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MAY 26, 2024

Overall, the business carried a superb gross margin of 40% in fiscal 2015, the year before Buffett purchased shares. It posted a 30% operating margin in fiscal 2015 while generating $70 billion in free cash flow that year. Customer loyalty is another trait that can't be ignored. Even better, Apple was in pristine financial shape.

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APRIL 15, 2025

Africa secured $3.6bn in venture capital funding in 2024, including $1bn from venture debt, with African investors forming the single largest group of active VC participants in the region for the first time, according to a data from the AVCA the African Private Capital Association.

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MARCH 6, 2024

The newly created company had a bloated balance sheet and over $30 billion in long-term debt. Debt also limits how much management can invest in the business to innovate and create growth. Debt also limits how much management can invest in the business to innovate and create growth. times its EBITDA today. That's just too high.

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APRIL 16, 2025

Costco stock has significantly outperformed the S&P 500 since the start of 2015: ^SPX data by YCharts Costco's conservative 27% payout ratio provides substantial room for future dividend increases regardless of economic conditions. Costco's fiscal year ends in early September.)

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Its yield hasn't been below 5% since 2015. Granted, the company slashed its distribution in 2020 because it needed to pay down debt. However, Energy Transfer's debt load isn't as problematic now. Earlier this year, Fitch and S&P (upgraded the company's senior unsecured debt rating.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

billion in 2015 to acquire DIRECTV only to see subscribers jump ship. The remaining 70% stake in DIRECTV has been generating dividends for AT&T, but it also locked up capital that could have been used to pay down debt to invest in the wireless or fiber networks. It paid a staggering $48.5

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AUGUST 15, 2024

The properties' development was funded by Medical Properties Trust between 2015 and 2017 for Adeptus Health. It added that it will use the proceeds of the deal to retire debt and for "general corporate purposes." Following that company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, University of Colorado Health began leasing the facilities.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

In addition to its $15 special dividend this year, the company paid special dividends of $7, $5, $7, and $10 in 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2020, respectively. Costco tends to pay out these dividends when its net cash position (total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities in excess of long-term debt) becomes significant.

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MAY 19, 2024

The brand has changed hands several times in the last 40 years, ultimately coming under the Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) umbrella when Kraft and Heinz merged in 2015. As of the first quarter of 2024, Kraft Heinz had nearly $20 billion in long-term debt -- an exorbitant amount that cost the company over $900 million in interest expenses in 2023.

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AUGUST 27, 2024

I purchased my previous laptop in 2015 and used it regularly for nine years. Find out how I made this business purchase more affordable without draining my business bank account or going into debt. The last thing I wanted to deal with was credit card debt, so I avoided using my existing business credit card.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

London-based Statera Energy, an energy storage and flexible generation developer and operator, announced recently that it has secured up to £300m of debt financing through a syndicate led by Lloyds Bank. read more The post EQT and Syndicate of Lenders Back Statera Energy with £300m Debt Financing appeared first on Private Equity Insights.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It stayed in that vertical until launching its AI-enabled voice recognition software in 2015, and gradually built the client base that benefits the company today. One problem is its long-term debt, which, at more than $83 million, far exceeds the company's $26 million in stockholders' equity.

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JUNE 20, 2023

The only monetary figure that makes $100 trillion look small is the $300 trillion of global debt, including every country's national debt. Drop back to the summer of 2015, and the gain balloons to 10,500%. billion market cap Bitcoin sported in June 2015. dollar over the last year.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Still, the only year the segment exceeded the low end of the guidance since 2015 was 2021, thanks to the bounce-back from the pandemic-ravaged year of 2020. billion in net debt. billion in 2022, investors might pencil in Solventum to carry net debt of $7.2 Image source: Getty Images. 3M will retain a 19.9% billion to $8.4

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For capital-intensive businesses that tend to carry a high amount of debt on their balance sheets, lower interest rates can reduce the cost of capital and make debt financing less expensive. Nearly nine years later, Kinder Morgan has turned its business around by managing spending and paying down debt.

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JUNE 23, 2024

This was indicated by Apple's fiscal 2015 gross margin of 40.1%. In fiscal 2015, the business raked in $53 billion in net income, good for a stellar profit margin of 22.8%. In fiscal 2015, the business raked in $53 billion in net income, good for a stellar profit margin of 22.8%. But he will only do so if the price is right.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Selling for pennies on the dollar Tyler Crowe (Precision Drilling): After years of sweating every inefficiency out their businesses, paying down debt, or restructuring, a lot of oil and gas equipment companies now have stellar balance sheets and lean operations that look like compelling investments today. times free cash flow.

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

KMI Financial Debt to EBITDA (TTM) data by YCharts That said, a part of the problem was Kinder Morgan's more aggressive use of leverage than its peers'. At the end of 2015, management was telling investors that it would be able to increase the dividend by as much as 10% in 2016. Just a couple of months later, the dividend was cut.

