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APRIL 20, 2024

The other important aspect to look at when it comes to the safety of a company's dividend is its leverage, which is its net debt divided by its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Altria ended 2023 with leverage of 2.2 Looking at its balance sheet, Vector ended 2023 with leverage of 2.6

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It did something similar following the Anadarko acquisition in 2019 and the subsequent drop in oil prices in 2020. Shares currently trade for an enterprise value/earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EV/ EBITDA ) multiple of just 5x. The company now holds a significant amount of debt.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

Free Fire was released in December 2017 and became the most-downloaded game globally by 2019. To be sure, Garena's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) is down from $2.8 This segment is also showing really high operating leverage, with Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $148.5

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rivian Automotive (NASDAQ: RIVN) first captured investors' attention back in 2019 when it struck a blockbuster deal with Amazon. Higher production volumes, which enabled Rivian to better leverage its fixed costs and negotiate price reductions from suppliers, also contributed to the gains. Amazon also made a large investment in Rivian.

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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

APRIL 27, 2024

billion cigarettes in 2019. AT&T's balance sheet is heavily leveraged because of this. While the use of leverage isn't unusual in the cellphone space, its debt-to-equity ratio of 1.3 Altria is a tobacco company that sells cigarettes in the United States, where smoking has been increasingly frowned upon. The high 6.6%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 21, 2024

Its net loss more than doubled from $697 million in 2019 to $1.5 For instance, the tech company has leveraged its infrastructure and consumer base to launch new services like online groceries, food delivery, streaming, etc. Another vital aspect of Coupang's ongoing profit growth is to improve efficiency and operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 3, 2024

In 2019, Block's net income was $375 million. Block immediately went into action with its cost-cutting initiatives in the fourth quarter, and the company posted a net income of $178 million while adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of $562 million outpaced analysts' estimates.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 13, 2024

ExxonMobil believes its upstream earnings could more than double by 2027 versus 2019 and boost its cash flows significantly over the next four years. Gross also highlighted that the yield is tax-deferred, making it an even more attractive investment. That should also mean bigger dividends for investors. per unit payout.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) nearly doubled year over year to $1.283 billion. billion in 2022 and marking its first full-year profit since going public in 2019. Meanwhile, gross bookings -- a key measure to help estimate future sales -- grew 22% year over year to $37.6

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The Motley Fool

JULY 9, 2023

Annual revenue, which is earned mostly through subscriptions to its platform, exploded from $92 million in fiscal 2019 to $267 million in fiscal 2023 (which ended in April). The company is growing very fast, with revenue exploding from $582 million in 2019 to over $1.7 This stock is not for everyone. billion last year.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For reference, in 2019 North America had a 4.1% Add in increasing operating leverage at its massive scale, and I think it's plausible for Amazon's North American division to hit 10% profit margins by this time next year. operating margin. At a market cap of $1.5

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JULY 8, 2023

billion, topping its previous record of $6 billion in the same quarter in 2019. It reported a better-than-expected adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) profit of $681 million, though it's still losing money on a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) basis.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

There were over 800 SPAC deals in 2020 and 2021, more than double the total amount of SPAC transactions from 2003 to 2019. Moreover, management also guided for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) of at least $100 million in 2025, signaling the company's focus on operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 20, 2024

In 2024, IBM grew revenue by 3% and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) by 6%. billion, its best result on that metric since 2019. Microsoft is straightforwardly leveraging AI. Investors clearly were rewarding IBM for its impressive business growth.

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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

JULY 18, 2023

At the same time, 73% of the payments flowed to writers in television and digital platforms, up from 71% in 2019. For example: Disney generated $13 billion of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), from $87 billion in top-line revenue over the past four quarters. The WGA (West) reported $1.55

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

billion of securities, realizing $175 million of pre-tax losses, resulting in an estimated 2.5-year billion of securities in the third quarter at a $75 million pre-tax loss. And then how does that influence your expectation for a positive operating leverage next year? So we need to generate positive operating leverage.

