premiums under the LTC MYRAP plan to cover future claims and other obligations.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Successful execution of these goals should also result in multiple expansion for our shareholders. This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. On our earnings calls earlier this year, we discussed with our shareholders our visibility to a strong pipeline. We ended the quarter with AUM near $11.5

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Genworth continued to make progress against our strategic priorities in the third quarter as we deliver long-term growth and drive shareholder value. This brings our cumulative progress to approximately 25 billion and approvals on a net present value basis since 2012. per diluted share. life companies on a stand-alone basis.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For the full-year 2023, we generated revenue above $500 million for the first time in Pro Labs' 25-year history while delivering improved earnings, robust cash flow, and returning substantial capital to shareholders. Finally, in 2023, we drove shareholder value through improved profitability and returning capital to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We're pleased to report another quarter of strong financial and operating results, and we continue to execute on our strategic priorities to increase shareholder value. Our achievements to date have enabled us to make significant progress toward the commitments we made to shareholders a year ago at Investor Day. We returned $6.7

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2024

In 2023, our total shareholder return was 33%, and we increased our quarterly dividend by 8%. We expect this growth and more stable cash flow to support our valuation going forward and contribute to attractive total shareholder returns. We expect to return in excess of 50% of our growing operating cash flow to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

We continue to view returns to shareholders as an attractive use of our capital in the current environment, and this is reflected in our stock price, which has increased by over 60% as of the market close on Friday, August 4, since announcing our original share repurchase authorization in May of 2022. life insurance companies.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

We continued to progress our strategic priorities and we returned significant cash to our shareholders. The expected proceeds will support our strategic priorities, including returns to shareholders. We're committed to return over 50% of our operating cash flows to shareholders. billion to shareholders through $1.2

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MAY 3, 2024

EOG is off to a great start in 2024, both delivering value directly to our shareholders and investing in future value creation. Our robust cash return to shareholders continues to demonstrate our confidence in the outlook and value of our business. Ezra Yacob -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thanks, Pearce.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Better performance has helped us to reduce our net leverage ratio for the third consecutive quarter. I remain highly confident in our strategy and optimistic about our future and the ability to drive long-term value for shareholders. Behind Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, and Ball Park, we have the No. We ended Q3 with $4.8

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Clearlake Capital Group

JULY 1, 2024

Clearlake will join existing investors TA Associates (“TA”), Insight Partners (“Insight”), and Charlesbank Capital Partners (“Charlesbank”) as shareholders. We look forward to leveraging our O.P.S. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”) to support Aptean’s journey.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We can invest approximately $500 million this year on a leverage-neutral basis, excluding any disposition proceeds, and without the need for any additional equity capital. We continue to leverage all three external growth platforms to find compelling risk-adjusted opportunities. of total acquisition volume for the quarter.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Dylan Lewis: We've got earnings updates from Big Tech, two stories that have us checking in on the panic meter and insights from a CEO that's led his company and shareholders to 3000% returns in his tenure. I think stock is up about 3,000% since you took over the CEO role in 2012. Your job is to take care of shareholders.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

We are also excited with the traction of Best Bees, our new feature that leverages the power of our new AI algorithm to curate match recommendations for users. We remain diligent in our allocation of marketing spend and continue to see opportunities for leverage in particular from our brand marketing piece. That's great news for us.

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MARCH 8, 2024

We also see an opportunity to improve our performance and maximize our operational efficiency, including through initiatives such as the rollout of our customer-first SAP program and improving our processes and leveraging this significant technology foundation that we've put in place. In 2024, we expect to have our Canadian and U.S.-regulated

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

The strong flow-through of revenue to EBITDA reflects the operating leverage of our business, once the fixed costs have been covered. The second item I wanted to cover is an update on our plans for the return of capital to shareholders. You mentioned leverage, and this is a very important thing. Thank you, Dan.

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