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JULY 26, 2023

billion reached in Q2 2015. However, with the highest debt load in the U.S. Despite making progress on shoring up its balance sheet over the past two years, the company still has nearly $43 billion of debt and lease liabilities. The resulting savings caused American's Q2 adjusted operating margin to double to 15.4% a year ago.

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MARCH 8, 2024

In 2015, for example, the market assigned the stock a P/B of around 2. Last year, the company's debt levels nearly tripled when looking at its debt-to-equity ratio. As with Berkshire, one of the best ways to understand whether shares are a buy, sell, or hold is by monitoring the stock's price-to-book (P/B) ratio.

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JULY 15, 2023

per share, a payout that has increased annually since its reintroduction in 2015. With only about $313 million in cash and equivalents, it may have to issue stock or increase debt to sustain this payout. The company just raised its payout to $2.36

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AUGUST 19, 2023

For example: Have you paid off your high interest rate debts ? It will be hard to get ahead if you're earning, say, 8% to 12% on your investments while paying 25% on debts. Over many decades, though, the stock market has averaged annual gains of close to 10%. Year S&P 500 Return 2008 (37%) 2009 26.5% 2012 16% 2013 32.4%

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AUGUST 18, 2023

In the early 2000s, soaring home prices and lax lending standards left many subprime borrowers with too much debt and credit rating agencies failed to sound the alarm when that bad debt was repackaged as mortgage-backed securities and sold to financial institutions like Lehman Brothers. Scion invested $1.6

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JUNE 23, 2023

The former is simply the profits generated from the capital invested in the business, while the latter is the weighted cost of its equity and debt. It also shows the golden period between 2015 and 2019, when relatively high ROIC and relatively low interest rates gave hope that the industry could generate value for shareholders.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Hormel also has a well-stocked balance sheet with around $550 million in cash, equivalents, and marketable securities against less than $3 billion of long-term debt. The company formed in 2015 when Darden Restaurants spun off some of its real estate to form a REIT. It currently owns over 1,150 properties leased to more than 150 brands.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Previous special dividends were paid in 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2020 in the amounts of $7, $5, $7, and $10, respectively. At the end of its just-reported fiscal first quarter, Costco had about $7 billion of debt and nearly $18 billion of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments. billion to shareholders.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Spending on public cloud usage rose from $31 billion in 2015 to nearly $200 billion in 2023. This technology has been the linchpin driving total returns of over 900% since 2015 for both stocks. billion in cash and investments and no long-term debt. Artificial intelligence (AI) looks like the next big thing.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

It also expects to have a net-debt-to-adjusted- EBITDA ratio of 3.8, Kinder Morgan cut its dividend in late 2015. Kinder Morgan was levered up with debt, but it had previously been making a ton of money. For 2024, Kinder Morgan is forecasting that it will pay a dividend of $1.15 per share while collecting $1.21

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 16, 2024

Park Place Technologies has secured a roughly $2bn financing package from a group of private lenders led by Blackstone, which will be used to refinance its existing debt and payout to the company’s private equity owners GTCR and Charlesbank Capital Partners, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The $2bn private credit division of investment manager Federated Hermes has appointed Paul Robinson as Director, Origination & Structuring, a newly created London-based role within the business’s real estate debt team, which was launched in 2015. He started his career at GE Capital.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

It has continued to reduce its leverage and now plans to finish the year with a net debt-to-adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) ratio of just 3.9. Kinder Morgan has come a long way since the oil and gas crash of 2015. in dividends per share. in DCF per share for the full year.

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MAY 17, 2024

That, meanwhile, is backed by a strong balance sheet, with the company's debt-to-EBITDA also within management's target range, which in this case is between 4.5 The big risk here might be that you don't take advantage of the fact that Enbridge's stock is down some 30% from its 2015 peak and 20% from its highs in 2022. and 5 times.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Shares of Walgreens have retraced by 83% since hitting an all-time high in 2015, with the company's yield recently jumping up to north of 6%. A high level of debt, which isn't ideal in a rising-rate environment. might also be on the table as a debt-reduction tactic. Litigation concerning its role in the opioid crisis.

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MARCH 14, 2025

But as a shareholder myself, I've really been disappointed with the capital allocation and specifically taking on debt to repurchase shares at much higher prices than where the stock trade's at today. That's the first time that pass sales had declined since the pass was introduced in 2015, I believe it was.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

As of June 30, the company had $118 billion of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities on its balance sheet, with under $14 billion of long-term debt. Sundar Pichai has made AI a top focus for Google since he became the CEO in 2015. Most businesses dream about having a massive net cash position like that.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

However, ExxonMobil has improved its balance sheet significantly since then, taking advantage of outsize gains in recent years to pay down debt. XOM Net Total Long Term Debt (Quarterly) data by YCharts One of the most important qualities a company can have is to bridge the gap between investor expectations and reality.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

First announced in 2015, the project would have involved the construction of 12 reactor modules to generate up to 600 MW, and the plan was to have it up and running by 2023. However, if NuScale continues to lose money, it may have to raise capital through debt or equity, which could further dilute shareholders.

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