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.

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This includes how we've optimized our pricing architecture, made enhancements to our AI inventory buying tool, leveraged our advanced algorithms to reduce underperforming shipments, streamlined our merchandise assortment, and improved our CRM capabilities. Despite the revenue decline, we continue to drive leverage in our business in FY '24.

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

As a reminder, we implemented several shrink-mitigating tactics in Q1 and Q2, including upgraded store talent, updated equipment, revised policies, increased leverage of exception reporting to quickly identify issues, and a third-party restitution program. Prior to COVID, it was -- you know, 2017, '18, '19 -- between 5% and 6%.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

But if I look at your claim -- reported claim counts that you give in your statutory data, for other liability, it's down significantly for 2023 accident year. So I don't know if there's a data thing there or not, but reported claim counts at 12 months or 15% down in other liability. It is a severity issue that we're seeing there.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With little operating leverage, 6 of 7 segments still increased operating margin, resulting in segment operating margin expansion of 110 basis points. Over the past few years, we've made progress on expanding our revenue from CBI from less than 1% in 2017 to approximately 2% today. points, and that's going all the way back to 2017.

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

Furthermore, from a risk management perspective, we view these credit investments as a prudent, natural hedge to the inherent rate exposure as we have on the liability side of our balance sheet. To that end, we ended the second quarter with leverage at 5.3 This was the 25th consecutive quarter of leverage at 5.5

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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.

Shareholders 246

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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. And Kecia, on the comp-store sales, is it a mid-single-digit leverage occupancy?

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They came back to ZoomInfo because we were able to help them with all of their key initiatives for go-to-market success, ramping up new account executives, increasing sales efficiency, driving sales and marketing alignment, and actually leveraging AI. Our net leverage ratio is 1.4 times trailing 12 months adjusted EBITDA and 1.3

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2024

We continue to leverage our diversified portfolio of products and sales platforms, disciplined approach to credit underwriting and management, and innovative digital capabilities to further progress on our strategic objectives and to deliver sustainable risk-adjusted growth and returns over the long term. Moshe Orenbuch -- Analyst Got it.

Accounting 130

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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.

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. As clients increasingly turn to BlackRock, we believe this will result in sustained market-leading organic growth, differentiated operating leverage and earnings and multiple expansion over time. With that, I'll turn it over to Larry. How is that evolving?

Assets 130

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The proportion of less than minimum payments in our portfolio remains below the 2017 to 2019 average across all credit segments. Total interest-bearing liabilities cost was $4.78, 44 basis points higher year over year due to higher benchmark rates. And 20 basis points above our historical average from the third quarter of 2017 to 2019.

Accounting 130

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The Motley Fool

JULY 12, 2024

So, in Q2, we continue to work with our customers and focus on leveraging our leading technology as well as optimizing our business through our strategic initiatives, which, of course, includes our cost reduction actions that we have taken. We continue to leverage our technology leadership while prudently managing our business.

Banks 217

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

I find few things more satisfying than watching our customers leverage our platforms to thrive and prosper. Analogue October Records has been a customer of ours since founder Craig Crane opened his doors in 2017. As an industry leader, it's crucial that we continue to leverage new technologies to further differentiate our products.

Leveraging 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

One of the first brands to leverage FairPrice shopper data on our platform was Coca-Cola, who wanted to reach customers during the festive Lunar New Year season. A lot of this speculation reminds me of the frenzy in 2017 when Safari deprecated cookies or more recently in 2021 when Apple made its IDFA changes. Turning now to expenses.

Leveraging 130

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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.

Shareholders 130

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With large growth drivers, including the ongoing secular shift to CTV, upgrading measurement with retail data expansion outside North America, a strong identity framework, strengthening of the supply chain, and the ability to drive leverage in our model, we remain optimistic for many years to come. But we did start doing that in 2017.

Capital 245

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Because of the large and expanding number of cellular frequency bands available in the world, the RF frontend on mobile phones is becoming an increasingly complex and expensive piece of technology, which leverages advantages that specialized RF SOI substrates can provide. Richard Shannon -- Craig-Hallum Capital Group -- Analyst OK.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 189

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Fortune Financial

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In contrast, the average liability is 3 percent for the top quintile, 16.4 The share of non-retirees who thought their retirement saving was on track was also below the shares who thought their saving was on track in 2017 through 2020.” For the lowest four quintiles, taxes are negligible – ranging from 0 percent to 1.9

Taxes 59

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

As always, we will present a credit quality update along with a view of increased operating leverage based on investments we have made. Needless to say, we are quite pleased to see a 26% increase in operating leverage from the first quarter of last year to Q1 of this year. The rest of this slide shows how we got there. Alex Lau -- J.P.

