The Motley Fool

APRIL 19, 2024

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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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 16, 2023

That sales price values Alliance at 11 times its projected earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) for next year. billion) of assets since 2018. For example, in 2018, the company sold its Canadian gathering and processing (G&P) business to Brookfield Infrastructure for CA$4.3 billion ($3.2

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 20, 2024

That rising leverage made Carnival a risky stock to hold as interest rates rose, and its stock sank to a 30-year low of $6.38 Carnival's exposure to macro headwinds and high leverage still make it a tough stock to love, but I believe it has a viable path toward generating a 10-bagger gain within the next 20 years. per share on Oct.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 16, 2024

billion after tax and EPS of $0.76. 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. Let's turn our focus to NII performance using Slide 9, where you can see on a fully tax equivalent basis, NII was $14.2

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 10, 2024

Chevron has a higher yield and lower leverage Reuben Gregg Brewer (Chevron): ExxonMobil, with a market cap of nearly $420 billion, is a much larger company than Chevron, which has a market cap a touch below $280 billion. times since 2018. Here's why investors looking at ExxonMobil should also consider these energy stocks.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2024

It brought on a new CEO, Brian Niccol, in 2018 to steer the business, which has paid off handsomely. As restaurant volumes climb, Chipotle will enjoy more operating leverage over its fixed cost base, which shows up in an expanding operating margin. The chain is generating just over $3.1 Chipotle's operating margin has expanded to 16.7%

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

But over the past eight years, the "new" Broadcom expanded into the infrastructure software market by acquiring CA Technologies in 2018, Symantec's enterprise security division in 2019, and the cloud software giant VMware last November. It expects Vmware to exceed its original target of generating $8.5

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Meanwhile, Kinder Morgan has been working to reduce leverage, with its debt-to-EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) ratio falling 30% from its peak levels in 2018. As those assets come on line, they will bolster cash flow and enhance the company's dividend-paying ability.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) surged 39% to $180 million. The Trade Desk's prospects in the next few years The Trade Desk executed well over the last few years, growing revenue by 412% from $308 million in 2018 to $1.6 Discovery and Walmart , to its list of partners.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The company has been solidly profitable since joining the public stock market in 2018. These days, PagSeguro's free cash flows outshine its after-tax net income by a wide margin: PAGS Net Income (TTM) data by YCharts This is actually a high-octane growth stock, even though its stock trades at bargain-bin prices.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Wood famously predicted Tesla would hit $3,000 per share (split-adjusted) back in 2018, which it did, and shares of her flagship Ark Innovation ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKK) doubled in 2020 as growth stocks and tech stocks rallied during the early stages of the pandemic. Is Roku a buy? million in the third quarter.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The fund invested in Genius in 2018, roughly three years prior to Genius' public market debut via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The tech darling loves to own names that leverage and accumulate loads of data. Apax is a multibillion-dollar private equity firm that has offices and investments all over the globe.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) came in at $681 million, toward the high end of its guidance, and a significant improvement from a loss of $928 million in the quarter a year ago. Is Carnival stock a buy?

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Both represent the same entity, but they have slightly different tax considerations. The company has grown its payouts at a 6% compound annual rate since 2018. It expects its leverage ratio to be below 3.9 Investing via the partnership requires unitholders to deal with a K-1 form that comes by April 15 each year.)

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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. Embracing the Bitcoin standard During the last crypto bull market, we saw a handful of companies announce Bitcoin purchases.

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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

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

APRIL 25, 2024

We believe this is largely driven by lower and later tax refund payments to consumers so far in 2024, relative to what we've historically observed. Tax refunds are an important factor in credit seasonality. Even with the tax refund effects, auto credit performance remains strong. So, Rich, maybe just start off on credit.

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

because of higher tax expenses. The increasing globalization of the natural gas market and the shift toward clean energy have helped push its energy division's revenue up at an annualized rate of 9% since 2018. Upwork also recently announced its plan to acquire Objective, a search-as-a-service business that leverages AI.

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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. Income tax expense, an effective rate of 20% and ex-items was $3 million for the quarter. On a GAAP basis, we recorded a tax expense of $4.7 last quarter.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

was 57% below last year, due to the factors noted and includes unfavorable impacts related to taxes and interest expense. Additionally, as we shifted to leverage licensed IP within Wizards, we incurred higher royalty expense, resulting in a 1.7 underlying tax rate, which compares to 21.6% Adjusted earnings per share of $0.49

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Speaking of cash, Steve will take you through the details, but the timing of our expected tax return implementation milestone achievements in our transportation business both made for a year, we expect to improve upon in 2024. Our net leverage ratio is 2.1 With a combined 1.1 turns, which is within our range of 2 to 2.5

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

We have been investing in AI for quite a while, including our first AI acquisition in 2018, and we will continue to invest in fiscal '24 for rapid AI innovations, cloud enhancements, and go-to market to take our AI solutions to the market. Products like Risk360, leveraging AI/ML big time, is charged SKU. billion to $2.56

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As highlighted on Slide 11 of the investor presentation, Fortinet continued to be the only vendor to leverage a single operating system for the U.S., Their journey begins with Fortinet firewalls and expand to leverage our FortiLink technology to manage Fortinet switches and access points. billion or $1.75 per share to our GAAP EPS.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

billion after tax, or $0.70 billion after tax, which includes $2.8 billion after tax for notable Quarter 4 items. billion after tax. We achieved 170 basis points of operating leverage in 2023, as heightened quarterly expense levels were driven lower throughout the year, even as the investments in growth continued.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

Turning to operations, the servicing team produced excellent results with 182 million in pre-tax income. Originations reported pre-tax income of 38 million, which exceeded the guidance we gave you last quarter. In closing, I'll comment that we were quite pleased to see the stock price reach a new high since the WMIH merger in 2018.

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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

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 23, 2024

Across the world, we are leveraging our scale and local expertise to navigate varying local market dynamics. In Japan and South Korea, we had solid volume growth and won value share due to good traction on brand relaunches which leveraged enhanced taste and refreshed packaging and stepped-up performance in e-commerce channels.

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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. The WMIH merger brought us 1 billion in deferred tax assets.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 23, 2024

In the domestic card business, we continue to get traction in originations across our products and channels and our origination opportunities are enhanced by our technology transformation, which enables us to leverage machine learning at scale to identify the most attractive growth opportunities and customize our marketing offers.

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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 15, 2024

Increased interest expense contributed to the decline offset by a lower tax rate from executing on a global tax strategy. times net debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage ratio which is at the top end of our target range. As you can see on Slide 13, customers leverage our technology to optimize workflows for the on-demand economy.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We recorded for fiscal year 2023 an income tax provision of $4.2 million on pre-tax income of $13.4 The tax provision recorded for fiscal year 2023 differs from the U.S. The tax provision recorded for fiscal year 2023 differs from the U.S. The effective tax rate for fiscal year 2023 and 2022 was 31.8%

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Blackstone

APRIL 25, 2024

Source: Morningstar, returns are over a five-year period from 10/1/2018-9/31/2023 (Open-end funds): Public Equities (US Large Blend); Public Fixed Income (US Intermediate Core Bonds); Public Real Estate (US Real Estate). Preqin, returns are for 2018 vintages that have last reported between 9/30/2022-9/30/2023. Median 9.0%

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