The Motley Fool

JANUARY 6, 2024

This three-year strategy -- introduced in June 2023 -- is a comprehensive approach aimed at bolstering Carnival's financial health, as indicated by improvements in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA) and return on invested capital ( ROIC). With 2023 notching a 15.5%

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 17, 2023

This innovative initiative encompasses specific, ambitious objectives that include a commitment to reducing carbon intensity by over 20% compared to 2019, surpassing the company's industry-leading fuel efficiency, and expediting the realization of the 2030 carbon reduction goal.

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The Motley Fool

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. billion-$4.25

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 23, 2023

These targets include a 20% reduction in carbon intensity compared to 2019; a 50% increase in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in relation to passenger capacity compared to June 2023 guidance; and a more than doubling of return on invested capital from this year to 2026.

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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%

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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. million on pre-tax income of $13.4

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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. Across much of the industry, there has been an accelerated pace of change and we are encouraged by the actions the industry is taking to improve profitability and returns.

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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. Turning to taxes. As can be expected, there are several unique items impacting our second-quarter effective tax rate with our IPO in May.

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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. 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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For taxes, our fourth quarter adjusted effective tax rate was 15.8%. The decrease versus prior year is primarily the result of tax law changes that negatively impacted 2022, the release of tax reserves, mostly due to statue of limitations expiring and benefits from effective tax planning. billion for the year.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlier this morning, we reported our March quarter results, posting pre-tax earnings of $380 million or $0.45 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. per share, a $0.20 Free cash flow was $1.4 Fuel efficiency was 1.9%

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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 4, 2024

Both of these Q1 wins were assisted by our inventory rebuilds and targeted product categories, combined with our buy team's continued focus on making wise inventory investments, maximizing markup, while also providing incredible values for our customers. However, we posted positive comps in each month of the quarter.

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Ballast Advisors

AUGUST 23, 2023

in 2019-2020. One smart approach is to treat college choices like any other business decision — by considering the potential return on investment (ROI). does not provide investment, tax, legal, or retirement advice or recommendations. A Georgetown University analysis of public data from the U.S.

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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. Through the 12 months ending in the second quarter, our after-tax ROIC of 16.6%

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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. For the second quarter, our trailing 12-month after-tax ROIC was 13.7%.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

million, a 13% decline versus the second-quarter 2023, primarily driven by variable and semi-variable costs that declined with attendance, foreign currency impacts, and a decrease in property taxes. So we feel good about where we're at, but those are kind of the drivers since 2019. Utilities and other expense was $104.7

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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. With the tax cuts and things like that, it was a great environment for banks and the stock was going nowhere, so they had to do something. laughs] A lot has happened to the bank and I get it, your stock price's stagnant for 10 years.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 30, 2024

Loss before interest and taxes was $21 million in the first quarter. We continue to expect our effective tax rate to be approximately 27% for the full year. They continue to be a great return on investment for us and bring us. On 2019 we're at 6% EBIT margin. We ended the first quarter with $1.2 Operator Thank you.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Our tax rate was 13% in Q3, and year to date is 16%. 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.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

operating margin and pre-tax income of $5.2 We generated free cash flow of $2 billion while investing 5.3 Return on invested capital was 13.4%, a 5-point improvement from 2022. per share and pre-tax income of 5.2 Return on invested capital improved to 13.4%, up 5 points over 2022. We delivered an 11.6%

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The Motley Fool

JULY 25, 2023

As a result of this transaction, we recorded a pre-tax gain of $74 million and $30 million of related expenses, both of which are excluded from our adjusted results this quarter. Lastly, the adjusted effective tax rate for the quarter was 20.5%, compared to 22% in the year-ago period. With the first half of the year, we generated $1.4

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The Motley Fool

JULY 11, 2024

Earlier this morning, we reported our June quarter results, posting pre-tax earnings of $2 billion, or $2.36 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 appreciate you joining us today. over last year.

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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

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. During the quarter, we sold a portion of our interest in ABG for gross proceeds of $300 million in cash and reported pre-tax and after-tax gains of $157 million and $118 million, respectively.

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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. Store growth, capital spend, and tax rate guidance also remain unchanged from what we shared previously. Our international store growth was 10% year over year. Turning to China.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2024

In the quarter, pre-tax intangible asset amortization was $90 million, including $39 million related to SRS. In the second quarter, our effective tax rate was 24.5%, compared to 24.4% Our effective tax rate is targeted at approximately 24%. Our operating margin for the second quarter was 15.1%, compared to 15.4%

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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. As a reminder, in the prior year, we recognized $441 million of pre-tax transaction costs associated with the sale of the Canadian retail business. The effective tax rate was 23.8% SG&A of 20.9%

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 17, 2024

Our capital investment programs ensure that we will continue to be the market leader in the years ahead. Our investments position us to grow faster than the market over the long term to grow our share of EBITDA in the market and to generate industry-leading returns on invested capital. Yes, it will look more normal.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

billion of pre-tax profit contribution in full year 2023 for our strategic initiatives that we outlined at our investor day last December. The changes will also reduce the percentage of system capacity and development by more than half, returning to normal pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the second quarter, our effective tax rate was 24.4%, up from 24.3% billion in dividends to our shareholders, and we returned approximately $2 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases. Our effective tax rate is targeted at approximately 24.5%. in the second quarter of fiscal 2022. and 14% for the year.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 16, 2023

Among all games released since 2019, VALORANT is the most viewed game on the leading live streaming platforms. Income tax expense increased by 144% year on year to 11.1 billion renminbi due to pre-tax profit growth, increased withholding tax provision, and a true-up of deferred tax adjustments related to an overseas subsidiary.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And as a result, we reported a pre-tax loss of $8.5 Another headwind to GAAP EPS was $4 million of unfavorable discrete tax expense. Moving on, the non-GAAP effective tax rate was 18% in Q3 of 2023 and 15% in Q3 of 2022. Given the large movement in exchange rates between the U.S. million for the forward contract.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

billion in incremental year-over-year pre-tax profit from our network optimization efforts and the contributions from our portfolio of strategic initiatives is driving us to expect additional revenue records and year-over-year operating margin expansion despite cost pressures from new labor agreements and increased aircraft maintenance expense.

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