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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This period included the financial crisis that began in 2007, the oil price collapse from 2014 through 2017, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Its balance sheet is strong, with a leverage ratio of 3x and solid A- and A3 credit ratings. For example, Enterprise delivered a double-digit return on invested capital (ROIC) in every year since 2005.

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JUNE 19, 2023

investors ever since introducing its shares in 2014. For one, it can leverage AI applications due to its position as the world's fourth-largest cloud company. Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) has intrigued U.S. It went from a business started in Jack Ma's apartment to becoming the largest e-commerce company in China. And like its U.S.

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JULY 7, 2024

Nvidia's success in the industry has seen its desktop GPU market share rise from 65% in 2014 to 88% in the first quarter of 2024. Meanwhile, Nvidia is leveraging its lead to steer the industry in its favor and challenge its competitors. As the market progresses, chip demand is only likely to continue rising.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Sirius XM hasn't posted organic double-digit revenue growth since 2014. The meandering top-line growth, leveraged balance sheet, and potential slow fade out of the satellite radio model can't be ignored. Facing the music Sirius XM is cheap right now, and not just because the stock chart tells us that the shares are low.

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MAY 17, 2024

18, 2014, it raised $25 billion and became the largest initial public offering (IPO) in U.S. When Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) went public at $68 per share on Sept. At the time, the bulls were impressed by the Chinese e-commerce and cloud leader's rapid growth rates. 27, 2020, Alibaba's stock reached its record high of $312.87. and China.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The company would later enact two stock splits, a nearly 2-to-1 split in March 2014 and a 20-to-1 split in July 2022. The segment just turned profitable in 2023, but it is now set to grow its profitability at a quicker pace than revenue given the operating leverage in the business. and a $20,000 investment would be worth close to $1.2

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lancaster Colony recently implemented a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and will work to leverage its capabilities to enhance the business's supply chain efficiency and reduce costs. From fiscal 2014 to fiscal 2024, the quarterly dividend was raised from $0.74

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JULY 14, 2024

billion) in fiscal 2014, the year it IPO'd. Its software leverages this technology to automate processes, perform manual tasks faster, and free workers to spend more time on creative and analytical work.

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OCTOBER 12, 2024

UFPT Operating and Profit Margin (TTM) data by YCharts Powered by these improving margins, the company's free cash flow (FCF) and net income have grown by 17-fold and 7-fold, respectively, since 2014. Image source: Getty Images.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Demand for those products should continue to ramp up in 2024, and Microsoft investors are in good hands with Nadella -- especially as the company continues to leverage its partnership with OpenAI, which also gives it an edge in AI. However, its legacy of underperformance changed when Satya Nadella took over as CEO nearly 10 years ago on Feb.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Founded in 2014, IDnow develops proprietary AI-driven identity verification technologies, catering to global enterprises and international brands across financial services, telecommunications, travel & mobility, gaming, and other industries.

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MAY 4, 2024

These are highly leveraged investment products. Microsoft Duquesne bought Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) stock in the first quarter of 2014, around the time Satya Nadella became CEO. Investors may also notice how Druckenmiller structures his Nvidia investment into two holdings. One is Nvidia stock, which is 9% of the overall portfolio.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Each of the company's eight ETFs aims to leverage specific trends, grouping together leaders and disruptors in that field. These are companies that come with a lot of risk as investments, but that have the potential to be the next Amazon or Apple. Some of Ark's top holdings include Coinbase , Tesla , and UiPath.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Moreover, while Hercules specializes in basic debt instruments such as term loans or revolvers (think a corporate line of credit), Ares offers more sophisticated products -- including leveraged buyouts (LBOs). ARCC Price to Book Value data by YCharts At a price-to-book (P/B) ratio of just 1.1, yield and prepare to hold for the long-run.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

“With the experienced leadership of BK, Andy, and Chris, we believe Impetus is well positioned to capitalize on opportunities in the highly fragmented VMS market, and we look forward to leveraging our combined expertise to support the long-term growth of Reliance and other strong businesses in the space moving forward.”

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MARCH 24, 2024

Its sheer scale translates into serious leverage Last but not least, Walmart's overwhelming size gives it a big advantage over competitors -- not only discouraging grocers like Kroger and discounters like Target from setting up stores nearby, but in other ways too. Some of them work. And not every initiative has worked out as hoped.

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APRIL 29, 2024

These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value. Leverage provides the opportunity to generate higher returns if the price increases. billion in current market value, which are held at MacroStrategy.

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APRIL 21, 2024

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, its Windows-driven dominance had weakened amid the rise of the smartphone and competition from Apple on the PC side. As the company leverages its cloud competitiveness and OpenAI partnership, long-term growth should continue even if the stock price is modestly ahead of fundamentals.

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JULY 3, 2023

On top of that, mortgage REITs generally make use of leverage in an effort to enhance returns. That leverage is often backed by the value of the CMO portfolio it owns. But it has been cut four times since the company switched to monthly payments in 2014. At the end of 2014, the book value per share was $25.74.

