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This 5.1%-Yielding Dividend Stock Makes a $2 Billion Acquisition to Add More Fuel to Its Dividend Growth Engine

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The company hasn't increased its payment every year, but it has grown the payout at a 6% compound annual pace since 2018. The company is paying about 10 times estimated 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) for these assets. times leverage ratio , down significantly from 4.8

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3 Things About Zscaler That Smart Investors Know

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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) went public at $16 per share on March 15, 2018. Analysts expect its revenue to grow at a CAGR of 33% from 2022 to 2025, and for its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) to rise at a CAGR of 54%. Image source: Getty Images.

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What's Next for Energy Transfer Stock and Its 8% Dividend Yield?

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Approximately 90% of Energy Transfer's 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) is projected to come from fee-based activities. When Energy Transfer cut its distribution in 2020, it was because its leverage became too high, and it needed to pay down debt. cents is now higher than the 30.5

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Forget Nvidia: Here's My Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock to Buy Instead

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More importantly, The Trade Desk has been leveraging AI to ensure that advertisers get more out of its platform. In 2018, the company launched and started integrating an AI tool known as Koa into its platform. Koa analyzed almost 9 million queries each second "to help buyers extend audience reach and spend more efficiently."

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Where Will Carnival Stock Be in 3 Years?

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On an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) basis, it generated a profit of $3.3 That leverage gives Carnival a high debt-to-equity ratio of 4.6. But as its business recovered, it narrowed its net loss to $6.1 billion in the first nine months of fiscal 2023, compared to a loss of $1.6

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Dollar General (DG) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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We were able to successfully mitigate the tariff impact in 2018 and 2019, though we did take retail price increases in some instances along with others across the industry. With regards to current tariffs that have been announced on products that we sell, we believe we are well positioned to mitigate the impact in 2025.

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3 Reasons to Buy Enterprise Product Parters (EPD) Stock Like There's No Tomorrow

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The two biggest areas to look at when it comes to dividend safety are its distribution coverage ratio and leverage ratio. Meanwhile, the company ended last year with leverage of 3x, which is near the low end of companies in the midstream space. When the leverage at companies gets too high, there's a risk they may cut their dividend.