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MARCH 6, 2025

We will continue to leverage our digital conveniences to drive member loyalty in the future. Adjusted earnings per share for the quarter was $0.93, including an effective tax rate of 26.3%, driven by unplanned tax windfall. Membership fee income, or MFI, grew 7.9% All in, we reported fourth quarter earnings per share of $0.92.

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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. Our effective tax rate for the quarter was 16.2%, and compares to 20% in the fourth quarter last year. Finally, EPS for the quarter decreased 52.5% billion to $1.4

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MAY 31, 2024

In 2018, it produced roughly 700 billion cigarettes. At the end of 2023 -- the foreign-based company reports financials only twice a year -- its debt-to-EBITDA ( earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ) ratio was roughly 4.7. EBITDA = earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

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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. We expect a full effective tax rate for 2024 of approximately 25%. versus last year's third quarter.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2024

This is the profit produced by core business operations, before other considerations such as taxes and interest are factored in. 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.

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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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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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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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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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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. We expect our Q1 tax rate to be approximately 24.5%

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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. Consumer Data Insights system.

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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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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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MARCH 5, 2025

Those leases deliver stable rental income because the tenants cover all of a property's operating expenses including routine maintenance, real estate taxes, and building insurance. times leverage ratio. leverage ratio, which gives it a lot of financial flexibility to invest in additional income-generating properties.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

We also got some commentary from Shopify President Harvey Finkelstein, about just how the company is helping its merchants with taxes, how wonderful what are your highlights from the quarter? Dividends, buybacks, maintaining a reasonable leverage profile, probably going to do 10-15% annualized returns at that point. That's this year.

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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 22, 2024

Next year, meanwhile, the company has floated the idea it will add a surcharge to payouts from winning bets in states that have high sports betting tax rates. DraftKings continues to grow rapidly, and at the same time, it is seeing a lot of operating leverage as many of its markets mature. Should investors buy the stock?

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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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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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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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JULY 5, 2024

I know there's not just top-line growth, do I have to guess the effective tax rate for the companies I'm looking at five years from now? My favorite example of the species is Q4 of 2018. 2018 was a dismal year for the market. The marijuana stock sector, which was big in Canada in 2018, it was down. Bitcoin was down.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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MARCH 20, 2025

Third, Tricolor is driving better asset utilization as we improve aircraft density and better leverage our surface network. This will create more flexibility for both companies' capital structures as we prepare for the separation, which will come in the form of a tax efficient spinoff. optimized facilities. I did a little homework.

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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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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Collectively, in 2018, those regions were losing $2.2 and that battery will leverage the IRA production tax credit. And to be specific on the cost, we really expect next year and the following years, a lot of progress in the production tax credit for our first-gen products. billion and burned $3.4 billion in cash.

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