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JULY 3, 2024

Given Bitcoin's current price of roughly $60,000, that would imply a more than 13,000% return on investment. is adding $1 trillion in new debt every 100 days. government debt, and that's when the "Bitcoin is perfect money" scenario might start to play out. Yet, it's hard to deny that the U.S. By some estimates, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

In 2020, the company was forced to halt its operations to help stop the spread of the virus. 31, the company still carried almost $29 billion in long-term debt on its balance sheet. This is evidenced by the company's extremely low return on invested capital (ROIC). As you can imagine, this crushed the financial picture.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

A top-tier return on invested capital First, the company has maintained an average return on invested capital (ROIC) of 53% over the last decade. As a group, the top 100 most buyback-heavy stocks in the S&P 500 from 2000 to 2020 beat the returns of the broader index by 5.5 percentage points annually.

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APRIL 27, 2024

After a rip-roaring 2020, it's been mostly downhill as rising interest rates have taken a sledgehammer to the return on investment of projects financed with debt. After a scorching hot 2020 where the fund gained 233.6% The renewable energy industry is in a brutal multi-year downturn.

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JULY 2, 2023

As the leading pool products and supplies distributor in the United States, the aptly named company was added to the S&P 500 index in 2020 amid its incredible run of outperformance. A stellar return on invested capital Leveraging the power of its leadership position in the pool supplies and pool-related products market, Pool Corp.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Diageo stock trades at a valuation it hasn't seen since 2012 (even including the crash in March 2020). Here's why now may be the time to invest in Diageo and its 2.7% dividend yield. Diageo is building upon its leadership position Diageo has a 4.7%

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

Best-in-class profitability and incredible returns However, this leadership position means nothing if it doesn't lead to profits and free cash flow (FCF). With a return on invested capital (ROIC) of 28% and an expected $1 billion in FCF in 2023, Bombardier is also a leader on the profitability side of things.

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MAY 9, 2024

In April 2020, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, crude oil futures briefly plunged to negative $40 per barrel. With interest rates rising at their fastest pace in four decades, the return on investment for solar and wind projects is no longer as compelling.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

is as low as it has been since 2017 -- outside of a few days during the 2020 crash. Since 2006, stocks with brands in the report have outperformed the S&P 500 Index, posting returns of 357% versus 245%. Consider its price-to-sales (P/S) ratio. NKE PS Ratio data by YCharts Temporarily above 6 times sales, Nike's current P/S of 2.8

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Combining incredible historical total returns with robust returns on invested capital (ROIC) and steadily rising dividends , some companies are built to stand the test of time. Comparing Rollins' profitability to its debt and equity, this high ROIC shows that the company is a masterful acquirer.

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JUNE 23, 2023

Airlines aren't productive (at least for shareholders) The ultimate test of whether a company is allocating capital productively for shareholders is the comparison between its return on invested capita l (ROIC) and its weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Net Profit 2019 2020 2021 2022 (Est.) Global $26.4 billion ($137.7

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OCTOBER 5, 2024

Carnival's wall of debt First, let's take a quick look back in time at the challenges Carnival faced in recent years. The halt in sailings drove the previously profitable company to a loss, and resulted in Carnival building up a wall of debt. This also weighed on the shares, which plunged nearly 60% in 2020.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This resulted in higher realized iron ore premiums, but more importantly, higher margins and returns on invested capital. In Base Metals, we continue to make solid progress having achieved the highest copper production since 2020, driven by Salobo, which produced roughly 200 kilotons of copper in 2024. billion in the quarter.

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APRIL 29, 2024

43 million loyalty members strong While growth may slow in the upcoming year as consumers wrestle with rising interest rates and credit card debt levels at all-time highs, Ulta's customer loyalty should help it ride through this potential downturn. Ulta's market-beating qualities Ulta Beauty boasts a return on invested capital (ROIC) of 61%.

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JUNE 27, 2023

On the bottom line, Carnival continued to move in the right direction though the company is still facing stiff headwinds from its heavy debt burden, which jumped during the pandemic. The company is making progress on easing its debt burden as it prepaid more than $1 billion in short-term, variable-rate debt, though it still has about $7.5

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Over the last decade, MTY has averaged a return on invested capital (ROIC) of 15%, generating high levels of FCF compared to the debt and equity it uses to fund its M&A ambitions. This $400 million outlay gives the company plenty of integration work to do as it focuses on paying down its $686 million net debt balance.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

million, producing a core EBITDA margin of 11% and a trailing 12-month return on invested capital of 8.4%. In its complaint filed in the California courts in 2020, Pacific Steel Group claimed, among other things, various restraints on trade by CMC. While net debt to capitalization is only 6%.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In addition to its low-volatility shares, the company maintains a robust 25% net income margin and a towering 72% return on invested capital (ROIC). The company currently has zero debt on its balance sheet, leaving management free to return the vast majority of its net income and free cash flow (FCF) to shareholders.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

You have a lot of high-interest debt If you have a lot of debt you're paying a lot of interest for, investing may not be the right move to make. You may want to focus on taking care of those loans first if doing so would give you a better return. You'll want to do this before you begin investing though.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

About 1 million people went for plastic surgery in 2020 in the country despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which means that there's a massive audience for the less-invasive cosmetic interventions that InMode's workstations offer. InMode has no debt, which makes it easier to deliver higher returns than its cost of capital.