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The Motley Fool

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 leverage our differentiated go-to-market approach, coupling high-tech and high-touch to earn their partnership. We grew deposits $2.9

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

When you have a force selling period, remember, unless you've done something personally in your own personal account, maybe playing a little too much leverage or questionable option strategies, which of course is leverage as well, or whatever. It was spun off from VF Corp, May 2019. But anyway, it's a really interesting story.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 14, 2023

Cubico's owners are aiming for a valuation of about 10 times its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) of $641 million in 2022, the sources said. Cubico acquired a PV portfolio from Cypress Creek Renewables at January 2019 covering five projects with a cumulative capacity of 580MW capacity.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

In addition to our operational improvements, our board and management team will continue to evaluate how to best leverage our expertise in farm management, packing, marketing, and distributing citrus, combined with our valuable portfolio of agricultural lands, real estate properties, and water rights, in order to enhance long-term shareholder value.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Looking ahead, we see tremendous opportunities to leverage the combined capabilities of the STACK to drive more effective and personalized marketing, enhanced customer service levels, better forecasting, pricing and promotional tactics, and efficiency gains for our sales associates. Obviously, for the third quarter, we feel pretty big.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

Excluding intra-Europe, total cross-border volume remained strong, up 22%, with cross-border travel volume at 136% of 2019. Index to 2019, global payments volume was up 48%. Relative to 2019, U.S. Relative to 2019, international payments volume was up 43%. is still hovering at 2019 levels. Outside the U.S.,

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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

Our effective tax rate for the quarter was 22.3% This lower rate is primarily due to the effect of certain rate-impacting items such as federal tax credits on lower earnings before taxes. This guidance now assumes an effective tax rate of approximately 23%. Is it simply a function of leveraging sales growth?

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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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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2024

Floen aims to leverage strategic partnerships to support the scale-up of innovative technologies and business models that are accelerating the pace of the energy transition towards low-carbon energy, not only in Brazil, but globally. At that time, the state of Sao Paulo insisted in privatization of the Port of Santos.

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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

MAY 7, 2024

Now, we want to leverage our business resources and expertise to support their growth and enable better access to healthcare in many of these communities. The effective tax rate for the quarter was 28.1%, which is in line with our previous guidance and driven by a discrete tax item. million, a decrease of 5% year over year.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This strategy remains on track as we continue leveraging our position at the top point of distribution. We will leverage this relationship to provide an athletic offering across men's, women's, and kids', giving our customers an elevated physical and digital assortment. Additionally, our estimated tax rate is anticipated to be 30%.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

Embedded in key jurisdictions around the world, our years spent in the market brought to light an opportunity: the idea of a more holistic, collaborative partnership with our clients, where we could leverage our legacy to plan and deliver a tailored, first-class solution for all of them. South Dakota? Private wealth? You'd be surprised.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Servicing generated 301 million in pre-tax income, although bear in mind the gain from the trust collapse contributed 67 million. Chris joined us in January of 2019 as vice chairman and CFO and quickly enhanced the finance function, implementing bank-like processes as well as pushing for efficiency gains and deleveraging.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 31, 2024

In fact, we operated at our highest annual rate since 2019. In Midstream, fourth-quarter adjusted pre-tax income of $754 million was a record, up $185 million from the prior quarter, reflecting improvements in both NGL and transportation. Chemicals adjusted pre-tax income increased $2 million to $106 million in the fourth quarter.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2024

That evaluation has led to operational improvements and savings, as well as a better alignment of our intellectual property ownership structure to maximize earnings power and improve tax efficiency. Thus, our incentives to taking that business private have decreased. Richard Lewis Gelfond -- Chief Executive Officer and Director Yes.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

And likewise, to transfer a number of best practices from Pioneer into the ExxonMobil base, which when you think about our size has some tremendous leverage associated with it. They've done some things on the procurement side, I'd say, that we think can help us to kind of leverage up our expertise.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 26, 2024

Our debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage remains near the low end of our stated guidance range. And I think the second contributor is just the expected increase in provider taxes related to the supplemental payment programs that we participate in. Could there still be more room on leverage? billion in the quarter.

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