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MARCH 14, 2024

billion in 2018, but online betting, made possible after a 2018 Supreme Court ruling, changed the game. Importantly, DraftKings has brand recognition among sports fans from fantasy sports and can leverage that as more states legalize aspects of betting. That figure was just $4.6 Is betting not your thing? No problem.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 11, 2024

Sports betting is already legal in most U.S. First, while the American Gaming Association reports that at least some forms of sports wagering are now legal in 38 states, that doesn't necessarily mean that online or mobile sports betting -- DraftKings' core business -- is permitted in all of those states. states, after all.

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Blackstone News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Energy Exemplar has grown at 30% CAGR since 2018 and currently serves over 500 customers in 79 countries. Together with Blackstone, we look forward to partnering with David and the executive team, leveraging our experience in scaling transformative enterprise software companies to further accelerate innovation and customer value.”

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

While its roots are in the fantasy sports business, 2018's lift of the federal ban on sports-based wagering started a wave of state-level legalization. As of the latest count, betting on sports is legal in one way or another in 38 U.S. As you may already know, DraftKings is a sports-betting stock.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2024

Should their rate of accumulation continue, this halving could be particularly explosive, especially considering that the number of bitcoins available for purchase on exchanges is at its lowest level since 2018. Yet, with three years of data since elevating Bitcoin to legal tender, the results are proving advantageous for the small country.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Joining me on today's call are Alex Karp, chief executive officer; Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer; Dave Glazer, chief financial officer; and Ryan Taylor, chief revenue officer and chief legal officer. Eaton deepened our relationship, leveraging AIP to modernize ERP deployments in addition to finance, sales, and supply chain use cases.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 26, 2024

The idea is to settle all cases in one fell swoop, without imposing legal liability on the parent. Chipotle has done extremely well under Niccol, with profits growing more than sevenfold since he became CEO in 2018. The business has plenty of growth potential, which just needs to be leveraged effectively.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Legal & General Group U.K. Leveraging the global view and local expertise of our colleagues serving 140 countries and markets, we help organizations sharpen their strategy, enhance organizational resilience, motivate their workforce and maximize performance. UBS Switzerland $2,620,000 8. Capital Group U.S. 2,532,813 9. Invesco U.S.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2024

We will also, for the first time, have the ability to leverage advanced player tracking data to refine and enhance our leading AI enabling betting and streaming products and services. sports betting market legalized in 2018, Sportradar supported building up their online betting product. When the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

When I first joined the Aphria team in 2018, Aphria was singularly a Canadian cannabis LP with approximately $50 million in annual revenue and minimal cash, now close to $630 million in revenue and almost $500 million in cash and marketable securities. Legalization will happen one day, but we're not waiting for it.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

with innovative federally legal, hemp derivative Delta 9, THC branded, and branded products. Our powerful college sports partnerships across the country will be leveraged to bring new LDA consumers and fans into different brand families, especially Shock Top. We strengthened our leadership position as the fifth-largest U.S.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Luciano also served on Mosaic's Board of Directors following the Vale Fertilizantes acquisition in 2018, so we know him quite well. EBITDA was lower due to $32 million in bad debt reserves we booked in SG&A and $20 million of legal reserves. The bad debt reserve was a result of the Brazilian customers bankruptcy filing.

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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. If yes, is there a smart legal way to avoid such limitations? We run into 2008, and the stock dropped like a rock. I think it was $64 in the summer of 2008, and by Christmas of 2008, it was 12.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

To put that in context, peak annual property EBITDA for the company was $2 billion in 2018. EBITDAR margin strength was driven by a combination of the favorable mix shift to higher margin mass gaming and operating leverage on cost efficiencies. We've reinitiated our dividend, and our leverage is well under control.

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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. Sales in the quarter increased 2.3%, inclusive of a legal contingency accrual recorded in Q4 last year. Net leverage declined again sequentially, ending the fiscal year at 2.6

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

year over year, driven by the impact of the one-time government stimulus volumes in 2022 and lost business, partially offset with the benefit from a portion of a legal settlement of $17 million, as well as stronger government payment volumes. Our net leverage ratio is 2.1 Government segment adjusted EBITDA declined by 1.8%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

We've also strengthened our operational relationship with Alvotech, helping them on manufacturing and quality where they can really leverage the scale and expertise we have at Teva. The lower operating loss in the second quarter of 2023 was mainly due to higher legal settlement and goodwill impairment charges in the second quarter of 2023.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

At the same time, we continue to expand margins through sales leverage and productivity and savings initiatives. I mean, there's sales leverage and cost efficiency measures in a lot of places, but just trying to get a better feel for what changed and how sustainable some of these dynamics are. I realized it's not just one thing.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

And third, we successfully defended the Pioneer merger against a frivolous lawsuit designed to abuse a legitimate legal process. Again, another central organization we stood up last year, really trying to now leverage the scale of the entire company. These actions are so common they are often referred to as a, quote, "merger tax."

