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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Coke is also leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to adjust pricing, which is driving revenue growth but also will lead to more efficient operations over time. The company's margins were up last quarter and that's a good sign of what's to come in a stronger demand environment. With an installed base of more than 2.2

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APRIL 29, 2024

Alphabet as an AI company On its earnings call, Alphabet management proudly said the company has been an artificial intelligence (AI)-first company since 2016. The cloud business is also beginning to show some solid operating leverage as it scales up, leading to the segment's operating income increasing by 3.7x to $900 million.

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APRIL 28, 2024

The company's consistent rise in net interest income undermines Hercules' strong performance and its proven ability to reward shareholders. I think this showcases management's decisions to prioritize shareholders. Over the years, the company has worked with notable businesses including Impossible Foods , Enphase Energy , and Lyft.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Warren Buffett's investing skills have made shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway a lot of money over the years. Warren Buffett originally invested in the stock in 2016. Its ability to leverage its e-commerce dominance to develop other profitable business opportunities is why Amazon stock is worth holding for the long term.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Leveraging its leading position in the graphics card space, Nvidia has since grown from its relatively small 1999 public offering to the $1.5 The company's been through ups and downs which would have shaken several of even the staunchest of shareholders out. The rest, as they say, is history. trillion powerhouse it is today.

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DECEMBER 20, 2024

Whereas about half of claims handled by RWI are resolved within 12 months, closer to three quarters are resolved within that time when handled by a professional shareholder representative. [ He leverages his extensive expertise and SRSAcquiom proprietary data to produce resourceful content regularly utilized by market practitioners.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

yield, but that payout has grown at a 38% annualized rate since 2016. This is because the company achieved its leverage target last year after five years of paying down debt. Since the company brought its debt down to comfortable levels, it has been increasing its payouts to shareholders methodically every quarter.

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JUNE 16, 2023

Basically, through thick and thin, the MLP has made sure that its shareholders receive a steady and growing quarterly disbursement. Acquisitions are partly to blame for that trend, but investors need to understand that leverage increases risk. In 2016, Energy Transfer inked a deal to buy peer Williams Companies (NYSE: WMB).

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AUGUST 18, 2023

However, a crucial part of being an industrial conglomerate is using cash flow and financial leverage to acquire or internally develop new businesses. Honeywell's conservative balance sheet means it's set to end 2023 with just $11.2 The company has the firepower and plenty of industries to look into making deals.

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MARCH 30, 2024

Lots of fuel to continue increasing its big-time dividend Enbridge has delivered an average total shareholder return of 11.2% It also has a strong investment-grade balance sheet, and its leverage ratio is within its 4.5x-5x annually over the last 20 years. That has outperformed the S&P 500 (9.7% 5x target range.

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MARCH 10, 2024

first began investing in Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in 2016, that stock traded at a steep discount to the market -- with a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio in the range of 10 to 14.5 Rewarding shareholders Over the last five years, Apple, Bank of America, and American Express have all boosted their dividends and bought back stock at impressive rates.

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MAY 18, 2024

In 2016, industrial made up about 22% of annualized rent. They're leveraged (they have a lot of cash but lend most of it out) and very tied to the overall economy. Today, industrial properties make up 67%. This portfolio transformation was challenging. At a current yield of 7.5%, that could be a pretty attractive stock.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

AI analysis can help companies optimize their operations Jake Lerch (Palantir Technologies): With the stock up 178% year to date, 2023 has been an incredible year for Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) and its shareholders. The tools advanced from that point, so much so that Alphabet declared itself an "AI first" company in 2016.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Satisfying hungry shareholders Bill Ackman's firm has owned shares in Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) since the second half of 2016. When Ackman first bought shares in the third quarter of 2016, Chipotle was in the early innings of winning over consumers following its E. This investment has clearly worked out wonderfully.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

Buffett acknowledged in last year's shareholder letter that stakes in Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and American Express (NYSE: AXP) , which Berkshire Hathaway has held for decades, have provided it with billions of dollars in unrealized gains from share price appreciation that was partially powered by their growing dividends.

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APRIL 6, 2024

What's happening here Signet made an agreement with private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners (LGP), which had taken a preferred equity stake in the company in 2016, to repurchase half of LGP's 8.2 Image source: Getty Images. million shares in the retailer. As a result, Signet is repurchasing 4.1

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MARCH 27, 2025

Additionally, we are leveraging innovation as a strategic differentiating tool to meet available demand and stay ahead of market trends. On the technology front, Newmar is beginning to leverage advanced 3D product development technology to successfully reduce the time to market for innovative products like its Super C Grand Star.

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JUNE 24, 2024

As shown in the chart above, the company adds leverage during weak patches to continue investing in its business and paying dividends. When the market recovers, it reduces leverage to prepare for the next downturn. That includes years like 2014-2016, when oil prices plunged, forcing some oil and gas companies to cut their dividends.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

In a world where traditional media companies are struggling to stay afloat, spending money they don't have on digital initiatives, or leveraged to the point of unprofitability in a sluggish ad market, Sirius XM is cheap. There are growth challenges, but Sirius XM is going to extraordinary measures to return money to its shareholders.

