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Following my comments, David and Jesse will provide additional comments regarding our investment strategy, investment portfolio, financial results, capital structure and leverage, and our expectations for the third quarter, after which we'll be happy to take your questions. We are very pleased with our performance in the second quarter.
They are well behind, but they aren't losing dealflow to other capital sources. What we are seeing in this challenging fundraising environment is that investors value Walker & Dunlop's access to dealflow and banker/broker distribution network as deals get harder and traditional sources of capital move in and out of the market.
This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. As clients increasingly turn to BlackRock, we believe this will result in sustained market-leading organic growth, differentiated operating leverage and earnings and multiple expansion over time. With that, I'll turn it over to Larry.
If I am doing my job right the first time in “picking winners”, at least for a few subsequent rounds, our best dealflow should come from our existing portfolio. since 2019. There were approximately 15k total deals completed representing $170 billion invested (see chart 1 below).
A new survey of investors and deal advisers conducted by Private Equity Wire found high asset prices were the number one challenge when considering tech firms. The Fund closed above its target size of €15bn – an increase of over a third compared to its predecessor, P7, which closed at €11bn in 2019.
increased by 40 basis points year on year as we continue to drive operating leverage and profitable growth after the market shock of 2022. Looking forward, we're prioritizing investments to propel our differentiated organic growth and operating leverage. Our fourth quarter operating margin of 41.6%
million at the end of the second quarter, with net leverage of about 1.4x. So, that margin definitely flowed through down, healthy SG&A as well, some decent leverage there, and then down to EPS. They're now back close to where they were in 2019. We ended the quarter with $67.1 million of cash. Total debt was $379.2
We also leveraged gross profit by 76 basis points and grew adjusted EBITDA by 18%. We continue to experience healthy dealflow, which helped offset the margin impact of our system integration, which we estimate was approximately 130 basis points in the quarter. million of operating cash flow, and we invested $175.6
Since 2019, average operator net income has grown in the low single digits on an annual percentage basis. Our buyers are doing a fantastic job partnering with suppliers, and we are seeing healthy dealflow across categories. We're seeing healthy dealflow across departments, which feels really good.
As I stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our dealflow, which in terms of square footage is 40% greater when compared to the same period last year. Most importantly, throughout the portfolio, traffic is back to our 2019 pre-COVID levels. Regarding holiday.
Paula Sambo of Bloomberg News also reports Ontario Teachers’ makes bond bet as economic clouds gather: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is making a bigger bet on bonds and credit and is adding leverage to pay for it. The fund’s leverage soared during the first half, with funding for investments rising 47 per cent, to $145 billion.
As we reported last year, between 2015 and 2019, our mean royalty rate was 2.4% And general and administration expenses were over $61 million compared to roughly $56 million in 2022, reflecting good operating leverage supporting the growing business. across 37 partner-initiated discovery programs with downstreams.
And you can go long, you can go short, you can have leverage, you could have higher exposure levels, but the securities are in the liquid public markets versus private equity, which are in illiquid private markets. In fact, my original product invested in biotech in 2019. We now have five products in the space.
times and the underwritten loan to value was 61%, reflecting a cash-flowing portfolio with substantial equity cushion across the majority of our loans. The loan defaulted back in 2019. As Greg pointed out, we resolved one loan from 2019. There are a couple of things in that question that, I think, are important to underscore.
In terms of leverage, our total debt is currently $17.1 times within our target leverage range of five times to 5.5 In 2019, it was seven. But as we look at 2025 and given what we're working on, we remain confident that we are going to be bringing to the table both gaming and nongaming deals, big and small.
And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And that lasted until 2019, until the covid to 19 pandemic. That’s an example.
As markets improve, we expect execution on our financial rubric to drive profitable growth and operating leverage. The bigger longer-term opportunity is leveraging our engines in Aladdin and indexing with our capital markets expertise to build the machine for the indexing of private markets. Our as-adjusted operating margin of 44.1%
We held our team together throughout the downturn to be able to capture dealflow when markets returned and our investment sales team's efforts in the back half of 2024 were fantastic and set us up very well for 2025 and beyond. Walker -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer It was standard dealflow.
One, simplify the business; two, improve operational performance; and three, reduce leverage. From a leverage perspective, I'm pleased to report that debt to EBITDA at year-end 2024 was slightly below eight times, which is almost a full turn lower than one year ago. Traffic for the year was up almost 2% when compared to 2023.
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