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Why Enterprise Products Partners Isn't the Same Company It Was 5 Years Ago

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For many years, there were a lot of opportunities for midstream companies to grow, and investors were happily willing to help finance that via the equity and debt markets. Today, most of the best investment opportunities for new projects have been exploited. To be fair, capital spending has fallen. Times have changed.

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Why It Makes No Sense to Invest in the Airline Industry (and Why Boeing and General Electric Investors Will Do It Anyway)

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Airlines aren't productive (at least for shareholders) The ultimate test of whether a company is allocating capital productively for shareholders is the comparison between its return on invested capita l (ROIC) and its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Net Profit 2019 2020 2021 2022 (Est.)

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Nearly Half of Warren Buffett's Dividend Income Comes From Just 3 Stocks

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This $10 billion in preferred stock stems from capital Berkshire supplied to Occidental in 2019 to facilitate its acquisition of Anadarko. Even though the worst of the pandemic appears to be over, energy companies worldwide reduced their capital investments for the past three-plus years.

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If You'd Invested $10,000 in The Southern Company 10 Years Ago, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

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What's notable is that the stock lagged that of the average utility pretty badly from around 2017 to roughly 2019. That extra money will most certainly go toward two things: additional growth-oriented capital spending and debt reduction.

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Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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Last quarter, we achieved our Trifecta financial goals, and we now expect to also achieve a double-digit reduction in carbon intensity compared to 2019, one year ahead of our original expectation. And this quarter, we reached a key financial milestone by returning to a fully unsecured capital structure. Our leverage was below 3.5

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Best Stock to Buy Right Now: Amazon vs. Costco

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Both Amazon's and Costco's balance sheets demonstrate financial stability free of debt. billion in net cash (cash and cash equivalents minus total debt) compared to Costco's $4.6 At a time when interest rates are relatively high, both Amazon and Costco can avoid snowballing debt due to high interest expenses.

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RF Investment Partners exits SPATCO

Private Equity Wire

In partnership with Kian Capital Partners, RF Investment Partners supported the initial investment in SPATCO with its SBIC Fund I investment in late 2019. RF Investment Partners focuses on lower middle-market businesses in the software, healthcare services and business services sectors.