The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Free Fire was released in December 2017 and became the most-downloaded game globally by 2019. To be sure, Garena's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) is down from $2.8 This segment is also showing really high operating leverage, with Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $148.5

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Back in 2017, the chipmaker's GPU Ventures arm joined Samsung and 10 other investors in a $75 million funding round for the start-up. Over the past year, SoundHound's revenue growth has decelerated, its gross margins have declined, and its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) remained negative.

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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

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%.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The tax treatment of MLP distributions is more complex, so it's best to consult a tax specialist before any investment. Importantly, Enterprise has brought its leverage down over the years from 4.1x in 2017 to current levels. This has allowed Enterprise to increase its distribution for 25 consecutive years.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Following MidEuropa’s acquisition of Profi in 2017, the Company has become the largest supermarket chain in Romania (based on number of stores) and one of the fastest-growing retailers in the country, successfully adding over 1,100 stores and increasing sales by more than 3.3x. Source: CISION PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2017, Nike invested heavily in its direct-to-consumer channel , even at the expense of its wholesale relationships. Nike is especially optimistic about China, where it feels its brand is strong and it can leverage its new product portfolio. Sign Up For Free Image source: Getty Images.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

That's why nobody blames Buffett for paring back on the position, particularly in light of potential increases in capital gains tax rates. Reality finally set in by early 2017, though. The end to the underlying economic headwind isn't exactly visible on the horizon, either. The assumption, however, ignores a couple of details.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2025

The reduction of taxes on overseas profit and repatriated cash in 2017 also enabled Oracle to bring back billions of dollars to the U.S., In other words, Oracle plans to leverage its leadership of the database market to lock more customers into its cloud platform and AI services.

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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

JULY 16, 2024

Costco last raised its fee in 2017, also by $5. Former chief financial officer Richard Galanti gave more detail last year, saying, "Our view right now is that we've got enough leverage out there to drive business, and we feel that it's incumbent upon us to be that beacon of light to our members in terms of holding them for right now."

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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

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This is the key reason Nintendo's latest hardware called the Switch dominated the market in recent years, selling 132 million units since it was launched in 2017. This gives the company a ton of operating leverage, which has led to huge profit levels in recent years. For the fiscal year ending in March 2024, Nintendo is guiding for $2.83

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In its first full year of availability in North America, Invisalign Palatal Expander adoption was followed by similar trajectory in Invisalign First, which launched 2017. tax authorities. The GAAP effective tax rate in the fourth quarter was 26.3% During Q4, we reached a favorable outcome with the U.K. compared to 30.1%

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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 estimated sales tax expense for prior fiscal years.

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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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Zajac Group

OCTOBER 17, 2024

For most people, tax time can be a headache—though for earners with traditional compensation packages, it can at least be fairly predictable (W-2 wages, withheld taxes, 401(k) contribution deductions, etc.). Each taxpayer receives a copy of their K-1, which they then use to complete their own tax return.

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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. to incorporate the impact of the divestiture gain and a lower projected tax rate for the full year. The effective tax rate in the quarter of 14.9% from a range of $10.30

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

That means that the tenant has to pay taxes, building maintenance, and insurance expenses. PayPal and Venmo have an unmatched amount of consumer spending data they can leverage. While that is true for federal taxes, my estate planning advisor indicated that the limit is much lower in some states. million that's per person.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

Our priority remains to extend brand reach and engagement, drive product diversification across our portfolio, leverage our powerful omnichannel to reach customers and build our global business. We're leveraging a few key demand drivers as we head into the season: innovation, awareness and conversion. Shifting to our brand reach.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Our ability to generate significant product volume allows us to leverage the full benefits of the configure-to-order model, creating incremental manufacturing capacity without the need for additional capital expenditures. Net interest expense was $13 million, and tax expense in the quarter was a benefit of $18 million.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

increased 5%, reflecting a higher tax rate compared to a year ago. Our as-adjusted tax rate for the third quarter was 26%. The prior-year quarter included $215 million of discrete tax benefits, while the third quarter of 2024 was impacted by $22 million of discrete expense. Earnings per share of $11.46

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The fourth thing we'll do, leverage the supply and demand imbalance to make the ecosystem better. We started our ML and AI efforts in 2017 with the launch of Koa, but today, the opportunities are much bigger. Income tax expense was $39 million in the fourth quarter, driven primarily by our profitability and stock-based awards.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Prior to the pandemic, our penetration of dress and seasonal went as high as 60% in 2017 compared to roughly 49% today. Conversely, athletic and casual was only 32% of our assortment in 2017 versus 42% today, a key driver in our improving overall performance. Our effective tax rate in the second quarter on our adjusted results was 20.6%

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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

AUGUST 5, 2024

We are also leveraging partnerships with franchisees to unlock opportunities in lower-tier cities and strategic locations. Our effective tax rate was 25.2% We expect our full year effective tax rate to be in the high 20s. For Pizza Hut, TA come down by design since 2017. a year ago.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2024

We look forward to leveraging our industry expertise and scale to drive operating efficiency and accelerate growth across platforms with attractive market opportunities and return profiles over time. Our delinquency ratios finished the year slightly above average levels from 2017 to 2019 prior to the pandemic. Moving to reserves.

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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.

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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.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 10, 2024

Environment CDPQ is well on track to achieve the targets underpinning the climate strategy it adopted in 2021, including its goal of reaching a net-zero portfolio by 2050 with: $53 billion in low-carbon assets, including $15 billion in Québec, representing an overall increase of $35 billion in low-carbon assets since 2017.

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Fortune Financial

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Will you end up paying too much in ordinary income taxes for company stock in your 401(k) plan? With our deep expertise and qualifications in NUA strategies, our experts are adept at navigating the complexities of tax-efficient retirement planning. This appreciation becomes critical when considering tax implications upon withdrawal.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Meanwhile, our leverage profile continues to improve as free cash flow grows, allowing us to increase the return of capital to shareholders through the recurring dividend and meaningful share repurchases. The opex, excluding gaming tax per day, was $4.4 Opex, excluding gaming tax, was approximately $2.59 year on year.

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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. in Q4 and 26.9%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Income tax expense was $33 million for the third quarter driven primarily by our pre-tax profitability and nondeductible stock-based compensation. So, I love that you know about it because we weren't very public about the gold standard back in 2017, but we certainly talked to SSPs and at exchanges about it.

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