The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

The second-longest yield-curve inversion on record will end The yield curve , which is a chart depicting the yields of various Treasury debt securities relative to their maturity dates, has often been a tell of what's to come for the U.S. This is to say that shorter-dated debt securities (i.e., economy and stock market.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 29, 2024

This compares to a modest 3.95% average annual return for public companies that don't offer a payout. Companies that regularly share a percentage of their earnings with their investors are almost always time-tested and able to offer transparent long-term growth outlooks. It closed out 2023 with a net debt ratio of just 7.3%.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Very few public companies offer monthly dividends, and the ones that do are typically real estate investment trusts (REITs) because they are legally required to pay out 90% of their taxable earnings to shareholders. The company first issued a quarterly payment in 1998 and transitioned to a monthly distribution in 2013.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

However, from the year 2000 until 2013, the business languished, and the stock dropped roughly 75% in value. Finally, the company's founder, Michael Dell, worked out a deal to take the company private again. The public history for Dell seemed to be over. At one point, Dell was valued at around $100 billion.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

billion in long-term debt ($12.2 billion in net debt). Unless the company can substantially lessen its streaming losses, it's going to be difficult to silence critics. billion in dividends to its shareholders this year, and has repurchased $674 billion worth of its common stock since initiating a buyback program in 2013.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

Becoming a public company, while a milestone event, was not the destination but the beginning of the next chapter of our journey. Our general and administrative expense for the quarter, excluding stock-based compensation and certain nonrecurring public company costs, was 20.4 Shifting to overall performance.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2023

The company closed out June with $53.4 billion in long-term debt. billion the company has generated in net cash from operating activities since 2023 began. The metaverse remains an opportunity that could provide significant revenue for the company later this decade. Competitive advantages are what fuel the FAANG stocks.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

The size, scale, diversification, and consistency of performance from our global real estate portfolio continues to provide us with excellent visibility to revenue and is a key reason why we have not had a single year of negative operational return in our 30 years as a public company. Cineworld reduced its debt by $4.5

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

More details regarding our guidance assumptions can be found on Page 15 of the Company's Form 8-K supplemental that was filed early this morning. Over the past few months, we have made considerable progress addressing our debt maturities. million and the assumption of our partner share of debt. On to the balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

Anthony Schiavone: When a company generates free cash flow, there's a couple of ways that they can allocate that capital. They can either reinvest in the business, they can make acquisitions, they can pay back debt, repurchase shares, or the last one, which we like, they can pay a dividend. They're still investing heavily to grow.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Bill, IBM shares up eight percent post earnings, sending the stock to its highest level since 2013. Bill Mann: IBM is like the nickelback of AI companies. Like nobody wants to admit that they like it because, I mean, it's a company that's disappointed for so long. What has the market so excited about IBM?

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

Adjusted EPS increased more than $2, supported by strong profit growth and lower interest from debt reduction. With over $100 billion in debt reduction behind us and $7 billion return to shareholders in 2023, we remain fully focused day-in and day-out on using lean to improve how we serve our customers and deliver value for shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the time of our initial public offering in 2013, we were operating just eight markets across four states. As of December 31st, our total debt was $1.25 billion, resulting in a debt-to-capital ratio of 40.2% and a net debt-to-capital ratio of 39.3%. In 2023, our geographic footprint continue to grow.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023 marked our 25th anniversary as a public company. Our total debt principal outstanding was approximately 29 billion as of December 31, 2023. Assuming the final maturity date of our hybrids, the weighted average life of our debt portfolio was approximately 19 years. Our weighted average cost of debt is 4.6%.

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Investment Writing

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Note: This post was originally published on October 18, 2013, on the MarketingProfs blog , but it remains relevant today. To do so, the ECB would have to affirm its intent via language or stepped up daily purchases of peripheral debt on the order of five billion Euros or more. I have made some updates and additions.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2023

Improvements to NOI guidance are fairly broad-based and are primarily driven by increases in base rent, tenant recovery revenues, increase in temporary tenant revenues, and, to a lesser extent, improvements in bad debt expense driven by collections of previously reserved receivables. The expected increases in core NOI guidance totaling $0.05

