The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2024

Chewy's already done a great job of showing operating leverage and improving its high-margin sales. Gross margin climbed from 20% in 2018 to 28% today. Sponsored listings and products have a high gross margin and can exhibit very strong operating leverage at scale. but shares currently trade for less than 0.6

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Qualcomm also generates most of its profits from its higher-margin licensing business, which leverages its massive portfolio of wireless patents to squeeze royalties and licensing fees from every smartphone sold worldwide (including those that don't use Qualcomm's SoCs). It has an enterprise value of nearly $190 billion with 1.1

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

billion HEYDUDE buyout , but its leverage is more than manageable. 2017: 174% 2018: 113% 2019: 80% 2020: 30% 2021: 4% 2022: (19%) Revenue is down another 20% through the first half of 2023. It's easy to see why this was a hot IPO in 2018 given its heady growth prospects at the time. Its debt ballooned after the $2.5

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2024

It brought on a new CEO, Brian Niccol, in 2018 to steer the business, which has paid off handsomely. As restaurant volumes climb, Chipotle will enjoy more operating leverage over its fixed cost base, which shows up in an expanding operating margin. The price of a stock doesn't matter -- its market cap and enterprise value do.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enterprise's consistency stems from its largely fee-based model, where the company only takes on minimal commodity or spread risk. Meanwhile, it has historically been conservative with its leverage, distribution coverage ratio, and growth capital expenditure (capex) spending. Currently, the stock carries a forward yield of about 6.2%.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 6, 2024

The American Pet Products Association forecasts that Americans will spend over $150 billion on their pets this year, up from $90 billion in 2018. Second, it's leveraging its existing customer base to expand into new verticals. At their recent prices, Chewy shares look like good value. Pets are common in U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 1, 2024

On and Lululemon both leverage their proprietary technologies to sell pricier products than most of their competitors. footwear market and gradually entered China in 2018. Its enterprise value of 7 billion Swiss francs ($8.3 billion) still makes it a lot smaller than Lululemon ($64.3 billion) or Nike ($167.9

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The Motley Fool

JULY 5, 2024

My favorite example of the species is Q4 of 2018. 2018 was a dismal year for the market. The marijuana stock sector, which was big in Canada in 2018, it was down. The marijuana stock sector, which was big in Canada in 2018, it was down. But like every major asset class, nothing made money in 2018. Bitcoin was down.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Dividends, buybacks, maintaining a reasonable leverage profile, probably going to do 10-15% annualized returns at that point. I think we took out billboards in Central Park, basically saying, look, the valuation is frothy. It's trading at a, wait for it, ridiculous 10 times sales. We run into 2008, and the stock dropped like a rock.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

C3 AI's customer base continues to expand, both within and across industries, while maintaining exceptional levels of customer satisfaction by our continued focus on delivering measurable, significant enterprise value. We leverage all layers of the AI tech stack, silicon cloud infrastructure services, and foundation models.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Scott Murdoch of Reuters aslo reports Blackstone to buy Australia's AirTrunk in US$16 billion deal: Blackstone will buy Australian data centre group AirTrunk for an implied enterprise value of over A$24 billion ($16.10 The transaction implies an enterprise value* of over $A24 billion.

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Axial

JULY 27, 2023

Based in Kansas, we operate nationally, leveraging our extensive banking experience and in-depth knowledge of financing to provide a seamless transaction process for both parties involved. We provide valuable financial and strategic advice throughout the business life cycle. securities offerings). .”

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Axial

OCTOBER 24, 2024

With deep-rooted backgrounds in private equity, encompassing roles as investors and trusted advisors, we have actively contributed to transactions exceeding $2 billion in enterprise value.” ” Visit Meritage’s Profile “Cross Keys Capital has offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Chicago, Illinois.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

As we all know, we've done it in a way where others have done it in a way to generate the quickest short-term returns through a lot of leverage. So it's clearly higher than it was in the 2019, 2018, 2017 level, and it kind of goes back to where we were in the 2014, 2015, 2016 level. At the same time, we've done it. Operator Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2025

The Berkshire board of directors changed the company's share repurchase program in 2018 to allow Buffett to buy back shares whenever he felt they were priced below their intrinsic value. Shares have consistently traded above a price-to-book-value ratio of 1.5 He bought back shares every quarter until the third quarter last year.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 20, 2025

With shares trading for about 15 times its trailing-12-month distributable earnings per share, the stock looks like a great value. Hilton Worldwide (14.3%) Ackman started building a significant position in Hilton Worldwide (NYSE: HLT) in 2018 after holding shares for a short period in 2016. million rooms at the end of September.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Despite Energy Transfer's strong position to benefit from the increasing power needs associated with AI, it is one of the cheapest MLP midstream stocks, trading at a forward enterprise value (EV)- to- EBITDA ratio of 8.8 The EV-to-EBITDA ratio is one of the most common ways to value pipeline stocks given their debt and growth capex.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

He passed on repurchasing shares of the stock with his massive cash reserves for Q3, the first time since 2018 a full quarter went by without Buffett buying back at least a few shares of the company. Waste Management stock currently trades for an enterprise value 14.3 times management's 2025 EBITDA outlook.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

It acquired Cylance in 2019 to strengthen its cybersecurity business, expanded its IoT segment by installing its QNX OS in more vehicles, and leveraged its patent portfolio to collect more licensing fees. But with an enterprise value of $2.7 With an enterprise value of $9.5 billion to $853 million.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

for an enterprise value of $2.3 In September, we reached an agreement to sell Saeta, which we acquired in 2018 to retake private during a period of market uncertainty that created an attractive value entry point.

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