The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2024

You're probably juggling a career, family, and trying to save for the future while maybe still carrying some debt. Pay down credit card debt Credit card interest rates in the U.S. are sitting at a sky-high average of 24.92%, which is the highest since LendingTree began tracking rates in 2019.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

It also cut the dividend enough to free up cash to help pay down debt. T Cash Dividend Payout Ratio data by YCharts Yep, that's discretionary cash profits that can go toward paying down debt (more on that in a minute) and eventually repurchasing shares to help drive earnings growth. However, things could finally be looking up.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Importantly, this was also the first time that Norwegian's quarterly adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) was above the comparable quarter from 2019. That's an important milestone on the way to recovery.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Yet, on the other hand, inflation and higher interest rates are a big counterweight to the bull case, as all major cruise companies are now loaded with debt -- a result of the emergency borrowing during the pandemic -- while also battling higher labor costs. Those ratios are about in line with the average during the 2014 to 2019 period.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Ares Capital Corporation: Ultra-high yield and mild growth Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) is a business development company ( BDC ), which means it can avoid paying income taxes by delivering at least 90% of its earnings to investors as a dividend. million annually before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ).

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 5, 2024

Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) , a leading producer of plant-based meat substitute products, went public on May 2, 2019, at $25 a share. on July 26, 2019. billion, or 47 times the revenue it would actually generate in 2019. That's why its revenue surged 239% in 2019. in 2019 to negative 5.7% Its stock closed at $65.75

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 19, 2023

529 plans are a tax-advantaged way to save for higher education, but the penalty for making non-qualified withdrawals can be a huge headache for those who don't use all the money they've accumulated on schooling. Some states have different rules The above terms apply to federal taxes, but states are free to make their own terms if they want.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

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. billion in 2019 and hit a nadir of $1.6 billion, which is still materially below 2019 levels. Times have changed. It peaked at $4.2 billion in 2022.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The company now holds a significant amount of debt. Management plans to divest non-core assets to accelerate the paydown of that debt. It did something similar following the Anadarko acquisition in 2019 and the subsequent drop in oil prices in 2020. Moreover, the valuation for Occidental is extremely attractive.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 11, 2024

Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), meanwhile, rose 6% to nearly $2.5 It defines leverage as net debt adjusted for equity credit in junior subordinated notes (hybrids) divided by adjusted EBITDA. The company is also in solid financial shape concerning its debt load.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2024

At the end of 2019, Xometry only had 11,500 active buyers total, and less than 300 of these spent more than $50,000 annually. And in 2024, management expects adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of at least $535 million. billion in long-term debt, mostly because of its roll-up strategy.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2024

Net yields and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) are at or close to 2019 levels, and Carnival is on track to meet its three-year growth goals ahead of schedule. Carnival assumed tons of debt and is still carrying more than $30 billion on its balance sheet. billion in 2023.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Beyond Meat, which became the first publicly traded producer of plant-based meat in 2019, has been broadly dismissed as a fad stock. Altria faces existential challenges From 2019 to 2022, Altria's annual shipments of cigarettes dropped from 101.8 in 2019 to negative 5.7% Image source: Getty Images. billion sticks to 84.7

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2023

The company has borrowed money in the form of both debt and equity to keep going, and it's now saddled with $34 billion in long-term debt and heavily diluted shares. It gained prominence as a meme stock when retail investors began to have outsize influence and it became unclear whether Carnival could stick it out.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Norwegian's breakthrough 2023 Norwegian's full-year 2023 earnings were stellar, with revenue up more than 30% from 2019 -- the last full year before the pandemic lockdowns. billion, while adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) almost doubled while adjusted earnings per share (EPS) rose 116%.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

While MLPs can complicate your taxes (they send K-1s instead of 1099-DIVs), they supply tax-deferred income, which Gross likes. He noted that the oil and gas pipeline operators offer hefty dividend yields , with much of that income tax deferred. billion) and investors in that fund. Today, Gross dabbles more in equities.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

Chevron's debt-to-equity ratio is roughly 0.14 CVX Debt to Equity Ratio data by YCharts If you are a conservative dividend investor, this is important because it means that Chevron has the most leeway on its balance sheet to take on debt during the energy industry's inevitable downturns. However, MLPs have their drawbacks.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Smaller companies rely more on floating-rate debt than larger companies, which can issue fixed-rate bonds to investors. So when interest rates go down, it reduces the cost of debt and enables smaller businesses to borrow more, both of which can be good for overall earnings growth. Jill Carey Hall, Bank of America 's head of U.S.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 8, 2024