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The Motley Fool

JULY 31, 2024

If you look back in history in just a little bit, taking you backwards, company was started in 2013 with $1 billion of equity capital. I would encourage you to look at some of the public companies that trade out there. There are public company peers out there who have done a great job. So now to Page 3.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We've continued to expand our asset portfolio, increasing our extensive pipeline network to more than 50,000 miles from approximately 30,000 miles in 2013 and adding nearly two Bcf per day of natural gas processing capacity and three fractionators. Another example, you know, public company costs have been eliminated for the Magellan company.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

They did not believe me, the stock price did not go 60 X because they had to raise money, they had to issue more equity than to take on debt. I was being told that I could divert up to 10% of my paycheck into my company's discounted stock purchase plan. That company was Schlumberger. They were 60 acts. It was a roll-up.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We typically invest between $5 million and $30 million in businesses generating between $2 million and $15 million in EBITDA through majority recap, minority growth capital, and debt/equity solutions. Zucker (“Zucker”), who serves as Managing Partner, and made his first private company investment in 1994.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 12, 2023

We also made our largest direct, private equity commitment to date with Maxar Technologies, a global space technology and intelligence company whose customers include SiriusXM and NASA. This is an exciting opportunity which also involved an investment by our private debt team. million to just over $5 million which is close to the $5.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After another strong year as a public company, I'd like to start today by revisiting the algorithm we use to achieve sustained long-term growth. With respect to capitalization, as of December 31, 2023, we had $655 million in cash and cash equivalents, no long-term debt, and 122.5 Good afternoon, everyone. million over the $1.0

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Cognex reported a strong cash position at the end of Q3 with $846 million in cash and investments and no debt. On the buyback front, our stated goal is to offset dilution from our employee equity programs, and we've been well ahead of that goal for quite some time right now since we pronounced it in the 2012, 2013 time frame.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4 billion deal.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

Carnival 's plans to pay off its heavy debt load. The company's really struggling to pay off a lot of debt. Most of their debt, fixed debt also good, so it's not subject to crazy interest rates. But with a company like this and with companies that carry heavy debt, how should we think about this?

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Discovery 's debt-ridden saga, these stories aren't just tales of companies; they are lessons for life and investing. This could be a very important year in investing, given what this tech company has gone on to do. Fast forward to 2013. From 2013-2020, sales increased from about $8 billion to $86 billion.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We've paid out $5 billion of dividends since the company was started in 2013, and our total shareholder return for 2023 was 43%. We have the large REIT, and then we have our operating companies as well. Hey, you mentioned some unsecured debt being raised in the sector and possibly looking into some unsecured yourself.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 21, 2025

Consumer debt servicing burdens are stable, near pre-pandemic levels. Still, high interest rates will probably remain a source of pressure for some consumers, especially those with higher debt servicing burdens. Credit cards are, you know, one of the two largest classes of floating rate consumer debt.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 27, 2025

I know there’s been a big rush into private credit and private debt over the past few years. I think they have about $10 billion out of the 400 and change billion that’s in, in public equities. Most of what they do are, are real assets, credit debt, middle market banking. What they do is really fascinating.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They invest primarily in private and public companies. That’s why I think being in Silicon Valley investing, in talking every day with venture capital companies, founders, et cetera, is a huge competitive advantage to us because we see the disruption coming years in advance. How do you think about that? Is it a bubble?

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then I don’t know what God smiled on me, but I got hired by the Wall Street Journal in 2013. RITHOLTZ: So you start in 2013, and then you proceed to get some major news stories that you either covered intimately or broke. You know, when I got hired in 2013, M&A was dead. And like, to some degree they kind of won.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Whereas all the other public companies had access to capital and managed to get into trouble. RITHOLTZ: So, you go from Lazard to Merrill to JPMorgan, tell us about those other experiences, how do they compare to Lazard which seems much more unique, being in a public company versus a partnership. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The national debt now sits around $35 trillion, with the annual cost to service this debt coming in at roughly $1.05 As an example, the world's largest publicly traded company by market cap, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) , has repurchased $700.6 trillion as of August 2024, per the U.S. Department of the Treasury. in the process.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

For example, Harris has proposed tackling America's rapidly rising national debt by increasing taxation on select groups. Buybacks have been an especially useful tool America's biggest publicly traded companies have used to reward investors and boost their earnings per share (EPS). Meanwhile, Trump wants to impose tariffs on U.S.

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