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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In customer service, we're continuing to leverage AI to allow travelers to self-serve, which both lowers costs and improves the traveler experience. I'm proud to have been associated with Expedia Group as a board member since 2019 and more recently as CFO. Excluding these investments, we saw marketing leverage in our B2C business.

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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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JUNE 26, 2023

See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of June 26, 2023 We reached a meaningful inflection point for revenue with net yields surpassing 2019 strong levels. over 2019 in the second quarter. Booking volumes were 17% higher than 2019, which is multiples of our capacity growth. This was 4.5

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To that end, we estimate fully normalized EBITDA in the quarter was 266 million, or 87% of the third quarter of 2019 levels. During the quarter, we saw broad-based strength across our properties with several key areas of the business trending well above 2019 levels. EBITDA margin was 31.1%

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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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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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 5, 2024

We are also leveraging partnerships with franchisees to unlock opportunities in lower-tier cities and strategic locations. Taking a longer view, our system sales grew 25% compared with the second quarter 2019, outperforming the restaurant industry. In the second quarter, net new stores from franchising reached 25%.

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The Motley Fool

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

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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

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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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 9, 2023

We saw strength across the property with several components of the business above 2019 levels. In the casino, mass table drop increased 4% versus Q2 2019, despite the fact that portions of Wynn Macau's casino were closed for renovation during the quarter. market share in the quarter, consistent with our share as we exited 2019.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 24, 2024

Thanks to fast portfolio growth and impressive operating leverage, servicing income reached $273 million. Let's turn to Slide 6 and talk about Pyro, our patented mortgage-centric AI platform which we've been actively developing since 2019 in partnership with Google. On a year-over-year basis, the portfolio is up 33%.

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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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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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JULY 28, 2023

As an additional reference point, industry unit levels on a trailing 12-month basis through Q1 are 14% below 2019, representing 26 million industry units compared with more than 30 million units in 2019. These initiatives are resulting in high-quality digital and store traffic while generating media leverage.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Much of the remaining cost synergies come from eliminating redundant overhead costs, optimizing shared services, and rationalizing and leveraging our supplier base. Finally, we are laser-focused on managing near-term debt levels and reducing net leverage through growth in free cash flow. But it's also on the corporate side, right?

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AUGUST 1, 2023

Even though same-store sales remained below 2019 levels, we saw 25% growth in revenues and 26% growth in operating profit in the second quarter compared to the pre-pandemic levels in 2019. But leveraging our multiple scenario planning, we swiftly -- we responded by launching attractive offers to drive sales.

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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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2024

And then how does that influence your expectation for a positive operating leverage next year? And, yes, we will generate positive operating leverage in '25. In other words, should the street just expect, OK, what can Regions generate revenue-wise in a better environment and just expect positive operating leverage from there?

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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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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

Just look back at our last restructuring in fiscal 2019 and 2020. It will also enable us to leverage technology to perform revenue-generating tasks with better data, greater visibility, and leverage our experienced personnel across different areas of our business. VOXX has been around for over 60 years. Our focus is clear.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This activity is consistent with how customers are spending money in the 2016 to 2019 timeframe. With NII now growing and complementing our fee growth along with our continued solid expense discipline, we expect to return to operating leverage as we move through the quarters in 2025. After having fallen in the spring and early summer.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Beyond the headwinds in our supply chain, we also faced some unexpected pressure in healthcare and general liability expenses this quarter, which Jim will outline in a few minutes. That said, as we've done before, we often compare back to 2019 as a useful way to look beyond the volatility we've seen in our business over the last five years.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Beyond this, we're full speed ahead on leveraging our new consumer data platform to provide more targeted promotions and offers to last or new visitors. Despite significant sales deleverage this year, we expect to end the year nearly 500 basis points higher in EBITDA margin than in 2019. times from 2.1 times in the prior year.

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The Motley Fool

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

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

We generated $297 million of EBITDA in the quarter on market share that was consistent with the prior quarter and with 2019. So on a fully normalized basis, EBITDA would have been approximately $290 million or 94% of Q4 2019 levels. million per day in Q4, a decrease of 14% compared to $3 million in Q4 2019.

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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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Barrick's holistic approach to our business encompasses managing the many mine closure liabilities we have accumulated along the way. We are methodically moving to nonoperating tailings storage facilities, with the largest liabilities to safe closure. And that's also key to reducing our liabilities while we mine.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 24, 2023

SG&A expenses expanded primarily from wage investments, incentive compensation, general liability claims, and repairs and maintenance costs from improving store conditions. These were partially offset by leverage from increased comp sales and lower stock-compensation expense. These were partially offset by sales comp leverage.

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