The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since the company's IPO in late 2017, the stock soared as much as 1,940% in less than four years. This fueled revenue, which rose 16%, and Roku generated its fifth consecutive quarter of positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and free cash flow.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

From fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2017 (which ended in November 2017), its revenue grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3% as its earnings per share ( EPS ) rose at a CAGR of 2%. That rising leverage made Carnival a risky stock to hold as interest rates rose, and its stock sank to a 30-year low of $6.38 per share on Oct.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2024

Meanwhile, the company ended the first quarter with 3 times leverage, which it defines as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ). This has come down from the over 4 times leverage it was at in 2017.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Cathie Wood built a name for herself and her investment firm Ark Invest by racking up some huge gains between 2017 and 2020 in the exchange-traded fund Ark Innovation ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKK). Given the operating leverage in this business, this is a good thing for investors.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) rose from $3.2 in the latest quarter, showing that the company should be able to expand its bottom-line margins as it adds new locations and leverages its corporate costs. The company also has to generate a profit. million to $5.1 million, or a 10.3%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) dropped 32% to $159 million. From 2017 to 2021, its revenue increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49%, even as the pandemic disrupted its digital advertising business in 2020. Why did the bulls abandon Snap?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The regulatory lag -- recovery lag associated with these investments is exacerbated in 2024 due to the increased level of investment and the shorter-lived nature or, if you will, higher depreciation expense associated with our cybersecurity and technology assets. Utility depreciation and general taxes increased $1.5 million, or $1.21

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the short term, we're leveraging our strengths to capture market share and to optimize our marketing spend. In addition, we're leveraging the benchmarking study to identify and implement structural improvements to improve the business model with a sense of urgency. million and leveraged by 20 basis points to last year at 52.2%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We drove strong wholesale GPU despite experiencing steep depreciation, and we stabilized CAF's net interest margins while we maintained penetration. We achieved this despite experiencing steep depreciation that was concentrated primarily in June and July. SG&A as a percent of gross profit was 84%, a leverage of 6.3

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Same-store sales growth of 6% was driven by strong traffic growth of 15% and ticket average decrease of 8% is by design and consistent with our revitalization strategy since 2017. Improvement was mainly from sales leveraging, lower rider costs, more favorable commodity prices, and lower advertising expenses.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

In Q1, our e-commerce channel continued to improve, growing 2% year over year and contributing to overall top-line growth and fixed-cost leverage. As expected, we saw stability and modest leverage within the more fixed portion of our cost of goods, including retail occupancy as we've continued to scale our store base. Very helpful.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

This increase was primarily driven by retail labor, including the remaining $50 million of our targeted labor investment as well as store occupancy costs, depreciation and amortization, repairs and maintenance, and other services purchased, including debit and credit card transaction fees. We haven't done that since 2017. It was 23.6%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

We are also leveraging partnerships with franchisees to unlock opportunities in lower-tier cities and strategic locations. Capital allocation for store investments that impact depreciation and then also ran runs the big things we continue to work on marketing leverage from our digital program.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Additionally, we grew our platinum and diamond member base, leveraging unique incentives like exclusive and early access to key events and brand launches, gifting, and personalized offers that drive engagement. Leaning into targeted life cycle campaigns in both owned and paid channels, we reactivated members with greater efficiency.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The primary expenses that were greater percentage of net sales in the current year period were hurricane-related costs, retail labor and depreciation and amortization, partially offset by a decrease in professional fees. As we look to leverage our real estate strength, we plan to increase the number of real estate projects next year.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

We're leveraging the success of these innovations and further leaning into our other top-performing SKUs to capture opportunities to expand distribution. Net leverage declined again sequentially, ending the fiscal year at 2.6 Moving to chicken. We're also scaling up our use of data to make better decisions on mix and to improve yield.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 29, 2024

Finally, we are undertaking the first full-scale refresh of our sorting process within our distribution centers since the launch of our Fast Track initiative in 2017. The primary expenses that were greater percentage of net sales in the current year period were retail, labor, depreciation and amortization, store occupancy costs and utilities.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Adjusted SG&A increased primarily from the general liability adjustment, higher depreciation, temporary labor for Dollar Tree's multi-price rollout, higher utility costs, and sales deleverage, partially offset by lower incentive comp cost. Our bank-defined leverage at quarter-end stood at approximately 2.5 million last year.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

This increase was primarily driven by retail labor, depreciation and amortization, incentive compensation, and repairs and maintenance. We continue to anticipate a significant headwind this year from the normalization of incentive compensation in 2024 as well as an ongoing headwind from depreciation and amortization. to $546 million.