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Stanton Dodge, chief legal officer. Stanton Dodge -- Chief Legal Officer Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. In fact, if you take sort of a same-store view of our 2018 to 2022 states, we grew net revenue about 40% year-over-year in Q1.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We are also leaning into live sports with an expanded NFL relationship and leveraging our popular commercials featuring Lowe's home team players trying their hands at DIY projects. Additionally, since 2018, we have invested over $3.5 billion in incremental wage and share-based compensation for our frontline associates.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 9, 2024

We launched Spinach in Canada at the end of 2018. And we leveraged that success of Spinach as a blueprint for our broader portfolio, starting with Lord Jones. This strategy drove our success in cementing Spinach as the No. 2 brand in Canada. I'm so proud of the team and what we've achieved.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

We are seeing very significant momentum and I was here when we launched 2018 September, ITSM Pro, and as Bill and Gina shared that this has exceeded all of our expectations on how well we did on the monetization of our Pro Plus SKUs. On the sales side, it's really about scale and leverage, right? This is definitely a game-changer.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

If the trend of lower tax refunds sustains, it could raise the level of charge-off somewhat in the near term but this does not change our view that credit is settling out modestly above pre-pandemic levels in 2018 and 2019. Total company marketing expense of about $1 billion for the quarter was up 13% year over year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

As a reminder, these disclosed investment spreads utilize our short-term nominal cost of capital, which measures the estimated year-one earnings dilution from raising capital on a leverage-neutral basis to fund our investment volume. To that end, we ended the second quarter with leverage at 5.3 Occupancy rose to 98.8%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Material costs and fixed cost leverage are also expected to improve slightly toward the back half of the year after we work through approximately $275 million of higher-cost inventories that are mainly in the U.S. We ended the quarter with net leverage at 7.2 The results of Q1 are an early indicator we're on the right path.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Second, a superior portfolio; we will accelerate the execution of our premium iron ore strategy, leveraging on our unique endowment. This quarter we delivered the highest iron ore production since 2018, underscoring our focus on operational excellence. There're some internal procedures and legal procedures that needs to be followed.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

These capabilities are driving guest engagement and enhanced accessibility that have also resulted in execution challenges, particularly in product transitions and launches as we leverage new tools and processes. As a result, our in-store presentation and guest experience today are not as strong as we would like. For example, brand building.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We launched da Vinci SP in Q3 of 2018 and the installed base now stands at 243. Our spending reflects investment in research and development to support the growth of our platforms and digital tools, expansion of our manufacturing facilities, and planned leverage from our enabling functions. compared with 68.8%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

Over the past three quarters, we have generated over $550 million in free cash flow, allowing us to reduce financial leverage ahead of the separation. Back in October, we described our desire to generate at least $500 million of free cash flow before the separation transaction to reduce our financial leverage.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

Most of that related to the booking last year in the first quarter of a favorable legal settlement for $17 million, which we called out at the time. As noted on the prior slide, this compare included the benefit last year from the portion of a legal settlement recognized in cost of services for $17 million. year over year.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While we're pleased with our top-line results, operating income was below our guidance due to higher-than-anticipated expenses, largely certain legal accruals. Store remodel costs were also higher as we rolled out 117 of our flagship design stores earlier this month, and legal expenses increased. from 4% to 4.5%

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Over the course of 2018 to 2022, the US imposed significant tariffs on Chinese exports to the US. Real investment advantages include things like operational leverage (e.g., the ability to leverage centralized risk, legal, HR, IT, back and middle office capabilities), relevant sectoral expertise, the ability to leverage scale (e.g.,

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In particular, they benefit as verticals like healthcare, education, travel, legal, and auto, in which advertisers are willing to invest heavily in customer acquisition and reengagement. Yunpeng has been with us since 2012 and has been responsible for autonomous driving business since 2018. Our LLM training is very complicated.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We also expect to drive incremental operating efficiencies and profitability as we gain leverage from the strong foundation that we invested in over the last few years. of revenue in 2022 representing leverage of 470 basis points year over year. We'll start by discussing marketing spend. million or 55.6% of revenue. million or 12.5%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

First, as the world's largest medical cannabis company, we will continue to leverage our EU GMP and TGA GMP manufacturing facilities, unparalleled scientific knowledge, genetics and regulatory expertise on rapidly evolving global medical cannabis opportunities. federal legalization is taking longer to materialize. Turning to Europe.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And in December, we had the highest monthly output since 2018. We are striving to be a nature-positive company, uniquely positioned to leverage decarbonization efforts. Regarding our optimal leverage target, we are maintaining the $10 billion to $20 billion range under the same extended net debt concept.

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