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APRIL 19, 2024

April 15 is the infamous deadline for filing taxes in the U.S., Many did, and many of them have already received their tax refunds. But for those in an accommodating financial position, a smart move would be to invest that tax refund. And investors don't have to divvy up their tax refund as I've laid out here.

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JULY 2, 2024

Its year-end store count rose from 2,768 in 2020 to 3,437 in 2023, and it plans to open 285 to 315 new locations this year. From 2020 to 2023, Chipotle's revenue grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18% as its EPS increased at a CAGR of 53%. Yet I believe Chipotle's stock is still worth buying for three simple reasons.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

It also launched its first Photon satellite bus in 2020, and it's deployed 192 satellites so far. During its pre-merger presentation , Rocket Lab predicted it could grow its revenue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 97% from $35 million in 2020 to $267 million in 2023. It relocated its headquarters to California in 2013.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Like plenty of other younger growth stocks, online sports betting company DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) has experienced its fair share of ups and downs since going public in April 2020. The company says it expects Jackpocket's integration to contribute positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) in 2025.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Carol Tome's first earnings call as UPS (NYSE: UPS) CEO took place in the summer of 2020, and her guiding framework has been clear from the outset. in 2020 to around 11.5% However, from 2020 to 2022, the 6 million buffer became a 6 million shortfall, creating ideal conditions for UPS. in the recently reported quarter.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

While similar, distributions include a return on capital that is untaxed until the units are typically sold, making them tax-deferred. However, investors do receive what is called a K-1 and must fill out some extra tax forms. EV to EBITDA = enterprise-value-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

But in the first nine months of 2024, sales soared 83% year over year to $111 million as its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) jumped 266% to $20 million. That massive rally was the result of an AI-driven acceleration in its top line. Revenue rose 10% in 2023. billion.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Period 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Active Accounts (Millions) 19.3 That's how it's kept its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) and trailing 12-month free cash flow ( FCF ) positive over the past five consecutive quarters. Streaming Hours (Billions) 14.8

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

I first added the midstream giant to my portfolio in early 2020, right before the pandemic hit. Roughly 90% of its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) come from stable, fee-based sources. I'm very comfortable with my outsized investment in the high-yielding MLP. Here's why.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

after it went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) in December 2020 and reached its record high of $35.88 But in 2023, the company's revenue plunged, its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) margin declined, and it stayed unprofitable. billion $8.0

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The maker of electric semi-trucks was a red-hot stock during the buying frenzy in speculative stocks in 2020, but it ran out of juice after it missed its production forecasts. Nikola 's (NASDAQ: NKLA) stock has plunged nearly 99% over the past three years. After that steep decline, Nikola's stock now trades at just 2 times this year's sales.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The market continues to reward this portfolio restructuring Lee Samaha (Carrier Global): In 2020, this company was spun off the former United Technologies (with a long history of increasing dividends itself, which Carrier has continued). It currently trades at 8.5 times operating cash flow, a discount to the industry average multiple of 9.5.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Ares Capital is a business development company ( BDC ) that provides financing for middle-market companies (businesses that generate between $10 million and $250 million in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) every year). Management reduced its dividends during both downturns. to $19.24.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) has taken investors on a wild ride since its initial public offering (IPO) in July 2020. Lemonade more than doubled its customer base from 1 million at the end of 2020 to 2.3 The online insurance provider went public at $29, skyrocketed to a record high of $183.26 million by the end of the third quarter of 2024.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

million at the end of 2020 to 8.77 From 2020 to 2023, SoFi's adjusted revenue grew at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49%, from $621 million to $2.07 Its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) turned positive in 2021 and increased at a CAGR of 279%, from $30 million to $432 million.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2023

Realty Income uses a structure called a triple-net lease, where the tenant absorbs most of the operating costs of the property, including taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Realty Income actually hiked its dividend three times during 2020. These leases generally last a long time and contain automatic escalators.

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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. Image source: Getty Images. Why did Sea's growth slow down?

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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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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 9, 2024

It experienced a major growth spurt during the buying frenzy in growth stocks, meme stocks , and cryptocurrencies throughout 2020 and 2021 -- but its revenue declined 25% in 2022 as rising interest rates clobbered riskier investments. For the full year, analysts expect its revenue to rise 38% with its first annual profit since 2020.

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AUGUST 17, 2024

The Cash App offers peer-to-peer payments, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) trades, commission-free stock trades, tax filing tools, and savings accounts. In 2020, the pandemic throttled the growth of Block's merchant-facing businesses. It also sells point of sale (PoS) hardware for brick-and-mortar stores. Image source: Block.

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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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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

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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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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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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 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 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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APRIL 4, 2024

In fact, back in 2020, the midstream company slashed its distribution in half. Energy Transfer is structured as a master limited partnership (MLP), so investors will get a K-1 and have unique tax advantages (and obligations). Since the start of 2022, Energy Transfer (NYSE: ET) has increased its distribution every quarter.

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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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