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JUNE 13, 2024

In 2018, he famously described Bitcoin as "probably rat poison squared" and expressed his belief that cryptocurrencies would "come to a bad ending." Instead, the conglomerate's equity portfolio is crafted to leverage its massive positions in dividend-paying companies, thereby creating value for shareholders through compounding.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. It will receive recurring monthly option payments, which will be used to pay predictable dividends to shareholders, and will additionally receive initial deposits and proceeds from the sale of fully developed homesites. million shares for over $2 billion in cash.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is because the company achieved its leverage target last year after five years of paying down debt. billion Microsemi acquisition back in 2018. Since the company brought its debt down to comfortable levels, it has been increasing its payouts to shareholders methodically every quarter. Now that's insider ownership.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Way back in 2018, Chesky told USA Today that travel experiences were an " Amazon -sized opportunity." And if its traffic is truly dependent on this spending, then the company may never be able to generate meaningful profits for shareholders. If that's the case, the business could enjoy operating leverage as Viator scales.

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MAY 11, 2024

Home Depot enjoys leverage with suppliers and can sell at lower prices due to its massive size. REITs must pay most of their taxable income to shareholders, so they often rely on borrowing to fund expansion. That's a 16% market share, meaning it's a fragmented industry.

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MARCH 13, 2025

We were able to successfully mitigate the tariff impact in 2018 and 2019, though we did take retail price increases in some instances along with others across the industry. During the quarter, we returned cash to shareholders through a quarterly dividend of $0.59 In 2024, total capital expenditures were $1.3 per share.

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MAY 17, 2024

With greater scale the company can afford to advertise more aggressively as well as exercise leverage with its distributors and retail partners. The lulls in net income and cash flow between 2013 and 2018 reflect restructuring costs related to the sale of The Coca-Cola Company's bottling operations back to localized bottlers.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Let's take a closer look at what has led to such a remarkable result for shareholders. between fiscal 2018 and 2023. For a mature business like Procter & Gamble, this market-thumping performance is impressive. Durable business Procter & Gamble isn't going to excite investors with its high-flying growth potential.

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APRIL 4, 2024

When Energy Transfer cut its distribution in 2020, it was because its leverage became too high, and it needed to pay down debt. After getting its leverage down, it was able to not only return its distribution to pre-cut levels, but its quarterly distribution of 31.5 cents is now higher than the 30.5

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MARCH 5, 2025

Currently, we are leveraging our unique user scenarios and high-quality data to explore AI applications that will potentially enhance the efficiency of freight matching and tracker capacity scheduling. This dividend will be payable on or around April 18, 2025, to shareholders on record as of April 7, 2025. million on the open market.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Over the course of the year, our strong cash generation enabled us to continue to return value to our shareholders. These repurchases were the largest in our history and underscore our confidence in Turtle Beach's long-term growth prospects and our dedication to enhancing shareholder value. Operating expenses of 30.6

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JULY 8, 2024

Since taking over as CEO in October 2018, Ramon Laguarta has done a good job navigating many unexpected challenges, including the U.S.-China The stock only yields 1.6%, but that's mainly because it uses both dividends and buybacks to reward shareholders.

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MAY 20, 2024

In the company's first-quarter 2024 shareholder letter, Dorsey started things off by explaining what Block's Bitcoin strategy is. Financial implications Cash App started allowing users to trade Bitcoin in 2018. This was probably a shock to many. More recently, there appears to be a renewed focus on Bitcoin.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 2024, we delivered across our strategic priorities, including achieving record fourth quarter and annual HEPLISAV-B product revenue, advancing our pipeline programs achieving profitability, and returning capital to shareholders through our share repurchase plan. along with expected market share gains by HEPLISAV-B.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

He regularly lays out the characteristics he looks for in "wonderful companies" in his annual letter to shareholders, as well as during Berkshire's annual shareholder meetings. Since 2018, Warren Buffett has put close to $91 billion of his company's cash to work in the following two unstoppable stocks.

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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. shareholders' returns.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Work is underway to edit our assortment, leverage our scale, and deliver newness and trend-right high-quality product at an amazing value, while at the same time improving your store experience and optimizing our cost structure. To be the best destination for teens and pre-teens and a YES store for parents. versus last year's third quarter.

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MARCH 27, 2025

If you followed our company for the last several years, you'll remember that since 2018, 3D Systems has been in a terrific partnership with United Therapeutics, with a goal of developing the world's first 3D-printed biocompatible human lung. If you followed our -- let me give you a little more color on what that means in layman terms.

