The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As revenues continue to grow, we expect our margin to exceed the 36% of Macao business in 2019. margins in the period at the property kind of rivaled '19 despite annualized third quarter net revenue being down, I think, close to 18% versus what you did in 2019. This quarter, our Macao EBITDA reached $631 million at a 35.3%

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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.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 12, 2024

And when you look at what we're dealing with today, we did a number of transactions in 2019, 2020. We set out in 2019 to build a sustainably profitable gold and copper mining company focused on world-class assets. And I don't believe -- when you look at our register, our main investors are all still very much intact from 2019.

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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. The year is up about 26% versus 2019 levels. You're at double-digit return on invested capital. We're at higher rates.

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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

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. I have some questions on return on invested capital. It won't just be cutting costs.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

I'm wondering as the stock has performed and I think that liability grows, did you plan to redeem all in cash or might there be a stock piece if the stock were to do really well between now and next August? So we feel good about where we're at, but those are kind of the drivers since 2019. I guess, my question is a little technical.

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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. We are focused on finishing the year strong, delivering industry-leading performance with a return-to-earnings growth and margin expansion, positioning us well as we head into 2025.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

With strong cash generation, we continue to progress our balance sheet back toward investment-grade metrics and announced a 50% increase to our quarterly dividend. We delivered a return on invested capital of 13%, 5 points above our cost of capital and in the top half of the S&P 500. Earnings of $2.36 Nonfuel CASM was up 0.6%

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Customers returning for additional purchases for Sephora, shop two times more often than Kohl's base. Our return on investment, all the capital that we spent, obviously, is very significant overall. The payment rates, though, are still ahead of 2019. Operator Our next question comes from Gaby Carbone with Deutsche Bank.

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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. per share, a $0.20 Free cash flow was $1.4

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 4, 2024

I joined the City Trends board in late 2019 and have recently served as Chair of the nomination and governance committee and also members of the audit and finance committee. We are a growth company and we will return to industry standard return on investment new store growth. What do you think they should get back to?

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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

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 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

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. Are you looking at trends versus 2019? Are you looking at stacks?

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 3, 2024

Throughout the history of utilities, states and regulators would agree on an acceptable return on invested capital for utility companies in exchange for utilities investing the massive amounts needed to build their power and distribution infrastructure. The lawsuit is to recover costs to state fire departments and the U.S.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

which is 130 basis point margin expansion versus the prior year and a 360-basis-point margin expansion versus the same period in 2019. But we will continue to evaluate it as we always do and to make sure that hold ourselves to a strict return on investment threshold. Net income in the second quarter totaled $40 million or $0.99

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

They continue to be a great return on investment for us and bring us. But to put that in context, we're still up over about 20% from where we were in 2019 in sales, so it's really more of a normalization, I would say, in terms of what's happened in designer categories. On 2019 we're at 6% EBIT margin. Operator Thank you.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 7, 2024

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, right-size the balance sheet, and improve the return on invested capital. So far, so good now.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As a result, our restaurant-level cash flow dollars continued to improve, and we were in line with 2019 Q4 levels. We are encouraged by our continued progress in closing the gap to our 2019 restaurant margins of 16% and maintain our confidence in being able to meet and then surpass historical margin levels. Adjusted EBITDA was $27.3

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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. Delivering these financial results also positions us to reduce our leverage ratio to three times by the end of the year and significantly improve our return on invested capital.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 8, 2024

That's an awesome growth story for programmatic digital out of home when we observe that it represented only 3% in 2019. This allows us to serve the most relevant ad, maximizing engagement and return on investment. This represents a whopping 969% growth over six years, and it's not stopping.

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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.

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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. Traffic is below 2019 levels, but units per store are above the 2019 average coming from higher food attach. Our international store growth was 10% year over year.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

We have designed our capital investment programs to ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. Our approach allows us to grow fast from the long term and large share EBITDA and generate industry-leading returns on invested capital. Your line is live. Stephen Grambling -- Analyst Hey, thanks.

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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. So, we balance all of that in the most effective way that maximizes the return on investment. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Our NOI ended the year higher than 2019 pre-pandemic levels. Occupancy is above year-end 2019 levels for all of our platforms. And they're open to buying -- their return on investment in stores is a proven financial model. Portfolio NOI, which includes our international properties at constant currency, grew 7.2%

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Our year-to-date volume growth remains consistent with underlying performance compared to 2019. In 2019, digital was less than 30% of our total media spend and year to date is over 60%. Through digital campaigns with segmenting the population that's disproportionately reaching consumer where we earned higher return on investments.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

All in, our actions have allowed us to lower our cash commitments by approximately $1 billion since spin, driven by significantly lower cash interest and pension liabilities, reduced share count, and no joint venture cash contributions. As a result, we have raised our underlying earnings above pre-pandemic levels.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And for the last several years, there's a lot of acquisition and change in portfolio, so it's very difficult for us from the outside to see where's your cost structure compared to, let's say, before the pandemic in 2019? I don't have all that stuff right on the top of my head to go back to 2019. It's a fair request. I think we're No.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

billion in dividends to our shareholders, and we returned approximately $2 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases. Computed on the average of beginning and ending long-term debt and equity for the trailing 12 months, return on invested capital was approximately 41.5%, down from 45.6%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

But I would like to continue to increase our investment. I think you're exactly right on kind of, hey -- well, there's two factors that kind of caused us to phase our investment. I would say, if you recall back in 2018, 2019, I did not feel like we had all the capability we needed to spend that significantly.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In fact, store managers have been receiving share-based compensation for decades, and assistant store managers since 2019. Capital expenditures totaled $620 million in Q4 as we continue to invest in strategic initiatives to drive growth and profitability. And lastly, we delivered a return on invested capital above 36% for the year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 23, 2023

in Q2, but our two-year comp was essentially flat and our four-year comp to 2019 was positive 39.7. As I did last quarter, in addition to year-over-year results, I'll reference 2019 as it's helpful to compare our performance with pre-pandemic levels. Our 200 basis points leverage versus 2019's 12.9% Our sales ran negative 11.9

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The Motley Fool

MAY 16, 2024

The portion of our revenue generated by integrated solutions has grown from approximately 20% in 2019 to 30% today. Fourth, we service our systems, which have decades of useful life, helping customers maximize the return on investment by accelerating ramps and optimizing output, yield, and cost.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 3, 2024

is to invest in our network. Our business has historically generated a high return on invested capital. And it's not that 2021 was a particularly strong year, it was even less shipments in LTL than 2019 or '18 or '17. The second pillar of LTL 2.0 Since the launch of LTL 2.0, About half of it is coming back.

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