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Mr. Money Mustache

OCTOBER 23, 2020

It went roughly like this: 2017: bought a house in a less-than-pristine but very central Denver neighborhood for $385,000 (with only $17k down). And thanks to US tax laws regarding property depreciation, a large portion of this cashflow arrives completely tax-free. A Bit More on Risk.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

People were overpaying for a depreciating asset. If somebody took out a lease in a Prologis property seven years ago, so 2017, they took out that lease based on what rent was at that moment in time, with a 2% annual increase or whatever standard in the commercial real estate market. They might run into trouble.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

As reflected in the reconciliation we've provided in the earnings documents posted to our website, cash COGS per metric ton excludes depreciation and amortization, as well as cost of goods associated with byproduct sales and other noncash factors. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 14% in the second quarter. Expanding on costs.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We leverage hash identifiers, which are universal privacy safe tool to bridge data sets from marketers and media owners across demand and supply, facilitating successful personalization of measurement. I think what's important to note there is we've been working on cookie loss and signal deprecation since 2017.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 3, 2024

Cost from strategic investments, higher depreciation and amortization, and recent acquisitions represent the remaining 4 million to 6 million. They're enabling us to leverage current customer relationships. They're enabling us to leverage our product offerings. And with that, I will now turn the call back over to Erik.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

And when you think about the LCOE calculation, we created that metric to be able to compare it to the reference legislative cap, which is a combustion turbine, which in 2017 dollars is $125 per megawatt hour. And so, let me walk through the three components in that calc so you can think about how that number may move.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

Now, that PC that's on your desk today cost your company about $200 a year in depreciation expense for the hardware and another $200 a year or so for infrastructure cost. The bulk of the value is going to accrue to the applications that leverage the entire AI stack and deliver value to the business. Silicon will get commoditized.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Our [Inaudible] of this business has always been about providing incremental safety features to meet the constantly expanding regulatory and rating requirements while leveraging scale and purpose-built hardware to maintain a consistent overall cost to the automaker. We also exclude stock-based compensation.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

This should support good operating leverage over time. The primary exclusion in Mobileye's non-GAAP numbers is amortization of intangible assets, which is mainly related to Intel's acquisition of Mobileye in 2017. Before I begin, please be aware that all my comments on profitability will refer to non-GAAP measurements. dollar terms.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

The increase in total SG&A dollars is directly a result of the NuVasive merger, partially offset by cost actions taken as well as fixed cost leverage on spending. one time related to depreciation that we don't expect to repeat. And this was back in I think even 2018, 2017 when Excelsius was just launching. million or 37.8%

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The, the security that 00:19:47 [Speaker Changed] Is 5% is high yield these days 00:19:49 [Speaker Changed] You had the, the Fed come in and, and push a lot of the banks and say, Hey, you, you can’t have a tunnel of leverage on the high yield issuance. But I, I think this extreme leverage is not as prevalent as it once was.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

During the call, Jim, John, and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. We're seeing strong outcomes from our investment in a customer experience model that leverages technology to communicate with customers in their channel of choice. Thanks a lot. Operator Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We're certainly at a time now where labor has some leverage and I think we're seeing it in strikes everywhere, you got the UAW just reading where a CBS and Walgreen pharmacists are, they're planning a three day walkout. Employees everywhere right now, labor everywhere has some leverage states are setting standards.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

From 2016 through 2020, Maravai acquired companies, including TriLink BioTechnologies and Cygnus Technologies in 2016, Glen Research in 2017. The capability and infrastructure additions that came from pandemic-era investments give us a foundation for exceptional operating leverage going forward. This was Maravai 1.0, Maravai 3.0

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In 2017, when I stepped into this job, we had 22. Our execution excellence, our technological innovation, and our tremendous portfolio of growth opportunities, flows from our strategy and focus on fully leveraging our core capabilities and competitive advantages. We've also significantly improved our product yield.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

During the call, Jim, John, and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. We continue to drive SG&A leverage, and we're also gaining momentum on operating cost optimization and efficiency gains. SG&A leverage provided the remaining expansion.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Since joining Chipotle in 2017, I've had the privilege and responsibility of leading our restaurant teams as we have grown from under 2,300 restaurants to over 3,600 restaurants today, employing over 125,000 people. Labor costs for the quarter were 24.9%, about flat to last year as the benefit from sales leverage offset wage inflation.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

Snap's headline numbers looked healthy, but its stock remains more than 10% below its IPO price from 2017. However, its operating margin improved slightly year over year in the first quarter, while its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) stayed positive over the past three quarters.

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