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And that will not only help to support, and justify, the company's higher leverage levels (than midstream peers), but also help to build the foundation for long-term growth. 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.

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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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” Centerbridge acquired KIK Consumer Products in August 2015 (then KIK Custom Products) from CI Capital Partners. When acquired in 2015, KIK Custom was a contract and private label manufacturer serving the personal care, automotive care, household products and pool care sectors.

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From 2010 to 2015, Berkshire stock outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 20%. While some insurers like AIG over-leveraged themselves with risky financial instruments, Chubb has consistently maintained a much more conservative approach. Total Return Level data by YCharts. It wasn't a perfect performance.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Then, in 2012, it took another huge step forward when it introduced a franchise-based model that would allow insurance agents to leverage their expertise and platform to sell policies. In 2015, the company had 125 operating franchises. Franchising has been a key pillar of Goosehead's long-term growth.

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MAY 13, 2024

In 2015, it began using its tensor processing units (TPUs) for internal purposes and several years later made them available for customers of Google Cloud. It makes good sense for Nvidia to leverage its expertise It seems extremely likely that Nvidia will enter the custom chip market for AI and other applications.

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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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Kinder Morgan has made the necessary moves to regain investors' trust Kinder Morgan slashed its dividend by 75% in December 2015 to preserve cash and address its overly leveraged balance sheet. Image source: Getty Images. Nearly nine years later, Kinder Morgan has turned its business around by managing spending and paying down debt.

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MARCH 2, 2024

That is, they are able to leverage the growth of millions of other businesses and consumers without needing to build all the infrastructure themselves. Since its initial public offering (IPO) in 2015, Shopify stock has increased in value by 2,900%. Outside app developers made Apple's App Store a giant success, not Apple alone.

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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. Artificial intelligence (AI) looks like the next big thing. And its platforms for the private sector and governments use AI to do this.

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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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JANUARY 17, 2024

Permira Credit, a European alternative credit investor, has promoted David Hirschmann, who joined the business in 2015, and Ariadna Stefanescu, who has been with the firm since inception in 2007, to Co-Heads of the business, with immediate effect.

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The dividend is about twice as big as it was in 2015, and four times what it was 15 years ago. As a bonus, the company's wide range of products not only gives its salespeople leverage with retailers, but also gives the company something to promote to a wider range of consumers who are increasingly steering away from sugary sodas.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

ORS is uniquely positioned to capture share as OEMs look to consolidate their supply chains and leverage wholesale distribution as a key channel partner. OEP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Frankfurt, and Amsterdam, spun out of JP Morgan in 2015 and has closed more than 300 transactions worldwide since its founding in 2001.

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Founded in 2015, it came from nowhere to become a giant to challenge the incumbents Alibaba and JD.com. The company also benefited from operating leverage since its fixed cost grows much slower than its top-line expansion. In less than 10 years, the e-commerce company was making $34.9 billion in revenue and $8.5

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Going from a concept in 2015 to beta service in 2021, SpaceX's plan to build a network of fast internet communications satellites has grown from 0 to 10,000 to 2.2 SpaceX Starlink is a success. million active users (according to a December 2023 SpaceX filing with the FCC).

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The move came after several years of a strategic overhaul under CEO Doug McMillon, which modernized the company by building up the omnichannel and e-commerce businesses, embracing new growth opportunities like advertising, remaking its international portfolio (including acquiring India's Flipkart), and leveraging its strength in grocery.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Kinder Morgan cut its dividend in late 2015. With less leverage, a reliable and growing dividend with a high yield, and a forward-price-to-earnings ratio of just 14.6 KMI EPS Diluted (TTM) data by YCharts. At the time, the oil and natural gas industry was undergoing a brutal downturn. Kinder Morgan may be a boring business.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Long owned by eBay , PayPal became an independent company in 2015. Also in 2015, eBay ended its partnership with PayPal, moving its backend payments to a competing service while deemphasizing PayPal as a payment method. During the next five years, its user base more than doubled from 180 million to around 380 million.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Under new leadership, PayPal will look to turn things around with its small business offerings and leverage its data trove to scale up its advertising business. For one, eBay , which owned PayPal until 2015, announced it would not renew its agreement with the company and would turn to Adyen to process payments.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) was spun off from eBay back in July 2015, and its investors received one share of PayPal for every share of eBay they owned. From 2015 to 2022, PayPal's annual revenue grew from $9.2 PayPal's new shares started trading at $41.63, and they eventually rallied to an all-time high of $308.53 billion to $27.5

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JULY 9, 2023

So what Dish Network shares have been sinking since 2015's peak, reaching yet another 52-week low just last month. The company is leveraging this network in ways beyond consumer-facing ones, too. The satellite TV provider's stock fell 53.1% The culprit is continued cord-cutting, which seems to be reaccelerating.

