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Disney Can't Catch a Break

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CEO Bob Iger is aware of the need to spend this money wisely, saying, "We're incredibly mindful of the financial underpinning of the company, the need to continue to grow in terms of bottom line, the need to invest wisely so that we're increasing the returns on invested capital, and the need to maintain a balance sheet, for a variety of reasons."

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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.

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Will Rivian Stock Make a Comeback in 2024?

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However, when scaling up car manufacturing, it always looks dark before the operating leverage starts to kick in. Once Tesla scaled its business to much greater heights in the 2018-2020 period, it went from burning close to $5 billion in free cash flow to positive cash generation in one to two years.

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

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This platform allows them to purchase ad inventory from multiple channels, set up, run, and optimize ad campaigns, and serve ads to the right audience on the relevant platform in a cost-efficient manner to increase advertisers' return on investment.

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Carnival Stock Is Getting Dumped Even After Record Bookings. Time To Buy?

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The stock has fallen by more than 80% from its all-time high in 2018 and is off more than 70% from where it was trading at the start of 2020 before the pandemic started. Is Carnival stock a buy? While the cruise line stock has soared this year, it's still down significantly from historical levels.

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2 Growth Stocks Wall Street Might Be Sleeping On, but I'm Not

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Its wide moat means that as long as the company operates efficiently, it could generate market-beating returns over the long haul. And historically, it has done just that, generating a 12% cash return on invested capital over the last decade. MTN Cash Return on Capital Invested (CROCI) (TTM) data by YCharts.

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Core Laboratories (CLB) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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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. Our leverage ratio was reduced to 1.47 As mentioned by Larry, this quarter marks, the lowest leverage ratio that the company has achieved in over six years.