The Motley Fool

APRIL 11, 2025

Another way to show the success of Hershey's strategy is to look at its cash return on invested capital (ROIC). Averaging 21% over the last two decades, this high cash ROIC shows that management excels at finding M&A opportunities in the market and integrating them successfully into The Hershey Company.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2024

The stock peaked in 2017, and you must venture into the past to discover what happened. All that debt put the company in emergency cost-cutting mode, including a dividend cut, slashed expenses throughout the business, and a crumbling return on invested capital. Why did Kraft Heinz slip so far?

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Turnspire acquired UPG from MedPlast , a portfolio company of Baird Capital , in May 2016 and sold it to The Partner Companies (TPC) in October 2022, generating nearly a 9x return on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2024

This can be scored using a company's return on invested capital. Since 1990, Verizon has returned an average of $1.07 It must balance expensive investments in upgrading and maintaining its network with price-conscious customers. back for each dollar it puts into the company. That's not great. It's a tough business.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Annual dues were raised in 2011 and in 2017, and another price hike was just implemented this month. This has typically resulted in better profitability and return on invested capital than its top industry competitor. Historically, these memberships have displayed their pricing power. million today.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 30, 2024

But there's another pretty safe investment that could pay you double that amount. But despite the better return on investment (ROI) offered by another investment type, there are times when you should stick with opening a CD. Earning 5.00% on your money without taking a chance of loss is a good deal. Here's why.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2024

Enterprise generates strong returns in good and bad markets So Enterprise has a reliable business model. The MLP recently provided a long-term chart of its return on invested capital (ROIC). It measures the financial returns a company achieves based on the investments it makes in a given year.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And in 2017, the business announced a $1.2 billion investment to improve its supply chain. And zooming out from the store-level numbers, Home Depot's operating margin and return on invested capital have generally been much higher than its peer historically.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Enterprise has delivered an average return on invested capital ( ROIC ) of 12% over the last 10 years. Its ROIC remained at 10% or higher even during the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008, the oil price collapse of 2014 through 2017, and the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020. What's not to like?

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

Shortly after returning to the market, Michael Dell told CNBC that the company had paid down $14 billion in debt while private. But it had also invested $21 billion in research and development (R&D) during that time. Investing in R&D is good, but that's a lot of money, and the return on investment was questionable.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 14, 2023

That's because it will increase the return on investment from advertisements. Already, Pinterest has grown its revenue from $473 million in 2017 to $2.8 The more effective Pinterest is at showing relevant advertisements, the more marketers will want to spend on its platform. billion in 2022.

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Insight Partners

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, Whole Foods was acquired by Amazon in 2017 to expand its footprint in the grocery sector. If you spend money to acquire customers but quickly lose them, that return on investment is limited. Its revenue grew from $53M to $481M between 2017 and 2020 , with a gross revenue retention (GRR) of 97%.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

In October 2017, the company came public at an initial offering price of $24 per share. If you had purchased the stock at that price, your return on investment today would be an astounding 1,625%. Since its launch in 2009, it has gained massive popularity among developers by tackling their pain points.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Thanks to this robust brand image, PayPal grew the active accounts on its two-sided network by 14% annually since 2017. So why exactly is Paypal worth an investment right now? Better yet, the company has averaged a cash return on invested capital (ROIC) of 61% since 2018.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 30, 2024

BCI acquired a majority stake in Hayfin in 2017, after identifying a compelling opportunity in the European market for private credit, driven by regulatory and structural demand trends. Founded in 2009, Hayfin specializes in providing European and North American credit and private equity investment solutions to a global investor base.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2024

And I'd like to acknowledge the work of our finance team for developing methods to track the retail industry standard metric gross margin return on investment, commonly known as GMROI, down to the category level for our own internal use. Prior to COVID, it was -- you know, 2017, '18, '19 -- between 5% and 6%.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

When the CEO, again, Michele Buck, when she stepped into the helm at Hershey in 2017, this international segment was losing money, and since then, it started to generate some money. Like you said, Michele Buck took over 2017, the international business was losing money, but it is one of our goals to improve that profitability in that segment.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A great example is Allianz Technology, a customer since 2017. 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.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Ricky Mulvey: This is a company with a revenue growth rate of about 30%, so 37% a return on invested capital of about 7%. Their return on invested capital, I believe is in the '20s. The return on invested capital is 30 percent. It'll be interesting to see how that changes as the merger unfolds.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