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Since its initial public offering in 2015, this top fintech stock has doubled the gain of the Nasdaq Composite Index. 10 years from now, Block could essentially be leveraged to the price performance of Bitcoin, particularly as it rakes in revenue from a potentially wide range of Bitcoin-related endeavors.

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JULY 2, 2023

And as we saw last fall in the FTX crypto breakdown, blurry financial lines among alternative lenders are exposed in a hurry when these funds rapidly grow their financial assets, take on too much leverage, and interest rates start jumping higher.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Kinder Morgan's bond ratings are in the mid-BBB range, and its leverage ratio should end the year around 4.0 While that's not always the case in real life (Kinder Morgan cut its payout by 50% in 2015 to retain additional cash to strengthen its financial profile), dividends don't have a set expiration date. times (below its 4.5

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JANUARY 8, 2024

This 2015 spin-off from eBay currently trades 80% below all-time highs set in mid-2021. Not only did this differentiate Intuit's product suite, but it opened the doors for the company to begin leveraging an entirely new user base from Mailchimp's data.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The company cut its dividend to protect its balance sheet in 2015 but has raised it for the past seven years and counting. The company has decreased its leverage by 26% since 2016 and today has an investment-grade credit rating. A healthier and improved pipeline stock Dividend yield: 5.4% Kinder Morgan is guiding for $2.26 dividend.

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JULY 27, 2024

And it's understandable why PDD, the parent of Pinduoduo, has flown under the rader -- the company has only been around since 2015. To this end, it leverages Pinduoduo's experience, know-how, and extensive supply chain resources to serve overseas consumers. For instance, Temu reached 82 million active users in the U.S.

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JULY 26, 2024

times leverage ratio , its lowest level in a decade. That's an increase from a $10 billion TAM in 2015. Iron Mountain ended the first quarter with a 5.1 Those growth investments position the company to continue expanding its revenue and earnings at accelerated rates. billion last year to a target of $7.3 billion in 2026.

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JULY 25, 2024

Since going public in 2015, PayPal's gross margin, which reflects sales minus transaction costs, has declined significantly, dropping from 65% to 45%. PayPal is leveraging a trove of consumer spending data to help customers discover products and assist merchants in optimizing sales. as the year goes on. Image source: Getty Images.

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Even though all of Chipotle's stores are company-owned, the business has been able to better leverage its operating costs, like labor, occupancy, and administrative functions, over the past few years to rapidly grow the bottom line. It's encouraging to see the margin improve over time. coli health scare.

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JULY 13, 2024

After dealing with a huge food safety crisis in 2015, the fast-casual leader is now stronger than ever as it closes in on 3,500 stores with impressive unit volumes. As restaurant volumes climb, Chipotle will enjoy more operating leverage over its fixed cost base, which shows up in an expanding operating margin.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

About IonQ Monroe and Jungsang Kim co-founded IonQ in 2015 to bring quantum computing from academia into the marketplace. The technology leverages the power of quantum physics to exponentially increase the speed of computing power. Under current technology, bits store units of information that are either a zero or a one.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Naturally, Layer 2 blockchains have become prominent solutions for developers and users looking to leverage Ethereum cost-effectively. In other words, they help the underlying Ethereum network process transactions faster and more efficiently. However, even some Layer 2 fees remained costly compared to other blockchains.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Those are the wider sharing of operating costs, and sales leverage. Evidence of this claim lies in the fact that the company's top line was consistently growing before 2015 -- when it began selling its bottling operations -- and after 2017 following the completion of those sales. Such iconic brands are of course easier to promote.

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MAY 11, 2024

In 2015 Energy Transfer agreed to buy peer Williams Companies. Energy Transfer warned that consummating the deal could result in a distribution cut, the need to take on massive leverage, or both. But there's more. It got cold feet and wanted out of the deal, but Williams felt the deal should go through as planned.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Scale also provides negotiating leverage to minimize supplier prices, making it difficult for competitors to undercut it. Homeownership rates have recovered since the 2015 trough after the global financial crisis, but ownership is historically low for young adults. Home Depot's scale provides meaningful competitive advantages.

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