The Motley Fool

AUGUST 26, 2024

It has been working to mitigate these talc cases by placing liability on a subsidiary, which would then file for bankruptcy. The idea is to settle all cases in one fell swoop, without imposing legal liability on the parent. The business has plenty of growth potential, which just needs to be leveraged effectively.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2025

We will continue to leverage our digital conveniences to drive member loyalty in the future. We ended the fourth quarter with the lowest level of debt since our IPO, no near-term maturities, and half a turn of net leverage. Membership fee income, or MFI, grew 7.9% We also continued to return excess cash to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 19, 2024

reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. However, for the 2024 year, we repaid $554 million of notes, and since 2018 we have repaid or repurchased over $7 billion of notes with an interest rate savings of almost $400 million. million shares for over $2 billion in cash.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Back in 2018 and 2019 when we last dealt with this issue, we were able to mitigate the majority of the potential impact by negotiating lower costs with our suppliers, changing product specs or pack sizes, or dropping noneconomical items. Our bank-defined leverage at quarter-end stood at approximately 2.4 Yes, we leverage third party.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

leveraging its talent across brands to help share unique learnings and experiences. This second phase will focus on maximizing the value creation potential of our platforms through the acceleration of AI capabilities in combination with fully leveraging the immense data assets we now own. Consumer Data Insights system.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It aims to have an economic leverage ratio below 10. However, the average cost of its liabilities also increased from 0.79% two years ago to 3.01% last year. Annaly's sensitivity to interest rates has been especially noticeable the past couple of interest rate cycles, starting in 2018 when the Federal Reserve began to raise rates.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to Sony's PlayStation video game console, with sales that outstripped those of rival Microsoft 's Xbox, the company's 2018 acquisition of EMI made it the world's largest music publisher. Its Q2 total liabilities of $4.2 The conglomerate possesses an array of strong entertainment businesses. billion included $3.8

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Since its launch in 2018, HEPLISAV-B has disrupted the market due to what we believe is a differentiated and best-in-class profile. Now with equal access and leveraging our commercial strength of retail, we are excited about how this new Medicare policy could support HEPLISAV-B's retail growth and market share in 2025.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

Eaton deepened our relationship, leveraging AIP to modernize ERP deployments in addition to finance, sales, and supply chain use cases. We plan to leverage this combination of boot camps and pilots with a focus on moving toward high-value production use cases to continue landing new customers. Our product charisma remains unparalleled.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 7, 2024

Thousands of top consumer brands joined in, leveraging Shop Cash and shop campaigns to draw in new buyers. It's about leading confidently, leveraging our strength, and continually adapting to stay ahead of the game. Secondly, our Summit event, which, as a reminder, was our first in-person summit event since 2018.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

times net debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage ratio, which is within our target range and we had approximately $1.5 Q3 adjusted EBITDA margin is now expected to be between 20% and 21%, driven by expense leveraging from higher sales volume with benefits from restructuring actions partially offset by normalized incentive compensation expense.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2023

launched hand-breaded Original Recipe chicken nuggets to expand its off-the-bone chicken offerings, leveraging the learnings from our significant off-the-bone business at KFC international. The global Taco Tuesday campaign, which launched in June and will continue through the third quarter, leverages Taco Bell's U.S.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2025

Third, Tricolor is driving better asset utilization as we improve aircraft density and better leverage our surface network. So, now, in these more complicated times, we now have an ability to provide new value for our customers, leveraging the insights that we have on both global supply chains and customs clearance.

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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 25, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.66, down from 1.76 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last five years. We will remain focused on strengthening our balance sheet and advancing to our stated goal of achieving a leverage ratio of 1.5 million or 10%. last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Collectively, in 2018, those regions were losing $2.2 and that battery will leverage the IRA production tax credit. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. We restructured in Europe, South America, India, and China. billion and burned $3.4

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The addition of Bonobos has allowed us to leverage our back office and is creating increased purchase leverage with suppliers. It also includes $50 million in gross margin expansion opportunities by leveraging efficiencies in sourcing, production, and the supply chain. I'll just take you back to 2018.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This reduction in our outstanding debt also decreased our leverage ratio to 1.47, down from 1.66 This is the lowest our leverage ratio has been in the last six years. And now on the liability side of the balance sheet, our long-term debt was $142 million at the end of the third quarter of 2024 and considering cash of $21.5

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

This result reflects a higher medical benefit ratio, partially offset by higher net investment income and the impact of favorable fixed cost leverage due to membership growth. Our leverage ratio at the end of the quarter was approximately four times. This leverage ratio was higher than we expect to maintain on a normalized basis.