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MARCH 6, 2025

We will continue to leverage our digital conveniences to drive member loyalty in the future. Our capital allocation strategy is consistent with our historical framework as we continue to take a disciplined approach to maximizing shareholder value. We also continued to return excess cash to shareholders. Moving on to SG&A.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

Niccol has been CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) since 2018. Why this may be the news that Starbucks shareholders have been waiting for When Niccol walked away from Yum! Brands ' Taco Bell to join Chipotle Mexican Grill in 2018, he had incredibly large shoes to fill. Early on Aug.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2018, however, Lowe's made a change at the CEO position, bringing in former J.C. What Lowe's did right In 2018, only 40% of Lowe's payroll was dedicated to people out on the floor selling. In 2018, Lowe's had net sales of $71.3 More sales from less space equals operating leverage.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Williams has delivered 6% compound annual dividend growth since 2018. Its leverage ratio was 3.6 times at the end of last year, a 25% improvement from 2018's level. With Enterprise Products focused on growing its cash flow and committed to returning capital to shareholders, the 7.2%-yielding times last year.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Satisfying hungry shareholders Bill Ackman's firm has owned shares in Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) since the second half of 2016. Between 2018 and 2023, Chipotle's revenue jumped 102% Adding to the company's strong fundamentals is its fantastic profitability. This investment has clearly worked out wonderfully.

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JULY 7, 2023

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) shares have skyrocketed 380% since July 2018, absolutely crushing the 78% gain (with dividends reinvested) of the S&P 500. Just five years ago, after the first quarter of 2018, there were 2,441 Chipotle locations. So growth has been brisk. in Q1 2023. Chipotle benefits from economies of scale.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

I want to start by thanking our global team for their commitment to Ford+ and to adding and creating value for all of our shareholders. Collectively, in 2018, those regions were losing $2.2 and that battery will leverage the IRA production tax credit. per share payable on December 2 to shareholders of record on November 7.

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AUGUST 27, 2023

When Home Depot executive Marvin Ellison joined Lowe's as CEO in 2018, I believed he could help bridge this gap in sales per location, perhaps by stimulating better success in the pro business. Between dividends and share repurchases, the company has returned more money to shareholders than it has earned in recent years.

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MAY 11, 2024

Buffett accumulated shares almost every quarter from the start of 2016 through the third quarter of 2018, resulting in a position equivalent to over 1 billion shares of the stock today. Buffett has praised CEO Tim Cook, and he called Apple "a better business than any we own," at Berkshire's 2023 shareholder meeting.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The fund is the largest of its type since 2018 and one of the five biggest to date, according to Convergence, which tracks the market and said the fund also stood out for the high ratio of private capital invested for every dollar of public funds. The 9-1 ratio is much higher than on average, according to Convergence.

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MAY 30, 2024

Growth potential Between 2018 and 2023, Alphabet reported annualized revenue and diluted earnings-per-share (EPS) growth of 17.5% Shareholders hope that profitability continues to improve as fixed costs are better leveraged. For comparison's sake, the S&P 500 is trading at a forward multiple of 21.6. and 21.4%, respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

The company has grown its payouts at a 6% compound annual rate since 2018. It expects its leverage ratio to be below 3.9 Those hikes have come at an impressive rate in recent years, boosting shareholder returns significantly. It expects to produce a little more than $5 billion, or around $4.13 this year and fall toward 3.6

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JUNE 27, 2023

Even with strong demand, however, Carnival still has a long road to travel to recover from the pandemic as it took on significant debt during the global health crisis and diluted shareholders, meaning it will take more than a recovery in operating profits to return to its previous level of shareholder value. Is Carnival stock a buy?

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JANUARY 28, 2024

billion in cash to shareholders last year -- currently good for an annualized dividend yield of 2.1%. You see, it's all about those free-flowing cash profits and the company's commitment to splitting that extra cash with shareholders. Cash and short-term investments went from $6.4 billion at the end of fiscal 2022 to $11.3

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Williams pays out a conservative percentage of its steady cash flow to shareholders via dividends. It has expanded its dividend at a 6% compound annual rate since 2018, including by 5.3% It expects its leverage ratio to be around 3.7 times in 2018. The company expects to produce $4.7 billion to $5.1 times at the midpoint.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

That shows that there's some operating leverage inherent in the business model (more on this below). This has allowed the leadership team to reward shareholders with a dividend yield of 0.74%. Five years ago in the fiscal 2018 third quarter, Visa's operating margin was 55%, so there clearly has been some benefit to scaling up.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Focusing on top brands In 2018, food maker General Mills bought its way into the pet food industry. Paying down debt When General Mills bought Blue Buffalo, its debt-to-equity ratio, a measure of leverage , hit a peak of a little over 2.5 Now, some five years later, General Mills might just be ready for another big deal.

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JUNE 17, 2023

Signet and its shareholders had to eat the losses. Basically, after getting out from under the financing risks it faced, management has now leveraged itself to just one type of jewelry. After low single-digit growth in engagements between 2014 and 2017, engagements fell in the low single digits between 2018 and 2021.

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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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