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JUNE 7, 2024

O'Reilly Automotive: Total return of 8,790% since 2020 Vehicle repair retailer O'Reilly Automotive has delivered 31 consecutive years of sales and earnings growth. What makes these expansion plans look so promising for investors is that O'Reilly's return on invested capital (ROIC) of 67% is one of the highest on the market.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

The utility sector was down slightly from 2020 through the end of 2023 -- lagging the broader indexes by a wide margin during those four years. Furthermore, higher demand for computing to power artificial intelligence models could be a boon for electric utilities and justify infrastructure investments.

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MARCH 27, 2025

3D printing is targeted at the enormous tail of the curve, meaning complex, low-volume, high-mix part types where injection molding tooling often presents a prohibitive return on investment for the OEMs. The largest use of cash during the year was $87 million used to repurchase $111 million of debt in March.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

This can be scored using a company's return on invested capital. Since 1990, Verizon has returned an average of $1.07 It must balance expensive investments in upgrading and maintaining its network with price-conscious customers. Verizon bought prepaid phone carrier TracFone Wireless in 2020 for over $6 billion.

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MAY 12, 2024

What makes MPLX stand out among its peers is its strong rates of return, capital discipline, and generous returns to shareholders. It has simultaneously generated some of the highest returns on invested capital while keeping its leverage (defined as debt to EBITDA) lower than most.

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JULY 15, 2023

Its wide moat means that as long as the company operates efficiently, it could generate market-beating returns over the long haul. And historically, it has done just that, generating a 12% cash return on invested capital over the last decade. MTN Cash Return on Capital Invested (CROCI) (TTM) data by YCharts.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

While only 19 states had adopted safe digging as a best practice as of 2020, several more appear to be in the pipeline. Meanwhile, the company's second-largest unit, vacuum trucks -- which accounts for 22% of sales -- is benefiting from the ongoing adoption of safe digging practices across North America.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

But its debt-to-equity ratio at 0.65 The deep 2020 oil bust, which saw oil prices fall below zero in the U.S. Enterprise Products' balance sheet is also among the strongest in the industry, with ample liquidity, manageable debt, and the highest credit rating in the midstream energy space.

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APRIL 7, 2024

Ongoing geopolitical tensions After a brutal COVID-19-induced downturn in early 2020, the oil and gas industry began to recover toward the end of that year as energy demands recovered globally. Renewables were hit hard by high interest rates because the cost of capital went up and the return on investment of many projects went down.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

A consistently high return on invested capital (ROIC) also offers convincing evidence of ASML's competitive advantage and operational excellence. The company boasts an exceptionally clean balance sheet with a long-term-debt-to-equity ratio of 0.4 and plenty of liquidity, rounding out its impressive set of fundamental ratios.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Best yet for investors, Mastercard has four traits that are hallmarks of long-term outperformance: Its return on invested capital (ROIC) of 49% is the 15th highest in the S&P 500 index. Accounting for 35% of Mastercard's revenue, these VAS sales continue to outpace the growth generated by the company's core payments segment.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Making 115 acquisitions since the start of 2020 (including nine in the second quarter of 2023 alone), Rollins is masterful at deploying the immense amounts of free cash flow (FCF) -- cash flow after expenses for capital maintenance and improvements -- it generates.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

While revenue growth slowed to 26% in its latest quarter -- with management guiding for just a 17% increase in the upcoming quarter -- Fortinet's return on invested capital (ROIC) of 132% is the second-highest in the S&P 500 Index. A stock's ROIC measures its profitability compared to its debt and equity. Ranked No.

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JUNE 25, 2024

At the same time, we continue to aggressively manage down debt and interest expense while reducing the complexity of our capital structure, which David will elaborate on. The number of actions we've taken to improve our balance sheet this quarter puts us further down the path on our return to investment-grade credit ratings over time.

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JULY 5, 2024

They were piling up the cash, tremendously cash generative debt free. They were piling up cash on their balance sheet until late 2020, early 2021. Here's our target return on invested capital. He founded the company 32, 33 years ago. Then the stock got continually whacked. The stock is 400 and change today.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In fact, 2023 net production was the highest since 2020. Our balance sheet remains strong, ending the year with a net debt ratio comfortably in the single digits. We reduced debt by over $4 billion, including all debt assumed in the PDC acquisition, and we repurchased about 5% of our shares outstanding.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2020, the company made abrupt decision to start hoarding Bitcoin. Of course, if we go back to 2020, that was the time of low interest rate. He would say it's going to get inflated away, and lo and behold, one day in July of 2020, he tells the analysts on the call, hey, we're looking for some alternative investments.

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