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Bill Ackman's Critics Had "Extreme Skepticism" About These 3 Investments, but He Still Made Billions on Them

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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.

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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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Delek Logistics Partners (DKL) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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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Alibaba Group (BABA) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Looking ahead, we will continue to expand the Choice model, leverage the capabilities of an integrated cross-border supply chain and enhanced consumer experience with higher certainty in logistics and service level. Everything we're doing, all the services we have can be rethought and redone leveraging AI. Operator Thank you.

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Annaly Capital Management (NLY) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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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Digital Realty Trust (DLR) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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And third, we bolstered our total liquidity, which now stands at more than $4 billion and further diversified our capital sources and reduced our leverage well off of peak levels through more than $2 billion of dispositions and JVs and over $1 billion of equity issued under our ATM. Our reported leverage ratio at the quarter end was 6.8

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Exact Sciences (EXAS) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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We expect gross margins will improve over time as we realize the benefits from lab automation, leverage investments in a lab infrastructure, and see an increased mix of rescreened patients. We continue to expect leverage across the P&L this year, especially within G&A. You get a ton of leverage by adding these reps.