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AUGUST 3, 2023

We leverage AI technology to deliver a more personalized booking experience, a connected trip that would be more responsible to our bookers' needs and help manage different aspects of their trips. The plan is to further enhance penny over time by leveraging these valuable learnings. to Genius customers.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

We posted another outstanding quarter of performance at adjusted property EBITDAR surpassing the second quarter of 2019. Margins of 36% were well above 2019 levels. Our adjusted property EBITDAR of $209 million was an increase of 21% versus the second quarter of 2019 with a 28% margin. Turning to Macau. Good afternoon.

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MAY 7, 2024

We generated $340 million of EBITDAR in the quarter on GGR market share that was above both the prior quarter and above our 2019 exit. In the casino, our mass drop per day in April increased 30% versus April 2019. Meanwhile, our leverage profile continues to improve as does our outlook on future free cash flow.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When compared to 2019, our room nights grew 21% versus our expectations of 20%. Our non-GAAP earnings per share of about $152 increased 52% year over year and was 48% higher than our prior full year all-time high back in 2019. We will be making some references to the comparable periods in 2019, where we think these are helpful.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Since acquiring the Pets Best business in 2019, we've grown pets in force by over 45% per year on average, more than double the industry's growth rate and become a leading pet insurance provider in the U.S. Our delinquency ratios finished the year slightly above average levels from 2017 to 2019 prior to the pandemic.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Additionally, as we shifted to leverage licensed IP within Wizards, we incurred higher royalty expense, resulting in a 1.7 And finally, we achieved one point of growth from Licensed Consumer products as we reenergize focus on leveraging our IP across categories. margin point loss. Will it be 10% of the entertainment business?

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Next, we remain committed to returning cash to shareholders through a quarterly dividend payment and, over time and when appropriate, share repurchases, all while targeting a leverage ratio of approximately three times adjusted debt to EBITDAR in order to maintain our current investment-grade rating.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Work is underway to edit our assortment, leverage our scale, and deliver newness and trend-right high-quality product at an amazing value, while at the same time improving your store experience and optimizing our cost structure. We last had this calendar in 2019 and have used that experience to build our fourth quarter plan this year.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2024

reduction in greenhouse gas emissions intensity versus 2019, on track to achieve our target of 20% by the end of 2026, a goal that was previously pulled forward by four years. Despite the fact that we're over 9% larger than we were in 2019, we have actually lowered our absolute greenhouse gas emissions by almost 10% over this time.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

Five years ago, at June 30, 2019, we had total net investments, that is our entire investment portfolio plus cash minus debt of $17.5 Five years ago through June 30, 2019, we earned underwriting and insurance income of $142 million. At June 30, 2019, each share of Markel sold for about $1,100. billion, an increase of 61%.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Fourth quarter yields continued on a positive trajectory, significantly higher than a very strong 2019 and even higher than we had anticipated, and enabled us to overcome four years of high cost inflation to deliver per unit EBITDA that eclipsed 2019, holding fuel and currency constant.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 6, 2024

Of course, while we are active every day in the hand-to-hand combat for market share, you can't take market share to the bank, and thus, we have remained -- we have continued to remain disciplined in our opex and player reinvestment levels, highlighted by our strong EBITDAR margin in the quarter, which was 250 basis points above 2Q 2019.

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JULY 30, 2024

times net debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage ratio, which is within our target range and we had approximately $1.5 Q3 adjusted EBITDA margin is now expected to be between 20% and 21%, driven by expense leveraging from higher sales volume with benefits from restructuring actions partially offset by normalized incentive compensation expense.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our third quarter of fiscal 2023, we generated revenue of $467 million and adjusted EBITDA of $82 million, both of which are slightly below the third quarter of fiscal '22 but meaningfully above the third quarter of 2019, even after adjusting for the acquisition of Main Event. We already know the immense value of getting this right.

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JULY 25, 2024

In addition, our leverage is now below 3.5x Just as a reminder that this is on top of approximately 17% yield increase versus 2019 in the back half of 2023. Consumers have 10% more vacation days compared to 2019 and they are using half of that increase to travel. Leverage was below 3.5x per share. and $11.45

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APRIL 16, 2024

By leveraging our technology and continuous investment in that technology and putting customers at the center of everything we do, we have successfully deepened our relationships and expanded our customer base across all our businesses. And relative to pre-pandemic Q4 2019, average deposits are still up 35%. Moving to deposits.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Across the world, we're continuing to win in the market by leveraging our scale and relying on our local expertise of our bottling partners. In China, retail sales growth continues to improve, but consumer confidence is still below 2019 levels. Our balance sheet remains strong and our net debt leverage of 1.6

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AUGUST 3, 2023

In addition, as these customers have a higher propensity to come to us through direct channels, this helps us drive future leverage in sales and marketing. I am pleased to say that we have seen this cohort of customers increased roughly 135% versus 2019. In our Expedia brand in the U.S.,