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JUNE 23, 2024

Enterprise's consistency can also be seen in its distribution to shareholders, which it has been able to grow each year for the past 25 years. This has come down from the over 4 times leverage it was at in 2017. times from 2011 through 2016 before the oil crash, while Enterprise often traded at a premium multiple of over 15 times.

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JULY 29, 2024

First, it has a long history of AI innovation and has declared itself an "AI first" company since 2016. Through that purchase, IBM redefined itself as a cloud company, particularly with its ability to leverage the hybrid cloud. But it is much too early to count out this company. Image source: Statista. return of the S&P 500.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

While Berkshire has owned the Liberty Media tracking stock since 2016, which tracked Liberty's large stake in Sirius, Berkshire has increased its bet on the satellite radio operator this year, ahead of the tracking stock's merger with publicly traded Sirius shares in a simplification merger in September.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

And its steadily rising distribution, which has had a compound annual growth rate of 6% since 2016, is proof that investors will benefit as Brookfield Renewable grows. It expects its leverage ratio to be below 3.9 Those hikes have come at an impressive rate in recent years, boosting shareholder returns significantly.

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JUNE 25, 2024

The company aims to grow its service revenue to $28 billion by 2026, doubling its service revenue from 2016 , by leveraging data and artificial intelligence to allow it to proactively service equipment to avoid interruptions -- making its long history of dividend raises more sustainable.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Enbridge is shifting the mix In 2016, nearly three-quarters of Enbridge's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) was derived from its oil pipelines. That's not uncommon for acquisitions and will help the company maintain its leverage within management's target levels.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

The Trade Desk has a long track record of outperforming the market, up more than 2,000% since its 2016 IPO, and it looks well positioned to continue to beat the market, given its strong growth in a difficult environment. That makes sense, as the company had to dilute shareholders and take on debt to survive the pandemic.

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JULY 23, 2023

Given enough time, shareholders would love it if Cava could become the next Chipotle Mexican Grill , the popular Tex-Mex chain that has been thriving for several years now, and still has tremendous growth potential. The business currently has 263 stores, up from just 22 at the end of 2016.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite investing more than £750m since 2016, some Everton supporters have been unhappy about his ownership. “Then we heard last month that their exclusivity agreement with Farhad Moshiri, the majority shareholder had ended, which meant they were out of the picture as far as a takeover of the club was concerned. .

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AUGUST 27, 2023

AMT Dividend Yield data by YCharts As American Tower steadily reduces its leverage while digesting its $10 billion acquisition of data center real estate investment trust CoreSite , look for the world's unquenchable thirst for data to push the company's profitability back to old highs. Now trading with its highest-ever 3.5%

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MAY 11, 2024

Buffett accumulated shares almost every quarter from the start of 2016 through the third quarter of 2018, resulting in a position equivalent to over 1 billion shares of the stock today. Buffett has praised CEO Tim Cook, and he called Apple "a better business than any we own," at Berkshire's 2023 shareholder meeting.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

November 2016: 3-for-1 stock split. energy drink sales, the company can leverage its visibility to expand into other opportunities. The company conducted its first stock split in June 2022, giving shareholders a whopping 10 units for each one they previously owned. February 2012: 2-for-1 stock split.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

billion, leveraging optimization initiatives in certain capital investments. Looking ahead, we will remain highly focused on our disciplined capital allocation approach, balancing capex optimization, accretive growth, and strong shareholder returns. This will be the reference for additional shareholder remuneration.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Being able to leverage the draw of celebrities like Howard Stern, Kevin Hart, several exclusive sports commentators, and a slew of artist-specific and genre-specific music channels helped tremendously. That's based on a quarterly dividend, by the way, that's been raised every year since it began paying them in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I remember Tom Gardner was up in Canada in summer of 2016 and Ian Butler and I said, hey, let's introduce you to something. Even on a discounted cash flow basis, which you can now value Shopify at, which you couldn't back in 2016 when we bought it the first time, I've got a reasonable DCF. Ricky Mulvey: You can do whatever you want.

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MAY 7, 2024

We started to develop third-party business back in 2016, focusing in the Midland and the Delaware Basins. The combination of the primary equity issuance and extending our debt to 2029 improved Delek Logistics' ability to pursue its growth plans through improved leverage and financial liquidity. We have come a long way with DKL.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

Ricky Mulvey: In a recent shareholder letter, you basically said there's still outdated paradigms in nuclear energy, even while the technology has progressed. That's important and find capitally efficient ways of leveraging partners and building partners up. At the end of the day, that provides us a lot of, I guess I'd say leverage.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And since that time, we've been an active contributor to its growth by leveraging our pharmaceutical grade cultivation and science driven approach to product innovation. In the first half of 2023, we saw close to 320,000 new approvals and this represents a significant increase since July of say, 2016.

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