Banks 130

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Con Edison, a C3 customer since 2017, continues to expand its use of the C3.ai ai continues to leverage its extensive commercial supply chain experience in the federal government. The second project supports DLA's energy directorate, leveraging C3.ai's GSK, formerly GlaxoSmithKline, is now using C3.ai

Professional Services 130

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

These spreads are based on our short-term nominal cost of capital that measures the year-one dilution from utilizing external capital and excess free cash flow on a leverage-neutral basis to fund our investment volume. Our leverage, as measured by net debt to annualized pro forma adjusted EBITDA was a healthy 5.4

Capital 130

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2024

Finally, to support reducing our debt leverage ratio and maintaining our current investment-grade credit ratings, we do not plan to repurchase common stock this year under our board-authorized repurchase program. We haven't done that since 2017. Todd Vasos -- Chief Executive Officer Thank you, Kelly.

Capital 130

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

By leveraging this multifaceted approach, Brain6 ensures the level of performance and robustness that is unparalleled. While EyeQ5 products, REM is used explicitly as a map, in EyeQ6, Brain6 leverages insights from our REM global database, which includes data from over 6 million vehicles amassing tens of millions of miles daily.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Taxes Capital Amortization 130

Zajac Group

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Rather than the business or partnership being responsible for paying taxes as an entity, the tax liability is split among the partners or shareholders. The information provided on a K-1 form will be used to either increase your tax liability (if additional income is reported) or potentially reduce it (if losses or deductions are reported).

Taxes 52

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Finally, although our leverage ratio remains above our target of approximately three times adjusted debt to adjusted EBITDAR, we are focused on improving our debt metrics in support of our commitment to our current investment-grade credit ratings, which, as a reminder, are BBB and Baa2. population. And so stay tuned.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Depreciation Shareholders 130

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. Is it simply a function of leveraging sales growth? And then, lastly, when I think about, right, your -- the comp that you need to leverage expenses.

Leveraging 130

Leveraging Capital Shareholders Taxes 130

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We've since leveraged our learnings and success in bundling personal insurance products in the commercial market where we continue to be an industry leader. Like many efforts, Progressive has undertaken, we often leverage the direct channel to test, learn, and perfect new ideas. Our second speaker is Sean Freeman.

Leveraging 100

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The US withdrew from the TransPacific Partnership in 2017. For example, the federal government recently announced it would stop issuing real return bonds – an important liability matching asset for many defined benefit pensions in Canada. Real investment advantages include things like operational leverage (e.g.,

Pension Funds 59

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

That's the starting point for our climate strategy as we leverage our system that's already in place and new innovative ways to drive emissions down even further. Since our water strategy began in 2017, we've grown through more than 30 acquisitions. It's why our system is an energy powerhouse for the communities that we serve.

Depreciation 130

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our Scopes 1 and 2 emissions per hectoliter of production have improved by 46% versus our 2017 baseline. So that speaks for the added flexibility that the leveraging is giving to us. But having said all that, and I repeated more than once that we have other flexibility given where we are in leverage. It's twice as much.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 130

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Portfolios Leveraging Capital 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2024

Matt joined Chemours in 2017 from PwC, where he was an audit partner. This resulted in a net leverage ratio of approximately 2.8 You talked about leverage being 2.8 So, how high do you see that leverage number creeping up this year? Also, you may recall we launched a joint venture, THE Mobility F.C Debt, net of our $1.2

Capital 130

Capital Leveraging Portfolios Shareholders 130

The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Our end-to-end solution ensures a secure chain of custody regardless of media format for this customer, leveraging our image on demand service and InSight platform to integrate seamlessly with their customer success management system. With strong EBITDA performance we ended the quarter with net lease adjusted leverage of 5.1

Leveraging 100

Leveraging Assets Capital Resale 100

The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

The bulk of the value is going to accrue to the applications that leverage the entire AI stack and deliver value to the business. Con Edison, a C3 AI customer since 2017, uses the C3 AI platform to improve everything from operational and energy efficiency to public safety, billing performance, and customer satisfaction.

Professional Services 130

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

We leverage our unique assets and capabilities to serve corporates, financial institutions, investors, and individuals with global needs. In fact, consistent with our strategy, we continue to leverage our retail network to drive 25,000 wealth referrals year to date through May, up 18% year over year. billion in 2017 versus 43.5

Banks 130

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

In response to client demand and the opportunity, we're evolving to an organization that drives efficiency, operating leverage, and margin expansion to one that's also increasingly driving improved client service delivery and accelerating innovation at scale. So, that's on the risk capital side. Eric, do you want to add -- yeah.

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