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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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

We said we would deliver triple-digit adjusted EBITDA per APCD, double-digit adjusted earnings per share and return on invested capital in the teens. 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. and $11.45

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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. And this quarter, we reached a key financial milestone by returning to a fully unsecured capital structure. Our leverage was below 3.5

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Improving return on invested capital Carnival has set out a strategic plan it dubbed SEA Change with a trio of three-year goals. These efforts also will leave Carnival with more of the resources it needs to pay down its debt and help it move closer to investment-grade leverage metrics by 2026 -- another one of its goals.

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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. As a combination of all of these factors, these travelers have a much higher return on investment and ultimately drive more profitable and faster growth as they stack up over time.

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The Motley Fool

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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As revenues continue to grow, we expect our margin to exceed the 36% of Macao business in 2019. The strong flow-through of revenue to EBITDA reflects the operating leverage of our business, once the fixed costs have been covered. And indeed, we did that during 2019 when we started the holiday in conversion into The Londoner hotel.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

And despite the fact we've experienced more than a percentage point of cumulative profit pressure from higher shrink since 2019, our EPS of $3.86 through the first half of the year is more than 15% higher than in 2019. On the top line, Q2 results were below our expectations as comp sales decreased 5.4%.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

However, you can rest assured that we remain laser-focused on generating highly attractive returns on invested capital for the remodels. versus 2019 on a consolidated basis, led by the continued strength of our entertainment business. versus 2019. versus 2019. We generated $103.8

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

pre-tax margin will likely lead the industry coming in above 2019 margins, despite higher fuel and structurally higher costs. higher than 2019 levels, bringing us above 2019 on a year-to-date basis and beating consensus by 11%. points better than 2019. Our earnings per share of $3 was $0.83 And at a 99.5% This was 1.7

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 25, 2024

Encouragingly, on a per ALBD basis to highlight operational improvement and even with significantly higher fuel prices, adjusted EBITDA not only surpassed the second quarter of 2019, it was also our highest second-quarter mark in over 15 years. times and positioning us two-thirds of the way down the path to invest in grade metrics.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 26, 2024

It was arguably from 2014-2019, the best growth environment for banking in the past 30, 40 years. If Duolingo can get you to subscribe to premium off its own ads, that's a light-years better return on investment than any other random ad it could place. Advertising is only 9% of revenue. This isn't an original idea.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And we fundamentally shifted the business from transactional web arbitrage to app-first, focused on acquiring and retaining the customers with the highest LTV and return on investment. We have closed over 100 office locations, and we have 30% fewer heads than our 2019 peak. But we are capable of much more. We drove 12.8

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And following the Fitch upgrade in July, our balance sheet now has two investment-grade ratings and our dividend yield is in line with the S&P 500. Around the world, we're continuing to develop our JV partnerships and leveraging our strengths. Gross leverage ended the quarter at 2.9 After reinvesting $3.6

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

billion, and we delivered a return on invested capital of nearly 14%, putting Delta's returns in the top half of the S&P 500. Our forecast for pre-tax profit of approximately $2 billion is on par with 2019 and just shy of last year due to higher fuel prices. Our leverage ratio improved to 2.9 per share, a $0.20

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2023

New stores are bringing attractive unit economics for the business while we benefit from strong growth in returns on invested capital in these markets. Along with sales leverage, what I could see in opportunities with future productivity gains gives me real confidence in long-term progressive margin expansion. Turning to China.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 13, 2023

Our strategy is underpinned by a commitment to financial performance, with a focus on free cash flow, return on invested capital, and earnings durability. Strong cash generation will enable us to return our balance sheet to investment-grade metrics while consistently reinvesting in the business.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

This box office upside benefited our operating leverage and coupled with the operational excellence of the Cinemark team led to a strong financial performance in the quarter. Or can you utilize some of these innovations that you've seen over the past couple of years and get a lot more operating leverage on that line if the box recovers?

