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DECEMBER 11, 2023

QuantumScape (NYSE: QS) was one of the hottest electric vehicle (EV) stocks of 2020. 27, 2020, and its stock opened at $24.80 It also aimed to expand its gross margin from 1% in 2024 to 30% in 2028, and declared its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) would turn positive in 2027.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

The cruise line operator's revenue plunged in 2020 and 2021 as global travel ground to a halt during the pandemic, and it was forced to take on a lot more debt to stay solvent. Looking back at Carnival's slowdown and recovery In fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2021 (which ended in November 2021), Carnival's revenue and number of passengers plummeted.

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MARCH 16, 2024

When BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in December 2021, it bore a striking resemblance to Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) , which went public through a direct listing in September 2020. even integrated Palantir's tools into its own modules before its public debut.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

While Energy Transfer cut its distribution in half in 2020 to help repair its balance sheet, the distribution is higher today than before the cut. EV to EBITDA = enterprise-value-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization). target range. It plans to spend around $3.1

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JULY 21, 2024

Shifting its focus Phillips 66 was hit extremely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic -- posting a brutal $4 billion loss in 2020. billion in 2020, even though it is a much larger and diversified business than Phillips 66. EBITDA = earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Image source: Getty Images.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Airbnb The pandemic put a dent in Airbnb's business in 2020, but since coming public in late 2020, the company has been on fire. billion in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, and $875 million in adjusted operating income. You can see below that revenue has surged to $9.6

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MARCH 13, 2024

That decline reduced Sea's enterprise value to $29 billion, which is just 2 times its projected sales and 21 times its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) for 2024. million at the end of 2020. Why did Sea's growth slow down? That's why Garena ended 2023 with just 528.7

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AUGUST 17, 2023

Realty Income actually hiked its dividend three times during 2020. Real estate companies have a lot of depreciation and amortization, which is deducted as an expense under GAAP. Since depreciation and amortization is a non-cash charge, net income tends to understate the cash flow of the company.

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MAY 9, 2024

However, Bitcoin's rally also lit a fire under stocks like Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) , one of the world's top cryptocurrency exchanges, and MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , an aging enterprise software company that started hoarding Bitcoin in 2020. Let's see which of these hot crypto stocks is a better buy right now.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2020, the pandemic caused its home sales to grind to a halt. That slowdown also caused its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) -- which briefly turned positive in 2021 -- to turn negative again. Metric 2020 2021 2022 9M 2023 Revenue $2.6 billion $8.0 billion $15.6 billion $6.1

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MARCH 7, 2024

initially claimed its revenue would rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% from $140 million in 2020 to $388 million in 2023. It predicted its gross margin would expand from 30% to 50% as its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin would only dip slightly from 18% to 16%.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

First, prior to this decline, the company's ratio of enterprise value (EV) to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) was at an all-time high of 24. dividend yield is at its highest level of the last decade outside of the 2020 crash. Not so much. Currently, the company's 2.3%

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

21, 2020, many investors hailed it as the " Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) of real estate" because its online marketplace streamlined the home buying process by making instant cash offers for homes, repairing the properties, and relisting them for sale. Its revenue fell 46% in 2020 as the pandemic disrupted the housing market, but soared 211% to $8.0

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

per unit in 2020. As the chart above shows, the MLP shifted from increasing the distribution quarter to just once a year in 2020. The distribution was increased just modestly in 2020 and 2021. Leverage has also been reduced, with debt-to-earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) at roughly 3.2

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This was the company's first profitable quarter since 2020. But for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ), it expects at least $100 million. Freshpet's sales were up and certain expenses -- including logistics expenses -- were down, leading to Q4 net income of $15.3

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MAY 22, 2024

claimed that it could grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40% from 2020 to 2023, expand its gross margin from 30% to 50% during that time, and keep its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins in the high teens. In a pre-merger presentation, BigBear.ai

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Over the past two years, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins shrank and it racked up steep losses. Metric 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total Revenue $20.71B $19.69B $17.48B $14.56B Revenue Growth (4%) (5%) (11%) (17%) Adjusted EBITDA Margin* 41.8%

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DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD) had a debt-to- EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) ratio notably below that of Kinder Morgan when Kinder Morgan's dividend was cut. To earn back investor trust, management promised it would quickly grow the dividend, including a 25% hike in 2020.