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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. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 23, 2024

We look forward to leveraging our industry expertise and scale to drive operating efficiency and accelerate growth across platforms with attractive market opportunities and return profiles over time. And finally, we fuel our commitment to deliver positive operating leverage. Moving to reserves. Turning to Slide 14.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Additionally, as we shifted to leverage licensed IP within Wizards, we incurred higher royalty expense, resulting in a 1.7 And finally, we achieved one point of growth from Licensed Consumer products as we reenergize focus on leveraging our IP across categories. margin point loss. It's going to be very end of the quarter focused.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Third, our company is strategically positioned to leverage our scale and competitive advantages to help weather the highs and lows of our category and general macro pressures. Our leverage ratios remain below our target with our adjusted gross debt leverage ratio now measuring 2.3 The majority of engagements in the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

Matthew has utilized his benefit and power wisely to grow our middle-market team from 15 bankers in 2018 across a dozen cities to more than 200 bankers in twice as many cities today. And our supplemental leverage ratio was 6%, compared to a minimum requirement of 5%, which leaves capacity for balance sheet growth.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Just want to highlight, Mike joined the company in 2018. Operating leverage is really kind of the highlight, I think, for this quarter. And after you look at the top line, it's really about the leverage. So that's a significant part of operating leverage. There's a lot of technology behind that. million this year.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This includes how we've optimized our pricing architecture, made enhancements to our AI inventory buying tool, leveraged our advanced algorithms to reduce underperforming shipments, streamlined our merchandise assortment, and improved our CRM capabilities. Despite the revenue decline, we continue to drive leverage in our business in FY '24.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

CLO equity — a small slice of the resurgent market for CLOs that bundle leveraged loans into bonds with varying safety ratings — is actually a form of deeply subordinated debt. billion in assets, said the attraction of low default rates for leveraged loans, estimated at 1.5%-2% and CVC Credit Partners, to raise at least $3.1

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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. Net leverage declined again sequentially, ending the fiscal year at 2.6 In prepared foods, AOI performance was the best full year since 2018. Moving to chicken.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

Since 2018, he has managed our EMEA business, transforming it into a stronger contributor under his leadership, and was recently appointed head of our APAC business as well. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

We reduced our total leverage ratio from 3.9 And we are committed to reducing our total leverage ratio to three times by the end of 2025. We've developed a new operating model with our major markets reporting directly to our president, Stephan Gratziani, who is leveraging his 32 years experience as a top Herbalife distributor.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As customers leverage the cloud, transform on-prem infrastructure, and respond to the escalating threat environment driven by AI, they're transforming how they manage security operations. They have been leveraging XDR and other Cortex capabilities several years ago and were also a network security customer and a QRadar customer.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Lyle and I see a number of strengths to leverage and modest challenges that are readily addressable. We have an opportunity to help them do that more consistently through both simplification and better leveraging our data. traffic growth, which was our best traffic quarter since 2018 when excluding the COVID recovery quarters.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

Furthermore, from a risk management perspective, we view these credit investments as a prudent, natural hedge to the inherent rate exposure as we have on the liability side of our balance sheet. To that end, we ended the second quarter with leverage at 5.3 This was the 25th consecutive quarter of leverage at 5.5

Debt 130

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A key theme for 2023 was operating leverage. If you go back to the WMIH merger in 2018, which is when we became a fully independent public company, our first priority was deleveraging, which we accomplished by refinancing our senior notes and extending our liquidity runway. And the reason for that was our core philosophy.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Our net leverage ratio is 2.1 We only received $6 million of the $29 million federal tax refund related to 2018 in the fourth quarter of 2023. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. With a combined 1.1 turns, which is within our range of 2 to 2.5

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Our ability to manage through this volatility is attributable to our diversified capital allocation, prudent hedge portfolio, and responsible leverage position. And even with the reduction in leverage from 6.4 And then MSR, unlevered, around 10%, 11%, with the turn of leverage gets you to 15%. times to 5.8 So still healthy.

Capital 100

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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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