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Pizza Hut is kicking off, adding 409 stores in 2023 alone, compared to just 41 stores in 2019. To put it into perspective, ticket average in the fourth quarter was RMD 39, the same as last quarter and higher than 2019. Sales leveraging, low rider cost, and efficiency gains more than offset wage increases for frontline staff.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

of EPS that wasn't in our June outlook, was related to general liability claims. Predicting these claims is complex and we again increased our accrual for general liability this quarter after observing higher-than-expected costs to resolve certain claims. was attributable to the general liability adjustment, while the remaining $0.08

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AUGUST 2, 2023

launched hand-breaded Original Recipe chicken nuggets to expand its off-the-bone chicken offerings, leveraging the learnings from our significant off-the-bone business at KFC international. The global Taco Tuesday campaign, which launched in June and will continue through the third quarter, leverages Taco Bell's U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2024

for the first quarter, about 90 basis points lower than last year and about 60 basis points higher than the average payment rate level across our first quarters from 2015 to 2019. Our 90-plus delinquency rate was 2.42% versus 1.87% last year and 14 basis points above our average for the first quarter of 2017 to 2019.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

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. Our leverage was below 3.5 The year is up about 26% versus 2019 levels. During the quarter, we refinanced $3.5 We're at higher rates.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The remaining 50 basis points were driven by ROD leverage. SG&A as a percentage of net sales was 33.4%, leveraging 130 basis points versus last year's reported rate and 110 basis points versus last year's adjusted rate primarily due to lower advertising costs in the quarter. Now, let me turn to SG&A. SG&A was $1.3

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Carnival , for example, more than 2Xed its long term debt load between 2019 and 2020. That's 7% more than in 2019, the previous record, obviously, before the pandemic. Asia is the only region that has not recovered to back where they were in 2019. billion is 27% higher than it was in 2019. billion in current liabilities.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

The demand environment remains healthy overall, characterized by double-digit growth in RASM compared to 2019. While the gap is improving, our New York margins are still lagging 2019 levels by high single digits. This is a sharp contrast from the rest of our network, which exceeded 2019 margins during the second quarter.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We're also leveraging our Dabir's partnership to advance jewelry consultant training, natural diamond marketing and several new branded natural diamond merchandise collections launching in the third quarter. In marketing, we're increasingly leveraging data and AI to personalize our messaging. As a reminder, we are allocating up to $1.1

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

We are training colleagues to be more helpful by leveraging digital tools and in-person coaching. We are leveraging our Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and gift-giving destination status. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

With MGM's casino segment, we will drive growth from the return of Far East baccarat play, which is still below 2019 levels. We will leverage our branch office network to drive customers to our resorts in Las Vegas and expect to see further recovery of international inbound flights, which are still only 75% recovered from Asia.

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MAY 30, 2024

According to Circana data, between 2019 and 2023, Ulta Beauty expanded its share of both prestige and mass beauty significantly. But today, I want to highlight actions we are taking now to leverage our traffic growth, increase conversion, and accelerate top-line growth.

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APRIL 18, 2024

Insurance earned premiums of $349 million were also a record, and we see continued momentum as we grow OEM partnerships and continue leveraging our expansive auto finance dealer network. We'll discuss asset and liability dynamics that are driving our NIM expansion in a few slides. We grew deposits $2.9 Our model is simple.

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APRIL 30, 2024

And number three, reduce leverage to the low to mid-6 times is a major priority for Macerich. Based on our plan, $500 million of new equity reduces leverage by two-thirds of a turn. And the final 65 basis points of leverage reduction is accounted for in that $500 million of common stock issuance as a placeholder.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Leveraging our learnings over the past few quarters, we are beginning to more strategically target our growing loyalty database with creative and compelling tailored messaging to drive, visit frequency and spend. We will continue to optimize our media mix messaging and better leverage our scale and presence to drive traffic.

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MAY 3, 2024

To this point, both our hourly and management turnover is lower than it was in 2019 and lower than last year. At the same time, we continue to expand margins through sales leverage and productivity and savings initiatives. Where we really saw some nice leverage as well is across labor. I realized it's not just one thing.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Since joining the company in 2019, she has established herself as a trusted partner and visionary leader. This month-long activation leveraged creator content and events, premium platform advertising placements, and custom filters that allowed users to see their inner joy. Grounded in TikTok's theme of reclaimed joy.

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JULY 27, 2023

And third, we bolstered our total liquidity, which now stands at more than $4 billion and further diversified our capital sources and reduced our leverage well off of peak levels through more than $2 billion of dispositions and JVs and over $1 billion of equity issued under our ATM. Our reported leverage ratio at the quarter end was 6.8

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JULY 25, 2024

Our restaurant-level cash flow per operating week was approximately 19,200, just slightly behind fiscal 2019 restaurant-level cash flow per week of 19,300. So, while percentage margins were still behind 2019 levels, we closed the gap on the dollars per restaurant week. Our goal remains to close the gap to 2019 margins by year-end.

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