In 2017, Leonard said he would only write to shareholders when I think I have something new and important to communicate. The cash bonus is dependent on two performance metrics, Those are return on invested capital and net revenue growth. There are maybe only one or two pictures of him on the Internet. They're not annual.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This resulted in higher realized iron ore premiums, but more importantly, higher margins and returns on invested capital. In the fourth quarter of 2024, we proactively shifted our portfolio mix, reducing direct sales of high silica material while increasing the share of high-quality products from Carajas.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 1, 2024

net return on investments for the 2023–24 fiscal year, ending with the total fund value at $341.4 CalSTRS is a long-term investor with a goal of achieving an average return of 7.0% to 75.9%) since 2017. CalSTRS issued a press release going over the results for fiscal 2024: WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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Steve Sanduski

MAY 16, 2023

In 2017, Mitch Anthony and I started ROL Advisor. ROL stands for Return on Life. Since then, we’ve trained hundreds of advisors from 13 countries on how to shift from a return on investment focus to a Return on Life focus.

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Mr. Money Mustache

JULY 25, 2021

Since I first bought the building in 2017, the MMM-HQ coworking space has been limping along with a clunky decades-old gas furnace, a gas water heater that was about 20 years overdue to spring a leak, no central air conditioning at all, and very high utility bills due to the way our local gas company charges commercial customers.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 16, 2024

Dylan, they acquired a company called shipped SHIPT a few years ago, actually in 2017. This is a paid membership program and Asit seemingly their answer to Amazon Prime and Walmart Plus. Asit Sharma: It's something that's been in the works for awhile. At the same time, they've worked with their store formats. billion, or up to $3.9

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From scaled businesses to our faster-growing newer businesses, we're well on track to continue to hit the financial targets we laid out and make important investments for the future. Return on investment improved approximately 230 basis points to 15%, a level last achieved in 2017. We call it Project Gigaton.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

As we move forward, we'll leverage our 2017 acquisition of Chip to help us build unmistakable recognition for Target same-day delivery. And finally, after tax return on invested capital expanded by well over 3 percentage points from 12.6% In addition, cash from operations more than doubled from $4 billion in 2022 to $8.6

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

This is exemplified by our new build program, where we partnered with leading carriers to rapidly deploy new sites, which has driven some of our highest returns on invested capital. And approximately 65% of these sites have been built since the start of 2017 alone shortly after we crossed the 100,000 international site mark.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

We use various versions of mixed marketing, mixed sales models to ultimately determine the effectiveness and the return on investment of those. When we got Medicare approval back in 2017, if they did, we had to give all the money back to CMS, we couldn't even get distributors to take our business.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Our 30-year offering was our first 30-year issuance since 2017, and our public sterling offering was our fifth non-U.S. These additional earnings would bolster Realty Income's return on investment while ensuring incentives between public and private investors are aligned.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Everett's done a really nice job of leading this team, but we see such strong return on investment there that we are going to raise some investment there. Sales and marketing after the last two years where that had come down in absolute terms. It's just -- I'll take you back to 2014, '15, '16 when we first launched Cologuard.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

I couldn't quite find that first-time Jason, that you interacted with this podcast, but for example, September 13, 2017, I retweeted a post that you had made and it was simply a few traits that @DavidGFool looks for to find in excellent businesses and there are seven. In essence, my business career ended in 2009.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

Since 2017, we've continued to execute on an aggressive 10-year plan. However, what's more eye opening for us is the market that the average return on investment for a new drug is just 1.2%. Our innovation engine continues to make great progress in all three facets of this new business. billion per drug.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

The Baytown expansion is the final product solutions component of the Growing the Gulf initiative announced in 2017. If you recall, the initiative committed to investments of $20 billion over 10 years to capitalize on the U.S.' advantaged resources, economic growth, and strong regional support for our businesses and the jobs we create.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 17, 2023

As a friend stated: "Driverless trains actually bring down the cost such that you can actually earn a return on investment so that you can actually pay for the assets." When I joined in 2020, the Fixed Income strategy we have in Private Credit was launched in 2017. Can you imagine how idiotic these people at the ARTM are?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Glenn Kelman has been CEO of Redfin since 2005, guiding the real estate technology company through a variety of transitions, taking the company public in 2017, and navigating plenty of market cycles along the way. Redfin is trying to meet customers on multiple fronts, from renting studio apartments to selling $5 million homes.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And I think to have fun there, if you go back to the tax reform in 2017, what that effectively did was you paid a one-time transition tax, which is the equivalent of paying federal taxes to all repatriating the money. So, as we look through next year's capital standard program, still a significant capex program that we're looking at.

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