The number of homeowners aged 65 and over with housing debt doubled between 1989 and 2019, from 21% to 42%, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. So it's best to shed all possible debts and expenses, including monthly mortgage payments, ahead of that period. And the logic was simple.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 17, 2023

According to research from The Ascent , in 2019, homeowners with a mortgage paid $8,609 more than renters did for housing costs. My property tax figure was $4,000 per year, which is another educated guess based on discussions with friends who live locally and numbers in real estate listings in my city.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 22, 2023

Sterigenics was accused in the lawsuits of releasing ethylene oxide gas into the air at its Willowbrook plant, which closed in 2019. and $0.86, a drop of 10% to 19% due to higher taxes and interest expenses. It may have to increase its debt load to pay off the lawsuit, but considering its yearly revenue, that's not a huge matter.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Drilling down into the data ROIC helps measure the profitability of a company's investments as a percentage of its debt and equity capital. New Construct's ROIC formula is net operating profit after taxes (NOPAT) divided by average invested capital.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Sources previously told Reuters that Galderma intended to raise a large amount of fresh capital through its IPO to pay down debt, leaving it exposed to market volatility. billion in net sales in 2022 with earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of $791 million. The dermatology group posted $3.8

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of $382 million beat the high point of guidance of $350 million, and adjusted net loss of $690 million was better than the projected $750 million to $850 million. billion, or at 95% of 2019 levels. billion, 16% higher than the previous record in 2019.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The chart in this morning’s reads shows what it is going to cost to fund the interest payments on the federal debt. When rates were zero all of corporate America refinanced, lowering the cost of their debt to historically low levels. The idea was that if we somehow made carrying our debt smaller, it would encourage more of it.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2023

These strategies contributed to the company's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ( EBITDA ) increase of 93% to $22 million in the quarter, which was its 17th consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. This should allow it to reduce its debt load while funding its growth efforts.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Avantax shareholders will be cashed out at $26 per share and the tax-focused broker/dealer will operate as separate unit within Cetera. Avantax, the $84bn, tax-focused wealth management firm formerly known as Blucora , will be taken private in an all-cash sale to Cetera Holdings for $1.2bn.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), which is a proxy for cash flow coming from resorts and casinos, was $280.6 in the third quarter of 2019 and well below competitors that are seeing margins of over 30% in many cases, coming out of the pandemic. million a year ago.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2024

Buffett established a position in Occidental in 2019 by buying $10 billion worth of preferred shares to fund the oil company’s acquisition of Anadarko. That said, it’s spent heavily to establish that position, taking on huge amounts of debt, and putting pressure on its balance sheet. It's a relative newcomer to Berkshire’s portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

One can argue that this is a lousy time to take on new debt. The new notes will clear out obligations that were more taxing to Carnival's resources. The company had to take on a lot of debt at high rates and print new shares at low stock prices to make it through the prolonged pandemic shutdown. There's a lot of debt to repay.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

Perhaps more dire, the company is quickly running out of cash and has a heavy debt burden. million in debt. That "restructuring" could potentially entail a dilutive equity raise to get cash and maybe pay off debt, which would be especially painful given that SmileDirect's stock has plunged to just $0.61 million, down 19.1%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2024

The trifecta to be achieved by the end of 2025 seemed ambitious at the time: Royal Caribbean was aiming to top $100 in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) per available passenger cruise day. This would shatter its pre-pandemic record of $87 in 2019.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

Trulieve has consistently generated quarterly positive adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in the last few years, before the saturated U.S. Its debt-to-equity ratio, on the other hand, is 0.89. A higher ratio indicates that the company is heavily reliant on debt to operate or expand.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 23, 2023

billion came in at 95% of its 2019 levels. The company also beat its own guidance in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and the narrowing of its net loss. Here's what's holding Carnival back these days: an enormous amount of debt. Customer deposits reached a first-quarter record.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

It has since expanded into a wide range of other products, including corporate debt, mortgage-backed securities, and swaps, to name a few. Investment Grade market share has grown from 13% in 2019 to 26.2% In the first quarter, Interactive Brokers' adjusted pre-tax profit margin was a stellar 71%. For example, its U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 4, 2024

Act in 2022, building on the 2019 Secure 1.0 provisions are kicking in, with lots of opportunities for retirement savers to more flexibly contribute to and withdraw from tax-advantaged retirement accounts. 529s are state-sponsored, tax-advantaged investment accounts geared toward funding a beneficiary's education.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 27, 2024

billion cigarettes in 2019. AT&T has a dominant position but a lot of debt AT&T has a sizable 6.7% While the use of leverage isn't unusual in the cellphone space, its debt-to-equity ratio of 1.3 However, buying properties generally involves the use of debt, and interest rates have been on the rise of late.

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