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JULY 4, 2024

Egress was founded in 2007 and offers a cloud email security platform using what it calls an adaptive security model, which leverages AI to assess human risk and provide email protection. Albion’s relationship with Egress started in 2014 with a Series A £2.2m funding, when the company was a team of 12.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

Axalta, formerly known as DuPont Performance Coatings, was acquired in 2013; Nouryon, formerly known as AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, in 2018; Atotech, a specialty chemical affiliate of Total Energies, in 2016; Signode, the industrial packaging group of ITW, in 2014; and Allison Transmission from General Motors Corporation in 2007.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As a start, Cainiao can continue to leverage its relationship with Alibaba (and its other subsidiaries) to grow its business. What it means for investors Alibaba has been a disappointing investment for its long-term investors, with its share price hovering near its initial public offering (IPO) price in 2014.

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MAY 29, 2024

Enterprise's business model has seen the company consistently grow its distributable cash flow (DCF) per unit (operating cash flow minus maintenance capital expenditures [ capex ]) most years, while keeping it pretty steady during difficult environments, such as when oil prices collapsed during 2014-2016. Image source: Getty Images.

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MAY 29, 2024

Enterprise's business model has seen the company consistently grow its distributable cash flow (DCF) per unit (operating cash flow minus maintenance capital expenditures [ capex ]) most years, while keeping it pretty steady during difficult environments, such as when oil prices collapsed during 2014-2016. Image source: Getty Images.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

He also served as Global Head of CLOs and Loans responsible for developing Man’s structured credit and leverage loan business. Prior to this, Robinson was Head of Liquid Credit (Europe) for Apollo Global Management, responsible for all investment activities in the region across leveraged loans, high yield bonds and CLO strategies.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The validation of Aman’s strategy by prominent investors in regions where we have considerable expansion planned enables us to leverage the extraordinary potential of the Aman brand and accelerate the pipeline to deliver sustainable growth,” said Vlad Doronin, owner, chairman and chief executive of the Aman Group.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

That said, ConocoPhillips prides itself on having a lean balance sheet and low leverage. Leverage ratios tend to spike when oil prices fall, which you can see in the aftermath of the 2014 to 2015 oil and gas downturn and the 2020 COVID-19-induced collapse. debt-to-equity ratio -- both near 10-year lows.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

When Lisa Su became CEO in 2014, she shifted AMD's focus to CPUs and GPUs. The company successfully leveraged this core competency and took a lead over Intel in data center CPU market share growth in 2023. It has moved in this direction for a long time.

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MARCH 30, 2024

He wrote to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders in 2014 that he suggested much of the cash his family receives when he dies be invested in a low-cost Vanguard S&P 500 index fund. When you see "ultra-short" in a fund's name, it often means it uses leverage to short-sell a type of asset. Warren Buffett likes Vanguard.

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APRIL 9, 2024

We will safeguard and enrich this legacy through future global endeavours, by breathing new life into their characters and personas while also leveraging and elevating the visual world of KISS.” Pophouse which was founded in 2014, started investing in music rights in 2022 with the catalogue acquisitions of Avicii and Swedish House Mafia.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Room for further balance-sheet improvements Since the oil and gas downturn of 2014 and 2015, Kinder Morgan has worked hard to restore its balance sheet and rebuild investor confidence in its dividend. In the past nine years, it has reduced its total net long-term debt position by 29% and lowered its leverage.

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JUNE 23, 2024

This dynamic helps the company post steady, largely growing results year after year, even during difficult periods such as the Great Recession, the oil price collapse in 2014-15, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This has come down from the over 4 times leverage it was at in 2017.

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MARCH 25, 2024

The transaction will give it the cash to reduce its leverage ratio by 1.5 It has been Summit Midstream's joint venture (JV) partner in Ohio Gathering and Ohio Condensate since 2014. times leverage ratio, well below the 4.0 times, pushing it below 4.0 and toward its 3.5 It owns interests in and operates those JVs.

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JULY 31, 2023

The extra FCF has helped the company pay down debt and reduce its leverage. Kinder Morgan got into trouble in 2014 because it had a highly leveraged balance sheet, a more volatile business model, and a dividend it couldn't afford. A growing dividend is a reason to hold a stock even if the stock price itself doesn't do too much.

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JULY 27, 2024

They trade at a gut-wrenching 97% below their all-time high, set in December 2014. Financial leverage is also a cause for concern. The company is dealing with the fallout of a failed merger attempt with JetBlue and has struggled to get on better financial footing. It's no wonder shares have gotten crushed. billion of debt.

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JUNE 24, 2024

As shown in the chart above, the company adds leverage during weak patches to continue investing in its business and paying dividends. When the market recovers, it reduces leverage to prepare for the next downturn. That includes years like 2014-2016, when oil prices plunged, forcing some oil and gas companies to cut their dividends.

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JUNE 11, 2024

The company has leveraged its vast resources and computing power to drive game-changing AI innovation through its pioneering subsidiary, DeepMind. Acquired by Alphabet in 2014, DeepMind has been at the forefront of AI breakthroughs in machine learning, reinforcement learning, and neural networks.

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