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MARCH 21, 2025

Operating margins and EBITDA margins each improved over 400 basis points year over year, with both of these now surpassing 2019 levels. At the same time, we're also closing in on our 2026 greenhouse gas target with an over 19% reduction in carbon intensity compared to 2019. billion, approaching a 40% year-over-year increase.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Our e-commerce channel represented an industry-leading 51% of our retail sales in Q2, up from 47% last year and 30% in 2019. In 2019, pre-pandemic, births were 3.75 We've learned a lot since 2019. We leverage the Activate platform daily within our organization. and Children's Place wasn't one of them!

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The Motley Fool

MAY 1, 2024

leveraging its talent across brands to help share unique learnings and experiences. You'll recall that the first phase of our journey to become the leading global digital restaurant company began in earnest in 2019. This system allows us to leverage insights into consumer behavior across our brands in the U.S. and Taco Bell U.S.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

higher in 2019, strong close-in demand, higher pricing and continued strength of onboard spend drove the revenue outperformance. Over the last few months, experience spend was up 25% compared to 2019 and double that of spend on goods. versus 2019, about 260 basis points higher than the midpoint of our guidance.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 13, 2025

million were 21% of revenue compared to 24% in the prior year, reflecting the improved leverage of the business from the higher revenue base. The significant increase in adjusted EBITDA was driven by higher revenues combined with the cost containment actions taken providing strong operating leverage. Operating expenses of 30.6

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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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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

MARCH 13, 2025

We were able to successfully mitigate the tariff impact in 2018 and 2019, though we did take retail price increases in some instances along with others across the industry. With regards to current tariffs that have been announced on products that we sell, we believe we are well positioned to mitigate the impact in 2025.

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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

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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Back in 2018 and 2019 when we last dealt with this issue, we were able to mitigate the majority of the potential impact by negotiating lower costs with our suppliers, changing product specs or pack sizes, or dropping noneconomical items. Our bank-defined leverage at quarter-end stood at approximately 2.4 Yes, we leverage third party.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Cross-border travel continues to show strength, reaching 154% of 2019 levels in the second quarter. It's like paying like a local, and this will be valuable as inbound cross-border travel to China improves from approximately 50% of 2019 levels in the second quarter. Back to the top of this list. So here are a few additional examples.

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The Motley Fool

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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The Motley Fool

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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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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MAY 9, 2024

Our priority remains to extend brand reach and engagement, drive product diversification across our portfolio, leverage our powerful omnichannel to reach customers and build our global business. We're leveraging a few key demand drivers as we head into the season: innovation, awareness and conversion. Shifting to our brand reach.

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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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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

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

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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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The investment organization also reported it reached a 58 per cent reduction in its portfolio carbon emissions intensity compared to 2019. We expanded our overall use of leverage as we continued to use debt prudently to enhance our investment returns. Additionally, its allocation to green investments grew to $23 billion.

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The Motley Fool

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Our solid top-line performance resulted in noticeable leverage in the second quarter across our cost structure. With sales growth in 2024, we anticipate we'll leverage SG&A costs year over year beyond the benefit we'll receive of moving past the $41.1 It's really a big uptick that February of 2019. SG&A expense was $72.2

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The Motley Fool

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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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

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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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 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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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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