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

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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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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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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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 Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

And so, therefore, the usual market forces that push against high leverage in other companies that just naturally with no regulation would limit. RITHOLTZ: Just for that one small leverage. ADMATI: And so, now, that’s my current interest, which is the corporation, as a legal person, they are not a set of assets owned by shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 4, 2023

And I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mr. Stanton Dodge, chief legal officer. Stanton Dodge -- Chief Legal Officer Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us today. So, definitely, the bulk of the growth is going to come from the states that we launched from 2018 through '21.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The extent of the improvement will also depend on sales performance given the leveraged deleveraged nature of service. SG&A as a percent of gross profit was 84%, a leverage of 6.3 For our stores, we're continuing to leverage data automation to reduce costs and improve transaction speed and accuracy. We securitize everything.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 25, 2024

Rob Lister, chief legal officer is also joining us today. And Rich has talked about before on some of our prior calls about leverage in the system and where we have opportunities. We think about we've talked about this before too is the leverage in our model is significant. So I think that there's opportunities in all of that.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

The increase in net income from continuing operations includes a onetime tax benefit of $41 million related to the reorganization of our legal entities in Europe. Our net debt leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was 2.7 So when you compare 2018, 2019 to 2023 as a full year, shipment count in our industry was down in the mid-teens.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

We now switch approximately two-thirds of our total transactions worldwide up from approximately 55% in 2018. For example, Saudi National Bank will leverage access to deploy a set of scheme agnostic services across their portfolio. In terms of financial impact, we have accounted for the legal fees associated with that.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rob Lister, chief legal officer, is also joining us today. Full-year adjusted EBITDA margin was 37%, up 650 basis points year over year, driven by strong revenue growth and operating leverage in our business. And in -- really, when you think about the targets of that back in average of 2018, 2019, we were closer to 50%.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

We believe this will be led by technological advances, multi-asset class trading driving structural changes to financial markets, traders leveraging technology to maximize client value and data being supercharged by AI and machine learning. Treasury volumes, and our electronic off-the-run volumes have grown by over 22% per year since 2018.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The, the security that 00:19:47 [Speaker Changed] Is 5% is high yield these days 00:19:49 [Speaker Changed] You had the, the Fed come in and, and push a lot of the banks and say, Hey, you, you can’t have a tunnel of leverage on the high yield issuance. But I, I think this extreme leverage is not as prevalent as it once was.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

Add in some leverage and POOF it’s a powder keg waiting to explode! It gets even worse in the case of using leverage. Sara G About Bobby Samuelson Bobby co-founded Life Innovators in 2018 and has been President and CEO since its inception. See you in the next one! SARA GRILLO: The tool… Can you just talk about that?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For example, 2023 saw strong rollouts for adult-use sales in Missouri and Maryland and Ohio legalized adult-use in November. operator, capital raising, and mergers and acquisitions activity in 2023, were at their lowest levels since before 2018, the funding environment continues to be challenged right now.

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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 Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But when you factor in, you know, legal costs, compliance, portfolio management, trading, there is a lot that goes into launching an ETF. So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you recall, back in 2018, vol Mageddon, he was on the right side of that trade, made hundreds of millions of dollars for his firm in identifying a structural problem that was about to blow up. But before I leave the teal macro, I gotta ask you about the famous Vage trade in 2018. That’s amazing leverage.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Once a high-flying darling of the cannabis industry, Tilray has seen its stock price plummet a staggering 92% since its 2018 initial public offering (IPO), significantly underperforming the S&P 500 over this period. THC exposure also raises questions about its ability to capitalize on potential federal legalization.

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