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

In addition to the inventory rebuilds and targeted product categories that we've been discussing for the past several quarters, in Q1, we leveraged our new ERP system to optimize assortments in key African American neighborhoods, where we've identified significant sales opportunity. Number one, driving profitable sales.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We remain committed to returning our balance sheet to its historical strength with a long-term objective of managing to 2.5 times leverage level. We also remain committed to returning capital to shareholders. times leverage level. And lastly, our fourth priority is strengthening our balance sheet. Please go ahead.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 22, 2024

All together and more than $2 billion in Q1, Drive Up sales were more than 30 times larger than we saw in the first quarter of 2019. That represents growth of just under $7 billion, or 39%, compared with the first quarter of 2019, the year before the pandemic began. or 33% higher than in 2019. in Q1, which is $0.50 a year ago.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 21, 2024

Altogether, over the first six months of 2024, our guests have already made nearly 1 billion trips to target, a number that's grown by more than 20% since 2019. As such, we still find it useful to compare relative growth rates back to 2019. We expect to have continued repurchase capacity in the back half of 2024 and in the years ahead.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These ones are the result of having our products available on a single integrated platform, and we are excited to deliver an enhanced omnichannel experience for consumer lending in the spring, further leveraging the technology we acquired in the SimpleNexus transaction. revenues were $23.4

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased approximately 1% compared to the second quarter of last year. These improvements are exactly what we set out to achieve with this wage investment. In addition to investing in our associates, we must also leverage technology to further simplify both the associate and customer experience.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

All our technologies are leveraged to create a harmonious blend of consumer engagement. This approach leverage real-time data, such as sporting events, to optimize ad delivery that creates more foot traffic to multiple retail locations. This allows us to serve the most relevant ad, maximizing engagement and return on investment.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

SG&A expenses as a percentage of net sales improved 20 basis points in the first quarter, as leverage on higher sales and improvements in variable costs across the business were partially offset by higher labor costs. The first is investing in the business to better serve our customers and support long-term growth.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our year-to-date volume growth remains consistent with underlying performance compared to 2019. Leveraging data to drive better decision-making is key to improving execution. Our system has collectively invested in digital initiatives to drive on all facets of our strategy. Starting first with marketing and innovation.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

At the same time, we continue to expand margins through sales leverage and productivity and savings initiatives. As a result, our restaurant-level cash flow dollars continued to improve, and we were in line with 2019 Q4 levels. Adjusted EBITDA was $27.3 million and 8.4% of sales in the fourth quarter. Moving to expenses.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We've designed our capital investment programs to ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. We believe our approach will enable us to grow faster in the long term, grow our share of EBITDA in the Macao market, and generate industry-leading returns on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

With over $4 billion in net sales, Q2 was one of the strongest quarters in our 135-year history and certainly is the strongest since the beginning of our business transformation in 2019. Organic sales grew 7.7%, bringing our first-half organic growth to a very strong 9.4%. At Kenvue, we want to understand why that is.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

We generated free cash flow of $2 billion while investing 5.3 billion back into the business, and we improved our leverage by two full turns and reinstated our quarterly dividend. Return on invested capital was 13.4%, a 5-point improvement from 2022. Our leverage ratio improved two terms to finish the year at three times.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We are working to pivot our business toward a model that will streamline our operations, sell nonstrategic assets, improve the consistency of our earnings, increase EBITDA and dividends per share, reduce debt, rightsize the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. Debt less cash on hand as of October 31, 2023 was $37.4

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

To date, they have achieved a return on investment of over $250 million. They also plan to leverage our AI capabilities like Document Understanding, Test Suite, and Task Mining to drive automation across their entire business.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

I'm very, very proud of our progress to date, and I'm confident that we're going to continue to leverage our core strengths to achieve our potential. We are on an exciting path and are well-positioned to deliver durable growth and sustainable shareholder returns. But I would like to continue to increase our investment.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

As we move forward, we'll leverage our 2017 acquisition of Chip to help us build unmistakable recognition for Target same-day delivery. And in the same way we focus on our store and digital assets, we continually invest in our team. We introduced the program in 2019 as a way to say thank you to guests with deals, rewards, and perks.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

Thirdly, developers can benefit from advancement in mini games' infrastructure, leveraging our know-how and game technology. Among all games released since 2019, VALORANT is the most viewed game on the leading live streaming platforms. Mini games also provide Tencent with significant strategic value. Thank you, Martin and James.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 13, 2024

We are incredibly excited about what we can achieve together by leveraging our combined assets, capabilities, and competitive advantages. Sales leveraging our digital platforms increased approximately 4% compared to the second quarter of last year. The investments we've made in our business have enabled agility in our operating model.

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