The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

In 2015, one headline on the company read, "Wait Until Rollins Gets Served at a Fair Price." In the decade since, the company has more than quadrupled its investors' total returns. In 2019, another article read "Rollins: A Great Company, but It's Very Expensive." While the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

A serial acquirer, Rollins has spent over $1 billion (roughly half its free cash flow) on hundreds of acquisitions over the last five years. Boasting a return on invested capital (ROIC) of 27%, the company has proven to be a masterful acquirer, generating outsize profitability compared to the debt and equity it uses to make new purchases.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

The beauty of this high FCF margin is that it arms management with excess cash to use on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Since 2015, Motorola has spent roughly $6 billion on more than 20 acquisitions, further building out its technological prowess across all three of its product groups.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Combining incredible historical total returns with robust returns on invested capital (ROIC) and steadily rising dividends , some companies are built to stand the test of time. While there is technically no such thing as a "bulletproof" stock, there are a select few businesses that seem almost unstoppable.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 18, 2024

MTY Food Group: A serial acquirer MTY Food Group has made 50 acquisitions since 1999, including 27 over the last decade. While companies that rely upon megamergers or one-off jumbo acquisitions to fuel their growth often disappoint, serial acquirers like MTY often prove to be outperforming propositions. percentage points.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

And with more than 20 years of finance and leadership expertise, Heena brings a breadth of experience across different facets of global finance, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions. I guess, I'm trying to think about the decline in gross margin over the years, you know, 700 basis points, 600 basis points going back to 2015, 2016.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In this podcast, Motley Fool host Ricky Mulvey and analyst Asit Sharma continue their conversation about expectations investing, applying the framework to four companies with different growth outlooks. A railroad that just made an acquisition that will give it a rail network from Mexico to Canada. It's called Canadian Pacific.

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