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In 2014, Ackman reportedly told Bloomberg that he had invested $60 million in General Growth Properties -- both in the company's unsecured debt and in the stock itself. When he finally exited his stake in 2014, Ackman says he made $1.6 Among the problems that Ackman saw was an enormous amount of leverage.
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.
As Avigal mentioned, we are growing Delek Logistics with a prudent management of liquidity and leverage. We are also managing our leverage which has improved to 3.81 The capital program for the second quarter of 2014 was $10.2 times at the end of the second quarter of '24 from its high point of 4.84 times at the end of '23.
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and leverage a quarter end of 5.6 This current risk-off tone has led to marginal spread widening across Agency and Credit, and justifies our leverage profile, which is at its lowest level of the cycle. Is that sort of just better yields in the market or is there like a different leverage assumption or just curious what drove that?
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And then how does that influence your expectation for a positive operating leverage next year? And, yes, we will generate positive operating leverage in '25. In other words, should the street just expect, OK, what can Regions generate revenue-wise in a better environment and just expect positive operating leverage from there?
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a large healthcare company that has an existing records management and ALM customer will leverage our DXP platform to manage a complex set of multi-format records. Margin expansion was driven by operating leverage and revenue management. Margin expansion was driven by pricing, recent commencements, and operating leverage.
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Our team leverages this significant automation plus our unique telemetry to efficiently detect if data is under attack and to catch threats are missed by others. One example of this is a multinational commercial real estate firm that has been a Varonis customer since 2014. You get the leverage in the sales and marketing.
million in 2014 and less than 2 million in 2010. As of March 31, 2024, our consolidated leverage ratio was 3.0 As a reminder, our leverage target remains 3.0 Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Last week, the EIA reported that the U.S.
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Better performance has helped us to reduce our net leverage ratio for the third consecutive quarter. Improving profits and strong cash management are also benefiting our net leverage, which declined sequentially again, coming in at three times in Q3, more than a full-turn lower than where we exited fiscal 2023. We ended Q3 with $4.8
And I just mentioned, since paying our first dividend in 2014, we have now raised the dividend in 10 consecutive years. Should we assume that 47% is the baseline and then you get some leverage on top of it? And how should we think about operating leverage into calendar '25? We have $9.8 We continue to execute well in 2024.
Since its launch in 2014, The Sims 4 has surpassed 85 million players, with FY '24 up double digits year over year. As we leverage the capabilities of AI, we believe it will further supercharge these differentiators. The passion of the Sims community remains strong as the franchise powers toward its 25th anniversary.
times ratio, leaving us with a good amount of capacity under our leverage target of around 4.5 There's still a -- you know, we've gone through over the last couple of years the original legacy contracts from back in 2013, 2014. And if it is, what's the path to getting there given that leverage? Would it be acquisitions?
These capabilities are driving guest engagement and enhanced accessibility that have also resulted in execution challenges, particularly in product transitions and launches as we leverage new tools and processes. Since launching our share repurchase program in 2014, we've effectively returned $6.8 Turning now to our outlook for 2025.
We've also leveraged our strong ALCO processes, including an active hedging program to soften the financial impact from higher-for-longer rate scenarios. More than 1 million deposit customers either leverage our smart savings tools, utilize direct deposit, and/or have an Ally Invest relationship. Turning to liabilities.
It's prudent to reduce leverage -- but Jeff, I think you indicated before at NAREIT that you thought raising equity in the $25 to $27 range would be appropriate. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Your stock is up 18% year-to-date. That's helpful.
This was driven by our team's continued success in strengthening our competitive position through improved affordability and leveraging our high-performance networks and digitally enabled services as we expand care access, coordination of care, and overall value. We've been successful in growing our U.S.
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Since paying our first dividend in 2014, we have now raised the dividend amount nine times. As a result, it's possible that historic leverage we've delivered takes a temporary pause. I guess what I would want you to think about is, historically, when business grows at Lam, you've seen nice leverage in the model.
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You're going to see a renewed focus on expanding genres, leveraging our reach and distribution strength to introduce more cool new games than ever, and working with some of the brightest designers in the industry to give their games a platform they deserve. You really didn't state any leverage targets for 2024 or 2025.
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