Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

The sale, which is pending regulatory approval, is expected to deliver a strong return on investment for Alchemy’s investors. As the control shareholder, Alchemy has since overseen the recruitment of a new chairman, Carl Leave, as well as a new CEO, Stephen Shurrock.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

In Buffett's 2021 shareholder letter, he referred to Tim Cook as Apple's "brilliant CEO" and praised his decision to repurchase Apple shares. of Apple in 2018, when it completed its purchases of the stock, to 5.4% Berkshire Hathaway has averaged about $775 million annually in Apple dividends since 2018.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

The sale, which is pending regulatory approval, is expected to deliver a strong return on investment for Alchemy’s investors. Alchemy first invested in Lebara in 2018 when, following a period of underperformance under prior ownership, it acquired the business.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

And the business continues to return lots of capital to shareholders, with $633 million in dividends paid and $404 million in stock buybacks completed in just the last quarter. Home Depot, on the other hand, has a 50/50 split, which helps explain why it has typically registered a better operating margin and return on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Meanwhile, its fledgling (2018 launch) medical unit has seen a rapid uptake -- even being used at temporary hospitals in Central Park during the pandemic. Steady profits and history of returning it all to shareholders Making the investment case all the more alluring for Omega Flex is its stellar return on invested capital (ROIC) of 30%.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Carnival's debt load remains alarming While Carnival's revenue and operating income have exceeded pre-pandemic levels, the cruise company's stock is still 68% below its all-time high of $66 , reached in early 2018. This is money that could have otherwise been reinvested into Carnival's business or returned to shareholders.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Management has invested heavily in diversifying Broadcom, pushing it into enterprise software. The company acquired CA Technologies in 2018 ($18.9 Comparing a company's weighted average cost of capital (WAAC) to its return on invested capital (ROIC) shows how well it creates value for investors.

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The Motley Fool

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.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 4, 2024

Stocks tend to deliver strong long-term return on investment (ROI) When you invest in stocks, you're (ideally) doing it because you want your money to grow as much as possible in the long run. average annual returns for the past 30 years. Here's what that looks like in real life: the S&P 500 Index has delivered 10.7%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 5, 2024

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. The marijuana stock sector, which was big in Canada in 2018, it was down. But like every major asset class, nothing made money in 2018. Bitcoin was down.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Growing private label sales Sprouts brand private label sales have risen from 14% of revenue in 2018 to 20% in 2023. Exceptional profitability Best yet for investors, the company's high and rising return on invested capital (ROIC) makes these expansion plans even more promising.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2023

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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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Iron ore production reached 328 million tons, the highest level since 2018 and above our original guidance. This resulted in higher realized iron ore premiums, but more importantly, higher margins and returns on invested capital. This will be the reference for additional shareholder remuneration.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In late 2018, it was the U.S.-China American Electric Power has demonstrated steadfast dedication to the dividend, returning capital to shareholders with a distribution for 112 years. Should the company achieve its target of returning $3.37 The last five years have featured three distinct stock market sell-offs.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

At any rate, I think shareholders should be pretty patient here. But remember, for those of you who are a little bit dusty on that, that means that after all the investment that Tesla has made over the past year, in all this new production capability, it still has four billion dollars in cash that it generated. He's a great manager.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2025

We continue to significantly reduce capital intensity while returning capital to shareholders. And including our dividend, we're on track to return $3.8 billion to shareholders in FY '25. billion, supporting strong free cash flow and shareholder returns. billion, our target for the full year.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories' second quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. Lawrence Bruno -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thanks, Chris.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We'd like to welcome all of our shareholders, analysts, and most importantly, our employees to Core Laboratories third-quarter 2024 earnings call. Chris will then give a detailed financial overview and have additional comments regarding shareholder value. Lawrence Bruno -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thanks, Danielle.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Which story do you think its shareholders should be paying more attention to? It's also doing well operating income of around $2 billion and a very solid return on invested capital above 30%. You look at the total return for Lowe's since 2019. I think they've done right by shareholders. Now they spent $43.8

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

However, as of the beginning of August, lemon pricing has steadily been increasing for all grades and sizes with prices up compared to the last few years and at the highest level since 2018. However, this year, the start of the desert region is behind schedule, and the region is only expected to have limited picking through mid-September.

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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. Capex investments totaled $12.5 The work is delivering exceptional results, driving industry-leading returns on investments and growth in earnings and cash flow.

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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. Certainly, the dividend is a meaningful piece of the overall total shareholder return that we look to deliver.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

Heather will provide you a review of the Q1 business results and then, I will give you a brief overview of my prior experiences and a high-level outline of the work that we are undertaking to increase shareholder value. We are a growth company and we will return to industry standard return on investment new store growth.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

So, while it has future potential, its capital requirements and management bandwidth consumption have really led me to direct our team to evaluate all strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value from this asset. Third, we're intensifying our focus on financial discipline and shareholder returns.

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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. billion in free cash flow and returned $8.9 billion to our shareholders through a combination of share repurchases and dividends.

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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. As of July 31, we had $1.7

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Another thing and this might be fairly Canada focused, but I know it's happening a lot more in your fine country is, you may have heard that cannabis was legalized in Canada across Canada in 2018. What it might be going on here is a bit of investment. Actually, round to might not be the most efficient metric to use here.

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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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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

To achieve this vision, we are delivering a best-in-class customer experience and investing in our associates. We know that when we take care of our customers and our associates, we generate attractive and sustainable returns for our shareholders. We expect capital investments for 2024 to be between $3.4 billion and $3.6

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

We are on an exciting path and are well-positioned to deliver durable growth and sustainable shareholder returns. 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. And so, we've done that.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

By bringing these factors together, we believe we could both augment and extend our growth trajectory, leverage our platform and expertise to create incremental value in selected markets, and add to an already compelling total return profile for American Tower shareholders. With that, operator, we can open up the line for questions.

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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

MARCH 6, 2024

We took the company public with an amazing shareholder base, and we finished the year with a very strong balance sheet, including $168 million of cash and short-term investments with zero debt. It was launched in 2018, I think. This is ODDITY, we work really hard to do more than most other companies out there.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

They continue to return capital to shareholders. Ultimately, at the end of the day with companies like these, you're looking for them to return value to shareholders. since 2018, and that really is part of the thesis with a company like this. since 2018. They are taking some share in that cloud market.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 11, 2024

February 16th, 2018. It's longer ago than I was remembering, January 2018. They have generated great return on invested capital and great return on equity for many, many years. Yasser El-Shimy: Well, the longtime shareholder of both Amazon.com and Shopify. Yasser, you've been a shareholder.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 1, 2023

When you go back to 2018 for Carnival, the coverage ratio is close to 20. They're setting some pretty ambitious goal for 2026, one of which is they're going to more than double the return on invested capital between now and 2026. The money that they're bringing in versus the money they have to pay out for that debt.

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