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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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JANUARY 24, 2024

New car prices have surged over the past few years, rising 22% from 2020 to 2023. Here are five vehicles with the lowest five-year depreciation, according to iSeeCars data. Here are five vehicles with the lowest five-year depreciation, according to iSeeCars data. Porsche 911 5-year depreciation: 9.3% after five years.

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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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APRIL 4, 2024

In fact, back in 2020, the midstream company slashed its distribution in half. Approximately 90% of Energy Transfer's 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) is projected to come from fee-based activities. However, everything has not always been smooth for the company.

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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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MAY 26, 2024

But if you want to know the total cost of car ownership of an EV or any other car, you have to look at the purchase price, the depreciation (how much the value of the car decreases after you buy it), and other costs like financing (if you get an auto loan), maintenance, and repairs. Saving money on car insurance and gas is good.

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

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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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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 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 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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JULY 14, 2024

Hertz filed for bankruptcy in 2020. Then, management aggressively ramped up its EV purchases right before the market cooled, and depreciation rates for both EV and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles spiked. The company's average-monthly depreciation per vehicle per month in 2021 was $81. First, some context.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Since 2020, MicroStrategy has acquired more than 244,000 bitcoins, representing more than 1% of the entire supply. He suggests that as time passes, even governments may adopt Bitcoin in a similar fashion to hedge against economic uncertainties and currency depreciation. Tempering expectations: Is $13 million realistic?

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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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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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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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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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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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