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

Cathie Wood built a name for herself and her investment firm Ark Invest by racking up some huge gains between 2017 and 2020 in the exchange-traded fund Ark Innovation ETF (NYSEMKT: ARKK). However, since 2020 the ETF's performance has been much more volatile, including a 67% decline in 2022 followed by a nearly 68% gain in 2023.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

QuantumScape (NYSE: QS) and ChargePoint Holdings (NYSE: CHPT) were both red-hot stocks during the buying frenzy in electric vehicle (EV) stocks in late 2020 and early 2021. QuantumScape, a developer of solid-state batteries, merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in November 2020. Its shares opened at $24.80

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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. After managing the company through the depressed oil prices of 2020 right after acquiring Anadarko, she seems to be up for almost any task. Management plans to divest non-core assets to accelerate the paydown of that debt.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Its annual gross margin rose from 61% to 71%, while its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) increased at a CAGR of 30%.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

It's an extension of the digital-transformation initiatives the company began in 2020 to drive productivity and efficiency gains. million) of recurring earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) savings per year. Microsoft's technology has been the foundation of that strategy. million-$219.9

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MAY 20, 2024

In a pre-merger presentation, SoundHound claimed it could grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 104% from $13 million in 2020 to $110 million in 2023 as it expanded its gross margin from 55% to 77%. It mainly attributed that slower-than-expected growth to the macro headwinds, but it also faces a lot of competition.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Up until 2020, it was a slow-growth analytics software maker that seemed to be losing ground to its nimbler cloud-based competitors. MicroStrategy's valuation is tethered to Bitcoin's future MicroStrategy's revenue only increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1% from 2020 to 2023. Image source: Getty Images.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On the bright side, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) turned positive over the past three quarters as it reined in its spending, and its $5.5 Marathon's revenue surged from $4 million in 2020 to $159 million in 2021, then declined 26% in 2022 as Bitcoin's price dropped.

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MAY 26, 2024

Duolingo's revenue surged 128% in 2020, but it continued growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49% from 2020 to 2023 even as the pandemic passed. Between the fourth quarters of 2020 and 2023, its monthly active users (MAUs) more than doubled from 36.7 million to 88.4 million to 26.9 million to 6.6 million to 88.4

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AUGUST 17, 2024

Segment 2020 2021 2022 2023 First Half 2024 (YOY) Bitcoin revenue growth 785% 119% (29%) 34% 17% Transaction-based revenue growth 7% 45% 19% 11% 5% Subscription and services revenue growth 49% 76% 68% 31% 23% Hardware revenue growth 8% 59% 13% (4%) (8%) Total revenue growth 101% 86% (1%) 25% 15% Data source: Block. YOY = Year-over-year.

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APRIL 20, 2024

At one point in March 2020, Energy Transfer lost roughly two-thirds of its market cap. Energy Transfer started off the year on an especially good note with strong first-quarter earnings and raised its full-year outlook for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA).

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JULY 12, 2023

Revenue rose 25% in 2020, 35% in 2021, and 34% to $576 million in 2022. Its total number of customers grew 6% in both 2020 and 2021, then increased another 11% to 677,000 in 2022. Its total number of customers grew 6% in both 2020 and 2021, then increased another 11% to 677,000 in 2022. Image source: Getty Images.

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MARCH 25, 2024

The company claimed it could deliver a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40%, taking revenue from $140 million in 2020 to $388 million in 2023 while expanding its gross margin from 30% to 50% and keeping its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins in the high teens.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

After peaking in 2020 at $306, it has gone nowhere but down, trading at just $77 as of writing. For perspective, this segment generated 195 billion yuan ($27 billion) in earnings before interest tax and amortization in fiscal year 2024. It's been frustrating for investors in Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) stock.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Back in 2021, Opendoor purchased nearly six times as many houses than it did in 2020 as the pandemic-driven headwinds for the industry dissipated. Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margins also turned negative in both years even as it reined in spending.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Its revenue growth is accelerating again Coupang's revenue surged 93% in 2020 as more people shopped online during the pandemic, then grew another 54% in 2021. million at the end of the year, compared to its 21% growth in 2021 and 26% in 2020. Those two moves could curb its dependence on the saturated South Korean market.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Its revenue plunged 73% in fiscal 2020 and declined 66% in fiscal 2021. Carnival's core business is recovering The pandemic severely disrupted Carnival's growth in fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2021. billion, while Carnival expects its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) to rise 40% to $5.8

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Toast's growth in gross payment volume (GPV) and total revenue decelerated significantly in 2020 as many restaurants shut down throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Metric 2020 2021 2022 9M 2023 GPV Growth (YOY) 17% 124% 61% 40% Revenue Growth (YOY) 24% 107% 60% 44% Data source: Toast. Why did the bulls give up on Toast?

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JULY 24, 2024

A court case can proceed, and Tesla's profits slide The first red flag that investors recognized today was news that a judge, in a tentative order, had denied Rivian's motion to dismiss a lawsuit that began in 2020, in which Tesla alleges that Rivian incited former Tesla employees to steal secret information.

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