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MAY 29, 2024

Enterprise's business model has seen the company consistently grow its distributable cash flow (DCF) per unit (operating cash flow minus maintenance capital expenditures [ capex ]) most years, while keeping it pretty steady during difficult environments, such as when oil prices collapsed during 2014-2016. Image source: Getty Images.

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MAY 29, 2024

Enterprise's business model has seen the company consistently grow its distributable cash flow (DCF) per unit (operating cash flow minus maintenance capital expenditures [ capex ]) most years, while keeping it pretty steady during difficult environments, such as when oil prices collapsed during 2014-2016. Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

It ended the quarter with leverage of 3x, which it defines as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted EBITDA. It noted that it has produced about a 12% return on invested capital over the past decade. Enterprise currently has $6.9 times based on 2024 analyst estimates.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2024

Over the past five years, Enterprise has averaged about a 13% return on invested capital, so these growth projects should provide meaningful growth to the company in the years ahead. At a similar return, the approximately $10.5 plus multiple between 2011 and 2016 when the companies were generally in worse financial shape.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

However, with credit card balances at all-time highs and student loan debt repayments restarting, many customers have been effectively forced to finance their solar systems at today's unsightly rates if they deem the project essential. A growing 1.7% With a price-to-sales (P/S) ratio of 1.8 (the

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

Top-tier profitability and returns of cash to shareholders Perhaps most importantly for investors, Polaris offers market-beating profitability alongside its market leadership.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

However, as promising as the company's two biggest sub-segments are, Federal Signal isn't resting on its laurels, having made 11 acquisitions since 2016, expanding into new verticals as it goes. Image source: Getty Images.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Best-in-class profitability and cash returns to shareholders With a return on invested capital (ROIC) of 44% -- the 10th best in the S&P 500 index -- Mettler-Toledo's immense profitability indicates a wide moat that allows the company to maintain strong pricing power.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

This is noteworthy to investors as the Harvard Business Review highlighted that S&P 500 companies whose founders are still working with the company tripled the returns of their peers from 2001 to 2016. A stock's ROIC measures its profitability compared to its debt and equity.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The better way to look at this is actually the return on investment. He's had fabulous investments in NVIDIA , or how about taking RM Holdings as the chip designer private in 2016 at a 30-ish billion dollar valuation. Why are you skeptical of this OpenAI investment? But you said something that's very important.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

You go back to 2016 all the way through to the first quarter of 2023, Uber collectively racked up close to 30 billion in operating losses, so a lot of what they were trying to get people to focus on were those adjusted numbers. Now they're selling a lot of AI services that have a good return on investment.

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MARCH 7, 2024

To bring awareness to our innovation and product offerings, our marketing and creative teams ramped up our investments in social influencers, which delivered meaningful engagement and strong growth from new younger consumers. million of cash and no outstanding debt on our credit line, leaving us with liquidity of 232 million.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

This is the kids brand that we launched in 2016. And finally, after tax return on invested capital expanded by well over 3 percentage points from 12.6% And last year, we made significant progress in moving our debt metrics back to appropriate levels. Today, it's a $3 billion brand, the biggest kids brand in America.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

Carnival 's plans to pay off its heavy debt load. The company's really struggling to pay off a lot of debt. Most of their debt, fixed debt also good, so it's not subject to crazy interest rates. But with a company like this and with companies that carry heavy debt, how should we think about this? Higher is better.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 27, 2023

After seeing the company saddled with over $39 billion in debt during a rising interest rate environment, the market seems to be taking a more cautious approach to American Tower's stock. Furthermore, 85% of its debt has fixed interest rates, making it less susceptible to today's interest rate hikes. With the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That's a good segue into the next area of focus, which is delivering the most efficient global operating model centered around cost discipline, margin expansion, and increasing returns on invested capital. Closing the fourth quarter with net leverage of 5.2 for the year, maybe $0.09 per quarter or between $0.30 for the year.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

John Graham, president and chief executive officer of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board, told BNN Bloomberg in an interview that he expects the U.S. to resolve its debt ceiling debacle and is looking to raise liquidity to take advantage of “opportunities” the fund sees in equity and fixed-income markets. Is it still 80%?

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

billion in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities and no debt. And we are working to better connect and streamline the organization to improve operational discipline and efficiency while retooling certain go-to-market functions to focus on areas with the strongest return on investment. As of October 31, we had $1.6

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

During the quarter, we completed our inaugural investment-grade public senior notes offering by issuing long five-year bonds. This brings our mix of variable to fixed rate debt to 68% fixed and 32% variable. This impacts our dealer floor planning, finance interest costs, as well as debt costs. We repurchased 1.6

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

Private equity partners under attack over ethics Many of CPP Investments’s long-term private equity partners have come under attack from American lawmakers due to poor ethical standards. Warren and her colleagues questioned The Carlyle Group (in which CPP has invested $1.3 TPG Capital (CPP’s investments are $2.9

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