The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

First, as I have gone deeper into the operational side of the business, I am committed to continuing to sharpen our focus on operational rigor while learning into areas where the return on investment is the strongest. We hope to see many of you there. Finally, I wanted to take a moment to thank Ashim.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

We delivered earnings of almost $8 billion, two times higher than what we earned in the second quarter of 2018 under comparable industry commodity prices. First, our work to structurally improve earnings power is paying off, demonstrated this quarter as we doubled earnings versus a comparable price environment in the second quarter of 2018.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations, sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, rightsize the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. Debt less cash on hand as of October 31, 2023 was $37.4

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 13, 2024

Canada is not only our home but also a safe and stable country that offers attractive investment opportunities,” stated Michael Wissell, Chief Investment Officer at HOOPP. per-cent return on investments in 2023 as stocks soared but missed its internal benchmark by about one percentage point as real estate assets struggled.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, since 2018, we have invested over $3.5 Since 2018, we have added over 10,000 new department supervisors and over 2,500 new assistant store managers. Capital expenditures totaled $620 million in Q4 as we continue to invest in strategic initiatives to drive growth and profitability.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 30, 2024

For 2018 and at the midpoint of our 2024 outlook, we expect to reduce cash SG&A, excluding bad debt as a percentage of revenue by roughly 210 basis points in Europe, Africa, and LatAm in aggregate. I'll just hit on your return on invested capital question. They're at the low teens from a return on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

We are a growth company and we will return to industry standard return on investment new store growth. I think as you look at it, there's been some nice improvements that have been made versus where the business was, let's say, in 2018 or 2019. She outlined the remodel count and our success so far this year.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

But I would like to continue to increase our investment. I think you're exactly right on kind of, hey -- well, there's two factors that kind of caused us to phase our investment. I would say, if you recall back in 2018, 2019, I did not feel like we had all the capability we needed to spend that significantly.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Third, we're intensifying our focus on financial discipline and shareholder returns. We're implementing a rigorous capital allocation framework centered on free cash flow generation and return on investment metrics with clear hurdle rates. The review process is ongoing, and an update will be provided later this year.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In addition to this, our team has been closely analyzing recent restaurant openings to identify key success factors and maximize our return on investment. And as such, we will return to building our new restaurant pipeline with more restaurants to come in 2026. The preliminary findings are promising. We generated sales of $344.3

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

The challenges we have faced since 2018 have made planning difficult, so smoothing out fluctuations is a must, and the best way to do that is with smooth and predictable capacity growth. Ten years ago, you guys established a plan that was centered around minimal capacity growth until your return on invested capital hit like 15%.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Our track record of reinvestment is very strong, not just because our business already generates high returns on invested capital, but more specifically recall that we launched SpoiledChild with around $20 million of up-front investment. It was launched in 2018, I think. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to a Forrester Total Economic Impact report published in Q4, Freshworks CSS customers surveyed could achieve over a 200% return on investment over three years. So, from 2018, we have been helping customers in the Freshdesk, Freshchat business to drive more automation. And that's always a business driver.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

Systems built 20 years ago to power digital advertising, including third-party cookies are losing effectiveness and ineffective ad spending is creating more opportunities for those who use first-party data to connect the right content to the right customers while clearly measuring return on investment.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 17, 2023

Work on the REM began in 2018, and any construction delays should be compared with the timelines of other major transit networks, Emond said. As a friend stated: "Driverless trains actually bring down the cost such that you can actually earn a return on investment so that you can actually pay for the assets."

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

So in terms of durable growth, I think we'll be consistent in terms of our performance, and we'll keep focusing on our five growth levers that again, we've been very consistent since 2018. David Ossip -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark, we've always taken the approach of a very strong return on investment to our customers.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Moving to returns. And when combined with a disciplined capital approach, return on investment improved 130 basis points to 14.1%. And because operating income is growing faster than sales, we -- our plan requires that we grow return on investment at a higher rate over time. That's the plan.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

In Europe, we similarly see over 80% of property revenue supported by Telefonica, Orange, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom versus less than 60% at the same time in 2018. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

“Despite significant declines in global equity and fixed income markets during our fiscal year, our investment portfolio remained resilient, delivering stable returns while outperforming major indexes.” The positive fiscal-year results reflect returns on investments in infrastructure and certain U.S.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We introduce this service because we know security teams are stretched thin, and MDDR builds upon automation enabled by the SaaS platform and maximizes their return on investment. One example is a large municipal government that became a Varonis on-prem subscription customers in 2018. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

However, to comply with their constrained legislative mandates to achieve direct financial returns on investments, they are cornered into deploying the hard-earned capital of Canadians all around the world. There are not enough investments of scale available in Canada to allow such big funds to hit their investment targets.)

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2024

Add to that higher-than-anticipated product liability and warranty spend and our EBITDA margins came in below our expectations as well as below 2022. These issues, coupled with elevated operational costs I mentioned earlier, as well as the impact of product liability claims, drove lower-than-expected margins.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For a healthcare customer who has been with us since 2018. And we are working to better connect and streamline the organization to improve operational discipline and efficiency while retooling certain go-to-market functions to focus on areas with the strongest return on investment. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

A pension plan exists to meet future liabilities. The starting point is always on those future liabilities and then you work your way back to create a well diversified asset mix to increase the probability of meeting those future liabilities. First, let's start with basics. The base CPP is a “partially funded” plan.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

While we continue to pursue opportunities, the company will remain focused on its three long-standing, long-term financial tenants, those being to: maximize free cash flow, maximize return on invested capital, and returning excess free cash to our shareholders. Now to the liability side of the balance sheet.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 19, 2025

Capital expenditures in '24 totaled $222 million as we continue to invest in our long-term growth. Speaking of returns, our fiscal year '24 return on invested capital of 54% is among the best in the retail industry. Laura and I were both here in 2018, as were most of our management team. Summing up our '24 results.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

million shares for $758 million and paid $654 million in dividends, returning over $1.4 And we delivered a return on invested capital of over 31%. So if I could take you back, I mean, when we started this journey back in 2018. We repurchased 2.9 billion to our shareholders. Now turning to our outlook.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The increased revolver size is a reflection of the substantial growth in our company since the last upsize in 2018, which was prior to the Charles Machine Works acquisition. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. The Motley Fool recommends Toro.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

That like going back to eTMF and CTMS back in 2018. They need to focus on a few areas that can really draw out -- really return on investment, and they can't ignore the core capabilities and just the execution that matters. So, I think that -- we're getting that vision out there, and I think starting to resonate.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It really was the payback period of the recycling investments relative to investments we make in our traditional collection and disposal assets. And we've always talked about the recycling investments being one of the best return on invested capital that we have across our portfolio.

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